12 Best Freestyle Diamond Painting Projects
Freestyle diamond painting is a really neat technique because it allows the ultimate in creativity when it comes to choosing the surface you will diamond paint, creating the patterns in which you will place your Dotz, and selecting the colors you will use to execute your design. It’s basically all up to YOU, which means the final look is totally YOURS. And that’s a very cool thing.
These 12 Freestyle projects are some of our fan favorites, and are designed to get your creative wheels spinning as you explore diamond painting without a design or preset placement of Dotz.
All of the projects can be completed following the basic guidelines in our tutorial, How to Freestyle Diamond Paint with Diamond Dotz Gems. Project-specific videos and posts are linked throughout.
Ready to explore Freestyle diamond painting?
FREESTYLE ON FABRIC: FASHION FLAIR
There are endless opportunities to embellish fabrics with Diamond Dotz because there are so many wonderful printed fabrics out there!
When it comes to home décor, a fabric or craft store offers printed fabrics by the bolt or cut. You may even have leftover fabrics from another DIY project – these excess swatches or random cuts of fabric are ideal for turning into fun little pops of decorating color. Take a look at the fabric rounds we’ve dotted and then framed with embroidery hoops – talk about clever.
Wearables are also an excellent surface for dotting – you can follow a design that is printed on your garment (T-shirt top right) or you can create dotted appliqués from fabric scraps to adorn more basic styles (denim shirt bottom right). Upcycling and repurposing garments is an excellent way to incorporate Diamond Dotz Freestyle diamond painting into your DIY repertoire.
Check out our How to Dot Designs onto Fabric and How to Upcycle Clothing videos to learn more about fashion flair with Freestyle.
FREESTYLE ON HOME ACCESSORIES: DAZZLING DÉCOR
There’s one way to make sure your home accessories are perfectly patterned and coordinated across a space – give them a custom color and design story with Diamond Dotz Freestyle gems.
It was easy to create the color pattern on the frame above because we simply followed the color blocking of the frame itself. With so many lovely gem colors to choose from it was easy to find the perfect match for each section.
The planters above were created with custom designs suitable for the shape of each vessel, we followed ridge lines or embossing to add a bit of sparkle to each planter.
Check out our How to Create Home Décor Accents video to get even more ideas for Freestyle dotting home accessories.
FREESTYLE JEWELRY: ABSOLUTELY ONE-OF-A-KIND
Now here’s a way to carve out a personal style – define your look with jewelry that is absolutely YOU. Add monograms, names, sentiments or labels to a stack of bracelets and wear them proudly!
These beauties are also highly giftable, as the personalization aspect with names and initials is a great fit for jewelry.
Grab more inspiration via our How to use Freestyle to Create Bracelets video.
FREESTYLE SANDALS, BOOTS & SNEAKERS: PUT SOME SPARKLE IN YOUR STEP
You have to wear shoes every day – so you may as well have a solid selection to choose from, right? There are some great budget-friendly basics out there, and these kinds of kicks are ideal for embellishing with Diamond Dotz Freestyle. Fashion trends come and go, so have fun with whatever is “in” today – take a basic sandal or slide and give it a trendy color or pattern. Take a shoe that everybody has and make it YOURS with Diamond Dotz!
Check out our Freestyle sandals and cowboy boots tutorials, and take a look at our Sparkling Sneakers video to get more ideas and inspiration.
FREESTYLE DOTZ + STENCILS: CUSTOM EVERYTHING
Personalization with Diamond Dotz and stencils? What a great idea! Did you know that you can use the Dotz Stick brush-on adhesive with stencils to add words and names to your projects? Now that is clever.
This video How to Use Stencils with Diamond Dotz takes you through the step-by-step process of using stencils and Dotz on a variety of surfaces. Prepare to be delighted – you’re going to want to label everything with sparkle!
FREESTYLE CHRISTMAS: SPARKLING MERRY MAKING
You can’t argue that Christmas is the most sparkling time of the year! The Christmas tree, the mantel, the gifts – the holiday home is a haven for all that glitters and shines.
Check out these videos and dive all the way in on holiday Freestyle diamond painting: Christmas Ornaments with Freestyle and Christmas Tags with Freestyle.
FREESTYLE RESOURCES
Remember to refer to our tutorial How to Freestyle Diamond Paint with Diamond Dotz Gems to create all of the projects featured in this blog post as well as all the Freestyle videos and Freestyle blog posts linked throughout.
Shop the Freestyle products to keep your stash of Dotz and tools robust and ready for dotting. We can’t wait to see what you do with Freestyle!
