Diamond Painting Tips & Tricks | #4 Glue Dots 

Glue dots work great in multi places too!

Just to let you know rebecca, you may want to use a wooden tooth pick rather than metal tweezers to get the glue dots out of your everlasting tips. Everlasting tips say not to use anything metal in them as it can ruin them 🥰

If the dot pulls the drill back up, I just rub it with my finger. Works like a charm. Thank you for this upload!

Thank you for this. I have both the micro and mini glue dots and didn’t seem to have a lot of luck with them. But I’m going to have to try them again now.

I have a pair of pointy tweezers dedicated to adjusting my glue dots...if I need to cut a bit off, then I pull a length out with the tweezer, snip it with scissors and leave the remainder of the dot on my tweezer so it doesn't go to waste.

I’ve been using micro glue dots since mid-June. I love them. Great explanation!

Gotta give this a try! Thanks so much for the great tips and tricks. You're awesome Rebecca.

Perfect timing on the "priming" trick!!!! I was about to give up on using glue dots (it worked perfectly once and wasn't able to repeat it)!!! Never heard that tip before so THANK YOU!!

I will give it another go on my next painting but am liking the blue glue for the current wip's.

Glue Dots are a game changer for me - WOW!!!

I'm so glad you like working with the glue dots. Museum putty was my favorite, but the mini is all I use in single placers now. As we know, not all tips are created equal, but I've never needed more than 1 mini in my pens. I have had to cut some away though. I loved your tip on putting them into the pen. That was cool and I will try that. Thank you so much for sharing!

I use the cut method. I bought my last package over a year ago and have not repurchased yet, plus if you have stainless steel tips they are a pure dream!

Thankyou Rebecca that was so informative. I am getting ready to transition to glue dots and look forward to using them with my everlasting tips 😀

Love using the micro glue dots much more than the blue tack that I have been using. Though I do use the blue tack in my faithful four placer xxx

I use 3 to 4 micro dots. I dab it on my finger tip when it's too sticky. I love the dots, they are all I use in my pen!!!!

I ordered both sizes of glue dots. I am going to try it out.

I have always used 3 to 4 micro dots to begin with once it has settled it works for ages then when it is not so sticky I get tweezers and turn the glue dots over so sticky again 😀 it works for me lol x

I use a cocktail stick to help with the glue dots

Hear me out...I know it may gross some out......buuuut I had had the best luck with "overstick" is to rub it on my skin. The oils on skin work the best for some strange reason. Someone posted it a DP group and I thought....what?? But it worked really well. Hey, whatever works, right?

I have just brought a box from Amazon anyway love your RU-vid channel

Blu-Tack is another good one to use in a pen

I would like to suggest a couple of tips. 1. When you replace a clear cover for cover sheets. Keep the clear cover on and replace a row at a time. This way you can keep the completed sections covered whilst not working on the painting. Protecting it from dust or pet hairs. 2. Stick a small sticker on the clear cover. If for any reason you remove the whole cover you will know which side to stick it back down.

Has anyone tried these in multiplacers? I’ve gotten them to work the one time I’ve tried but I’m curious if anyone has any tips!

I been using glue dots since the June waffle.. i roll a micro then poke it down into the tip with tweezers then put in another... when one looses its sticky I use the tweezers to pull out and turn 😊 have dune this a few times now with the same two dots 😊 only time I don't use them is on Ab's, then I use a wax pencil 👍😉💚

Use your tweezers and tuck them in.

Thanks for the tips and tricks I will give the glue dots another go

I have a pen with old glue dots so it's not that sticky for my abs

What about ABs and glue dots? And square diamonds? I think you said something about them picking them up from an angle or something?

I use the mini in my single placer and cut off the excess. Where did you get the mint pen? 😍😍

Hi Rebecca hope you are doing well!

Hi, where did you get that awesome multiplacer?

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Works slot better and then you don't have to reload them later.

How well do they work with ABs? Did you need to refill as often as you do with wax? With wax I have to refill after only a few ABs because the wax is coated in the shiny stuff. This is why I hate using ABs they drive me crazy.

How do the dots do with AB’s? The waxes and putty’s I use really stick because of the coating…

Where did you get your clear pink pen.

Could I get a link for the green pen and the mini white pen? Tfs hugs

My problem with glue dots was that the glue dots kept coming out when I using them.

Thanks so much for this video!!! The only issue I’m having is getting the glue dots to not bunch up to the center of my stainless steel multiplacer tips. They work fine in the single placer, but seemed to have the same issue with the plastic multiplacers. But with the stainless steel multiplacers, the dots kinda bunch up and start to migrate towards the center of the pen, no matter how much I try to keep them spread out across the pen. Any tips?? Do I need to just start placing drills and will that keep it spread out? I do use the micro dots so maybe I should try getting larger ones?

What I’ve been finding is that no matter how much I try to unsticky the front it still doesn’t stick into my pen well :(

You could have done 2 doz diamonds by now.

I use micro and mini dots and they last ages.