I started Diamond painting this year in April and I have made around 16 Diamond paintings so far. This is a diamond painting that I bought from Temu in April and I received it on April 28th.

I finally got around to it in mid-july and I had run out of the silicone release sheets that I bought from Amazon. I had seen a lot of people say on YouTube and on tiktok to use non-stick parchment paper instead of the silicone release sheets from Amazon because it’s cheaper and it works just the same. So I went to Albertsons and bought their brand of non-stick parchment paper, and this is what it looks like.

I had put this parchment paper on two different diamond paintings that I’ve mentioned in previous blog posts. Anyway, it ended in disaster but I was able to peel off the parchment paper and continue working on the diamond paintings. In fact, I have finished the mushroom Diamond painting which was the second Diamond painting that I put the parchment paper on. This has been blogged about with images. That’s not what this post is about.

So when I started working on this Diamond painting with the Starry Night Police Box, I was having issues because this was a different kind of diamond painting. Normally the diamond paintings that I have made in the past have had like a square with a color and a circle with a symbol in the middle of it and that would tell you where to put the diamond drill. Every Diamond painting that I’ve made so far has been like that. This one on the other hand is so different. This one has a graphic printed on the canvas and then the symbols on top of the image with no squares, no circles, it’s just there and you have to put the diamond drills in there.

As you can see, the symbols in this case are all letters and are sometimes difficult to see. Letters are on top of a color, but it’s just different. I mean, I’m not having trouble with it because I have a light box underneath it and so I’ll be able to see the letters clearly, but it’s still difficult to do this one. It’s doable, it’s just weird and different.

One other issue that I’m having is that when I pulled off the parchment paper, it pulled off a lot of the stickiness. So there were some spots where there was no stickiness and I had to buy a glue called Dotz Stick. I poured the glue on a section that didn’t have any stickiness at all and it made it really sticky. But tonight I was working on this section on the left and I was having so many issues with the diamond drills moving around too easily and also every time I would put my finger on the diamond drills on the very top row that I had already done, they would come off in my hand. Like literally I would pull my hand up and the diamond drills would be stuck to my fingers.

I was starting to feel like this Diamond painting is not going to happen. I’m going to have to give up on this because this is not easy and the diamond drills are coming up too easily when they should be stuck on. I should be able to scratch my fingers on the diamond drills and they should stay put. But all I have done was just rest my fingertips on the diamonds and they come off on my fingertips. My fingertips are not sticky. I’m not Spider-Man. I don’t understand why this is happening other than the fact that the parchment paper removed more stickiness than I thought it did. I didn’t know that this was an issue when I made that top part.

So tonight I did the 4×6 section that you see down below and tomorrow I’m going to do the 4×6 section that is to the right of that section, but I added the dotz stick glue to that entire 4×6 section and then let it dry and then put the silicone release sheet back in place. Tomorrow when I start working on this again I will see if it worked and if it’s really sticky and if the drills don’t come off. If that’s the case then I’ll have to do that throughout the whole rest of the diamond painting and just pray that my fingers don’t make any more of those Diamond drills come off that I’ve already put on there before.

I am sure in the entire history of Diamond painting in the last 15 or so years since it was invented that this has happened to someone. Has this ever happened to you, reader who is reading this right now? Let me know because I want to know that I’m not the only one that is going through this.