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More Temu diamond paintings

On By Michel McDonaldIn crafts, diamond paintingLeave a comment

I bought some Diamond paintings from Temu when I first started Diamond painting back in April. I have since bought so many more diamond paintings from Michael’s craft store that will probably keep me busy for the next year or longer, but I wanted to buy some more rainbow and psychedelic type of diamond paintings to sell at the craft fair this coming October and also in my Etsy shop. I think these will work really well for the craft fair though because the craft fair is located at a place that sells tarot cards and crystals and Sage and they actually have psychics on staff on duty at all times to give readings to people. This is the type of a place that I believe these Diamond paintings would sell best at.

I think people are starting to think that my shopping for Diamond paintings is a little out of hand, but I’m not shopping for myself. This is not because of an addiction that I have to diamond painting, this is a business decision for selling the resulting product in my Etsy shop and at a craft fair. There’s a big difference in buying something that I want for myself because I want it, and buying something that I think that I can sell.

I have made two rainbow diamond paintings to sell at the craft fair and in my Etsy shop and I have four more to make in a box in my room, but I think these will make a great addition.

These Diamond paintings will be here soon in the mail, so I don’t really know how they’re going to look once they get here. I don’t know what the actual diamond painting canvas looks like because they only showed the pictures that I have above in this blog post. Normally I don’t like to purchase a diamond painting unless I know how it will look on the canvas with all the symbols in the squares or if it’s a printed graphic with symbols floating on top of the image, but I really liked these images and if I don’t find that I’ll be able to make these, then that’s fine. They can sit in a box and I will work on them another time, but I have a feeling I’m not going to have a problem making these.

These Diamond paintings were ordered on August 18th, which was about 2 weeks ago. Normally you would have to wait that long if they were coming from China, but these are local, so they’re coming from Atlanta, Georgia in the USA. But because they were a pre-order, it’s taking a little longer. That’s okay because I have way more than enough work to keep me busy before these even get here which should be in a couple of days. After I receive these, I probably won’t even get to them for another couple or a few weeks.

I just think these look really cool and I love the colors and I love the mushrooms and I can’t wait to see how they look when they get here.

Cricut Blades on Temu

On By Michel McDonaldIn craftsLeave a comment

I’ve had my Cricut Explore Air 2 for nearly 5 years. This March will be 5 years. I have mostly made nothing but box cards for all of the holidays and birthdays. I also cut boxes and packaging for my Etsy shop products.

A friend got me hooked on Temu, but I’m only buying stuff for my crafts for the box cards and I also buy some of the galaxy projectors for gifts lol.

I came across these Cricut blades and was curious, because I didn’t realize there was more than 1 blade. I mean, I have the Cricut deep cut blade with the housing and I have the Cricut premium fine tip German carbide blade and the regular Cricut fine tip blade. I normally only use the Circuit premium German carbide blade because I want to make sure all my paper cuts are clean, but sometimes they do have issues.

So the difference between the blades is the angle. The yellow cuts thinner material, but red cuts regular and the blue is similar to the deep cut blade, but without requiring the housing.

I cut 65lb cardstock, but I do occasionally buy 65lb cardstock that seems thinner, and my regular blade destroys that paper sometimes. The edges are awful and sometimes it will have a little bit of cardstock balled up and stuck to the blade which ruins the rest of the sheet. That always happens to the 65lb white cardstock that comes in a pack of 100. The same cardstock that comes on a pack of 25 cuts better for some reason. Same brand, same weight, but for some reason the more you buy in a pack, the thinner the cardstock.

I also use HP matte presentation paper 32lb for printing my graphics because the white 65lb 8.5×11 cardstock doesn’t print very well. Well, I usually have to print on custom and set it on copy paper 32lb, but have to cut it twice. So yesterday I cut it on regular light cardstock+ with the yellow blade and the paper cut beautifully. I did the same with the thinner 65lb paper that comes in a pack of 100.

The red blade would work with the regular 65lb cardstock that comes in packs of 25. Also the 8.5×11 65lb cardstock. But I’ll continue using my German carbide blade, but if I need another blade, I have plenty of the red ones now.

The other materials I cut are the glitter cardstock and chipboard. I cut those on the custom setting and my blades don’t last that long when I cut the chipboard. Sometimes it will ball up the chipboard and ruin the rest of the sheet. I’ve used my deep cut blade for the chipboard, but that doesn’t cut great either. So yesterday I cut the chipboard with the blue blade and it cut beautifully with no issues. So I’ll dedicate the blue to that.

I paid $5.19 for this pack of 40 blades on Temu. It says there are 20 red blades, 10 yellow and 10 blue. This was probably the best purchase for my Cricut ever, because I always want my paper to cut nice and smoothly and not waste anything. It really sucks to make a box card and envelope and see a lot of mistakes in the paper. 1 Cricut fine tip replacement blade is $13 at Michaels, which is more than double what I paid for this pack of 40 blades with 3 different angles.

Of course you want to use Cricut only products, especially when your Cricut is in warranty. Mine is 5 years old, and I haven’t had a warranty for a very long time. But I’m not worried about anything happening because the blades are the same size as the fine tip blade.

This new information is going to make my life so much easier when I cut my projects. I only wish I knew about this a long time ago.