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Nailheads are smooth and dome shaped on top.

Rhinestuds emulate the cut of a crystal, but are painted with a metallic paint. Swarovski’s are the most brilliant of studs – they reflect and refract light like a prism. Now it’s time to buy your supplies.To save money – unless you plan on making tons of rhinestone shirts – you should count the number of studs you will need based on the pattern you made.Īnother cost-saving factor is deciding whether you want real Swarovski crystals, or just nailheads or rhinestuds. Then invert the canvas horizontally (in Photoshop, this is under Image / Rotate Canvas / Flip Canvas Horizontally.) This allowed me to easily count them later.Īfter you are done, hide the original graphic layer so that the dots are on a white background. Since I knew I was going to be using quite a lot of crystals, I created new layers with 25 dots on each. Start laying down dots equidistant apart, in the new layer. The most commonly used size is 3mm, but they range from 2mm to 7mm. Change the tip so that it is the same size as the crystal you want to use.

Open your image in your photo editor.Set your ruler to display inches.Create a new layer – this will be the layer for your dot pattern.

If you do not have supplies already, wait to do this AFTER you have a pattern.That way you will know how much of each color crystals you will need.

I have never tried it, so I won’t be able to offer any help I hear it’s the best of the free software.

You will need a computer, a digital picture of what you want your pattern to be of, and photo editing software such as Photoshop (I use Photoshop in this tutorial.) ADDED 9-19 – you can get a free imaging program here.

This is breakdown of the various steps I will go into detail on. So the transfer method suited my needs best, and that is what I will describe here. Or, you can mark your garment with erasable pen (which I decided against since I was using a black shirt). It’s a bit costly, and requires that you be good at freehand art to place your stones in the right place. A BeJeweler looks like a soldering iron, and has interchangeable tips for different sized stone. After placing the rhinestone on your garment or item, you heat it up with a BeJeweler tool or with transfer film and a standard iron. These are stones with a little glob of dried glue on the back.

Hot-fix rhinestones have made it easier to work with rhinestones. But if you are like me and are not willing to pay high prices for name brands (especially brands you are not even into), I offer you this alternative. Rhinestones aren’t for line dancing anymore! They’ve become popular with hip clothing labels like Bebe and Baby Phat.