hello and welcome to stone magpie for another unboxing i gave myself three criteria
when ordering one this time one it had to be from a website i've not used before
two it had to be really colorful and three it had to be in a price range that wasn't budget budget
but wasn't really expensive it had to sit somewhere between the two
let's see how i got on so first of all the packet as you can see is a bit like a
plastic bag and i can feel it's got like bubble wrap inside so it doesn't have a box with it
okay
it looks like this is like an outer pack
oh that's a really nice touch and it's given a bit of a game away
because you can see where i've ordered it from the website is crystal parade
i'm just a bit nervous about cutting it when i can't see what's going on underneath
but i think that's that okay now the company as i say is called crystal parade
and they do sell gemstones you know for nail art and craft and things like that so that's a really
nice touch that they've put a little gift on with a thank you that's lovely i really like that how
kind so i'm going to cut that off and put it aside you can see i'm trying to hide the design from you
i don't want to give too much away there we are
and there you can see their website name
www.crystalparade.co.uk
so this one happened to be a uk company
which meant really quick shipping so that was a bonus that wasn't on my criteria
okay no clues let's cut it this way so that you can't see what's inside
so a tick for a website i've not used before so one criteria has been met
have a look in the packet so oh look there we are okay
so toolkit let's have a look at what we get okay i was expecting you know the
usual green tray but no we've got one of my favorite trays the white ones with the funnel
so
yep it's a basic white diamond painting tray it's probably one of the smallest i've ever had
let me grab my usual one so this is the one i use all the time and look it sits in it so quite diddy
but um yeah usable
nice slab of pink wax we get some little baggies one two three four five little baggies
a basic diamond pen no multi-placer or anything very basic and some tweezers bent nose tweezers
yeah um they're okay they're metal i wouldn't say they're the best of quality but nice to have them
so we'll pop all this back away and let's have a look at the picture
i'm expecting this picture to absolutely meet criteria 2 being really colorful
put the diamonds aside for now we'll look at those in a moment now look the diamond painting has come
rolled which is really nice i wasn't expecting that it is a 35 by 50 centimeter now they have
put looks like these are little bands on
so very securely on oh i don't want to show you the picture turn it around like that
all right and you can see the foam starting to peek through let's unroll it
okay
right i'm just lifting the corners to try and get it a bit flatter
and then we'll have a proper look at the picture
very soon
so this is a little tip if you've if you're quite new to diamond painting if it's sitting
quite rolled just pull the corners up and then flatten them carefully back down try
not to trap much air in between i am going to be revealing the picture so and then i
will make sure that that cover is completely flat again right i will show you the picture
here we have a colorful butter so colorful tick let's have a look at the symbols
look at this if you watch my channel regularly you will know that i don't like numbers out of
order and hooray they've not done that so we've got one two three four five six seven eight
in the correct number order really clear dmc numbers really clear symbols
and then we go down into capital letters and symbols at the bottom
so that is really nice big writing the symbols as they say look really clear they've done
white lettering on the dark backgrounds and black lettering on the brighter backgrounds
so let's have a little look at the top of the picture first
i will pull this back
wow that looks great oh wow now let's have a close up
of the canvas here we are so there you can see the different lettering with the white on the darker
backgrounds so it is really easy to read this one just trying to find any area that might not be
but that looks really clear
look at the colors oh i can't wait now to see the diamonds on this one
yes i'm really pleased with that
i'll cover up that half and as i say you don't need to do this if you're buying a
diamond painting unless you'd want it to sit a bit flatter of course there
is the trick of putting it under your mattress if you have a divan mattress
rather than these slatted mattresses you can do that to flatten it out so
you don't necessarily have to pull back this backing before you start your diamond painting
look i think this is going to be a fabulous i'm really pleased with it the canvas is
not the thickest that i've had um it's not the thinnest either it's sort of sits between the two
i would say it's probably like a standard canvas
okay
right let's have a closer look so can you see what i mean about the weight of the canvas it's fine
let's have a look at the diamonds that come with this we do get a sheet
telling us what is in the pack which is always nice
and straight away you can see that they are all of these separate packets
let's take out the list first
so
with this separate sheet you do get your instructions on how to diamond
paint which is always nice if you're new to diamond painting so we have number one to 40
because there are four colors in this kit we've got the symbol which is all colored
we've got the color number the dmc number which is important if you want to store your diamonds
afterwards which i do we have the number of bags that should be included and we've got the quantity
of the diamonds used in this diamond painting so that's nice to have as well as an extra detail
now if you kit up 1 to 40 then those numbers are important i don't i tend to get up by the symbol
so a nice sheet to have
now the diamonds themselves as you can see very
bright let's get some of these out and have a closer look
so as i say little packets now i never really used to like these little packets
and then i did the pokemon diamond painting and i actually enjoyed using those because i
could tip one packet out at a time into my tray so i don't mind them as much anymore
um okay so we have nice bright colors i'm not going to go through
every one of these colors they are square diamonds
so it will be interesting to see the quality of those let's have a darker color 939 here
i think looking at them my first impression is that they are the box standard diamonds um so i
think there will be a little bit of sorting out with the side being square it is quite important
having the clean side to them and i can already see that there's
some but if you'll be able to pick it out but that one there has a little bit of um
a knob on the side of it so i think there will be a little bit of sorting out with these diamonds so
i'm hoping that i get enough in the kit to be able to discard the ones that are not up to scratch
these ones these bright colors are amazing aren't they and because they'll be set against that 939
it'll really make them ping look at this one just beautiful
a look at the size of those diamonds
yeah i would say these are like the bog standard quality diamonds okay let's get to the price
for this one the price on the website was 22.79 however when i added it to the cart
um it came down in price it was half price so this one actually cost me 11 pounds 40
plus postage now the postage was 2 pounds 30 as i say it was posted in the uk so i ordered this
on tuesday and i received it on friday i did get an email after ordering i paid i ordered
paid on the website and then i got an email saying we don't have it in stock do you want to order
something else and i said oh no i would i really just wanted that one so could i have a refund and
they came back to me and said they'd found them in stock so i'm not 100 sure whether they will still
be in stock but if you're interested do have a look um so all together it cost me 13 pounds
70. so it ended up being a little bit less than what i expected always nice always a bonus
but with my criteria i would say it's on the high side of budget
whereas i wanted to something that's that
in between but as i say i'm not complaining it's always nice to get a bargain
and this will be a bargain if the diamonds are good enough
we'll have to wait and see on that point i'm going to give you to measure so
that's why i'm putting all the diamonds back in the pack so that i can get my measuring tape i'll
just get a camera view that hopefully you can see the whole picture right so now we've got
the picture all in view let's give it a measure um because it's sticky underneath i'm not going
to lift i've done it before and got caught out with my tape measure sticking to the canvas
so i'm going to leave the protective cover down but i can see the line so i won't cheat i promise
so this is supposed to be 50 centimeters oh my goodness it is very close to being 50 centimeters
and i am surprised because normally if you order a picture 35 by 50 it would be
a little bit smaller but this isn't this is 50 centimeters let's see if it's 35 across
and yes it is 35 across so with this diamond painting you get the size that you order
brilliant now with crystal parade website as i said they tend to sell the little gems and that
is like the majority of their business and i think they've tagged diamond painting on so there isn't
a huge amount of choice but i recommend you going to have a look and giving them a try especially if
you're in the uk because then we don't have that long wait time for diamond paintings to arrive
i'm happy with it i think the diamonds could be a bit better quality i'd be a bit disappointed
with those if i paid the full price but i'm happy with this costing 13 pounds 70 including postage
and the toolkit's fine not the best but it's it's fine for a basic set i think this would be a good
first diamond painting as well if you're wanting to try squares for the first time or if it's your
first diamond painting kit with squares don't be put off by what you might hear in certain groups
about squares because i know some people really don't like them don't get on with them give it a
go why not see if you like the squares especially using these beautiful colors i think it's going
to be great i'm going to have another look at the canvas to see how confetti heavy this picture is
right what i can see here is that there are lots of color blocked areas you can
see down the detail of the nose that's colour blocked all of these bits are colour blocked and
i would say the top part there are patches of colour blocking and then little bits
of confetti but not too bad at all so i really do think this would be a great one to start with
look at those colors oh it's just going to be fabulous to work on
i'm really excited about this one thank you so much for joining me today
in unboxing a diamond painting from a company you might not have bought from before
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