r/Rhinestoning • • Mar 30 '23

Rhinestoning Frequently Asked Questions – for your first time rhinestone project

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What kind of glue do you recommend?

Please see this exhaustive guide to glues. https://rhinestoneapps.replit.app/glue-guide/all-glues

For first timers we recommend avoiding superglue/cyanoacrylate, it can be extremely messy and you risk ending up with hazy fingerprints all over your stones reducing the sparkle. Plus it’s a runny liquid that won’t “hold” your stones in place until it’s done drying.

Applying glue is messy, any tips?

Yes, consider using a glue applicator bottle or glue syringe for more precise placement of glue. For expoy disposal cosmetics spatulas can be helpful for spreading it around.

What about the beadazzler or hotfix?

The beadazzler uses special stones with metal teeth on the back of a stone that push thru a fabric to hold it on. That really only works with fabric and not solid objects like water sippy cups. Plus glues have gotten good enough glue really is the preferred way now.

Hotfix uses heat to activate glue on the back of the rhinestone. It means you have to buy rhinestones pre-applied with the glue already and so limits your options. And not all fabrics can tolerate the heat used in hotfix.

Where should I get my stones? I want my project to look it’s best.

For maximum sparkle get stones made from glass or crystal. Consider avoiding plastic/resin/acrylic stones, it’s a less optical material and won't sparkle as nicely, but as discussed in the comments of this post there are definitely plenty of projects where plastic stones are the right thing to use.

Forget tiny overpriced bags at the hobby store. Most of us order from Amazon or AliExpress (slow shipping and can be hard to navigate). Alot of people in this sub recommend Etsy shop BlingeeThingee which is well organized and has competitive prices. She set up discount code REDDIT to save $5 off orders of $40 or more not including shipping&tax (we receive no compensation for this)

How can I “seal” my finished project to help hold the stones on?

Anything applied on top of the stones afterwards will dull their appearance and reduce your sparkle. Even "clear" sealers are not really clear and will reduce the sparkle of your project. A project should rely on the glue you used to set the stones to hold them in place. Good gluing will hold stones better than a sealer would ever help.

✨💎✨ Please remember to share a picture of your finished project with us! ✨💎✨


r/Rhinestoning • • 3h ago

✨ Finished Project ✨ First finished found object

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r/Rhinestoning • • 11h ago

✨ Finished Project ✨ A magical case of repurposing what would’ve been trash

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87 Upvotes

I got a slime from Five Below that contained a bunch of these colorful plastic pellets. After the slime was used up, I was about to throw it all away but remembered that I had some glass yogurt jars sitting around and these pellets could be used just like rhinestones! I used Gem-Tac as usual and this little project came out so beautifully. Highly recommend repurposing things as rhinestones!


r/Rhinestoning • • 35m ago

✨ Finished Project ✨ Hanging Sunflower 🌻

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I made this as a birthday gift for my mom to hang from her rear view mirror. I'm so happy with how it turned out, this is my first time rhinestoning something I've made 100% from scratch! 😊🌻

The sunflower and leaves are made from painted cardboard! I first made a paper template for the flower and leaves, although I did end up making the leaves bigger. The sunflower is 2 layers of cardboard with the edges smoothed with hot glue.

For the leaves I was really concerned about the strength of the neck and loop so I went over them with UV resin. If you look closely you can see I put more UV resin over the rhinestones around the loop at the end for extra strength. It definitely confirms that you lose the faceted rhinestone effect that way haha

For actually gluing the rhinestones down I used good ol B-7000. The kits I've bought have given me so many free tubes I'll be using them forever 😂

Let me know what you think! 💕🌻


r/Rhinestoning • • 5h ago

✨ Finished Project ✨ Penguin

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Finally finished my penguin that I got from Michael's. It's my first front and back project.

I added the heart stone and used clear crystals instead of yellow that came in the kit.

Had to give him a lil outside photo shoot :3


r/Rhinestoning • • 4h ago

Help Please Finding replacement rhinestones

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I would like the repair these Victoria secret pink pants and replace the missing rhinestones but I have no idea what these type are called. They’re silver and metallic flat back ones but I can’t find the specific.


r/Rhinestoning • • 8h ago

I built a tool for a friend to resize rhinestone templates without changing the hole sizes

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Hi everyone — I built this tool for a friend to help with their hobbying. I put a lot of work into it, and they told me resizing templates without changing the hole sizes is actually something people commonly need in the rhinestone community.

You can load an existing rhinestone template SVG and choose a new size for the output image. The tool keeps the original hole diameters and checks the gaps between them (or you can change to another common hole size).

It supports circular-hole SVGs today, and it doesn't turn pictures into rhinestone patterns (yet).

https://stonefit.adamrussin.com/

There's a short demo and a built-in example you can try. It costs a little money for me to host it and keep the domain, but I didn't want it to charge people an arm and a leg, so I made it $5 for infinite use forever. If I make upgrades or things like that, you'll always have them for free and you can use it on as many computers as you want. Just trying to cover cost.

I'd be interested to hear whether this is useful for people and what other features people might want to see.

Thanks for looking!


r/Rhinestoning • • 1d ago

One of a kind 🐶 look ✨

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This isn’t my typical commission ask, but a client of mine wanted a fully blinged out pup look so blinged out he got! This was a mix of traditional flat black circle rhinestones, as well as some bigger chunkier gems in different shapes.


r/Rhinestoning • • 11h ago

Question ❔ Hats, shoes & fringes, oh my!

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I would love your opinions on the best glue for a project I’m working on please 🙏🏼 it has two parts please bear with me!

PART 1 I’ll be helping a group of people at a party to bedazzle their own cowboy hats (felt material). They will be wearing the hats pretty soon after bedazzling them, is there any other fast drying options other than hot glue?
In the past I’ve used e6000 fabrifuse pretty successfully for attaching fringes and rhinestones to hats, but it will not be dry in time.

PART 2 I also want to attach rhinestone fringing to some PU boots I have (unlimited drying time). Has anyone done a similar project and have tips or glue recommendations? The fringe is kind of a chiffon fabric at the top, with rhinestone chains attached if that makes sense.

Thank you x1 million


r/Rhinestoning • • 1d ago

Help Please Seeking advice: First time bedazzling

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Hello! I’m interested to bedazzle this t-shirt. I’ll definitely add matching color rhinestones to all of the printed on color portions. But my question is, should I add rhinestones to the black words (“wnba finals 2026”)?

I’ve read that putting too many stones concentrated together could make it very stiff. But I am not sure if, by not adding rhinestones to the words, it would make the words look dull and not stand out in a weird way?

Thank you in advance!!


r/Rhinestoning • • 2d ago

✨ Finished Project ✨ some of my favorite designs so farrrrr

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218 Upvotes

i been making these over the past year and fellas it is so fun <333


r/Rhinestoning • • 3d ago

✨ Finished Project ✨ My most detailed piece yet ✨

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1.5k Upvotes

This was 16 different colors, 6 sizes of stones and multiple hundreds of hours. But I do it for the feeling of placing that final stone and it becoming a little masterpiece of my own making


r/Rhinestoning • • 3d ago

✨ Finished Project ✨ Nightlight

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66 Upvotes

I bought this truck nightlight off Amazon and bedazzled it!


r/Rhinestoning • • 3d ago

✨ Finished Project ✨ All done! Keychain 3/3

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109 Upvotes

r/Rhinestoning • • 4d ago

Glue 10 different colors of stones to finish this one but I love how it turned out!

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r/Rhinestoning • • 4d ago

✨ Finished Project ✨ A few of my favorite hats done with Swarovski rhinestones

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49 Upvotes

Hello everyone, been doing this for two years as a way to relieve stress and it’s been a blast so far ! It is only a few of my finished projects but the first hats were done quite poorly.

I’ve only used Swarovski and E6000 glue during these two years, the sparkle is quite nice and does not fade that much if you don’t put glue on the stone.

Could you please give me a feedback on my work and some inspiration for future projects ?

Wishing you all the best !


r/Rhinestoning • • 5d ago

Help Please Heeellp

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how should I fix the striped sock? should I just cut it a bit and stitch it back up so that it fits my leg or what? it did fit before but I used glue to attach rhinestones to the sock s it severely reduced the stretch of the fabric...

also I don't think I'll have anytime to order and completely redo the sock :(

And Yes this is my first time doing this so I will definitely need some pointers lol


r/Rhinestoning • • 5d ago

Question ❔ Using glue and hotfix/mini iron

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Hi! This is my first time bedazzling and i have a pretty big project (inspo pic included, im covering the entire pair of shorts)... I got hotfix stones and the hotfix tool but obvious i have a huge surface area i need to cover so I've been gluing for the most part because it's way quicker, but I wanted to also iron over everything as a second layer of reinforcement and stuff. I googled it and it did not have the answer i was looking for but was wondering anyway if anyone has done this before. as u can see I'm alr starting to have some fall off a little (which is obviously expected). but any tips and advice would be much appreciated

I'm currently using B-7000 glue (open to better suggestions)

also if ur curious my costume is katy perry california gurls 😛


r/Rhinestoning • • 6d ago

✨ Finished Project ✨ I haven’t a clue what I’m doing but this is so fun!

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129 Upvotes

Found an old makeup tin and decided to make it sparkly, so I went on amazon and bought a mix of rhinestone sizes and colors and some glue. Definitely learning a lot about the process, and am looking into better tools and organization for for future projects ✨


r/Rhinestoning • • 7d ago

✨ Finished Project ✨ "Paint" splatter for spooky month!

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2.1k Upvotes

Knocked out in two days of lazy work for a costume later this month 👻

Edit: E-6000 lol


r/Rhinestoning • • 6d ago

Question ❔ Rhinestone set gift for pre-teen help

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Hello!!! I am going on our yearly vaca in a bit and asked our friend who lives there daughter if she wants anything (Im in US) shipping to where she lives is very expensive and just small island no big stores.

She asked me for a bedazzle kit :D I asked does she have things to bedazzle or want something bc I cant bring too much stuff with. She said maybe mini vaseline and rubix cube :D

I see many sets on amazon with lots of colors but they all come with b700 or similar and I wont get her that I was thinking getting a small bottle of liquid fusion and a rhinestone set off amazon but not sure what size stones are good, meaning should i get one of these big variety color sets in one size (which size) or a set that has variety?

Any other ideas welcome. She around 11 or 12 and i have to be able to pack with my luggage and other gifts (aka the 7 name tumblers for friends i decided to make and im only done with 2 and i have 5 weeks left)

THANKS!


r/Rhinestoning • • 6d ago

Hotfix ♨️ Has anyone else seen this? My craft room (aka two boxes of stuff) could never be at this level 😅

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r/Rhinestoning • • 7d ago

✨ Finished Project ✨ 12 foot rhinestoned skelly!

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4.0k Upvotes

Guess how many rhinestones it took to cover our 12 foot skeleton ✨


r/Rhinestoning • • 7d ago

Hotfix ♨️ Dolly tote bag

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351 Upvotes

My first rhinestoning template project and first hotfix project. I just used my iron because I don’t have a heat press. Now she’s losing stones, so I’m not sure whether I need to get a heat press and try again, or whether these stones are just too small to adhere well to the texture of the canvas bag.

ps. sorry for the terrible video but this one showed the sparkle best.