Mr. CraftyPaws and I are huge Doctor Who fans so when I saw THIS fireworks diamond painting<\/a><\/span> at Newfrog.com<\/a><\/span>, I was so excited about using it as a background for an exploding Tardis art piece (from The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang story arc).<\/p>\n

I was able to do this full drill painting in about 3 days (working on and off, of course). I didn’t approach it with any particular method. I just worked through each color more or less throughout the entire painting. Over long stretches of time, I would get bleary eyed and miss sections of a particular color and have to go back, but that was fine. I used the prep trays that came with all 3 diamond paintings that I received to review from Newfrog.com<\/a><\/span>, and was able to keep all the colors organized as I worked through the project.<\/p>\n

The following are a series of pictures of the project as I progressed:<\/p>\n

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Next I stamped the Tardis image from the Kindred Stamps “Time Traveler” stamp set twice and used the following Copic colors to bring them to life: Y000, Y00, B41, B95, B66 and B69. Then I fussy cut out both images, cut off the top light of the telephone box\/time travel machine from one and then haphazardly cut up the images so that it would look like the 4 sided Tardis was breaking apart.<\/p>\n

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I layered in the cut up pieces of the Tardis using foam dots and Tombow adhesive tabs to give the pieces varying depth from the diamond painting background — less depth toward the center and more depth as the pieces emanated out to give the illusion as if it was exploding out from the center. Lastly, I bought an IKEA frame and had a custom mat cut at Hobby Lobby to fit the exact dimensions of the diamond painting. The final framed piece is the top picture of this blog post.<\/p>\n

GIVEAWAYS<\/span>:
\nNewfrog sent me three diamond paintings (duplicates of the white dog HERE<\/a><\/span>, the blue flower close up HERE<\/a><\/span>, and the fireworks canvas from this post) to give away to my subscribers. If you’re interested in entering this giveaway, CHECK OUT THE YOUTUBE VIDEO (below), be a YouTube subscriber to my channel, and leave a comment there on that YouTube video (CLOSES November 29, 2018 and winners will be announced on my YouTube channel):<\/p>\n