How to fill a shape with rhinestone

For fill a shape with rhinestone we’ll use the free software INKSCAPE. You will learn to create a fill crystal pattern, bling design for use with your cricut in the design space app. Of course you can also use it with any other application of cutting machines. At the end you will find a video with the step by step

How to Make a Rhinestone Patterns in Inkscape

1. Let’s make a heart. Draw an oval and turn it a little, then duplicate it with the keys ctrl+d and apply mirror. When we already have the heart shape created, then we click on the tool “UNION” that is in the menu “PATH”.
2. Select the option “preference” from menu “edit” after in “behavior/ Steps” set 0.13 to inset/outset.
3. Now we draw a circle by pressing the CTRL+SHIFT key, as the example we will do is to use rhinestone 10ss so this circle must have a size of 0.13 inches.
4. Select the circle and clic on PATH/object to path and after clic on menu OBJECT/RAISE TO TOP.
5. Select the circle and the heart then clic on menu Extensions/generate from path/ scatter.
6. Choose the heart and clic on “path/inset” and repeat steps 4-5. This step is done as many times as necessary until the figure is completely filled with rhinestone.
7. To distribute evenly the spaces between rhinestone you must select the fourth option of the menu rearrange that is in the window of “align and distribute”.

How to change the spacing between rhinestone

Go to the menu EXTENSIONS/ GENERATE FROM PATH / scatter then a new window will open. The value you put in the option “space between copies” will be the separation between each rhinestone.

For create a rhinestone template, with your cricut, then you can read all the materials you will need HERE

Additional you have another tutorial where I explain how you can create your own fonts with rhinestone

In the video shown below you can see each of the steps in detail, I recommend you to do yourself each of the steps of the video so you can notice the results.