How to use a Rhinestone design

With this post I intend to clarify doubts about the use of Rhinestone design and everything you should know before and after buying a rhinestone design. I also remind you that you can create your own bling designs here are some tutorials that will help you. Tutorial 1 / Tutorial 2 / Tutorial 3 / Tutorial 4

What to do before buying a rhinestone design

The first thing you should do is to read the product description, many people buy without reading, the most important points are the following:

• Verify that it is a digital download and not a physical product.
• Size of the design (wide and height or tall) and units of measure, these are usually given in inches. This is super important because a design in rhinestone can´t be resize, because it would change the size of the stone. If the design is bigger or smaller than you want, then can change its size using this tool (Video tutorial included), which will show you the new size of stone you must use.
• Size of the stone, the most used are 10ss that are equivalent to 3mm of diameter and 6ss that are equivalent to 2 mm of diameter.
• Number of rhinestone that uses the design, this allows you to calculate the price of the design if you use it for sale and also know how much rhinestone you should buy.
• Any website where you buy a rhinestone design, the file you download will have a .zip extension, so you must unzip the file to use it. If you don’t know how to unzip then read this tutorial. ( I suggest using a free extractor.  Windows users can go to www.7-zip.org and download a FREE extractor.  Mac users can go to www.izip.com and download a FREE extractor)
• In this link you will find some cutting machines that you can use to cut rhinestone templates. I particularly have a silhouette cameo 3 and a cricut maker, I also use extra software like FLEXISIGN-PRO10, CorelDraw, adobe illustrator, inkscape and affinity designer. Therefore I guarantee you that all the free and paid designs you will find published on this website, work perfectly!

What to do after buying a design

• After making the payment, opens a window where you will find the link to download the file, if you do not download it immediately, then you can download it by logging “LOGIN/ MY ACCOUNT”.
• Unzip the downloaded folder.
• If you have a cricut or brother machine, then open Cricut design space and Upload the SVG image.
• For silhouette cameo machine users, the open silhouette studio software and upload the STUDIO3 file (PLEASE DON´T OPEN THE SVG FILE, because you will need resize the design).
• If you have a GCC machine the open the EPS file.
• Once the design is loaded into the software, you will see a text above it (see the video), indicating the amount of rhinestone and the size of the design. Usually you do not need to readjust the size of the design but it is always important that you verify that the size that appears in the text matches the size of the design that indicates the software of your cutting machine, if they are not the same you must adjust the design to the same size written in the text.
• One of the most frequently asked questions I receive, usually in cricut users is the following: the file does not open completely, this happens because you simply double click on the SVG file and by default it opens in the web browser showing a preview that is not necessarily the final file. Then don’t double click directly on the SVG file PLEASE! open the software and load the file so you can see it completely!
• Another frequently asked question: I have a text on the image as I remove it? all design software from the most basic to the most complex has the option of UNGROUP or UNGROUP ALL, you just select the design and click on the ungroup option, this way you can move, hide or delete each layer of the design you do not want to cut.

If you are a cricut user, and when you send to cut a design, it changes the order of the texts or images, placing it in areas where you have not put them before sending to cut, then select all the design and below of the layer panel you can see ATTACH clic on this ! and MAKE IT again.