To begin with, take your Diamond Painting pen in your hand and try out whether you prefer to work with or without our additional foam grip. To do this, simply insert the pen into the blue handle. Then set the pen aside with or without the additional grip.

Now unroll your canvas and decide which corner you want to start your diamond painting on. Once you have selected the corner, look at the symbols printed on the small color fields. The symbols can be either letters, numbers or small characters. Decide on a symbol and look for this color using the symbol in the legend on the side of your canvas. The legend contains all the symbols used in the Diamond Painting picture and shows you a corresponding number for each symbol. You will find these so-called DMC numbers printed on all the sachets with the 5D diamond stones. Each symbol therefore stands for a color and the legend shows you which DMC number you need to look for on your sachets in order to use this color in the right place.

Once you have read the right DMC number for your chosen symbol from the legend, find the corresponding bag with this number and put it aside.

Now take your Diamond Painting bowl and have it ready to pour the diamond stones from step 3 onto it. To do this, open the bag - if it is not a zip bag, it is best to use scissors on one corner (opening max. 1.5 cm) - and pour a small amount of diamond stones into the bowl. Now you should shake the bowl carefully and gently so that the diamond stones arrange themselves between the slightly raised lines. You will see that the diamond stones begin to align themselves along the lines on the bottom of your Diamond Painting bowl. The majority of the diamond stones should now be aligned so that the top of the diamond stones are facing upwards and resting on the flat bottom part.

Next, take your jar of Diamond Painting wax. Unscrew the lid and remove the transparent protective film on top of the wax. Then place the tin at your workstation next to your pen and bowl. Incidentally, a table is best suited as a Diamond Painting workstation.

You now have everything you need to start your Diamond Painting at your workstation. As the canvas has been rolled for transportation, it will still try to roll back at first. You can use a book or something similar to hold the corners of your canvas in place.

Now it's time to remove the protective film from the corner of your canvas selected in step 2. Please only cover a small area of your canvas at first. The clear masking film can be covered and uncovered again and again without being damaged.

Now take your Diamond Painting pen in your hand and push it firmly into the wax. A firm penetration of your pen into the wax ensures that a sufficient amount of wax sticks to the cavity at the tip of your pen.

With the tip of the pen previously pierced in wax, you can now easily pick up the diamond stones individually from the tray and place them in the desired position on the canvas. The diamond stones will stick to the sticky canvas by themselves.

Once you have used up all the diamond stones in the bowl, you can refill the bowl and continue working until the entire uncovered area of the canvas is covered with the diamond stones provided. This creates a glittering diamond image stone by stone.

You can now repeat this process with other colors. Simply select a different color symbol that is best adjacent to the color used previously. Never mix colors in the bowl.

If you want to finish working on your Diamond Painting picture for the time being, you can cover the area that you have worked on the canvas with the protective film again and press on the previously placed diamond stones with your hand or a book to make sure that they are well attached. If you wish, you can cut off the part of the transparent film that is already completely covered with diamond stones.