Both are calming, screen-free crafts you can personalize with your own photo — but they feel quite different to make. Here's how to choose between them. (See all five options in our DIY craft kits collection.)
What is dot painting?
With custom dot painting, we turn your photo into a pattern of numbered circles on canvas, and you fill each one with the included markers. It's light, mess-free and travel-friendly — often called "the creative little sister of diamond painting".
What is diamond painting?
With custom diamond painting, you place tiny sparkling resin stones onto a coded adhesive canvas. The result has a brilliant, shimmering, almost 3D finish — but it needs a flat surface and a little more space to work.
Side by side
- Mess & portability: dot painting wins — just markers and canvas.
- Sparkle & wow: diamond painting wins — that signature shimmer.
- Beginner-friendly: both are easy and deeply relaxing.
- Prefer paint? Try custom paint by numbers instead.
"Switch off and create — the point of these kits is the calm, not just the canvas."
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