How to Customise a Phone Case with Diamond Dotz

* Diamond Dotz Premium Resin Dotz in 8020 (Flag Red), 8333 (Dark Orange), 8318 (Dark Citrus),

3001 (Neon Green), 8142 (Aqua), 8106 (Imperial Purple)

* Diamond Dotz Freestyle Sandwich Adhesive

* Diamond Dotz Freestyle Application Trays 8pc

* Diamond Dotz Freestyle Secure Roller

* Diamond Dotz Accessory Pack

* A Phone Case – Acrylic or Silicone

* Scissors

* A Ruler

* A Pen

Begin by taking your phone case, and using a ruler note down some measurements for the width and length of the phone case, and the width and length of the window.

Once you have your measurements, you'll need to take your sandwich adhesive and mark the measurements onto the paper side using a fine tip marker for best results.

Once your lines are marked, cut the sandwich adhesive on all marked lines, including the window area so you have a square section cut out. Don’t worry about the rest of that area, we’ll come back to it later.

Carefully peel back the paper side of your sandwich adhesive, ensuring you have the sticky surface on the clear plastic.

Line up the area you cut out for the window of the case and place down, gently peeling away more of the paper as you stick it down. Do not attempt to stick the whole sheet down in one go as this can be quite difficult. Do it in stages, smoothing it as you go. You don't want any air bubbles left behind.

Once it has been fully peeled, finish smoothing out your adhesive. Use your roller and your fingers to press down onto the case to make sure it's stuck down and there are no bubbles.

Then, cut any edges that are hanging over and leave it for 10/15 minutes to let the adhesive settle there.

Once you’re ready to start creating the design on your case, you'll need to prepare a few other items.

Take your chosen colours and sprinkle some out of each packet into your application trays. Pick up your trays one at a time, being careful to cover the spout, and gently shake them from side to side to disperse the dots across the trays and turn most of them right side up.

Next, take your pen tool and your wax pot and apply wax to the tip of the pen by peeling back the plastic cover on it and dipping the tip into the wax. Make sure you’ve picked up some wax and get rid of any excess you may have around the tip. Ensure you reapply wax to the tip as you create your design, as your pen may stop gripping the dots.

With your pen and your dots ready to go you can start working on applying them to your phone case.

First, peel back the plastic covering in the bottom left corner of your phone case. (Do not remove the plastic, just peel it back as you go). This will keep the covered glue tacky until you’re finished placing dots.

Take the wax end of the pen and touch the top of a green dot that has its domed side facing upwards, it will pick it up.

Once you have a dot on the end of your pen, bring it towards the furthest bottom left edge, as close to the edge of the glue as you can. The adhesive will grip the dot and the pen will release it.

Continue to place them along the edge of the adhesive. Do red in the top left side and purple in the bottom right. Then working out in a line, change colours as you go, filling out a section for each one of your colours.

Keep working in from the edge, swapping colours and building up each section. It’s best to attempt to place each new row of dots into the gaps created by the previous one for a neat fit and full coverage. Please note that the restrictions of the design and the shape of the case may not always allow for a perfect fit.

Fill in an area being aware of the amount of space left and adjust accordingly. As you work, gradually stagger the edges of each colour strip by 1 or 2 dots so that they will move in a diagonal angle across the case.

Top Tip: To help keep the sections in the place we wanted them, we drew rough lines on the plastic that we then lifted and placed down over the design as we worked.

For the area up next to the window of the phone case, you can either cut a few small triangles of sandwich adhesive to achieve the look we went with or you can also add a couple of thin strips of adhesive so you can do a single line of dots along that edge.

However, note that this can be a difficult method as you’re working with such a thin piece of adhesive.

Once completed, you won't have any adhesive surface for the backing plastic to stick to, and you can go over your placed dots with the roller to make sure they’re all stuck down well.

The adhesive will cure over time and not be sticky in the areas exposed between the dots