Learn how to glue rhinestones to fabric and get four printable free stencils for rhinestone patterns to create your ain makeup bag collection!

Four white canvas pouches with red rhinestone assorted designs. Lying on a pink background with pink and red glitter hearts scattered around

Exercise you celebrate Galentine's Mean solar day?

If y'all're looking for ideas, can I propose a crafternoon with your all-time girls?

Yous tin can make these adorable rhinestone makeup bags. Oh, and possibly these Valentine'southward Twenty-four hour period bath bombs, too?

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Four white canvas pouches with red rhinestone assorted designs. Lying on a pink background with pink and red glitter hearts scattered around Four white canvas pouches with red rhinestone assorted designs. Lying on a pink background with pink and red glitter hearts scattered around

Are you lot wondering how exercise you employ rhinestones to cloth without having them all autumn off?

Or maybe you lot already know that y'all can only glue them right on. No fancy tools needed!

What is the all-time gum for rhinestones on fabric?

From my experience and then far, I'grand confident that Beacon Adhesives Gem-Tac is the best mucilage for rhinestones on fabric.

Information technology's as well going to be the best mucilage to utilize for rhinestones on shoes or apparel. It will fifty-fifty adhere rhinestone and gemstones to surfaces like wood and plastic, so information technology'due south versatile, too.

Four white canvas pouches with red rhinestone assorted designs. Lying on a pink background with pink and red glitter hearts scattered around

There's a adept chance you'll find Gem-Tac to be the best rhinestone mucilage in general for several reasons:

  • It's formulated specifically to secure gems and rhinestones instead of a million different things.
  • Information technology's permanent, which means anything you glue with it is machine-washable.
  • It tin can exist stale, besides. In fact, it really gets STRONGER when exposed to oestrus from the dryer.
  • It dries clear, and yous only demand a piffling bit, so a bottle volition really last.

How to Bedazzle a Makeup Bag with My Complimentary Stencils for Rhinestone Patterns

Beacon Adhesives Gem-Tac glue, graphite transfer paper, black scissors, a small white canvas pouch, a dish of red rhinestone, and white printouts on a pink background

Supplies

This list is the actual items I used for this projection, simply feel gratuitous to employ different pouches or even for clothing or shoes! My free stencils for rhinestone patterns volition work on any flat, matte surface that graphite will transfer onto, like fabric, woods, vinyl, leather, and more.

  • Small canvas attachment pouches
  • Precious stone-Tac agglutinative
  • 5mm flat-back rhinestones
  • Graphite transfer newspaper
  • Gratuitous stencils for rhinestone patterns: Sign up for my newsletter to admission the free download in my printable library.
  • Scissors
  • Pencil or pen
  • Optional
    • Tweezers or a wax rhinestone picker pencil

DIY Rhinestone Makeup Bag Instructions

Caucasian hand ironing a small white canvas pouch against a pink background

1. Pre-wash and dry the canvas pouch to remove any fabric sizing or remainder.

2. Fe out any wrinkles and creases that could interfere with the blueprint transfer.

Caucasian hands cutting out an XOXO template from white paper with black scissors against a pink background

iii. Cut out your favorite pattern template. Use the cut lines so that you lot tin can easily center and line up the design on the pouch, rather than cutting super shut to the design itself.

4. Cutting a sheet of graphite transfer newspaper in the same size.

5. Place the transfer paper darker-side-downward in the middle of the pouch, and lay the template on top of it.

Caucasian hands tracing XOXO template with red pen on white paper against a pink background

half-dozen. Trace it with a pencil or pen. Yous need to printing really hard to brand certain the design transfers onto the fabric, or you won't be able to encounter the marks. You can lift upwards a corner of the transfer paper and template to make sure it's working so adapt if needed.

Tip: Trace right down the middle of the dots with one thin line. The dots are just meant to prove you how many rhinestones to place, so there's no need to actually trace each little circumvolve!

Tip: Information technology's helpful to use a colored pencil or pen and then that you lot can easily see where y'all've already traced and fill in any missing spots.

Hands applying Beacon Adhesives Gem-Tac to a red rhinestone against a pink background

seven. Use a dot of Gem-Tac to the dorsum of each rhinestone, and set it into the design.You lot don't need to printing very difficult, and gently gluing the rhinestones will keep backlog glue from oozing out.

Hands applying a red rhinestone to an XOXO design on a white canvas pouch against a pink background

8. Go on to glue rhinestones to the fabric forth the design. You can use your fingers like I did, or you could try tweezers, jewelry pliers, or a wax rhinestone picker pencil to brand your life a whole lot easier.

nine. Fix it aside to dry overnight. Gem-Tac rhinestone glue actually dries inside 1 hour, but yous should let it cure for 24 hours earlier yous wash or use your pouch.

Printable Instructions

Agile Time 30 minutes

Total Time thirty minutes

Difficulty Beginner

Materials

  • Pocket-size canvas attachment pouches
  • Precious stone-Tac adhesive
  • 5mm apartment-back rhinestones
  • Graphite transfer paper
  • Free stencil template

Tools

  • Scissors
  • Pencil or pen
  • Optional: Tweezers or a wax rhinestone picker pencil

Instructions

  1. Pre-launder and dry out the sheet pouch.
  2. Iron out any wrinkles and creases.
  3. Cut out your favorite design template.
  4. Cut a sheet of graphite transfer paper in the aforementioned size.
  5. Layer the transfer newspaper and template on the pouch.
  6. Trace information technology with a pencil or pen.
  7. Apply a dot of Gem-Tac to the back of each rhinestone, and ready it into the pattern.
  8. Go on to glue rhinestones to the fabric along the design until it's complete.
  9. Set it aside to dry overnight.

Notes

  • Trace right down the middle of the dots with 1 sparse line. The dots are simply meant to evidence y'all how many rhinestones to place, so at that place's no need to actually trace each fiddling circle!
  • Information technology's helpful to use a colored pencil or pen so that you can hands come across where you've already traced and make full in any missing spots.

Four white canvas pouches with red rhinestone assorted designs. Lying on a pink background with pink and red glitter hearts scattered around