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Today I thought we would do a fun project and decoupage some shoes.
if you guys read my blog you know how much I love customising shoes, I've done everything
from blinging them up with diamantes to glitter to completely remaking them, adding lace,
completely changing the shoe. But today I'm going to do something I've wanted
to try for ages: decoupage! I've been cleaning out my closets lately and
I found a stack of old Japanese magazines. I love them to death but I just don't have
the space in a 1 bedroom apartment for them. I gave most of them away to friends but rather
than putting the last ones to waste I thought it would be fun for us to do some craft tutorials
with the rest. For this project you'll need a pair of shoes,
a magazine or some old comic books or something to decoupage with, a bowl of water and some
PVA glue. PVA glue has different names in different
countries but if you google it I'm sure you'll be able to find a similar substitute if your
country. If you're in the US you could probably use
something like Modge Podge but we don't have that available here so cheap old PVA it is.
The heels that I'm going to be using today are just standard heels. They are from Joanne
Mercer and they're pretty old and I think they need a bit of a make over.
These ones are leather on the outside but it doesn't really matter, you can use any
kind of shoe you will just need to adjust the glue you use accordingly.
The first step is to flick through your magazine and find some nice bright pages that we can
use on the shoes. I'm going to go with some of the brighter
advertisements at the beginning of the magazine. Ugh, 2007 was such a great year for Japanese
fashion. Now you need to tear up your magazine into
small pieces. I'm getting rid of any pieces which don't
have really interesting pictures on them because I want the whole shoe to be really interesting.
No filler! A lot of the pieces I'm picking are Lolita
fashion because it's cute and it's going to make some really interesting designs on the
shoes. Now first shoe!
Pour a bunch of PVA glue into your water, you want basically a 1:1 ratio of glue and
water. Mix it all thoroughly. It's going to get pretty messy so make sure
you protect your surface with paper or plastic or fabric.
Take your first piece of paper and dip it into the glue mixture.
It need to be completely soaked. Magazines are a little harder to work with because the
paper is thicker. The glue and water need to penetrate right
into the middle. That way when it dries it will form a nice
hard shell. Once it's soaked put it on the shoe and smooth
it down with your fingers so it fits the shape completely.
It's much easier to work with small pieces when you're decoupaging curves because they
tend to fit better. With your next piece, soak it for a little
bit and place it overlapping the first piece that you did.
See how it's overlapping here, I'm just going to fold that inside so it sticks.
The overlapping is actually really important because it will give the a lot more structure
later. And that's it!
Just keep going until you've done the entire shoe.
Let's do it! Continue going around the top section going
around, I guess you would call it the mouth of the shoe, the top, and then we'll flip
it over and do the bottom. Along the bottom you want it to be as straight
as possible so it actually matches up with the seem at the bottom of the shoe.
So it's a good idea to use the edge of the magazine because they are already cut straight.
Don't forget that paper has a grain, so it will be much easier to tear it in one way
than the other. If you're having problems with following the
curves, just use smaller pieces of paper. So there we go, finished!
Now we just need to wait for it to dry so we can do another couple of coats of glue.
While that's happening, I will do the other one.
And time travel to now! Yeah it's totally a thing.
Ok we've got both of our shoes done, you can see this one is much darker because it's still
wet. You can see the black of the shoes coming
through a lot more while the paper is wet. With the dry one, we're going to coat it in
full PVA now and that's going to make it much harder when it dries so they will be more
durable. You can paint it on if you want but I'm just
going to use my finger. There we go, completely covered in glue.
Gross. We're going to put that to the side until it's completely dry. See you in a minute.
It's a little while later now, welcome back. And the shoes are dry!
How cute do they look? They're very shiny at the moment because the glue has just dried
but if you want them to be a bit more matte you can dust them with a little make up finishing
powder. But I quite like them shiny.
So cute! And you can hear they are pretty hard now. but they still have a bit of give
to them so you'll be able to get your foot in there easily.
And there you have it, cute shoes, no more magazines taking up space in my cupboard which
is also a plus. But I still get to keep the memories of wearing
this fashion many years ago. So I hope you guys enjoyed this craft tutorial.
Let me know if you give it a try and I'll see you guys next time. Bye!
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