Shoe Refashion - Espadrilles

I got these espadrilles from our Valentine Fair last Monday.

 

One of my office mates was selling these. I bought them so I can do a little shoe decorating :) See, these are made of light weight cloth so I was thinking that it will be easy to pin small brooches to decorate it.

When I got home... I got to work.

With small denim corsages.

I made 2 denim corsages that were around 2.5 inches in diameter. Each had a pin at the back which I used to attach the corsages to the shoe.

With red leather bows :) I love this one!

I saw a tutorial and printable patterns for these bows from Leafy Treetop Spot yesterday. I didn't use the templates though because I had to customize the size. The template gave me an idea of how each piece should look though, so that was a big help when I free-handed mine. Each of my bows has 2 pins at the back... one at each end so that they will be more stable when attached to the shoe.

I initially thought about using Velcro instead of pins but that means permanently attaching one part of the Velcro to the shoe, and I still want to be able to use the shoe as it is, plain without any decor.

I linked up to the following link parties (aren't link parties fun?? I get a lot of ideas from other amazing projects posted there.):
Blue Cricket Design | Between You and Me | Tea Rose Home | Sew Much Ado | Today's Creative Blog | Somewhat Simple
CraftOManiac | Tatertots & Jello | Craft Couture | Sumo's Sweet Stuff  | Keeping it Simple | Sew Can Do | Not JUST A Housewife | It's So Very Cheri |  The Girl Creative | Sugar & Spice at Seven Thirty Three |