Shoes Refashion - Part 3

I finished my pearl bows!

Definitely my latest favorite pair!

To see my tutorial on how to create different looks for your shoes, click here:

Shoes Refashion - Create multiple looks with one pair of shoes

To see other looks I made:

Shoes Refashion - Part 2

For the pearl bow tutorial I used for these shoes:

Pearl Bow Pin

I am linking to the following parties:

Your Whims Wednesday at My Girlish Whims | Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Designs | We Did It Wednesday at Sew Much Ado | Hoo's Got Talent at Night Owl Crafting | Wicked Awesome Wednesday at Handy Man Crafty Woman | Cure for Common Monday at Lines Across My Face | Link Party at Tea Rose Home | Sugar and Spice at Seven Thirty Three | Whatever Goes Wednesdat at Someday Crafts | Show and Share at Southern Lovely | Get Your Brag On at Gluesticks | Strut Your Stuff at Keeping it Simple | Creative Juice at Momnivore's Dilemma | It's a Party at The Creative Princess | Catch a Glimpse at A Glimpse Inside | Commercial Break Thursday at Suzy's Artsy Craftsy Sitcom | DIY Diva at Mine for the Making | 

Shoes Refashion - Part 2

Before you proceed, please check if you have complete control of your gag reflex. Because before I show you the next photo, I am going to ask you to please not gag.

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Ok? ok? You promise?


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Ok, here it is!

Too eeeew? I love it though :)

Red, soft and fluffy puffed hearts attached to my shoes using Velcro. My husband kept asking if I really plan to leave the house wearing it. I'm not so sure I can rock this look either... but I still find it cute. I just might. Bwahahaha!

I've seen some shoe designs around embellished with hearts too:

Kate Spade's Heart Pumps

Vivienne Westwood Anglomania + Melissa Lady Dragon IV

Hearts not for you? I started making pearl bows for my shoes but as of today, I was only able to finish one because I ran out of pearl beads.

I think these are going to be my favorite after I finish! To make your own pearl bow embellishments, you can check out the tutorial I posted before.

Check out my tutorial on how to create several different looks with one pair of shoes.

I am linking to the following parties:

Your Whims Wednesday at My Girlish Whims | Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Designs | We Did It Wednesday at Sew Much Ado | Hoo's Got Talent at Night Owl Crafting | Wicked Awesome Wednesday at Handy Man Crafty Woman | Link Party at Tea Rose Home | Sugar and Spice at Seven Thirty Three | Whatever Goes Wednesdat at Someday Crafts | Show and Share at Southern Lovely | Get Your Brag On at Gluesticks | Strut Your Stuff at Keeping it Simple | Creative Juice at Momnivore's Dilemma | It's a Party at The Creative Princess | Catch a Glimpse at A Glimpse Inside | Commercial Break Thursday at Suzy's Artsy Craftsy Sitcom | DIY Diva at Mine for the Making | 

Shoes Refashion - Creating multiple looks with one pair of shoes

Remember my shoe refashion from a few months back? I wanted to have different looks for one pair of shoes. Recently, a local shoe brand started selling flats with embellishments that are attached to the shoe using Velcro. This allows you to change the embellishments, and they also sell different types of embellishments for their shoes which are mostly just fabric flowers. It’s a concept that’s right up my alley and it’s so easy to DIY too. And I have an old pair of flats that’s perfect for the project.

I’ve had these shoes for more than a year. I loved the beaded pompom on the shoes when I bought it but since then, this style has become pretty common and I started seeing it everywhere. For some reason, that made me lose interest in the shoes and I stopped wearing it. The shoes are usable, however. Those pompoms just have to go. So off they go.

Next step is to attach Velcro. You will need:

• A strip of Velcro. Choose a color that will match or go well with your shoes.
• Felt circles or squares that matches the color of your Velcro.
• Super glue. I was thinking of using hot glue but this attachment will see a lot of stress and pulling and I wasn’t sure if hot glue will hold. So I decided to use super glue.

STEP 1: Attach one side of your Velcro the felt. Since my Velcro wasn’t wide enough for my felt circle, I attached 2 strips.

STEP 2: Cut the excess Velcro around your felt circle or square.

STEP 3: Apply glue to the other side of the felt and attach it to your shoes.

STEP 4: Make your embellishments. For this project, I made black satin flowers using my Satin and Tulle Flower tutorial. There are a lot of tutorials for flowers or other embellishment you can use. Another idea is to make 2 small Pearl Bows. I plan to make that next.

STEP 5: Attach the opposite side of the Velcro (opposite from the one you attached to the shoes) to the back of your embellishment.

STEP 6: Attach the embellishment to the shoes.

And there you have it. I'm loving this new look! You can get different looks from just one pair of shoes by making different types of embellishment and switching it to fit your look or your mood for the day.

Check out the other looks I made for this pair: Shoes Refashion - Part 2

I am linking to the following parties:

Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Designs | We Did It Wednesday at Sew Much Ado | Whatever Goes Wednesday at Someday Crafts | Strut Your Stuff at Somewhat Simple | Creative Juice at Momnivore's Dilemma | Get Your Brag On at Gluesticks | Make It To Wear It at The Train to Crazy | It's a Party at A Creative Princess | Show and Share at Southern Lovely | DIY Diva Thursday at Mine for the Making | Catch a Glimpse at A Glimpse Inside | Commercial Break Thursday at Suzy's Artsy Craftsy Sitcom |

Toddler Shoe Refashion

Remember the shoe refashion I posted last week? I was going through Andrea's stuff and I noticed that one of her shoes can do a little bit of refashioning:

Missing one of the rubber flowers she loves fiddling with.. she must have pulled them off. Tsk tsk tsk...

I removed the other flower and made bows using hot pink felt, like the ones I made for my espadrilles. I used a glue gun to attach the bows to her shoes (I don't have to make them changeable since she will be growing out of those shoes in about a month).

There... now Andrea and I can be all matchy-matchy when we wear our shoes :)

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 |