These shoes are really something, right? They are so colorful and special, and yet very wearable too. The idea isn’t mine. I borrowed the photo from the Swedish designers Anna Lindström’s blog (with her permission of course).
DIY SHOES
You can decorate your shoes like this. Anna has a detailed tutorial on her blog. It’s in Swedish, but the photos are really clear so that should be enough, with this mini glossary, containing words and phrases from the tutorial:
SWEDISH-ENGLISH MINI GLOSSARY
Decoupage: is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it.
Klack/ar: heel or high heeled shoes.
Tejpade sulorna: put tape on the soles (of the shoes).
Sprayade dem med svart halvmatt lackfärg: Spray the shoes with black semi matte spray varnish. Fixerade allt med tre lager sidenmatt spraylack : Spray over everything with three layers of silk matte spray varnish.
För att ge en extra hållbar yta använde jag decoupagelack: To get extra strong finish, add decoupage varnish on top.
För att sammanfoga papper och sko fyllde jag igen alla ytterkanter med lacket. Precis som att spackla : Fill in all edges with decoupage varnish.
DIY Decoupage Shoes. Designer and photograph: Anna Lindström
Not detailed enough for you?
Here is a very detailed video, on how to decoupage shoes.
And here is a very cool video on how to use a doily to decorate wedgies.
I really don’t know, I am by no means an expert. But I would love to see them – do you have a photo?
i have done the doily method above.. in red over black.. love it, but my doily finish is very very hard and almost like a plastic now.. did not retain the material look… too much modge podge? but i really didn’t have any other ideas as to how to make sure it staye on the shoe….
Vaáá magnað! Þarna er til dæmis hægt að nota gamlan jólapappír
If it wasn’t because I would totally kill my self in high heels hahaha But these are rad cool! Great job!