Not too long ago Disney from Ruffles and Stuff did this fabulous shoe refashion. While I have painted my shoes before, I hadn't thought of what she did and I happened to have a really similiar pair of shoes to try it out on. Here's Disney's before shot.
Here is her after. I thought it was super smart and chic.
While I ended up doing something different, I still credit Disney with the idea because I never would have thought of refashioning these shoes. I've had them for years, but I didn't really like them any more and I might have sent them on their way. Here's my before.
Here's my after.
I'll give you a quick run-down on what I did in case you want to do some similiar shoe surgery. First I removed the bow-loop-thingy. (Yes, that is what it's called. Surprised you didn't know that.) It was really on there! I had to lift it up and saw off the glue with a knife, but I won.
Then I made some loops with grograin ribbon and hot glue.
I glued five loops in a row (overlapping a bit) about an inch from the top. (This picture shows three loops, but I ended up adding more.)
When I made loops for the top row I left a bit of ribbon at the top so I could fold the ribbon over into the shoe.
I glued them onto the shoe and glued them where I folded them in.
They didn't feel totally done, so I bought these in the jewelry department at Hobby Lobby. They were 50% off and I liked them.
I glued three to the top as shown. You could always embellish with buttons or flowers.
And now I'm much happier sliding my feet into these.
I would have loved to have shown a picture of them being worn, but it just wasn't going to happen. Yeah, one of those days. Imagine though, that there's a really cute picture of me with funky tights and a gorgeous kelly green dress with black piping and I'm walking down a busy street in New York. (Okay, so I don't have a dress like that and I live in Utah, but a girl can dream, right?)
You can check out Disney's fun tutorial HERE. Thanks for reading my blog. Have a great weekend!
26 comments:
Oh fantastic!! I saw the original post you were inspired from, and thought, what a great idea, but the leather intimidated me...this ribbon action I could TOTALLY handle! I think I will have to try this...off to rummage through my old shoes!! thanks so much :D
Gorgeous shoes! They look so much better now. You should make yourself that kelly green dress ;-)
LOVE!!! i actually have the very same pair of shoes... though i have no idea where they are in my closet... or if i even still have them! but what you did with them is great! i never would have thought of that!
That's super spiffy! I've seen people alter shoes, but it always comes out looking ridiculously like a third grader did it, these are awesome!
I. LOVE. THIS. I want a pair!!! It sounds kind of silly for me to go out and buy a pair just to do that to-- right? It defeats the purpose of refashioning to save money but I don't even care. That's how cute those are.
Fully impressed
You are a very clever rabbit~! Must be that mountain air you breathe everyday...clears your head for all this creativness~!~!
Good Work on those shoes..
Ta Ta For Now from Iowa,,annieptigger@aol.com
Great job altering your shoes...love the last pair and I too dream of being fashionably dressed while walking thru Manhattan.
I love it!
Oh my heavens! So. Fabulous.
I love the "jewelry" detail you added! I had to stop and think about my shoes, but I think I like all of them just how they are. Trip to the Thrift Store is in order!
Awesome! I love how they turned out, I wouldn't believe that the old ones were the same shoes if you didn't have evidence!
These are beautiful! I really want to try my hand at shoe refashioning!
-Ponytails
You have vision girl! I love these. You made these so beautiful!
I love the way they turned out.
Just Better Together
My husband's not too excited about this blog post...I had a whole box of shoes that I was getting rid of until I saw this post. Moohahahahah ;)
I LOVE THIS!!! I love Disney's tutorial, but I was afraid to do the vinal ruffle. I know I can do this!! Thank you!!!
Cute!!!! I have a ton of shoes and need to drag them out and play
Love the shoes! Great job with thee ribbon
Very cute!
Oh my! These are so beautiful! Hurray for the glue gun! I totally would have glue mine if I weren't so rough on my shoes.
Thanks so much for the feature! :o)
oh my word...toooooo cute.
Ooohhh... so cute! I just redid a pair of shoes and now I'm kind of wishing I had seen this first. It's super cute. Guess I'll have to find another pair of shoes to "fancy".
Jennifer from The Craft Patch
www.thecraftpatch.blogspot.com
oh I really like these. I may have to do this to my black shoes that are just boring to me now. I like that these are different than the typical ruffles I see everywhere. Thanks for the idea!
OMG u r so creative... em impressed <3
Αwesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going immediately to transform my own shoes.
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