WALKING IN PARADISE FLORAL SANDALS DIY

Sep 28

Written By Dori

Have you ever wondered how it would feel like walking through magical meadows covered with delicate species of flowers whilst rare butterflies and tropical birds are fleeing freely as you lay down your picnic blanket in paradise garden ?

Have you ever wondered buying one of these irregular floral embellished interesting designs to be the talk of the town and turn ANY outfits around in a second? Probably you did, and there is a chance that these could be sold out or just not a great fit. Here is the opportunity to DIY your own dream land shoes and customise your fashion statement just a way you want to.

Pick one pair which fits the best, feels comfy and follow the below steps to create your own three dimensional flowers, butterflies and hummingbirds embellished shoes and create a mini sized exotic tropical island which you carry along with you.

Spice up any days with happy creative fashion. It is a must to have one if you are into fun, uplifting designs, the ones which turns a dull moment into a cheerful one.

It puts a smile on everybody’s face and bring along some positive vibe. Wear this and you will never run out of convo starters, gain popularity amongst kids and adults.

Transforming your existing shoes and embellishing them makes an additional eco fashion piece to your sustainable closet as well, since all you need is your shoes, some flower heads along a few other options and you can breath life into an old item and recycle your accessories along with your flower heads from other projects or home decoration. Sustainable fashion is blooming right now, there are many creative forms that allow us an abundance of opportunity to be a promoter of how to be colorful, stylish yet conscious and friendly to the planet.

Making your own floral shoes will save time for your, it works wonders on days when you just can’t figure out what to wear, you are standing in your closet and feel exhausted already. If you have a pair of these spiced up cuties all you need is to hop into one of your basic sets and accessorise with a fun pairs of shoes, it will do the trick and the message is sent.

Wear the flowers, be in the flow - ers, be in the now.

THINGS YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN HAPPY FASHION TROPICAL THEMED EMBELLISHED FLORAL SHOES:

a pair of shoes, sandals, sliders, any type of shoe will do which have enough “space” on its surface allow you to fix the tropical paradise story
1 mm thick hobby wire & wire cutter
double sided tape
plastic pvc butterflies
flying hummingbirds with clip
multiple kinds of flowers heads (faux silk fabric flower heads) recycle your bouquet of flowers
glue gun
scissors

(extra - a thread and needle in case your shoes is textile or faux suede - you might want to add extra security with a few stitches)

INSTRUCTIONS

Cut 23-25 cm long wires for the butterflies and by the centre wrap around them so they are fixed, then make a little scrible shape as a mount so the wire could be attached to the shoe’s surface. If you prefer the butterflies not to stand out that much cut the wire shorter and customise. (on the pics I have doubled the wires as I had only 0.5 thick ones)
Cut small small pieces of double sided tape and fix the mount to the shoes, if you feel the glue power is not sufficient add extra with your glue gun, hold it to your shoes whilst making a pressure from the inside of your shoes and wait till it dries. If your shoes are more textile based the best is to use a thread and needle and hand-stitch a few times.
Follow the same direction with the birds, fixing the wire around the clip and make it stable before glue it to the the shoe.
Start designing your flowers and start adding them by one by one with your glue gun. Optionally you can add small pom poms for an even more colorful result.

Flower embellished shoes DIYs emphasising colorful fashion are one of my most favourite fashion diy projects. I love them and after countless of customised footwear I still get excited.

The best is that each outcome is different, you can not repeat them in this was your creation comes out unique, customised, one of a kind with plenty of personal tweaks.

How is your embellished DIY shoe turned out? What name did you give to your creation?

Can’t wait to see pictures of your signature designs!

Hello! I’m Dori

Spice it up with Dori is a blog about bright and cheerful DIY fashion, crafts & lots of creative endeavours. Things that make you giggle. My aim is to create an upbeat positive vibe so you can as well cultivate your inner-creativity and establish an innovative DIY way of lifestyle and spice things up with your personal touch. Find out more about me.