Wearing your heart on your SHOES!

First of all, my favorite holiday is Valentine's Day. Whether I have a loved one (or not) I love the colors, the hearts and the meaning behind it.  Besides, it's just a good excuse to drink champagne and each chocolates.  My kind of holiday!  These heels remind me of Bettie Page and the Rockabilly scene.  I can see tons of my fashionable friends wearing them with tight polka dot dresses and cardigan sets.  Gotta say, they were really easy to make, too!  My secret ingredient for making a project like this last forever.....Minwax Clear Aerosol Lacquer.  It's the bomb for vinyl and leather projects.  

Love the way these turned out!

Here's the how-to video

 YOU'LL NEED

Glue gun

E-6000

Scissors

Clip-on earring flats

1/2" to 1" wide grosgrain ribbon

Krylon Paint Marker

Minwax Clear Aerosol Lacquer

White or light color heels (or flats)

 Lightly draw dots where you want your hearts.   Practice on paper first!

 Carefully "paint" on your hearts with your pen making sure not to smudge.

When they're dry, coat them with Minwax Clear Aerosol Lacquer and let dry. 

 Cut four 8" long pieces of ribbon and two 4" pieces for the shoe clips.

 Glue the 8" long pieces in bows with the hot glue gun.

Take the 4" piece and glue it around the criss crossed bows.

With E-6000, glue on the back side of the clip on earring to the back of your bow

and let dry for 45 minutes.

You're done!

Tons more shoe clip ideas in THE BIG ASS BOOK OF BLING!

Lampshade UP-Style DIY

Not sure if you're a dumpster diver like me, but I found this chandelier a while ago and it has been through MANY incarnations. Since I found it on the side of the road I have no problem using it for my different projects.  I finally decided on gold with Mixed Media lampshades....but that could change next week.   For now, here's how I made the shades and if I make more, I'll share those, too.  Deal?  Deal!  By the way, just use your home copy machine for images and go to town.  Any kind of trim will do, too!  Happy crafting my lovely friends!

Here's the how-to video just in case!

My chandelier

Before the trim

If you don't have enough crystals, try beads or sparkly ribbon from the 99c store!

 You'll need:

Book pages

Glue gun

E-6000 Spray Adhesive

Scissors

Paper lampshades

Images from your home copy machine

Minwax Polycrylic

Trim of your choice

Cut your book pages in strips the length of the lampshade.  Don't worry about being too precise, you can trim later.

Spray the pages with E-6000 spray adhesive.  If you can't find it yet, use some white school glue and a paintbrush

 Apply them to your shade covering all of it.

 Let dry for about 25 minutes

Trim the excess off of the edges 

Cut out your images. I love birds and butterflies. Dover Publications has great clip art books.

Using the Minwax Polycrylic, apply them to your lampshade

Hot glue trim around the edges of the shade 

 

You're done! 

Sharpie plates (I finally found the time to try this!)

The ULTIMATE Sharpie dish test.  I've been seeing this project everywhere and I finally found some time to try it out.  I think it worked pretty well.  Don't use a scrubber on these! You might want to use these for things like keys or change instead of food.  A sponge and some soap will do the trick for washing without wear and tear.  *MY BEST SUGGESTION is to find the porcelain pens and use those if you're going to try this!  Why not have this project forever? Have fun! Make sure to check out the accompanying video and leave me a comment.  Big hugs everyone!

 One is for me, the others are for friends

Here's the how to video!

You'll need 

Cheap Ikea dishes

Alcohol

Sharpie marker

Pencil

Paper towel 

 Clean your plate with alcohol

 Trace on your initial with pencil

Trace it with a Sharpie 

Draw around your edge 

Fill it in with tiny lines going in different directions 

Fill in the letter 

 Go back and fill in some random lines here and there.  This reminds me of Fruit Stripe Gum!

Bake at 350 for half and hour and let cool in the oven

Here you go!

Mold and Cast OR Blue Baby Bindi Bangles!

My friend Simone (www.FaveCrafts.com) and (@spazzgirl on twitter) truly wonders why I'm obsessed with baby doll heads.  She seems to be more obsessed with the fact that I'm obsessed with them than I am actually obsessed with them. Does that make sense?  It's early!  Truth is I am TEAM BABY HEAD all the way. I like to work with things that have a soul, a life, expression.  I like faces and shapes that represent living things. It's my "thing" you could say.  If you're not team baby head, that's fine.  You can use this technique to make molds of anything!  Check out the Smooth-cast 300.  You will LOVE this stuff!  Also check out the mold making putty from Ranger.  It makes a reusable rubber mold in 10 minutes!  Finally, you must get some of these Lumiere Metallic Paints. They are just beautiful.

Baby Bangles and Clutch

Here's the how to video!

Ring close-up 

Blue Baby Bindi Bangles

 Here's what you'll need:

Smooth-cast 300 (Amazon.com)

Melt Art Mold-n-Pour molding putty (Createforless.com)

Lumiere Metallic Paint (Createforless.com)

E-6000

Paintbrush

Plastic spoons

Plastic cup

Metal bangle

Ring flat

Baby head or object you like

Mix equal parts of the putty together and knead them together as quickly as possible (1 minute is good) 

Create a ball 

Take your object (make sure it's free of dirt) 

Gently press it in to your ball 

In 10 minutes you'll have a reusable rubber mold! 

Mix equal parts of your Smooth-Cast 300 (such great stuff) 

Pour in to your molds and let sit for about 15 minutes 

Remove your hardened plastic pieces 

Paint them with the Jacquard Lumiere paints 

 When dry, glue them to your bangles

and to your ring flats.  Add some rhinestones, too.

Go Team Baby Head! 

From THE BIG ASS BOOK OF BLING!