Footwear designer

Unique Shoe Clips DIY

footwear designer

I love dressing up things in my wardrobe for a fun twist.  Shoe clips are some of my favorite “dress-up” accessories, because one pair of shoes can suddenly feel like multiples!

If you have access to real shoe clips, by all means, please use those.  They weren’t available to me, so I decided to be resourceful and use clip-on earrings.  If you go this route you will need to straighten them out like this:

Next, you will cut out your shapes from the felt and fabric to form a panda (or any animal, really).  Glue your fabric circle to a felt backing.  After you have glued that, stitch on the eye patches, eyes, and ears.  Now it’s time for the shoe clips (earrings).  I cheated and used hot glue, but you could easily sew these on if you prefer.  Now, do it again!  You need two matching clips!

Voila!  Now you have adorable shoe clips.  You could use this same template with different shapes.  Hearts, bows, and stars make great shoe clips!

 Just cut your shapes, sew or glue together, and then add your clips to the back!

Source: http://skunkboycreatures.blogspot.com/2011/09/shoe-clips-diy.html

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