Despite the abundance of ready-made gifts, a huge number of workshops appear that help to create products of amazing beauty. We bring to your attention a master class "A shoe made of sweets."
Many needlewomen try to make a variety of gifts for their friends and acquaintances, using not only ordinary, but also quite original materials. Why a shoe made of sweets? Girls are not indifferent to high-heeled shoes, so they will definitely like a gift that will not only be beautiful, but also delicious! If you add a souvenir with beautiful flowers, then you can count on a real full house. How to make a shoe from sweets with your own hands? Let's try to figure it out together on this issue.
Materials for work
To make an unusual and very original souvenir you will need certain tools and materials. Let's start in order. So, if our shoe is made of corrugated paper and sweets, you will have to stock up with floristic two-color paper. If you do not find corrugated material on sale, you can instead take the usual beautiful fabric or color cardboard. Also for work you need packing dense material, as well as thin cardboard. An original shoe slipper made of sweets is decorated with various beads, ribbons, rhinestones, flowers. To fix them, you need a thermogun, double-sided tape. Also in the work you will need sweets and a thin metal wire.
Action algorithm
How is a shoe made of sweets? The photo shows in detail each stage of the work. Let's try to state the whole sequence of actions from the first to the last stroke.
The first step: making the insole
First, a shoe insole is required for the pattern. If it is not available, you can use your own leg as a stencil by making a blank on it on packing cardboard. Need to make two insoles. In the absence of packing dense cardboard, you can make several identical blanks of thin material at once, so that the shoe made of sweets would eventually have a dense sole. In addition, you will need another insole cut from thin material. You use it to align the top layer of the created “shoe masterpiece”. If desired, prepare a similar part for the lower part of the shoe.
Second step: wireframe
We continue the conversation on how to make a shoe out of sweets. Glue several strips of double-sided tape on one blank of the insole. We remove the protective film, and we fix a thin wire around the entire insole. To obtain the most durable attachment of the wire, we additionally use masking tape. Thanks to this metal frame, it is possible to give the product the desired bend.
Third step: form
We fasten two thick insoles with hot glue, give the product the shape of a future shoe. If desired, you can use glue "Titan" for work, fastening the parts while drying with clothespins.
The fourth step: gluing
We choose packing paper, corrugation, designer cardboard, and the rest of the fabric at our personal discretion. Cut a rectangle from the selected material. Gently glue them on the bottom of the sole. We cut off all the remaining material (cardboard, paper), leaving only a few centimeters for allowances. To make the shoe made of sweets beautiful, we similarly glue the side and inner parts of the formed sole. We perform similar actions with thin cardboard. The resulting blanks are interconnected with glue. If desired, you can additionally form a “heel”.
Fifth step: decoration
To make the workpiece resemble real shoes, it is advisable to make it an insignificant platform. To do this, on a penoplex two centimeters thick, mark the shape of the shoe, cut it out, carefully make bevels from the sides, remove all irregularities and roughness with abrasive material.
For sanding, you can use the old nail file. If desired, to give the workpiece additional smoothness, you can paste over it with masking tape. Next, the corrugated platform is glued, which we used to design the bottom of the sole. In the absence of foam, you can create a platform from packaging cardboard folded in several layers.
To eliminate all ugly joints, the sole is decorated with a cord or original braid. The tape is attached to hot glue. First, you need to fix it on the heel, then you can gradually move around the entire sole. Work with glue is carried out carefully, in small drops, otherwise the aesthetics of the product will be impaired. When choosing a braid, it is desirable to take into account the color of the entire composition being created, so that a beautiful shoe made of sweets with your own hands is obtained. The master class continues, and it's time to do heels.
Heel making
It can be made of dense foam. It is difficult to give any additional advice on carrying out such work. Height, width, heel length are selected according to your personal desire. Someone likes tall thin stilettos, and someone wants to give his Cinderella a slipper with a comfortable small heel. The only thing that can be recommended is to first measure how harmoniously the heel chosen by height will look on the shoe itself. Such “fittings” can be carried out several times, increasing or decreasing the height and thickness of the polymer heel. Finishing it to perfection, proceed to fix it on the workpiece.
- To make the heel stable, you will need a metal skewer along its entire length. Part of it is inserted into the sole, providing the strength of the entire created product. Glue the bottom of the heel with a circle of corrugated paper. Then carefully wrap the entire heel along the length of the material or cardboard used to design the sole of the shoe.
- We proceed to decorating with beads or spectacular braid. At this stage, you can demonstrate all your creative abilities and ideas. For example, add “gold” heels, attach a beautiful wire to it, pick up and fix unusual mother-of-pearl rhinestones over the entire height. The created product has a shape, it began to resemble a real element of shoes. Now you can begin to create the main decoration of the created composition - pick up bouquets of sweets.
- The color shoe should be in harmony with the labels of sweets chosen for decoration. Three sweets are enough, then it will be convenient to "get" them out of the shoe. How to fix sweets on the product? This issue is quite simple to solve. First, create some decorative loops from a beautiful braid and glue on the side of the shoe. In the received "pockets" we put sweets. To make the candy bouquet look spectacular, we supplement it with decorative leaves, decorating in the form of an unusual floral arrangement. If sweets will fall out of loops, you can cut out rectangles from fabric or thin designer paper. Having covered the candy with the material, you can make a sweet "bud", putting it in the shoe on glue.
- If desired, we decorate the centers of such “flowers” with rhinestones, beads, original buttons, emphasizing the middle of the flower. The work associated with the addition of the shoe with a variety of materials depends on the taste preferences of the master. Even with the same initial components, the end result for different needlewomen is completely different. For example, you can not just wrap sweets in fabric blanks, but create buds from many pieces of monophonic matter, and make candy their center.
- To do this, we cut out 20-30 equally long petals from the fabric, tighten them together using a thread. Then we supplement with leaves of a different color (their number can be chosen at your discretion). To increase the strength of the flower, gently coat its base with glue or twist it with a thin wire. Next, we attach the blank to the side of the shoe, and inside the bud on the double-sided tape we place the candy. You can make not three, but a much larger number of flowers, getting a real sweet bouquet. In order to achieve the desired result, it is necessary to stock up on patience and free time. Beginners will need about 6 hours to create a gift for their Cinderella.
Conclusion
Many needlewomen prefer to create gifts with their own hands, without spending material resources on the purchase of low-quality and expensive souvenirs. Recently, products created using creative imagination are highly valued. Agree, it is much more pleasant to receive a unique shoe as a gift, which can rightfully be considered a relic than to become the owner of Chinese consumer goods.
In addition to sweets, you can use colorful ribbons as a decor. It’s really possible to make a ready-made shoe a unique gift for the New Year holidays or for the Eighth of March. An elegant shoe made of chocolates with your own hands will appeal to any woman. If you make the sole out of soft polypropylene, the shoe will turn into a cushion for needles. After your sweet tooth destroys the edible part of the gift, the shoe will become an exquisite decoration for the home interior.