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How to Make: Summer City Shoes

May 18, 2012 by Joy the Baker 113 Comments

summer city shoes

Glitter is not food. Well… Unless it’s in sprinkle form. Sprinkles are totally food.

Gold glitter belongs on shoes. Golds sprinkles, on cupcakes.

Today I’d like to explore the value of glitter.

It’s shoes! Let’s make our own fancy, totally cheap, totally cute summer shoes.

Theres gold, and sparkle. There’s heart shapes… And we didn’t even have to spend too much money at Steve Madden to make it happen.

summer city shoes

Glitter makes most days better.

Especially when it gets in your hair. You’re an accidental pretty pretty princess.

Start with coarse glitter. Two colors if you want to get/stay sassy.

summer city shoes

Mod Podge is the magic ingredient here. It’s basically a pourable, brushable glue.

I always pronounce it modge podge. That’s my weirdness.

I chose a matte Mod, but glossy is lovely too. The glitter will shine through either way.

summer city shoes

Grab your sneaks!

These are plain white canvas tennis shoes. Super simple.

These should be cheap. Let them be cheap.

Remove the laces before you get down with the glitter.

summer city shoes

Go digging for your duct tape. Mine happens to be green… I don’t know why.

We need duct tape to tape off the rubber side soles of the shoe. Don’t skip this step. We need a safe tape buffer while we’re glitter painting.

summer city shoes

Next we’ll need a little mixing pot for glitter and glue, and two paint brushes.

We can use cheapy brushes. We’re just putting glitter and glue on them.

summer city shoes

Let’s talk in baking terms.

I mixed about 3/4 cup Mod Podge with 1/2 cup gold glitter. The mixture should be thick, but still glue-y enough to adhere to the shoe easily. It’s a delicate balance that I trust you can find on you’re on through trial and error.

Coat shoes in one thin layer of gold Mod Podge mixture. Allow shoes to dry for about 20 minutes before coating in a second later.

Real talk: the first layer I went light on. The second layer I really packed it on. And the third layer was nothing but a few touch-ups.

Allow shoes to dry completely before removing tape and lacing. These shoes are also super cute without lace strings.

summer city shoes

Look at that!

With just glitter and glue, you made the cutest shoes of all!

Happy summer living.  Let’s make it epic and full of glitter. These days are precious indeed!

Inspired by HonestlyWTF.big ya don’t know… now ya know.

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  1. MsAshton

    July 14, 2016 at 1:52 am

    Great tutorial and nobody is “too old” for anything sparkly that’s for sure! I think I will use this for my old trainers to make it look brand new.

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  2. Michelle L

    May 14, 2013 at 2:33 pm

    I have a question for you. I am not a crafty person, so I don’t know anything. We are going to be doing this for a girls camp. We will be doing around 30 pairs of shoes. How much of that mixture did you use on your one pair? Was it the whole thing? Thanks, I appreciate it!

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    • joythebaker

      May 15, 2013 at 11:08 pm

      i definitely didn’t use the whole jar of mod podge. i maybe used 1/4 to 1/3 of the jar.

      Reply
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