Who Are You Calling Crafty?

We have a party at the end of the month that is semi-formal (sigh) meaning up until this weekend I had nothing to wear that fit me.  I have lost quite a bit of weight over the past 2 years (between diet and exercise) it is close to 75 pounds.  My wardrobe is ummm… on the lacking side when it comes to dress clothes primarily because I never wear dress clothes.  One of my dear friends had this beautiful summer black and ivory dress at a rummage sale this past weekend and I had to try it on.  Much to my surprise the size 6P fit me.  She gave me the dress but I didn’t know what shoes to wear with it.  I was searching my closet and came across a pair of ivory canvas platform sandals with a bow.  I am not a bow fan but I love the shoes.  I decided to rip off the bow and add TAP to the shoes.  TAP – Transfer Artist Paper.

Shoes with the bows – not bad I just am not a bow girl.

This is when I realize the bow would come off easily.  A pair of small sewing scissors and the bow was successfully removed.

Bow removed – see they are really cute sandals.

Close-up of operation bow extraction

My dress that I scanned.

Me with the TAP sheet.

I scanned in my dress I wanted the same pattern on the shoes.  I then took the scanned image into Photoshoppe and erased the “ivory” part of the image leaving only black.  I printed the black image onto the TAP.

I then took a piece of tracing paper placed it over the shoe to get the basic shape.  I was pretty proud of myself for this one.

My pattern traced on the back of the TAP

How I stuffed my sandal  I thought it was pretty clever.

The shoe after ironing the TAP – ironing is a little tricky I think I need a smaller iron I want to move the iron  meaning I am smudging it in places but I am learning.

I went in with a Bic Mark -it and filled in the areas on the bottom and the blacken around the edges.  I love them and the fact they match perfectly with my new dress is a huge bonus.  I am not sure if the shoes are finished yet, I might add a small paperclay flower to the top of them but I’m not sure.  I am leaning towards leaving them be.

Look I have a tattoo – hehehehe

I like the black strap so much better.

Black and white – see I was having fun with Photoshop.

Sorry no pictures of the complete ensemble until after the 31st.