Hello, Yellow!: DIY Glitter Bow Flats

Last week I found my perfect vintage wedding dress. At a thrift store. For twelve dollars.

Since then I've been scouring the internet for the perfect wedding shoes. I knew I wanted something gold and something with ankle straps (I love ankle strap shoes almost as much as I love Sam...okay, that's a mega exaggeration, but I sure love 'em a whole lot.)

I couldn't find anything that I absolutely loved, and everything I just kinda loved cost at least $300. So I decided to make my own! Yay! They are exactly what I want and cost me hardly anything! Here's how I did it:

I got these suede flats at Forever 21 for a whopping $0.11. Okay, technically they were $14.90, but I used some store credit I had towards them. Still, not bad, eh?

For supplies I bought gold and silver extra fine glitter, Mod Podge, a pack of sponge brushes, and 1.5" ribbon. Together all this cost me about $18 and I have plenty left over glitter and Mod Podge I can use for future wedding crafts. The nail polish I already had on hand, but any clear polish, even the super cheapo stuff will work.

I started by pouring about 1/4 c. Mod Podge into a disposable bowl. and adding both the gold and silver glitter. (The gold glitter was a bit more yellow than what I wanted, so I used the silver to cool it down a bit and give me the gold tone I was looking for)

I mixed it all together then decided that my Mod Podge needed a bit more glitter; you really have to guesstimate on the amount of glitter you put in. I tried to put in as much as I could without making my glue/glitter mixture too thick to spread on smoothly.

Here it is all mixed up!

And then I went to town on my shoes! I've glittered other shoes in the past and have found that suede-like materials seem to "hold" the glitter best.

When I got glitter on the edge of the sole, I would just scrape it off with my fingernail. I figured this was easier than trying to tape off the sole plus it gave me super posh glitter accents on my nails. So I guess this is a 2-in-1 diy. Shoes AND nails!

My shoes dried pretty fast (in about 30-40 minutes) and only needed one coat plus a few touch ups here and there

While I was waiting for my shoes to dry, I cut two yard-long pieces of ribbon (though I probably could've/shorter) and brushed some clear nail polish across the ends to keep them from fraying.

Lucky for me, my shoes already came with little loopy-tabs on the backs! (but after my 2 minutes of research before starting this project, I was thoroughly prepared to add my own tabs with some glue and extra pieces of ribbon. See this tutorial)