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Completed Comic Book Shoes!
8 months in the making...
I am a lazy
lazy crafting nerd... According to when I took the first picture to when I posted the
last, it took me 8 months to finish this project!!! A long, long time ago I
came across a lovely article on Fashionably Geek (http://fashionablygeek.com/shoes/diy-killer-comic-book-heels/).
On the original post it states that it’ll take about 8 hours per shoe (
http://sogeekchic.com/post/26012304582/bluddyholly-smearrr-ironspy-diy-killer)
It all
started out fun and exciting. I went down to my local comic book
store and searched through some of the new releases. Originally I had in mind
to make some Buffy themed shoes, but I couldn’t find any particular scene
sticking out at me to make a statement on. There’s a little bit of background
on the Buffy thing. I love BtVS. Like a ridiculous amount. I used to bail on
friends every Saturday at 7:30 and ignore their calls (this is before PVR-ing,
and I didn’t have a VCR to record) just to secretly sneak home and watch Buffy
like an addict. Because of this, I’ve created this shrine in my head and can’t
seem to make any of my Buffy crafts correct.
Back on point!
I found these lovely drawn Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz comics (learn more
here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz_%28comics%29)
and just fell in love with the drawings. Everything was so animated and colourful
I just had to have them. So I bought two of each (one to read and keep, one to
destroy) and went home. After reading, I settled on some icon scenes in two of
the stories and set about cutting up the pieces for the collage. I then selected
some stand out panels and dialogue, set those aside, and organized the
remaining pieces by the dominant colour visible in the panel. 
This part was really fun! I took a pair of old pumps, cleaned them off and set up my Mod Podge station.
The reason I grouped all the pieces
by colour is so that I could make an attempt to clearly define each piece,
rather than have them blend together seamlessly. I was worried that I’d zone
out and all of a sudden have half the shoe look green since it all came from
the same “race scene” I liked. I set about smearing the Mod Podge over medium
sized sections and then just stuck a bunch of pieces on and layered on more Mod
Podge. This part took no time at all.
Once this
was all dry, I set to work on the pop out pieces I had selected. Mostly the
pieces were dialogue bubbles but I did
have some images of Dorothy and her friends that I was hoping to put on the
shoes. Unfortunately, the dialogue bubbles, the title and writing credits were the only ones that made it. I glued
the dialogue bubbles to some black crafting foam, and once dried I hot-glued
those onto the shoes. 
FINALLY, I
put a layer of red sequin trim around the top of the shoes and around the heel
in honour of the beloved ruby slippers. This was done with hot-glue.
After
everything was all dried, I layered on some Art Resin to seal the shoes so that
I could actually wear them. I placed the shoes on some parchment paper, and applied
very thin layers using a disposable foam brush. Expect the resin to melt down
to the bottom and pool on the shoes. To get rid of this you will need a file. I
felt like this was a needed step to complete the look and to save it from hard
wear and tear. Overall this should have
only taken me half the time considering my schedule.
I've still got a bag with the left over pop pieces and some red sequins that I can't bare to throw in a box... I must find a project for these too!
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