(Closed) Painted my wedding shoes! Didn’t ruin them! PIC HEAVY!

posted 6 years ago in DIY
Post # 1
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Busy bee
  • Wedding: July 2013 - Four Rivers Environmental Center

Also, I’ve noticed NO ONE has a tutorial anywhere for painting faux leather. 
It does work… but crackles a little. I wouldn’t do it to a whole shoe!
All I used was normal acrylic paint from the craft section, painters tape… and a brush. My color was desert turquoise!

Here’s my journey!

I taped off everything but the bow with painters tape:

Then I started with coat one! 

I ended up doing 3 coats… and some touch ups. On the third coat instead of painting the whole bow, I did just the bottom of the bottom layer, and blow dried, then did the middle, and blow dried, then top, and blow dried, and then switched sides and repeated!

After all this I waited… and waited… and got impatient… and took the tape off TOO EARLY!
I got some little specks of paint on the shoe, but I managed to wipe up or hide it!

Final product:


What do you think!?

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Post # 3
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Buzzing bee
  • Wedding: August 2011

They look great! What a cool DIY!

Post # 4
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Buzzing bee
  • Wedding: April 2011

Cool!

Post # 4
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Buzzing bee

Very cute!

Post # 5
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Buzzing bee
  • Wedding: April 2012

Oh, how cute!  What a great job!

Post # 6
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Busy bee
  • Wedding: June 2012

super cute! great job and i love the color 🙂

Post # 6
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Busy bee
  • Wedding: July 2013 - Four Rivers Environmental Center

Thanks! I really couldn’t figure out what to do to make the shoes more in my theme! All of my other DIYs failed!! Haha.

Post # 7
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Buzzing bee
  • Wedding: July 2012

I love it!

Post # 7
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Sugar bee
  • Wedding: March 2012

Very cute!  You might want to seal it with some stuff just in case.  ðŸ™‚

Post # 8
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Buzzing Beekeeper
  • Wedding: October 2012

They look amazing!  You did a great job.

Post # 9
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Sugar bee
  • Wedding: April 2012

@BoiledPNut:  I second this.

Try sealing it with clear modpodge or something.  They look great though!!

Post # 10
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Buzzing bee
  • Wedding: July 2012

So cute!!!!

Post # 11
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Sugar bee
  • Wedding: May 2011

love those shoes!!!

Post # 12
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Busy bee

SO Cute!

Post # 13
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Busy bee
  • Wedding: July 2013 - Four Rivers Environmental Center

Thanks guys! I am totally confident of them now! Haha.

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