ABC - New Shoes

It's Anything But A Card day over on the Catch The Bug blog. I was inspired by my friend Eileen who is soo creative.  She bought these inexpensive shoes from Wal-Mart and painted them with Dr. Suess images.  I'm not as good with paint as she is, so I wondered if I could a digi image as a guide for painting.  The answer is YES!

I've always loved this image from Bugaboo.  It's called Bella Trio and I thought that it would make cute shoes.  So what the heck ... I decided to go for it.  I bought the shoes and then taped them up so I would't get paint in areas that I didn't want.

Next time I will also tape the INSIDE of the shoe because as you can see from the finished shoe ... I got yellow inside.  Apparently I will be dyeing my socks yellow for the next couple of days by wearing the shoes ... oops.  Learn from my mistake!

I printed the image twice.  Once with paper so that I could judge where I wanted to put the image on my shoe.  And then I printed it again with my friend's Cricket, using transfer tape.

I stuck the image on the shoes and used it as a guide for where to place the paint.  The transfer vinyl didn't stick well to the shoes.  Next I will use regular vinyl and then paint around the black images.

I actually think the shoes turned out cute!