How to make a shoe from sweets?

A beautiful fan, handbag, bouquet or a shoe made of sweets - a master class to create such things will help to make by yourself an inexpensive and original gift. Man-made presents look very impressive and can successfully compete with souvenirs. If you are thinking about how to make a shoe from sweets yourself, think in advance of the general concept of design and prepare the necessary materials.

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What are the elegant shoes?

A charming and funny shoe can easily replace the habitual usual bouquets of sweets. Of course, because of the small size of the craft, many candies can not be placed on it - no more than 4 pieces can be fastened on the toe of a beautiful shoe. But such a present looks very elegant and unusual. It can be presented as an independent gift or attached to a box with a basic gift.

Neatly and correctly made shoe looks very natural, but real shoes are not used in work. The hand-made is made entirely by hand.

Important! For work, it is best to use a strong and light cardboard, which you can easily attach to any shape.

The most elegant looks is an open sandal on a high heel, but according to the proposed technology, you can also make a boat, a beautiful ballet or a baby-style shoes.

Important! The limit of fantasy is gone! Experimenting with compositions from sweets, you can certainly come up with something of your own, original and unusual.

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What is required for crafts?

Before you can make a shoe from a sweets with your own hands, you need to decide what color the product will withstand. Very beautiful and elegant look cream, silver, golden, pink and white shoes. But you can make a bright contrast shoe in red, blue, turquoise or black.

Important! For finishing you can use lace, sequins, braid, transparent tapes, stones, soutache.

Tools and materials needed to create a candy-colored shoe:

• Thin cardboard.
• Corrugated paper.
• Double-sided adhesive tape.
• Scissors.
• Shoe insole for patterns.
• Fine-grained file.
• Pencil.
• Adhesive gun.
• Thin wire.
• Decorative shiny paper.
• Corrugated shiny paper.
• Silver Foil.
• Floristic grid.
• Colored or transparent crystals of plastic or glass.
• Twisted silver cord.
• Silver braid.
• Plastic balloon tip.
• Chocolate sweets in wrappers of round shape.

Important! In order to make a shoe from sweets, corrugated floristic paper is perfect - it perfectly preserves the shape. If you did not find a plastic workpiece for the heel, then you can cut it out of polystyrene. Decorative paper can be replaced with any beautiful fabric.

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Manufacturing technology

To make a shoe yourself, it is not necessary to attend a master class of professionals, because the work process is quite simple and understandable even for beginners. The main thing is not to hurry up, it takes about 4 hours to make the shoe:

• Put the usual shoe insole on the cardboard and circle it with a pencil. The workpiece should be sharpened.
• Cut two pieces of corrugated thick and thin cardboard.
• On the insole of corrugated cardboard, fix a strip of double-sided adhesive tape, and on top place a thin wire. With its help you can fix the bend of the insole at the required angle.

Important! For reliable fastening, three rows of wire will suffice.

• Use a glue gun to connect the insoles from thick cardboard so that the wire is inside.
• Cut out the rectangle from the decorative wrapping paper and glue it to the bottom of the carton blank. Turn the ends and cut.
• Glue them from above so that your workpiece is completely wrapped with decorative paper. Make sure that it does not leave inaccurate folds.
• Wrap the blanks from thin cardboard into contrasting corrugated paper using the same method.
• Cut a semicircle from a floral mesh.
• Connect the workpieces from thick and thin cardboard with an adhesive gun, fixing in the area of ​​the heel a semicircle from the net.
• Give the formed sole of the shoe the necessary bend.
• Cut out the foam from the platform, which will repeat the toe of the shoe before bending.
• Treat it with a fine-grained pedicure file for perfect smoothness, wrap it in corrugated paper and glue it to the workpiece.
• Cut out the detail in the form of a drop of foil, glue it on the workpiece in the area of ​​the heel.
• Plastic heel billet or workpiece, which is cut from foam, wrap it with corrugated paper.
• Make a heel from the strip of contrasting color by gluing it on the bottom of the heel.
• Use a glue gun to attach the heel to the sole.

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Finishing of the shoe

It is not enough to make a skeleton frame for the shoes with your own hands from cardboard - you still need to beautifully decorate the hand-made so that it has a beautiful and festive look:

• To hide the joints of the workpiece, cover the shoe along the edges with a thick silvery braid. This can be done with small droplets of glue.

Important! The tape is attached both along the edge of the insole and on the sole side.

• Wind the heel with a twisted silver cord in the form of an elegant spiral.
• Cut ovals for rose petals from corrugated paper. Each must be bent with a hot spoon.
• Round candy pack in the same paper. From the blanks gather three roses, pasting the petals in a circle.
• Strengthen in the center of the candy. On the tip of the shoe, glue the roses in the form of a bouquet.

Important! For greater certainty, it is possible to cut out from the contrast paper thin antennae-sepals, which must be glued under the base of each flower.

• Decorate the product with colored or transparent crystals. They can be fixed on the heel, braid covering the joints of the sole, between the turns of the shiny cord.

Important! Plastic transparent crystals that mimic dew drops, look beautifully on the petals of paper roses.

• The technique of fastening sweets can be changed slightly by discarding the colors. Wrap the candy with foil and glue them on the toe of the slipper in the form of a small slide.
• Decorate the composition with bows made of floral mesh, thin tape or transparent tape.

Important! In the process of decorating crafts, do not overdo it, because the excess decor can hide the elegant forms of crafts.

As you can see, it's not so difficult to make a shoe made of chocolates with your own hands. Have enough patience, necessary materials, show your imagination, and the result will surpass all expectations.