How to make a shoe out of sweets?

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

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What are elegant slippers?

A charming and funny shoe can quite replace the usual bouquets of sweets that have become familiar. Of course, due to the small size of the craft, a lot of chocolates cannot be placed on it - no more than 4 pieces can be fixed 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 the box with the main gift.

A shoe that is carefully and correctly made looks very natural, but real shoes are not used in work. Craft is made entirely with your own hands.

Important! For work, it is best to use strong and lightweight cardboard, which can be easily shaped into any shape.

The open sandal with a high stiletto heels looks most elegant, but according to the proposed technology, you can also make a boat, a beautiful ballet shoes or a baby-dollar shoe.

Important! There is no limit to imagination! When experimenting with candy compositions, you can probably come up with something of your own, original and unusual.

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What do you need for crafts?

Before you make a shoe shoe out of sweets with your own hands, you need to decide in which color the product will be aged. Cream, silver, golden, pink and white shoes look very beautiful and elegant. But you can make a bright contrasting shoe in red, blue, turquoise or black.

Important! For decoration, you can use lace, sequins, braid, transparent ribbons, stones, soutache.

Tools and materials needed to create a shoe made of sweets:

• Thin cardboard.
• Corrugated paper.
• Double sided tape.
• Scissors.
• Shoe insole for patterns.
• Fine-grained file.
• Pencil.
• Glue gun.
• Thin wire.
• Glossy decorative paper.
• Corrugated shiny paper.
• Silver foil.
• Floristic grid.
• Colored or transparent rhinestones made of plastic or glass.
• Twisted silver cord.
• Silver braid.
• Plastic tip for balloons.
• Chocolates in candy wrappers round shape.

Important! In order to make a shoe out of sweets, corrugated floristic paper is ideal - it keeps its shape perfectly. If you did not find a plastic blank for the heel, then you can cut it out of foam. 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 workshop of professionals, because the process of work is completely simple and understandable even for beginners. The main thing here is not to rush, it will take about 4 hours to make a shoe:

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

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

• Using a glue gun, connect the insoles of thick cardboard so that the wire is inside.
• From decorative wrapping paper, cut a rectangle and glue it on the bottom of the cardboard blank. Tuck the ends and cut.
• Glue them on top so that your workpiece is completely wrapped with decorative paper. Make sure that there are no inaccurate folds on it.
• Wrap blanks of thin cardboard in contrasting corrugated paper using the same method.
• Cut a semicircle from a floral grid.
• Connect the blanks from thick and thin cardboard with a glue gun, securing a semicircle of mesh in the heel area.
• Give the resulting sole of the shoe the necessary bend.
• Cut a platform from the foam that will repeat the toe of the shoe until it bends.
• Work it with a fine-grained pedicure file for perfect smoothness, wrap it in corrugated paper and stick it to the craft blank.
• Cut the part in the form of a drop of foil, glue it on the workpiece in the heel area.
• Wrap corrugated paper over the plastic blank for the heel or the blank that is cut out of foam.
• Make a heel of a strip of contrasting color by gluing it to the bottom of the heel.
• Use a glue gun to attach the heel to the sole.

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Shoe finishing

To make a frame for a shoe with your own hands from cardboard is not enough - you still need to beautifully decorate the craft so that it has a beautiful and festive look:

• To hide the joints of the workpiece, paste the shoe around the edges with a dense silver tape. This can be done with small droplets of glue.

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

• Wrap the heel in a twisted silver cord in the form of a graceful spiral.
• Cut oval for rose petals from corrugated paper. Each must be bent with a hot spoon.
• Pack round candies in the same paper. From the blanks, collect three roses by gluing the petals in a circle.
• Fasten in the center of the candy. Glue roses in the shape of a bouquet on the nose of the shoe.

Important! For greater reliability, thin sepals must be cut out of contrasting paper, which must be glued under the base of each flower.

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

Important! Plastic transparent rhinestones that mimic dew drops look beautiful on the petals of paper roses.

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

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

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As you can see, making a shoe out of sweets with your own hands is not so difficult. Be patient, with the necessary materials, show your imagination, and the result will exceed all expectations.