Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Papertrey May Blog Hop Challenge


It's time for another Papertrey Ink customer blog hop! This month's challenge is to use felt. I decided to veer away from a card this time and make something wearable and turned some el cheapo flip flops into designer flip flops. I LOVE them! They are so easy to make and so stinkin' CUTE! Imagine the color combo possibilities!!
I wore these to work last week and got squeals from the girls :) I used the daisy flower dies and cut out 2 of each size--one each of True Black and Hawaiian Shores felt, then I stacked them and sewed a button on top and a button on the bottom, using Pearle cotton and tying it into a tiny bow on top. The bottom button is to make them detachable and interchangeable. I also have turquoise flip flops that these can go with and I want to use other color combos on these black ones. To make them detachable, I used some of those tiny black hair rubber bands and wound them around the straps and hooked them onto the button. I wore them all day and they stayed put!


For these, I used the scallop flower dies and for each flip flop I cut four Vintage Cream and four Raspberry Fizz pieces. I got the flower idea from some fabric flowers I saw and had these finished before I saw Dawn McVey's coffee cozies last week. If I'd seen them first, I'd have only done one layer of felt "petals" and used a big ol' button for the center. That would have been much simpler and that's the plan for next time ;-) Same deal with sewing on the buttons and attaching with the tiny rubber bands for these. These flip flops were $3 at Wal*Mart (and I found more at another store priced at $2!) and they are super comfy. Needless to say, I have lots of colors sitting in my Girl Cave, ready to be turned into designer flip flops. Can't wait to get more colors of felt to play with now!

So, thanks for stopping by! I hope I've given you some inspiration to make yourself some snazzy new footwear, or to breathe new life into some old!

~Supplies~
True Black, Hawaiian Shores, Vintage Cream, Raspberry Fizz felt, vintage buttons (PTI)
Pearl Cotton


42 comments:

  1. Hehe, how fun is that! Thing is I'd never want to wear them in case I got the flowers dirty, lol! Great idea Bar!

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  2. fabulous Barb.. love them!!! I think I need to buy some of those flower dies!

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  3. These are SUPER cute!! Love them!! Great idea!!

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  4. Your fip flops are as cute and pretty as can be. Great idea you had there and tf.

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  5. Barbara you have just won my heart! I live in flip flops and these are the cutest EVER!! What a fun project! TFS!!

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  6. What a good idea! Love bargain buys...and love how you call it your "girl cave" where you keep them. thx for sharing!

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  7. How clever Barbara! I love the colors. I love it even more that you wore these and tested them out. Great idea!

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  8. Thats super! Very clever idea. My daughter loved it. i am sure going to give it a try in summer. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  9. Girlfriend, you are way too smart!! And you better believe I will be buying me lots of flip flops to customize!!! I LOVE THESE!!!!

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  10. So cute. I can see lots of girls wanting these cute flowers for their flip flops.

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  11. Love, love, love these flip flops!

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  12. You made those plain ordinary flip flops very cute! :)

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  13. What a fabulous idea! I love the look you have given those flip flops!

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  14. Fantastic Bar!! What an awesome gift these would make for a grad too!

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  15. CASing this Barb!! Love them.

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  16. Do you hear me squealing out loud! Super CUTE!!!

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  17. I would TOTALLY wear those!! So cute and creative, Bar!

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  18. I am going to make these cute little flip flops for sure. Really cute idea.

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  19. Great idea! I will definitely have to try this...soooo cute!!

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  20. Such fun flip flop accents.

    It's a good life!
    Terri E.

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  21. Oh my Gosh - I LOVE this idea, and I will definitley be making some! Great job!

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  22. These are too cute!! Have to make some of these for my neices :)

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  23. What a great idea!!! I am going to have to case it, my girly will love them!!

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  24. ACK! I couldn't wear them! They are too cute to get all dirty or sandy! What an awesome idea!

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  25. If only I wore flip flops!!! These are too stinking cute!! Great idea for sprucing up those flops!!

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  26. Great idea! Bad girl, making me need to figure out what to sell next to buy those flower dies! Anyone want some old (other company) stamp sets?

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  27. flip flop embellies!! great idea!

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  28. What a wonderful idea!! These are so cute!

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  29. Fantastic!!! I love how you used the bands to make the flowers changeable.

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  30. I LOVE them! What a FUN idea!!!!
    Have a GREAT day!

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  31. LOVE LOVE LOVE these!!!! So much so that I just put flipflops on my Walmart list and will make some to give as gifts to my sisters in law. Great job!!! Thanks for the inspiration!!

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  32. If I could WEAR flip-flops I'd be all over these! TOOOOOO cute!!! Make some to go on my New Balance instead! LOL

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  33. I love this idea! I just may have make some for my plain flip flops.

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  34. Oh my, that's going to start a new style fad among the crafters for sure! Those are so so cute!

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  35. Too cute! I must keep this away from the GD's. I know they will want them in every color. Thanks for sharing!

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  36. What a briliant idea, Barbara! My 10 year old daughter would love this - and we just bought oodles of flip flops for the summer. Great way to dress them up.

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