fabric – TuxedoCatArt

They’re finally finished! Took me long enough, right? But I’m super stoked to show you my latest creation…drum roll please…..Calvin and Hobbes themed painted Converse’s! Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite comic of all time, so it’s only fitting that I used it as my inspiration for my first pair of painted canvas shoes. Check them out!

I used fabric paint, fabric markers and paint markers for the design. Then I sealed the paint with some clear matte varnish. The markers were definitely the easiest to use, but I don’t think they would show up as well on shoes that aren’t white. I’d like to try my hand at a different color next time so I will definitely be practicing up on my fabric paint skills. The most difficult part of this project was finding designs that would fit on the quite narrow sides of these shoes.

My new goal is to make a whole collection of different themed, different color, and different styles of Converse shoes. I need your help deciding what themes to paint next. Any ideas? Please leave me a comment!

KristyMichele signing out…..

Since I don’t have any current projects running…..drumroll please…..here are the results of Santa’s Workshop 2015! Perhaps just a snippet of what I’ve been doing and trying….succeeding and failing at. Painted boxes were easy and fun. I tried out metal stamping for the first time….but the real fun was all about the steampunked nerf guns! I’ve been fascinated by steampunking for quite some time and this is my first crack at it. I definitely want to delve more into the steampunk era, as well as making use of my new metal stamps with some jewelry projects.