Sometimes you start with a pair of pretty run of the mill, and you only see Muses shoe potential in them after they've been transformed with a great deal of glitter, sequins and feathers. Then there are shoes that are very easy to see as future Muses shoes, and you just follow the existing design in glitter to unlock the trapped Muses shoe potential. I got a pair of shoes on e-bay that had 6" stiletto heels, a big platform and ZEBRA STRIPES, and this was one of those cases of obviously-destined-to-be-Muses-shoes.
The shoes I started with were the same as or very similar to
these. I can't find the ebay store I used, but I know I got them cheaper (prices vary a fair bit from ebay seller to seller, and I added them to my watch list and kept an eye on them until the went on sale). I liked this one so much, I'm repeating this design on the other shoe of this pair and hardly changing anything.
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| The finished Zebra Diva shoe: gold interior and sole (Recollections in "gold"), hot pink stiletto heel and platform (Recollections in "raspberry") and pink and black zebra stripes (both Martha Stewart, I'm not sure what the pink was but the black was MS "Onyx"). Edges were all lined with hot pink sequin trim from the seemingly never ending spool from Jefferson Variety. |
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| Another shot of the finished stripes. I have since learned to free hand stripes, but on this shoe I traced them. To make the stripes glittery, I added a coat of pink, let that totally dry, then traced the stripes with black 3D puff paint and onyx glitter, let that totally dry and really shook off the excess so the colors would be cleanly separated and added another coat of pink between the stripes. Using the 3D puff paint made the black really pronounced against the pink, and added a tiny bit of raised texture to the shoe. |
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| Showing the "MUSES" mini-tiles I used on this shoe (details on the mini-tiles in this post). |
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| Shot with flash, showing the shoe's gold sole |
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