DIY Shoe Clips
Nov 26, 2010 by Violet
Shoe clips are awesome, they’re the perfect way to jazz up boring shoes and use up old craft materials. I am a little bit addicted to them actually XD I got a whole bunch of really over the top clip on earrings at a bead store that closed down recently so I decided to go a bit crazy!
What you need:
- Old clip on earrings
- Something pretty for the clip eg. flowers, leopard print hearts etc
- Felt
- Scissors
- Glue gun
Pull the old earrings apart so you just have the clippy bit like this:
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Glue them to what you want on the shoes, I’m using these cute hearts:
Cut a circle of felt and glue it over the top, this is to protect the shoe from any scraping or rust from the clips.
Glue another circle of felt to the top:
Let dry then add to shoes!
You can clip them wherever you want depending on your outfit! You can also clip them to the pockets of cardigans or into your hair. Seriously versatile and very very very easy to make.
I remade some flowers that I had sewn on to these shoes with clips so I can put them anywhere now.
What do you think? I love them :D I want to find more earrings so I have make heaps of them now! |
Super cute!
One day I hope to make these shoe clips: http://bit.ly/hnTI5E
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OMG AWESOME!
Great advice! I’ll put it in practice ASAP!
Thanks for your lovely tutorials, Violet! ♥
No problem! I’m really glad you enjoyed it!
I like the flowers on the shoe!! But.. if they get dirty, I’ll seriously feel a heartache. xD
Haha they are only cheap plastic ones so you can replace them!
super cute!!
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Thanks!
Very cool! I’ve used shoe clips in the past but not in quite some time now. It’s a great way to get shoes to co-ordinate perfectly with an outfit :)
I bet you would have had some awesome ones though!
you could just buy the earring backs from a fabric or bead store.
Yep they are fairly easy to find these days!
AH! Violet you’re genius! Perfect thing to do instead of hot glueing my bows to my shoes for this cosplay <3
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Much better because then you can use the shoes again!
Oh fab! I’ve been wanting a set of shoe clips for aaages, but they are so expensive. I never thought of making my own. I can’t wait to try this out. I’m seeing an avalanche of shoe clips in the near future…
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:D I totally can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Super clever and super cute!
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:D Thanks! I want to make lots of them now!
very cute. I wonder if you could just buy the clip thing so you didn’t have to buy cheap earrings.
Yep you can buy them easily in craft store, I just happen to have a whole lot of these earrings laying around so I wanted to use them up ^_^
Hahaha, you always have very amazing ideas. I never think in use some old earrings in this form. But is great for shoes, or for brooches without pin the clothes.
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Aww thanks! I hope you try it out!
Waa~ That’s a really easy way to make shoes more kawaii! I’ll have to try that out some time. ^_^
:D You totally should!
These are sooo cute!
I remember I had some frog shoe clips when I was younger and I used to clip them to my sneakers all the time xD I don’t know where they are now though ._____.;
But this is actually a great idea. Since I have lots and lots of clip on earrings that my mum bought when she was younger !
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Aww that sounds adorable!!
Oh those are adorable :)
Do you have Hobbycraft in Australia? They sell earing clips in their beading isle usually, it’s probably cheapper and easier to buy plain clips :)
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No we don’t have Hobby craft but we do have lots of craft stores that sell them individually. I had a huge amount of these old earrings though so I wanted to use them up XD
Cute blog. Love the white flower clips!!
Thank you :)
Awesome! I was very curious to see what you would be using for the clips, I love the idea of using clip-on earrings! I really love both sets of clips you’ve made, the hearts are so badass and the big flowers are always awesome looking.
:D I so love that you describe the hearts as badass! I’ve got so many of these silly earrings that I can see many more of these in my future!
Really awesome! It motivates me to revamp my old flats for this summer^^
Yay you should try it!
I have tried shoe clips in the past, and found they were not for me. While the shoes do indeed look cute with the clips on, the clips rub against my feet and create sores and blisters :( I think I said this before, but I have a serious nickel allergy, and most of the things like this I just can’t do.
I hope that this will work for other, and I think they do look super adorable on your shoes.
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Oh no that sounds terrible!! Definitely not a good option for you then *_*
Oh*-* That´s lovely.
I´m so going to try out this ;33
Loved the one with the white flower
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Thanks Vicky! Can’t wait to see what you do :D
Just a heads up, you can buy just the clip bases at craft stores (the Spotlights in my area even have some on clearance for about $1 a pack).
Thanks Lizy! I’ve seen them at Spotlight too, I just happened to have an excess of these earrings because I bought them for the flower part to use in deco projects ^_^
omg! this is just genius and creative! <3 I am super inspired to do some shoe make overs <3
Yay! Glad to help!
omg this is a great way to have like a bazzilion looks with one pair of shoes :D
love it
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:D That what I was hoping!
Do you have a listing of where and how you made these white flowers that you clipped to the shoes?
The flowers themselves are just cheap fakes bought at a store, the method is the same used in this post for the hearts :)