Remixed High Heel Door Stop

You've never seen recycled clothing crafts like this. Create a Remixed High Heel Door Stop and change the look of your space. Add embellishments like beads, paint and even novelty birds to help your project stand out and make a statement.

Materials:

• Aleene’s Decoupage – Gloss
• Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue
• High heel shoe
• Papers – book pages, handpainted tissue, gold metallic tissue, corrugated cardboard, embossed tissue, paper shreds
• Decorated novelty birds (dipped in Cool2Cast – see instructions and video here)
• Acrylic paint mixed with water (for paper shreds nest) (or thinned alcohol inks)
• Spray bottle(s) for acrylic paint – or- use pre-mixed spray fabric paints
• Wax paper
• Beads – micro, small and medium (to glue onto shoe)
• Brick

Instructions:

1. Tear book pages into strips approximately 1″ x 3″.
    
2. Brush Decoupage onto back of strip and onto shoe. Place strip onto shoe and brush coat of Decoupage over page. Continue until the entire shoe is covered with book strips. Let dry.
    
3. Tear hand-painted tissue into pieces and use Decoupage glue to glue them in place over shoe. If desired, leave some of the book page words showing through. Let dry.
    
4. Place wax paper on work surface. Sprinkle shreds on wax paper. Spray paper shreds desired colors. Let dry.
    
5. Shape paper shreds into nest. Glue in place in shoe.
    
6. Glue bird(s) into nest(s).
    
7. Decorate brick with decoupage papers. Let dry.
    
8. Glue shoe onto brick. Let dry.