How to Paint Cake & Ice Cream Shoes!

How to Paint Cake & Ice Cream Shoes!

These painted cake and ice cream shoes look good enough to eat!

Make a pair of cake and ice cream kicks to wear in delicious and show-stopping style!

These cool shoes are the perfect upcycled accessory!

Note: These take a while to paint. I let them dry between every single paint stage so I didn't accidently smudge them. It took me about a month to get them finished, but only about an hour of work time.

Turn a pair of comfy wedges into the cutest dessert shoes.

These shoes are the talk of the town, trust me, everyone will notice these fun shoes!

Ice cream cone, melty ice cream, layered cake with sprinkles and a drip--these tasty looking kicks have it all.

Supplies Needed for Cake and Ice Cream Shoes:

• Shoes (I love these Sketchers wedges, but not the color...so they were the perfect shoes for me to upcycle!)
• Tulip Dimensional Fabric Paint (Puffy, Gold, Brown Slick and Variety Pack)
• Clay Sprinkles (buy them or make your own)

Step 1: Shoes

Begin by finding the perfect pair of shoes for painting.

You might have some in your closet.

You might find them thrifting for 8 bucks like me. 

Get shoes that are comfortable and fit well or you will never wear them.

Then clean them off and use a knife to remove labels, if you prefer.

Step 2: Slick Paint!

Now decide which parts of the shoes you want to paint like cake, like frosting, or like an ice cream cone.

Then use the brown slick dimensional paint and paint it on the sections you want cake.

Repeat the process with the gold dimensional paint for the ice cream cone waffle pattern.

Step 3: Add Frosting!

Pick another puffy paint color and paint it on in a few fun places!

Add some confetti clay sprinkles. They will stay right in place and be permanent when the paint dries.

Step 4: Ice Cream!

Pick a color of puffy paint that you like and paint it on the toe like puffy melted drippy ice cream.

Add Clay Sprinkles.

You can buy them or make your own!

I did both.

I bought clay sprinkles and then made some big Jimmies and Cachous with Fimo Oven Bake Clay.

My kids call these big jimmies, aglets...like the plastic on the ends of shoelaces. LOL!

Simply roll the clay, cut it in short lengths and place on a baking tray.

Repeat until you have a variety of shapes, sizes and colors of fake sprinkles.

Bake them according to the package directions.

Step 5: Sprinkles!

Then add some of the clay sprinkles to the drippy ice cream paint.

Step 6: Cake Wedges!

Paint the wedge part of the shoe like a layered cake.

Chocolate layers and cream in between.

Then add a swirl of cream to the top of the cake, and add sprinkles.

Then add drippy paint to the cake to look like a decadent drip cake!

Finish with the cherries on the top!

Add a drip to the front strap too.

Your shoes will be different than mine, so the sky is the limit!

Make your shoes represent you and your favorite desserts!

That's it!

Hope you enjoyed these upcycled wedges into the perfect cake and ice cream shoes!

I hope it's inspired you to create your own shoes too! 

Send me pictures or tag me @doodlecraft if you make some!

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