Construction: Toralei's Shoes - TOTAL HOURS: (combined with others)

Web vs. Doll Differences noted: these were explained in an earlier post when I got the shoes in the mail!


First I took the laces out of the shoes. They would get in the way and also the laces needed to be red! I used low-tack masking tape to cover the areas I wanted to protect and then started doing layers of acrylic and silk screen paint over the platform. I was surprised it didn't take more to be honest.. Only four coats! The only issue I ran into was that the satin fabric covering the platform started to bubble in some areas but it isn't too noticeable. After  letting the paint dry completely, I put red shoe laces in. Then I took hot fix silver studs and melted them to the platform topline. I've only ever used this tool once to put two studs on a vinyl purse so I was worried it might react badly with the satin/paint combination but it all worked great!