{"id":1808,"date":"2019-05-23T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2019-05-23T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T07:15:00","slug":"how-to-decorate-canvas-shoes-using-alcohol-inks-setacolor-paints-and-tulip-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/2019\/05\/23\/how-to-decorate-canvas-shoes-using-alcohol-inks-setacolor-paints-and-tulip-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Decorate Canvas Shoes using Alcohol Inks, Setacolor paints and Tulip paint."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Hannah Shepherd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For quite some time I have wanted to try decorating shoes\nwith alcohol inks. After watching a few videos online where people used alcohol\nbased Sharpie pens to draw onto the shoe and then used rubbing alcohol to blend\nthe colours. I wanted to try out the Pi\u1fc6ata alcohol inks on fabric just to see\nif they would work in the same way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I purchased some inexpensive, plain white canvas shoes and\nthen experimented with putting the alcohol ink down first or the rubbing\nalcohol. I found that when putting the ink down first the colour became more\nconcentrated in that area whereas with putting the alcohol down first you get\nmore of a blend. I alternated between using a pipette and a spray bottle with\nthe rubbing alcohol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I thoroughly coated the shoe in alcohol inks and then added\nsome additional gold ink over the top which dispersed quite nicely. I added a\ntouch of white ink onto the shoe and I found this to be far more opaque and\nsolid, it almost sat on top of the fabric as opposed to spreading through it\nlike the other colours. It was very hard to disperse that with the rubbing\nalcohol but the Claro Extender that Pi\u1fc6ata do actually worked incredibly well to\ndilute the colour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had tried to tape off the sole of the shoe, however the tape\ndidn\u2019t stick very well to the textured area so as I had got lots of ink over\nthe white sole I decided to cover the back portion of the sole in black Posca\npen. The Posca pen adheres really well to the plastic\/rubber. You could always\nuse it to draw over the fabric as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I set this shoe aside to dry and then began working on the other\none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used various Setacolor paints by Pebeo to paint a base coat of\ncolour on the shoe. The pink colour is a suede effect paint, the green is\nglitter, the chocolate brown is shimmer and the purple at the front is the\nSetacolor Opaque paint. You can simply wash out your brush in water when using\nthese paints and the colours can mix together like ordinary paint will, so from\nbuying the primary colours you could actually achieve mixing up a lot of\ncolours, however the shade range that the Setacolor paints come in is\nrelatively big and they have some lovely colours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once my base coat of paint was dry I then used Tulip fabric paint\nto draw some designs onto the shoe. I chose to do a leafy design on the front\nand some flowers on the back of the shoe. I then used a gold Tulip paint to dot\naround the edge of the shoe. Tulip paint takes a little while to dry and dries\nraised up. You can buy them in various finishes, such as glow in the dark and\npuffy. They are very easy to use as they have a narrow nozzle you squeeze the\npaint through so are great for doing finer details or line work. If you would\nprefer to not have the Tulip paint so 3D you can squeeze it onto a palette and\npaint it on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Setacolor paints do need to be fixed with heat to make them\nwater\/wash proof but for use on the shoes as long as they are not getting\nsoaked in water it really should be fine. Tulip paint does not need to be fixed\nin any way, once it\u2019s dry it\u2019s permanent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For both of the shoes I took the laces out and sprayed them with\nBrusho and let those dry.  After checking\non the Colourcraft website I read that there is no way to permanently fix\nBrusho onto fabric, however as it is on shoe laces and they could be removed if\nyou need to wash the shoes it should not be an issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The finished shoes look really funky, there are a lot ways\nto decorate and customise shoes and you can get many of your supplies from us,\nincluding all of the fabric paints used, the Brusho, spray bottles, pipettes\nand paint brushes. Rubbing alcohol can be purchased online very easily and I\nwould recommend putting down some newspaper or plastic sheeting to protect your\nsurfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Hannah Shepherd For quite some time I have wanted to try decorating shoes with alcohol inks. After watching a few videos online where people used alcohol based Sharpie pens to draw onto the shoe and then used rubbing alcohol to blend the colours. I wanted to try out the Pi\u1fc6ata alcohol inks on fabric … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-craft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shoe-front.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tindalls.co.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}