DIY: Jeffrey Campbell ‘Glitter Litas’ Inspired Shoes

Post by Blake

Inspired by Jeffrey Campbell’s Glitter Litas, I headed to the arts & crafts store to do my own cheaper & DIY version of the popular shoe.

Things You’ll Need:

Glitter
Petroleum Jelly (Vaseline)
Scissors
Makeup Applicators
Q-Tips
Goop Adhesive
Scotch Tape
and of course…a pair of shoes!

I got these ankle length cowboy booties from Kmart for $3.74. They were originally $19.99 and were on sale for 50% off the already $7.49 discount price.

Prep work…

Start out by taking the Scotch tape and covering any areas that you don’t want to be covered in glitter. You can the entire shoe if you want, but I opted against it.

Scotch tape works better than other types of tape because it doesn’t stick to itself, folds into the creases of the shoe easily and is easy to remove without leaving sticky residue.

Next…cover any metal (brackets, shoe string holes, etc) on the shoe with Vaseline using a Q-tip. This will keep any glitter from sticking to it.

I choose to buy 2 different glitter colors in order to create a more multi-dimensional look. I chose a deep pink and a bronze. I bought the small bottles of pink glitter on purpose that way I could use the bottle as a ‘measuring cup’.

I started by pouring an entire bottle of pink glitter into a small container.

*Put down newspaper or a large trash bag to catch excess glitter that spills.

Then I filled the empty pink glitter bottle with bronze glitter that way the final batch of glitter had equal parts pink & bronze. (You can create a make shift funnel for pouring the glitter from 1 container to another by cutting a piece of paper into a circle, cutting a slit halfway across the center, wrapping the paper around itself, and then clipping off the tip.)