diy: heart flats

Ask and you shall receive! I got a surprising amount of interest in my humble little heart flats, so here's a "guide" on how I DIY-ed it. I put "guide" in quotations because it's ridiculously easy.

So, in order to make something like this:



You just need these things:

- flats you don't mind messing up. I recommend suede-finish kinds because it better matches the felt texture of the hearts. (you can find cheapies at GoJane)

- hot glue

- stiff felt

- scissors

And here's what you do:

1. Cut out the shape you want from the stiff felt. My shape of choice were hearts, obviously.

2. Hot glue the shape to the flats. I only used one big dab of hot glue to anchor the entire heart and it hasn't proven a problem yet.

That it! See why this is more like a "guide" rather than an actual guide? Haha! I don't know how waterproof these are, but I have worn them in the rain a few times without incident. It shouldn't matter much anyway if they get ruined since it's essentially a $20 project, depending mainly on how expensive your flats were. Even if the hearts do get weather-damaged, you can always rip them off and glue new ones in their place.

You can see me sporting these here, here, and here.

Have fun!