Marie Antoinette Altered Shoe

I am really loving the Marie Antoinette Mail Art Group that I have joined. I have been so inspired by the amazing artists I have seen and the swaps are challenges in art I have never attempted before. I love trying new things and I especially love it when everything comes together.

This is the shoe that I created for the Marie Antoinette Altered Shoe Swap.




It took a few days to create the many different layers of paper, gesso, mod podge and lots of embellishments. I mean really, it couldn't be Marie inspired without lots of embellishments.

I love using vintage jewelry in my art. It just adds this wonderful quality of eye candy to view. I always look at the old pieces that I have acquired and wonder about the person that wore them and what their life was like. And what the world was like when they were alive.

I love this fan that I made using layers of gold paper and vintage french book pages. It came together so well.

I love using Crystal Effects from Stampin' Up. It makes ordinary paper look three dimensional.

These rhinestones came from an old pearl necklace. It was the clasp on the pearls that I used on the top of the shoe.

And this is what the shoe looked like before I started on it. Lucky for me I have the other shoe as well so that I can try and reproduce this piece for myself. I hope that I have inspired you to try something new. Next I will show the paper Marie theatre that I made. Off to get my copy of the new Somerset Marie magazine. I FINALLY found a copy of it and they have put it on hold for me. Yippee!