{"id":16952,"date":"2013-01-08T06:33:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T11:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=16952"},"modified":"2013-01-08T06:33:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T11:33:26","slug":"comic-book-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=16952","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/comicbookshoes-150x141.jpg\" alt=\"Comic Book Shoes\" width=\"150\" height=\"141\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve mentioned decoupage as a way to decorate shoes before now, but Anomalous Musings has a particularly nice <a href=\"http:\/\/anomalypodcast.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/geek-crafting-comic-book-shoes.html\">tutorial<\/a> on how to customize with comic books.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Step 1:  Cut up your comic book.  <\/p>\n<p>I know, I know &#8211; that&#8217;s like promoting sacrilege, but it&#8217;ll be worth it.  Just don&#8217;t just do it haphazardly.  Go through the book looking for the scenes, characters, speech bubbles, and lettering that you want to feature. I would recommend nothing much bigger than about silver dollar-sized.  If in doubt, hold it up against your shoes and see if it&#8217;ll lay flat.  (I wound up with a bunch of stuff that was too big, because I didn&#8217;t actually look at the shoes while cutting).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can easily find suitable comics at thrift stores and eBay&#8211;I&#8217;m thinking particularly of the old &#8220;Tomb of Dracula&#8221; stuff or the wonderfully gruesome pre-comics-code E.C. Comics publications like &#8220;Vault of Horror&#8221; and &#8220;Tales from the Crypt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carefully selecting images and word balloons will result in a fascinating, and completely unique, pair of shoes.  Leftovers that are too big for the shoes could be made into earrings or a pendant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve mentioned decoupage as a way to decorate shoes before now, but Anomalous Musings has a particularly nice tutorial on how to customize with comic books. Step 1: Cut up your comic book. I know, I know &#8211; that&#8217;s like promoting sacrilege, but it&#8217;ll be worth it. Just don&#8217;t just do it haphazardly. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16952"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17251,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952\/revisions\/17251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}