This Mod Podge I’ve Heard so Much About

I’m a crafter of a certain disposition.  I don’t sew because I’ve never learned.  I don’t knit because I’ve never done it well.  I don’t make jewelry because I’ve never had the interest, and scrapbooking–quite honestly–bores the hell out of me.

I’m a crocheter and a cross stitcher.  And now, apparently, I’m a Mod Podge person [Mod Podger?].  It happened quite by accident.  I learned crochet and cross stitch from my grandmother, and I’ve been content with those for years.  But then I remembered everything I’d heard about Mod Podge.  And I had a spare couple of “Black Canary” comics.  And Wal-Mart was having a sale on a few of their shoes.

Experienced Mod Podge people [Mod Podgers?] can already see where this is going:

My two new best friends.

One jar of Mod Podge?  Check.  One can of Acrylic sealant that will do a passable job of making my shoes waterproof?  Check.

And what else do you need for such a project?  Shoes!

Shoes!

I chose a cute pair of shiny black heels that I found at Wal-Mart for $13.00.  They had knee-high boots on sale for $5.00, but none in my size, so cute black heels it was!

So, I had the Mod Podge, I had the sealant, and I had the shoes.  All I needed to do then was cut out all the pictures I wanted to use from the comics:

Before...

After!

I won’t detail the amount of time it took to pick pictures and cut them out, tiny edge by tiny edge.  I would like to, however, take a moment and be grateful that the inker on these two issues like a thick edge line around images.  It helped with keeping my scissors where I wanted them.

So I shook out my hands, cracked my knuckles, and spent roughly 3 hours pasting bits and pieces of my beloved Black Canary onto my shoes.  The results?  Pure awesome:

They really are that shiny.

And it gets better, but to save your browser from freezing and fleeing, I’m going to post a link to the rest of the photostream.

Once I had everything in place and covered in Mod Podge three more times [Mod Podged it three more times?], I sprayed down both shoes with the sealant in a very well ventilated area and left them to dry.  With a bit of luck and lack of rain, I think I’ll wear them out tomorrow. [I don't distrust the sealant being waterproof--I distrust that I managed to seal every nook and cranny.]

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