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Dollar Store Sneakers

February 2, 2018

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Dollar Store Designs are back and I’ve got something a little different. I usually look for items in the dollar store that I can jazz up, paint, hack, or try to makeover into some really cool piece of home decor. This time I’m working with dollar store sneakers and a Sharpie and making some wearable “art”. And I do use that term “art” loosely. An artist I am not.

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But check out what I did with my dollar store sneakers and a Sharpie:

Pretty cute. What do you think? If you have school-age kids or grandkids, I say buy a pair of $5 sneakers, a Sharpie paint pen, and let them get creative!

Here’s how I did it. First I bought a pair of sneakers for $5 at my local Dollar General. Do you call them sneakers or tennis shoes. I grew up in western Pennsylvania where we called them tennis shoes. But when I moved to Lancaster County, everyone here calls them sneakers. So it stuck. I lost most of my “Pittsburghese” after I moved. I no longer say “yinz”, pop (for soda), slippy (for slippery), but I might still say “crick” instead of creek ; )

Anyhow, back to the sneakers. At first I thought I’d use a stencil for the hearts. But after thinking about that for three seconds, I thought: I’m no artist but I can draw a heart shape for Peter’s sake!”. But I was worried about the placement of those hearts. If I freehanded them willy-nilly, the placement might be off. I was picturing a bunch of hearts smooshed together in one area, and then sparse in another.

Then I remembered seeing what my fellow blogger and friend Lauren from The Thinking Closet did in this post. That Lauren is so smart! So I proceeded to cut out a bunch (50 to be exact) of the little vinyl hearts using some scrap vinyl and my Cricut Maker. (If you don’t have a Cricut or Silhouette you can use stickers. And they don’t have to be hearts. They can be any shape. Just something to mark the placement of the drawn-on hearts.

Once my sneakers were randomly covered with orange hearts ?, I grabbed my red Sharpie paint pen and got to work. It took about 2 minutes, if that. I just lifted off the vinyl hearts one at a time and then drew the heart shape with the paint pen where the sticker was.  Notice that I didn’t completely fill each heart shape. I like the hand-drawn look. How about you?

 

Dollar Store Sneakers

What would you draw on your sneakers?

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Comments

  1. Jessica says

    February 2, 2018 at 8:31 am

    So cute for Valentine’s Day!

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  2. gail says

    February 2, 2018 at 9:04 am

    Jeanie,

    Your $5 sneakers made me smile the minute I saw them. Sooo cute! I think teens would have a blast doing this project. Well, maybe tweens. Teens might not wear sneakers that don’t cost over a hundred dollars. hehehehe

    Great idea to use the stickers. I see good ideas a lot online, but them remembering to actually USE those ideas is another story. lol

    Thanks for being part of the Squad!!
    gail

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  3. Wendi@H2OBungalow says

    February 2, 2018 at 2:03 pm

    These are too darn cute! I loved them from the minute I saw them. I need to start looking at other stores because our little one by the beach doesn’t have half the fun stuff like your tennis! Ha, we call them tennis too!

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  4. Mary says

    February 8, 2018 at 9:44 am

    Fun project. Love the end result. gotta love the dollar store!

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  5. Sean Mahan says

    February 8, 2018 at 12:47 pm

    Awesome project to make sneakers look new again! Thanks for the idea!

    Reply
  6. Hannah says

    February 27, 2018 at 11:46 am

    I have always looked for unique shoes like these online but I never even thought about making my own! These will definitely be my next project for this week! Thank you!

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  7. James Smith says

    December 2, 2018 at 12:31 pm

    Sounds good. Interesting article. I have learnt a new innovative thing. Thanks for sharing this. Keep up the good work.

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  8. tonykakkar says

    March 17, 2020 at 4:20 am

    Love this sneakers. I always like to wear this kind of sneakers but never thought to draw on it. I will now definately try this to create some stuff like this on my sneakers too.

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