St- Patrick's Day crafts

DIY: Shamrock Shoe Clips

Today is the holiday of my people (shout out to all my Irish friends out there!!  Virtual Guinness cheers!!) so I wanted to repost this fave DIY from last year. Because my Valentine's Day shoe clips were such a hit (quick refresher HERE)...

DIY - New Dress A Day - Heart Shoe Clips

...I figured that a St. Patty's Day version was just calling my name.

DIY - New Dress A Day - Shamrock Shoe Clips

Here's how to make them!

Whenever I try to figure out how I'm going to adjust a vintage dress, I try it on and just focus on detail for a bit until I start to see things.  Sometimes I see exactly what I'm going to do, sometimes I see nothing, and sometimes I see stars. When trying to come up with a fun themed project for this holiday, I knew what I was going to do but was coming up with all kinds of methods to get to the end point.  I guess it's awesome that I'm pretty much swimming in rhinestones when I work, because as I was planning out the different options, I started to have one of those "seeing things" moments. I was staring off at the kit of stones that I have and started really looking at how the stones were sitting, I began to see little shamrocks in the formation of the heart stones and then my aha moment set in.

Four of those stones are going to make awesome shamrocks!!

I pulled out eight stones and began to paint them with a fabulous shade of green nail polish.

DIY - New Dress A Day - Shamrock Shoe Clips

After the first coat, I let them dry and then painted another coat. I wanted to make sure all the open areas were coated in the glitter.

DIY - New Dress A Day - Shamrock Shoe Clips

Once my hearts were dry, I turned on a hot glue gun and began to glue the backs to a sheet of green felt in the clover formation.

DIY - New Dress A Day - Shamrock Shoe Clips

The felt is the perfect backing for these stones because it's a bit thicker than just a basic cotton. However, if you have leftover fabric in your stash, reuse it here - you can always layer multiple bits to make it a bit sturdier.

With my stones in place...

DIY - New Dress A Day - Shamrock Shoe Clips

...I trimmed the excess felt all the way around my shoe clips. I affixed clips to the back and had some fabulous new bits of flair for my feet!

DIY - New Dress A Day - Shamrock Shoe Clips

I added them to a pair of nude flats (Forever 21 has a fab/budge friendly option here) just to make them pop a bit more! But they would work with any other colored/patterned shoe.

I ended up adding a small green rhinestone to the center of the clips for an extra bit of shine!

DIY - New Dress A Day - Shamrock Shoe Clips

I mean, Michael Flatley...move those dancin' feet over! You've got a new Irish gal ready to get tappin'.'

DIY - New Dress A Day - Shamrock Shoe Clips

They're just the right amount of sparkle to rival those pots of gold at the end of the rainbow!!

DIY - New Dress A Day - Shamrock Shoe Clips

I plan on wearing these straight through the weekend!!

Jennifer's NDAD Creation: St. Patrick's Day Edition

Reader Jennifer sent some amazing pictures my way today to show how she and her lovely daughter were celebrating the holiday using last week's four leaf clover shoe clip DIY as inspiration! DIY - New Dress A Day - Shamrock Shoe Clips

This is literally the cutest thing ever!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  I love your page and have been following you for years!  Love it!!  I create and sew almost daily myself but this is my first time sharing!  I used your shamrock heart inspiration...

New Dress A Day - DIY - Shamrock Hair Clips

...to make my daughter a festive hair accessory today! 

See what else Jennifer made for her adorable daughter...

I also made her dress from a 50 cent t-shirt I scored!  Yay!

New Dress A Day - DIY - Shamrock Hair Clips

Hope you like it!  

Jennifer, this whole outfit is spectacular!  I love the t-shirt, the clip, and that light up necklace!  I think I want to steal your daughter's outfit if you don't mind?  Looking forward to crafting more things together next year!!

PS, check out Jennifer's rad vintage store HERE!!