Have you ever painted your shoes? It’s so much fun 🤩 I custom painted my converse a year or so ago using posco paint markers. They had faded so it was time for a repaint.
I had a few ideas I wanted to try, one was using the glue gun to make some bits 3D and then embroider over it. Soon gave up on that idea! What a failure, meh.
So I went back to the faithful paint markers, they’re easy and accurate. This time I freehand painted over the original fish and ocean design. But I wanted some shine ✨
So I tested out using some clear resin that I got off Amazon about a year ago. I did sooo much research into which one was going to last and not yellow too much. I’m using this resin for my handmade pens.
Anyway, the brand I ended up with was Takimo. It’s easy to use as long as you follow the instructions. And it gives a beautiful hard, clear and resilient result.
I wasn’t too fussed with the accuracy for the resin. So I just used a paddle pop stick to smudge it over the fish I wanted to shine. It worked well!
I really want to do more of this. Here are the results:
