JUST DO IT : How to make a Paper Nike Sneaker Costume

Step 4: Decoration

I painted my pieces before I put my shoe together, make sure you are painting the right pieces the right colors. Now is also the time to cut the holes out for the shoe string eyelets.

With my shoe I drew in short dotted lines with a sharpie to look like stitching, but I did no do so until after I put the whole thing together.

Raise your hand if you are doing a complicated design that includes ZEBRA STRIPES !
Just me ? ok, so in case you want to know I put the stripes on before I put the shoe together, I traced the shape of the panels that would have stripes on to tracing paper ,then I drew the stripes. Then I penned that to felt ,and I cut them out, then I arranged them on to the panels then I glued them down.