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This Baby bootie shoe card is so much fun to make because of the endless paper and embellishment options you can use to create your booties. Boy, girl, sweet, sassy, punk, try making one of each to keep on hand for a new baby, shower, or 1st birthday card. Attach one of our Rockin' baby sayings to the card, stamp, or print your own saying. Any way you make it, it will sure to be a card that is remembered.
Its easy to make several booties at once and create several cards quickly. Lets get started.


First click on the following links to download the template you will use to print and cut your booties.  When you click on the links they take you to www.mediafire a document storage site. Make sure you click the Mediafire click here to download file button. If you get a flashing yellow "download now" button to the far left of the mediafire download button in ad space, don't click on it. It will say "survey" first which is really an ad. The Mediafire download button is on the right of the page, and it is safe and secure to download any documents.

Template #1 the Outer Bootie and strap

Template #2 The insole

Template # 3 Rockin' Baby sayings (optional)

Decide on a paper you would like for the bootie. In the examples I use a leopard print and a damask print. Smaller prints tend to work better. If you are using scrapbook 12x12 paper cut it to 8 1/2 x 11 on your paper cutter. One great pack of paper to try for the card is Michael's 8.5 x 11 wild pattern paper and at only $3.00 a pack on sale it is great for other card making crafts. It has different colored leopard and zebra prints. (I used this paper for the Handmade Hair Pins card backs). The damask and polka dot paper is also from Michaels. Once you have your main paper chosen pick a CONTRASTING paper that will act as the insole and:



Print Template #2-Print on the REVERSE side of your CONTRASTING paper

Cut out your booties and straps. Don't worry if you're not exact, just try to cut along the line. The insole is slightly trickier to cut, use smaller scissors if you have them, but again don't worry if it's not perfect. In the following picture the leopard paper was on the other side of this two sided paper.




Use a good tape runner type scrapbooking glue (I use Tombo MONO adhesive) to attach the insoles to the bootie. 

If you would like a shadow around your booties use your tape runner and glue the booties to black paper and cut around the booties approximately 1/4". (You do not need to do this step, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. The step generally makes the booties pop a little more off the card but again you don't have to do it.



Now you have a pair of booties with an insole and a shadow. Cut a piece of paper for the background of your card. I find simple background patterns work well with wild pattern booties, and simple booties need a wild background paper. I used premade 6 1/2 x 5 inch card from Michael's. They come in a pack of 25 with envelopes. You can certainly cut and score your own. I like easy so I usually buy the packs when they offer them 1/2 off.

Now cut  your background paper 6" x 4 1/2 "

Attach the background paper to the card with your tape runner

Attach the booties to the card with your tape runner.
If you are going to use a brad as the bootie strap embellishment you will need to attach the strap (shown next) push the brad through THEN attach the whole things to the card with a tape runner so you do not have a brad poking through the card. But if you plan on using embellishments like bows, button, stick on gems etc. follow the next steps.

Attach your straps buy using a tiny glue dot on each side of the strap or use glue runner. Make sure to just put it on the sides. The straps will pop up if you do. If you want them to lie flat then tape runner the whole strap and attach.

Now the FUN part...


Embellish the side strap with bows, gems, buttons, paper flower etc. I had a pack of tiny press on bows I found in the scrapbooking area at JOAnnes that I used for the bows on the booties. Cut and tie your own ribbon though and attach with a glue dot just as easily. Make sure to use a glue dot instead of flimsy stick on glue that comes on many scrapbook embellishments.

You can also
print out our Rockin Baby sayings to use on the card
Print the sayings out on any plain paper (I have used white, pastel pink, blue, etc) and layout the saying and the booties onto the card before you glue everything down.

This project has to be one of the fastest handmade gifts you can make. These are great for goody bags, craft fairs, and plan ahead holiday gift exchanges and stocking stuffers.

You can whip these out in minutes! You just need to plan ahead by picking up these supplies:

E 6000 glue 
*Click on it to see the glue you need. You can also find this glue at Michael's and Hobby Lobby. You absolutely need it for any hair accessories or jewelry projects. Hot glue will not cut it on metal and plastic. You will use this glue a lot if you want to make other jewelry items with cabechons and buttons.


Bobby pins with a round pad
*again you can purchase a pack of these at craft stores. Make sure they have the round pad at the end. I purchased mine on Etsy from poppylovesparis because I was drawn to the red, pink, black and white colors but I saw pack or silver and other metals at Michael's.

Cabochons, buttons, gems, and charms 
 *This is where the fun comes in. What is your theme? You can buy bags of plastic rose or carnation cabochons on Etsy (great for Baby shower gifts), buttons or scrapbook embellishments from Michael's, Hobby Lobby, Archivers, or Joanns. I found a tattoo inspired charms with swallows, "Love hearts"and skulls. I had the gems from my scrapbooking stash. If you want to make up several sets of these consider buying the bobby pins and button charms in bulk. I have bought plastic roses, skulls, and carnations for from shantisupplies, poppylovesparis, and snapcrafty on Etsy. Gemstone sticker sheets are cheap and plentiful so I don't see a need to buy those in bulk.


A piece of heavier cardboard (I ripped off a flap of a box)


Wire cutters (if you are using plastic buttons with shanks)

This is such an easy craft, but it goes a long way. Make them for a rockin' baby or wedding shower favor, a fun gift, or a teen party craft project. They are adorable bars of soap!



First up you need a Fred & Friends Bone Chillers ice cube tray. You can find it on www.amazon.com, coolstuffexpress.com and perpetualkid.com among several other sites. Amazon had it for $6.95 and cool stuff $7.95. You may find it at Linens & Things as well. It is pricier than most soap trays but I find this product to be worth the price. The tray is very strong and flexible and the soap comes out nicely.



You also need:

1 rectangle bar soap mold


White melt and pour soap


Clear melt and pour soap


Soap coloring (do not use food coloring)-Color is up to you!

Soap fragrance (optional) The melt and pour smells pretty good on its own.
***You can find all of the above soap making supplies at Hobby Lobby or Michael's Crafts. Check out www.hobbylobby.com or www.michaels.com for coupons to print before you buy your supplies).

Large glass measuring cup or bowl to melt the soap in

Packaging for the soap. I prefer clear cellophane bags (if you have an xpedx store near you they carry them), or www.clearbags.com. They are about $3.00 for 100 bags. You will also need ribbon or twist ties for the bags.

*If you want matching soap tags for a favor you can download our "U Rock" soap tags. Print them onto card stock, cut, and hole punch in the corner to attach.


Cut about 3 -4 cubes of the White soap (you'll have to eyeball a little as each soap is a little different), put them into the glass measuring cup and microwave for 30 seconds. You usually need about 50 seconds to really melt soap, but since every microwave is different take it out and stir it at 30 seconds then put it back in at 10-15 second intervals until the soap is melted. Keep a close eye on it and don't let it boil over, but hey, it is just soap so don't worry if it does! (Remember it just washes away).
Stir the soap mixture until it stops steaming heavily and then when cooled down about a minute carefully pour into the skull molds. If a little blobs over just wipe it up.

Remember to put your skulls "face down" into the plain rectangle soap tray

Let the soap harden. If you want to speed up the process you can put the tray in the fridge or freezer. It hardens quickly. Just be careful not to move the tray too soon or you will spill it, give it a few minutes to harden up first before moving. Once the skeletons are solid carefully pop them out of the tray. Now put them skull "Face Down" into the rectangle bar soap mold tray.

Clean up your glass measuring cup to reuse with the clear soap or grab a new one. Use about 6 cubes of Clear soap and just like the white soap microwave for 30 seconds and then the 10-15 second intervals until melted. Stir in ONE drop of soap coloring. You only want ONE drop so that the soap is translucent. You can use two drops to mix a color (like I used one drop red and one drop wine for Fuschia) but 2 drops is about as dark as you'll want it. Once again when the soap has stopped steaming heavily pour over top the skeletons to fill. Let the soap harden completely. Again you can put the tray into the fridge or freezer to speed things up.

Just make sure the clear soap isn't too hot when you pour over the skulls.