Easy Flip-Flop Home Accents

Just seeing a pair of flip-flops makes one think of summery weather. If youre like me, and you enjoy changing up the home accents often, youll love all the cute things you can make with a flip-flop theme. Change an entire room or just add a few flip-flop accents around your home. Below are a few projects that can help you get a summery look with little time, effort, or money.You can instantly change the look of a bedroom by making a flip-flop quilt or bedspread. Whether you make the quilt yourself, or you buy it, its easy to use flip-flops as rubber stamps to create the fun, bedroom accent. Lay the quilt out flat on a table and then prepare your paint. If you want just one color, dispense some fabric paint on a paper plate, and get started. If you want more than one color, prepare more than one plate of paint.Use just one pair of flip-flops to do all the stamping. Have a wet cloth ready to wipe away one color, and apply another. First, spread the paint out very thin, and press the bottom of one flip-flop in it. Stamp it anywhere on the quilt; youll find it easiest to work from the center of the quilt, out. Stamp the right flip-flop, then the left one, side-by-side. Stamp as many sets as you want, wiping the flip-flops off when needed. When all the paint is dry use a paint marker to draw the straps of the flip-flops. For each set of straps, use a different color than the flip-flops themselves, so that the straps will stand out more. Youll love this quilt that instantly gives a summer theme to a bedroom.With paint and flip-flops you can stamp other things, too. Some examples include a set of sheets and pillowcases, a tablecloth, a lampshade, a rug, or even a door. When you stamp a set of flip-flops on a girls bedroom door, she can write "My Room", or another sentiment, on the flip-flops with a paint marker.Glue thin craft foam sheets together to make a mat to go in front of a door. Make the foam pieces to be 1-1/2 to 2" thick. Draw around two left flip-flops, and two right ones, then cut them out of the foam. Lay one flip-flop in front of you so that the heel faces you. Lay the next one beside that one so that the heel faces away from you. Lay the next flip-flop up, and the fourth one down, so that you create a square of "interlocking" flip-flops. Glue them together and then add the straps. You can fold a piece of ribbon to create a "v" shape with it, and glue one onto each flip-flop. Or, you can use a paint marker to draw the straps. This is a nice mat for putting sandy flip-flops on as you come home from the beach.Use flip-flops in unusual ways to make additional home accents. For instance, hang a pair on a bathroom wall by using a peel-n-stick picture hanger on the bottom of each shoe. Then, use a peel-n-stick hanger on the fronts - on the top of the heel - and you can hang towels, clothes, purses, or other accessories. You can also use a new, childs flip-flop as a coaster. Or, string two flip-flops together, and embellish them with flowers or other accents, and hang them on a door as a summer wreath.Go get some cheap flip-flops and get busy creating your own summer theme. Youll have fun as you stamp, draw and cut, or otherwise craft the home accents you want for that fabulous summer look in your home.