This year, the trend for summer is to wear big jewels and other glamorous decorations on your gold or silver leather sandals.

What you need...

• Dremel Engraver with Carbide Engraving Tip 9924 and the creative engraving templates (supplied with Hobby Engraver kit)
  Dremel Glue Gun 930 and high temperature 7mm clear glue sticks
  Leather strappy sandals
  Metallic velvet ribbon, the same width as the straps you want to decorate
  Embroidered mirror and sequinned embellishments
  Cup shape sequins
  Flat-backed gems
  Soft pencil
  Eraser
  Scissors
  

instructions

1. Step One - Position your Dremel blue plastic engraving template on the insole of the sandal and draw through it using a soft pencil. Repeat as necessary to build up the design. Invert the template and mirror the patterns on the opposite insole. If you don't have a Dremel engraving template, buy something similar from your local hobby or craft store, or online.

2. Step Two - Take your Dremel Engraver with the carbide engraving tip, and engrave along the pencil lines marked. Remove any remaining pencil marks with an eraser. Repeat on the other sandal.

3. Step Three - Using a 7mm high temperature clear glue stick, set your Dremel Glue Gun 930 to hot - and stick metallic velvet ribbon along the strap of the sandal, threading it through the loop on the T-bar if necessary and trimming the ends at an angle where the ribbon meets the insole. Repeat on the other sandal.

4. Step Four - With the Glue Gun and clear glue stick, apply a dot of hot glue to fix a flat-backed gem in the centre of a cup sequin. Add another dot to glue the sequin to the centre of an embroidered mirror embellishment. Prepare two more the same. Glue the first embellishment centrally on the loop at the top of the T-bar. Attach another to either side. Repeat to complete the other sandal.

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