Pumps with Flowers

General info

flower_pumps 1 flower_pumps 2 flower_pumps 3 flower_pumps 4 flower_pumps 5
  • Perfect room decoration!
  • Great gift for your friends and family
  • Difficulty: Easy

What you will need

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  • Soap
  • Carving or Exacto knife
  • Paring knife
  • Sculpting tool or other scooping tool (like a small spoon or a binder clip)

For flower decorations

  • Piece of soap
  • Toothpick
  • Soap foam

Soap info

Cherry blossom mild soap

Used in tutorial

pink soap
  • Not available
  • Pink colour
  • Cherry blossom scented
  • Size: 7.5 cm (3") x 5.5 cm (2-1/8") x 2.3 cm (7/8")
  • Weight: 80 g (3 oz)

Instruction video

Instructions

1. Make the pair of the plain pumps. See this page for instructions on how to make them.
step 1
2. Cut the piece of soap. You can use the piece which was left after carving aforementioned pumps.
step 2
3. Form the soap into the dome shape.
step 3
4. Cut the top off.
step 4
5. Draw a small circle.
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6. Cut and remove soap around the circle.
step 6
7. Form the center into a dome shape.
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8. Smooth around the center.
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9. Divide the soap into 6 sections.
step 9
10. Carve six shallow trenches.
step 10
11. Make 6 petal cuts and remove soap around them.
step 11
12. Carve 6 shallow trenches between petals and remove soap under them.
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13. Cut the flower off.
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14. Neaten the bottom.
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15. Cut the bottom off.
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16. Repeat all previous steps except for first one to make second flower.
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17. Apply soap foam and attach the flowers to the pumps. To make soap foam more effective, scratch the surface with a pointed tool.
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18. Your mini flower shoes are finished!
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