Try this DIY beaded Poinsettia applique and add sparkles to your holiday costumes, outfits and decor! It’s a beginner-friendly project 🙂 Read more →
Tag: beading techniques
How to Drill Holes in Acrylic Stones for Costume Making with Chani
In her last post, Chani showed how she started altering the beaded bra top from the 90s. She found a bunch of glued-on stones coming off of the bra top, so she removed them, and drilled holes to turn them into sew-on stones! In this post, she will show you exactly how to drill holes in acrylic stones, so you… Read more →
How to Alter a Beaded 90s Belly Dance Bra with Chani Pt 1
Do you have a beaded bra that needs an upgrade? But not sure where to start? Altering a heavily decorated bra can be overwhelming and intimidating. But in this post, Chani, our alteration expert, will show you how she approached this refurbishment project on a bra covered with beads and stones. Enjoy 🙂 This, from the start, was the most… Read more →
How to Make Seed Bead Fringe with Chani
Are you in love with beaded fringe but not sure how to create it yourself? Do you have a costume that needs an upgrade? In this post, Chani, our alteration expert, will show you how to create beaded fringe to give your costume more movement and shimmer. Enjoy 🙂 Greetings, Dancers! I hope this finds you well and enjoying dancing,… Read more →
How to Alter a Beaded Belly Dance Bra with Chani
Looking for ideas on how to alter a beaded belly dance bra? Have a vintage costume that needs an upgrade? In this post, Chani, our alteration expert, will show you how to alter a beaded belly dance bra top seamlessly and make it fit you! Enjoy 🙂 This is a vintage costume I bought on-line many, many years ago. The… Read more →
How to Sew a Bead Rope – Twisted Line Bead Embroidery Technique
What about belly dance costumes caught your eye at first? The sparkles? The fringe? For me, the intricate bead embroidery is one of the first things that attracted me to belly dance costumes. One of the most popular beading techniques you see on professional belly dance costumes is something that looks like a beaded rope or a twisted line of… Read more →
DIY Sparkly Swirly Armband – belly dance, ballroom jewelry
I often look at different dance costume designs other than belly dancing to get new ideas that I can bring to the belly dance world. And I’m in love with ballroom jewelry 😀 They’re really sparkly and gorgeous, but the problem is, I can’t find any tutorials on how to make them! So I made my own sparkly swirly armband… Read more →
DIY ATS Tribal Belt – inspired by kuchi belts for American Tribal Style belly dance
ATS weeks here at Sparkly Belly! 😀 Last week I shared with you how to make 4-yard pantaloons for ATS and tribal fusion belly dance, and I was so happy to see many of you got so excited as soon as I shared the tutorial! 🙂 This week, continuing the ATS theme, I’ve created this ATS tribal belt inspired by… Read more →
How I Decorated Star Flower Belly Dance Costume – Beginner Friendly!
Last few weeks, I’ve been decorating this grey costume 🙂 I made the drape sleeve with lace…. added appliques… and I even made a matching hair clip that doesn’t fall off 🙂 It’s really fun seeing how the costume evolved! In this post, I’ll finish up this costume by adding small sparkly decorations. Let’s get started! How to make the bra… Read more →
What’s in DIY Applique Kit by Sparkly Belly – Unboxing!
You know I love making beaded appliques and using them for decorating my costumes 😉 But finding the right beads and the right stones can be challenging, and often I don’t know where to buy them or how many beads to buy to make appliques. 🙁 It turns out, many costumers face the same challenge! I… Read more →