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Front and back views of an art deco inspired skating dress. It's black with black mesh inserts.

How I Made That: Art Deco Skating Dress

Several styles of brightly coloured hologram lycra.

Types of Stretch Fabric

An unhemmed turquoise figure skating skirt with pink hearts on one hip.

How to Make Figure Skating Skirts

A close up photo of a gold shell applique being stitched down to a black background.

Padded Applique

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A small squeeze bottle of neon yellow stretch fabric paint in front of a piece of light pink fabric with dark pink fabric paint swirls all over it.

How to Make Stretch Fabric Paint

A person dressed as a weeping angel statue in a park.

Weeping Angel Costume

A plastic replica of a Thranduil crown - from The Hobbit -painted to look realistically like wooden twigs. Small branches of red plastic leaves are woven among the branches.

Thranduil Crown Tutorial

A close up view of the top of the front bodice of the wedding gown, on a dress form. Both wings are attached to the gown.

Katniss Wedding Gown Wings

Seek and You Shall Find!

Embellishment Tutorials

Several piles of iridescent, flower-shaped sequins in pink, orange, blue, green, and purple.

Beading and Sequins on Spandex

A purple skating dress on a dressform. Many crystals - in various colours - have been added to it.

Crystalling on Spandex

5 rolls of various colours of foil transfer paper laid out on a sheet of copper coloured foil.

Stretch Foil Embossing on Spandex

A small pile of pink metallic and pink glitter homemade sequins, made from this How to Make Sequins Tutorial.

How to Make Sequins & Spangles

More Embellishment Tutorials

How I Made That

A cosplayer dressed in the full Maleficent cosplay.

Maleficent Costume

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A close up view of a cosplayer dressed as Maleficent.

Maleficent's Headpiece

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A photo taken over the shoulder of a Maleficent cosplayer. She is looking at the top of her staff, and her reflection is visible in the gazing ball.

Maleficent Staff Tutorial

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A man in a police uniform and oversized triceratops helmet - Triceracop Cosplay.

Triceracop Costume

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A gorgeous cosplayer dressed as a stylized version of X-Men's Rogue.

Cosplay Photography Tips

A sewn together Hela costume, laid out on a green work surface.

MCU Hela Costume Cosplay

A beautiful young woman wearing a replica of the Katniss Wedding Gown from Hunger Games.

Mini Katniss Wedding Gown

A beautiful young woman with short hair is laying on some rocks, wearing a dark burgundy latex, 3D sculpted dragon top. It wraps around her torso, and looks like Smaug.

Poured Latex Smaug Top

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Front and back views of a beautiful figure skating dress. The lower part of the dress is black, turning into a flame design going up to the shoulders.Ever wonder how spandex costumers sew such intricate details, using pieces of different spandex?
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