Altered Violin by Kerrie Gurney

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Hi Kerrie here again on the Couture Creations Blog this time with something completely different.

I have had this project in my mind ever since my daughter gave up playing the violin 4 years ago but other projects kept coming up and I am a bit of a procrastinator :)
After seeing an altered guitar at the Scrapbook & Papercraft Expo in June I was going home to drag it out from under the bed but again time got away from me.
Being Guest Designer at the Craft & Quilt Fair this week has finally made me actually dragged it out from under the bed and create something beautiful to go on display in my daughter's room. This way even though she doesn't play anymore she will always have that reminder of her violin playing days. Now of course I just had to use some Couture Creations products no project is complete without a bit of embossing and diecutting :)

Onto my tutorial

here is the violin before I spray painted the front (I had already done the back when I remembered to take a before photo :) )

I cut 3 x 12" strips of Core'dinations cardstock the width of the sides of the violin and embossed them using my new favourite embossing folder Christmas Quilt

To emboss 12" strips just emboss one end and then feed the strip through the centre slit in the folder. Then line the edge of the start of the pattern in the folder up with the edge of your machine plates. This stops you getting a flat spot when you emboss your strips.