leather (or material of your choice)
embossing powder, embossing ink, and embossing gun (optional)
epoxy or other suitable adhesive (I think I used this…because it was convenient)
thread in appropriate color(s)
pin back
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Step 1
Make a simple harp pattern, and trace it onto the leather twice. (You could use a smaller variation of this pattern and add the center cut out if you’d like.) You can do them both the same way or mirror image, depending on how you want the back to look. |
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Step 2
Cut out both pieces that you traced in Step 1. |
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Step 3
Emboss one of the pieces with gold embossing powder. This step is optional. You could also use liquid gold leaf, gold spray paint, or leave it the color of the leather. |
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Step 4
Admire your work. J/K….maybe. 😉 This isn’t really a step, but it should look something like this after you’ve embossed it. |
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Now take your non-embossed piece (make sure you have the correct side up!) and place glue where shown in the picture and place your “strings” (thread). You can use all one color or mimic the color pattern of a real harp.
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Next, glue both pieces together, Trim any excess string.
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Add a pin to the back. Once it’s dry, you’re done!
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-Barbara
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Barbara Fischer runs Fischarper, LLC and loves her job as a harpist and private music educator. She enjoys blogging about various aspects of the music field on fischarper.com/blog. For more music resources, check out the Fischarper Teachers Pay Teachers Store and Making Harp Lessons Exciting For Young Children, written by Bambi Fischer (Barbara’s mom!) and revised and edited by Barbara. You can connect with Barbara all over the interwebs on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube.
Barbara Fischer runs Fischarper, LLC and loves her job as a harpist and private music educator. She enjoys blogging about various aspects of the music field on fischarper.com/blog. For more music resources, check out the Fischarper store. Find out where you can find Barbara on the interwebs here. And you can sign up to receive Fischarper updates by joining the email list.