Filigree Friday Free Father's Day Badges

Fabulous Filigree Friday! 

As you can see, I have been thinking about Father's Day! It is about a week away, so I had better get moving... In the process of trying to figure out what to do this year, I started looking back at other things I've done because let's face it those masculine cards are tough!!

I happened across this Thank You card I did for someone at work who was into sailing and thought that sailboats definitely fall into that masculine category (you know, like ties, shirts, anchors, golf - c'mon, fess up, we've all done them - lol).

The picture on this card is one that I took.  Are you drawn to the water? So am I, so when these sailboats happened by I couldn't resist.   I made this card and the magnet below a few years ago, and as I look at it now I realize I should have cropped the photo so that the sailboats are less centered and more to the right.  Well, I know that I am going to use this picture again, so I uploaded the photo and cropped it before I sent it to print - I'll let you know how it turned out!

This sailboat uses very basic quilled shapes:

• 1 strip of white quilling paper, make a D-shape.  How you might ask? Start with a Teardrop and then pinch the opposite end which will cause the center to bulge - wala - a D-shape
• Half strip of white quilling paper, make a smaller D-shape
• The boat shape is also a D-shape
• For the mast take a strip of quilling paper and make a spiral shape
• Can't forget the little flag at the top - take a 6 inch strip and make a Triangle shape (take your D-shape and pinch the other side)
• I decided some birds would look perfect and created a few simple flying V's (you know, like we used to draw in school - well, I actually still draw them)

Arrange as shown



I also am including a picture of a magnet I made using the same image - I had made them to give to co-workers as part of a thank you for work on a difficult project.  You can see that I used the same colors as above, and it was basically the same, but I modified the Larger sail and it is a triangle shape.

I hope you like this project.

Free Father's Day Badge... read on and find it at the bottom of this post, first....

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 Without further ado... Here is a Father's Day Badge that I created.... you may recognize it from my Father's Day project last year.  We have this in our family room and I still love it - of course, it has pictures of the kids, so how couldn't I? Yeah, what a sap :-)

Update: I had some technical difficulties and then there was a terrible thunder storm and a little one interrupted so this post got in a little late - so, let's just pretend it is still Friday.... Ok, to make up for the fact that I posted way late I will be creating a second post with these badges in several colors - click here to grab the other badges.

Enjoy! Copyright for Personal Use Antonella DeFalco