Hello hello to all dear friends of hive, I hope you have a day full of blessings, good energy and above all a lot of desire to create. I am super excited to share for the first time in this community and what better way to start than with this beautiful contest as it is the #MOONCONTEST.
The moon is that wonderful star full of light that inevitably inspires us all when we look at it in all its phases, there are so many ways to represent it artistically and this time I chose to do it with a beautiful composition in the filigree technique.
I have always loved this art but I had never really dedicated myself to do it and investigate what it is all about.
Basically filigree is the art of rolling thin strips of paper to create beautiful decorative designs. It's great for relaxation and creativity.
That being cleared up I show you how I made my moon composition.

The first thing to do is to draw on a separate sheet of paper the idea we want for our design so as not to scratch the white cardboard base. I drew very smoothly the shape of the moon on the base cardboard to guide me.
Then we cut our colored cardboard into thin strips, measuring with the ruler approximately 5 mm or if you prefer a little thinner.

After we have the paper strips cut we start with the fun part, rolling the paper.
Using the height stick, we roll little by little around it until we finish with the strip, we glue the edge if we want a tight circle or we loosen a little the roll according to the size we need to make a loose circle that will serve us to make the shapes below and then we glue the edge of the paper.

Having already several rolls of paper of the colors chosen for our decoration, we proceed to give them the shape with our fingers as I show you in my video, always remembering to fold the rolls first by the part of the junction of the paper, (we can also combine the colors by gluing the ends of the strips with two different colors and then roll up).
The shapes I used for my decoration were the petal, the heart, the star and the bunny ear. I also used tight circles and spirals, that is to say that they are not closed by applying glue as I show in the picture.

My advice is to have the idea of the design clear and so we manipulate each piece little by little within the work, this way we can decide what size and shape we want each roll of paper.
To start assembling my decoration I began to glue the first paper circles, applying a dot of glue in the thickest part of the roll and making a little pressure on the cardboard base so that it would stick well, I started making the face of the moon with the shape of a rabbit's ear for the eye and a heart for the mouth.

It is very relaxing and nice to complete little by little the design we want, adding colors and shapes, I loved this work, it is the first time I do it so if you have done it before, I would love to read your opinion.