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Happy February, the month of hugs and kisses because of Valentine's Day. Let's not forget to embrace ourselves too! In this wonderful Flying Unicorn community, we are very supportive of each other and have many challenges where we appreciate each other's art through scraplifting and round robins. Now it's your turn to showcase what your style is.

This is a two part challenge The two parts should be posted together--photo and description.
1. Make something that expresses your unique, personal crafting style.
2. Write a short description about your crafting style.

Rules, because we have to have them:

1. It can be any type of art that expresses your crafting style such as a card, layout, tag or altered item.
2. It must be NEW as of 2-01-12.
3. You may submit only one entry because you must include a written description of your crafting style.
4. Your entries may not be used in any other Flying Unicorn challenge.
5. Digital is allowed if that is your personal crafting style.
6. You must upload your project here in this thread and in the gallery
7. You must have fun and ... you must leave love for others!
8. Winner will be selected by random.org and announced on Feb 29th no earlier than 8pm EST. You will have 7 days to contact Alda with your mailing address to claim your prize. You can only win one Flying Unicorn challenge per month. We need to share the love and RAKs.
9. If you have questions, leave them here in the thread or send me a PM.

Here is my example:

Although I try all types of art and my craft is continually evolving, I am most comfortable creating smaller pieces such as tags and cards in a vintage style. I seem to enjoy fussy cutting such as cutting out this photo of myself which is my cyberspace bonnet photo. I like trims better than flowers, and I collect ephemera at flea markets and auctions to add into my art. My first design team gig was stamping cards. I own a lot of stamps, rubber and acrylic, but I don't use them often enough. I belong to a stamp club that likes to get grungy in the style of Tim Holtz and Wendy Vecchi. Nevertheless, I'm leaning towards a cleaner vintage style such as the all white tags we recently made. Because I'm a paperholic and love working with paper as well as collage images, my goal this year is to get comfortable with paint and incorporate it into my vintage style.

I am embracing this new vintage style of mine that includes paint and am brave enough to show you my very first painted page---actually it's a painted wood page from a 3 board tabbed mini album. And although it's my first painted page, this actually is the back cover.

I used 3 stamps on this--the tree, the word "art" on the car, and the bricks. The bricks are from the Graphic 45 Magic of Qz 2 stamp set available in the Flying Unicorn store. You may recognize the Tim Holtz Old Jalopy sizzex die. Kaiser arrow rub-on. Paint is ArtQest--I took a workshop from the owner 1-1/2 years ago in which we painted on cards and ATCs. I bought some paints that day and finally opened the jars! I did some journaling around the tree: It's not the destination, It's the Journey. That's a pic of me in the car (fussy cut of course) and I used acrylic from a package for the car windows.

Here is the RAK you could win!

Enough about me! Let's learn about you! What crafting style are you embracing?

Embracing Their Syle:

1. Leanne (Texas Art Gal): Vintage Shabby Chic

2. DawnS: Whimsical with Touch of Vintage

3. JoannaK: French Country

4. Drama Mama (Tracy): Shabby Vintage with trends of lightness

5. Victoria: Vintage Grungy Hot Mess

6. Heather: Vintage Distressed Romantic Chic with a touch of sparkle aka Heathery

7. Ash (Amy): romantic bohemian

8. CathiO: vintage/shabby chic with a lot of distress and stamping

9. Leila: HAPPY

10. Cherished: Romantic

11. Carol (NMscrapper) Vintage Shabby Chic

12. Katz: In the Moment

13. PrettyInPink: all things pink, girly, glittery, pearly, blingy, pretty, feminine, flowery and lacy, with a shabby chicness

14. Ms. Schwiet (Stacey): elementary experimenter

15. Bitsy: Victorian Lace

16. Lynne: distressing and inking

17. Donna: vintage shabby chic with grunge

Oh Helene, Its so you!!! LOL Love your tag!

Love the inspiration Helene! Such an awesome challenge!

What an intresting challenge Helene! Love that inspiration peice as well! How very cool that you are so in touch with your artistic self.

Great challenge Helene, can't wait to see everyone's thoughts on their style.

Helene I love both projects. I really love the vintage feel of both. Great idea of how to use the rosette!

Great inspiration! Love this challenge!

I cant wait to see everyones thoughts too...this is awesome, love the creations Helene :)

Oh great challenge! fabulous examples too!

Fabulous examples Helene ... and its awesome that yo are exploring new techniques and creativity

Great challenge Helene

I am still developing my style but it definitely involves vintage images stamping and lace and distress! Will work on this one!

Helene, this is such a good challenge. It will be an opportunity to express our style in words. I think I might be surprized at what my paragraph says. Although I think it will be a short paragraph! lol

Love this challenge, really lets you explore deeper into your style!

Oh, I am excited about this one! Helene, you know how much I love your style, and look at you, working out of the box and painting! I absolutely LOVE it!

I can feel all the hugs from your warm responses to my challenge. I can't wait to see what you all post about yourselves.

Terrific challenge thank you for putting us in our comfort zones it will be great fun.

Great challenge, Helene . and good for you to take on something new and show us your first project! Excellent idea for a challenge!

Awesome challenge Helene! I can't wait to see the cool styles we have going on here!

Wow Helene this is a good one. You have it down so concisely and really know yourself. I have to think about this one. I love your your painting!

All of you are so amazing!

Cannot wait to see some inspiration here!

Great challenge Helene! Always love your creations!

Good morning everyone!

Gotta figure out what is unique about my crafting style, hmmmmmmm