January 19: Clean & Simple (Style Challenge)

January 19: Clean & Simple (Style Challenge)

Welcome to Day 19 of MOC 2016!!!
The challenge for today is a style challenge: Create a Clean & Simple Layout

Sometimes less is more and today it's your turn to show this.

Clean and simple pages are also called minimalistic - a minimal amount of elements that complement your photo and force you to focus your eye on a small part of the page.
In your clean & simple layout every element "counts", so take your time to find what works best.

You can work with a simple frame around your picture, some paint or splatter and a few additional elements - usually no more than about 6 elements are needed to create a wonderful looking clean page. Additional elements can be a flower, a button, a tag, a doily ... think small!
Concentrate on one small area of your page - remember that you only need a small part "decorated" to create the clean & simple look!
To finish off your page, it always looks beautiful if you add a simple piece of Word Art or a few sentences of journaling.

Please only use a neutral/solid (only one color-"family", if with pattern than a very small pattern...) background paper and no additional paper (also not used as stripes, or for filling shapes,...). The additional elements should be elements provided in the kit you use.


Here is a page I created to show you how wonderful clean & simple layouts can look, I prefer the upper right corner for my elements, but every position is possible.



It's a very clean layout and I only used a few elements, but I picked everything from different kits, so my list of supplies is impressive...
I used eternal sunshine - in progress - brightside - diptych - Mantras ~all by Paislee Press~
and Sprinkles V36 by Valorie Wibbens.
The font I used is The Heavy Hitter by Heather Joyce.


I went through my gallery to show you some more examples (images are linked for credits):







I hope that you have enough inspiration now and I wish you fun creating your own clean & simple layout!


I can't wait to see your pages!!!


Requirements:
- Please create a really "clean" page. Don't forget: try to use only a few elements!
- Use a neutral/solid (only one color-"family", if with pattern than a very small pattern...) background paper and no additional paper (also not used as stripes, or for filling shapes,...). The additional elements should be elements provided in the kit you use.
- Some journaling and a word art are allowed (not required), but remember to keep it simple.
- Your photo and elements can take up only 1/4 of your page - the rest of your page must not have any elements, paint or photos.

Your page must be a new page in order to count for the Month of Challenges. Please post your page in your page thread you created in this forum. You should have one post per completed challenge page. If you complete all 31 challenges, your thread should contain 31 posts. Please do not comment in the participants’ page threads so we can keep them clean. You should also post your page here in this thread, and people can comment here if they wish. Pages should contain at least 75% current Lilypad product (currently for sale in the store from either permanent designers or guest designers).

 

Carilyne, the last example has paint and a flag/banner which was included in the kit. So NO extra paper...

The banner looks like this and is one of the kit's elements:

 

I already saw it in the gallery Shari.
FAST and beautiful!