Your Top 3 Winners AND Winner Of Nancy's Candy!

Good morning! We had a few more entries last week, thanks so much for coming out and playing along! We look forward to seeing more of your layouts!! Our Top 3 winners for last week's "Simplicity" challenge (in no particular order) is:

 LAUREN

TINA

JEANETTE

Don't forget to grab your TOP 3 badge!

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And the winner of Nancy's candy is...SARAH!! Please email Nancy with your mailing address and congratulations!!

Creative Thinking With Melly - Creating a Layout With Simplicity

Welcome again to our second week of "Creative Thinking"!! This weeks host is Melly and shes going show you how to achieve "Simplicity" on to your layouts!

When Karen asked me to do this I was totally honored but a bit freaked out at explaining to you all how i make my layouts! But once i set my mind to it, I got there in the end!

When I start I always start with the pic or pics I'm going use and then pick my colours round about it! For simple layouts I (not everyone) think that it means solid colours or mostly white/colour background. So I chose a picture from my Wedding and matched the colours red, green and ivory.

I wanted to add a touch of something to the red background without making it fussy. So I stamped the background using my thistle stamp I used for my Wedding.

When I begin my layouts I always start by scribbling a few ideas down until i find the perfect layout for me! If you struggle with your layouts you can use some of our Sketches or even try a card layout sketch to get you started.

When I'm happy with my sketch, I lay all my pieces down before sticking just to make sure I'm happy. Once satisfied I stick it all together!

And here is the finished layout. I changed it slightly, adding extra ribbon and adding a butterfly as it was part of our Wedding theme!

I hope this wee post can help you all bring "Simplicity" into your layouts!

We can't wait to see what you all come up with and hopefully join in our Challenge! Remember this week for every friend you bring along that enters in our challenge, your name will go into a draw for some surprise candy from Nancy! So all you have to do is leave us a comment and let us know who your friend is.

Hugs Melly xxx

Challenge #4- Simplicity In A Layout

This week's layout challenge is "Simplicity". What does simplicity mean to you? Is it one photo and lots of embellishments, maybe a couple of photo's and minimal embellishments? We'd love to see what your thoughts of simplicity are. Be sure to enter your layout below in order to be considered for Top 3. Contest closes on Friday, August 27th at 9pm EST. We can't wait to see what you create!

We're also offering up a Surprise! With being a new challenge blog, we were thinking of fun ways to get more people to come out and play and one of my DT members came up with a really fun idea! So, this week, we have TWO ways for you to win a surprise goodie bag!

1. For every friend you bring along that enters in our challenge, your name will go into a draw for some surprise candy from Nancy! So all you have to do is leave us a comment and let us know who your friend is. Have lots of friends who want to come and play? Enter away for even MORE chances to win!! They can bring a friend too and have a chance to win! 
2. Never played with us before?? For all FIRST time entries, you'll be entered in the draw as well!!

Winner will be announced at the end of this challenge along with our Top 3. Now, here's some inspiration from the Design Team...be sure to click our names to visit our blogs to see what simplicity means to us.

Karen

Melly

Designed By: Suezie

Priscilla - Check out the details of this layout at ScrapArt by Pris!

Kelli - Drop by my blog to see how I completed this layout!

Nancy