March/April Graphic Design Challenge *WINNERS*

[pawprints]

I just love seeing the different ways everyone gets inspiration from the same ad! Such great creative work by everyone! Since I had over 20 entries I am picking two winners!

The winners, chosen using RandomNum iPhone app, are:

Winner #1
#27 Amy Jo

Winner #2
#28 blfonty

Congratulations to Amy Jo and Bonnie! I have sent out your gift cards!

Thank you to everyone that participated!
 

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It was so great seeing how everyone got so much inspiration from the ads last month that this month I picked another 8 ads to use as inspiration. But this time the ads are very minimalist, and so my challenge is to pick one of them to use as inspiration to do a MINIMALIST project. Keep it as simple as you can. Sometimes that is harder than you may think because it is hard to not keep adding. So try to stay simplistic this time. You may use the colors of these ads for inspiration or any other element in the ad that may inspire you. But you don't have to use the colors. Here are the ads to choose from:

       

Open to paper, digi, hybrid, cards, crafts, planners, or anything else you are inspired to create.

Multiple submissions are allowed up to a limit of 5.

You may combine with one other challenge that allows combining and you may also add to the Prompts Challenge.

Post your submissions to this thread by April 30th and a random winner of all participants will receive a $5 ACOT GC from me!

Most of all have fun. I hope you find these ads to be inspiring.

Here is my layout. I was inspired by the Benjamin Moore paint can ad. The red and black circle against the white background really did it for me. And a fun fact is that I did not take the title from the Lays ad that was pure coincidence! I just noticed it had the same title when I posted it here! Lol.






Participants:
1. Trek
2. stinkerbelle
3. JA_Mehess
4. Donna_Coughlin
5. beachlover
6. stinkerbelle
7. stinkerbelle
8. aheatfan
9. JA_Mehess
10. Cynthia Corbett
11. Art_Teacher
12. lilkoala3
13. lilkoala3
14. lilkoala3
15. SandyK1967
16. SandyK1967
17. jcsmaestra
18. jcsmaestra
19. stinkerbelle
20. stinkerbelle
21. blfonty
22. Tammey
23. Tammey
24. shoorn
25. MTCanuk
26. SandyK1967
27. Amy Jo
28. blfonty
29. wazzu94
30. Aztam
31. SandyK1967
32. VickiR
33. blbabe1234
34. Aztam
35. SandyK1967
36. lilkoala3
37. Retiree3
38. Trek
39. blfonty
40. joannie
41. Nana01
42. Donna_Coughlin
43. CathyG89

[VickiR]

What a great challenge!  I LOVE your LO!!

[joannie]

Amazing layout!!! This is going to be fun!!

[SandyK1967]

Keeping it simple will be hard but the challenge is on!

[SandyJay]

LOVE this challenge!  And Barb, *gasp*, your layout is amazing!  

[lilkoala3]

Oy vey, this is gonna be a tough one! 

[Trek]

My LO

[blbabe1234]

Wow! Amazing challenge! Love your example

[stinkerbelle]

inspired by the colors

  

[JA_Mehess]

I took inspiration from the monochromatic nature of the ad, but changed to green instead of red. I just used green with black accents. I also added a circular element.

 

[Donna_Coughlin]

I used this one,

I used the colors and I made a yellow circle to represent the paint can

[beachlover]

Chose the Lays LO of Jenna burying her brother in the sand at Cape May

[stinkerbelle]

inspired by the butterfly

  

[stinkerbelle]

another from me.  inspired by the colors and the splashing.  combined with alphabet movie

[aheatfan]

I used the cut carrot image as inspiration by cutting my photo into strips.  Combined with Book Lover's Challenge. 

[JA_Mehess]

I was inspired by the feeling of the night sky and used a background paper of a starry sky, my photos are outside at night, curved my title, and I only used blues and white on the layout.

[Cynthia Corbett]

Interesting challenge. I was inspired by the yellow spilled paint on the purple surface.

[Art_Teacher]

Here is mine inspired by the Benjamin Moore ad.  I was inspired by the colors, the circle, the silver metallic, and I used part of the tag line as my title. Minimalism is so hard for me! lol

[lilkoala3]

 

[lilkoala3]

I didn't get too creative with this one. I just used the color palette and kept my layout super simple. The "plaid" stickers are white and a similar font to that in the ad, too.