$ Simply Inspired Contest No. 9 - Deadline 6/1/09

[deenaw]

Simply Inspired Contest No. 9
Inspiration : Magazine Ad
Deadline : June 1, 2009

It’s time for another Simply Inspired Contest!!! This week we're turning to magazine ads for our inspiration. Have you ever flipped through a magazine and been suddenly stopped in your tracks at a cool image or layout design? What is it about advertisements that make us stop and want to read more? Design professionals have just a few seconds to grab the readers' attention and spark our interest to promote their product. The result? Some amazing and down-right creative images! What a great concept to bring into the world of scrapbooking!

Your challenge this week is to create a layout based on this magazine advertisement:



It's a clean and simple design with an attention-grabbing clear concept. Try pulling inspiration from the strong vertical columns, the uncluttered design, or the concept of comparing and contrasting. We want to see the creative ways this ad inspires your next layout! Don’t forget to upload it to the Simply Inspired gallery on or before June 1, 2009 to be in the running for a $10 gift certificate to the Designer Digitals store!!! Feel free to leave a comment here as well and link us up to your creations.

I can't wait to see how you are simply inspired!

[iUma]

WHOA! This is a challenge for sure. Love your creative mind. and it is so much fun to play along.

[deanie]

Interesting! The brain is buzzing along trying to come up with a good idea.

[dorah]

Wonderful inspiration. Mind is whirring.

[kikimama]

Great choice, will get thinking.

[Tove]

I was inspired by this ad, and uploaded my layout to the gallery. I have never participated in this challenge before, so I'm not sure if my page qualifies. It doesn't look very much like the original..
As I was looking through my pictures I found two similar photos that was taken six years apart, and so I thought of the two parts in the ad.
Please let me know if it's not qualified, and I will of course remove it frome the Simply Inspired Gallery.

Anyway, thank you for the wonderful inspiration!

[deenaw]

Tove, it ABSOLUTELY qualifies!!! I love that page! Doing a "then and now" or "before and after" theme were some of my first thoughts on seeing this ad!

Remember. There are no rules here! The great thing about this contest is that everyone will pull different inspiration from the same piece. That's what I think is so cool! And if the spark that inspires your contest layout may not be clear to everyone else, feel free to write it in your description. That way we can all go, "Ahhh. I see it now! She's so clever!" lol!

[deenaw]

We have a winner!

You can find the announcement and congratulate the contest winner here...