Keep it Simple!

Christmas Break

2010-12-19T09:08:00.004Z

Happy Sunday once more and thank you to everyone who played along last week.
The team really enjoyed seeing your fabulous Season's Greetings projects.

We are taking an earlier than planned Christmas break as of today
so sincere apologies that there is no challenge today
We are sure you will appreciate that it's so busy this time of the year and precious time just runs out!

Be sure to check back in early January as we will be all refreshed and back to normal!!

We have some super sponsors again for next year, of which we are so grateful

We are announcing the winner and Top 3 for last week

So please feel free to take the relevant banners from our sidebar to display on your blog

TOP3 [in no particular order]

WINNER

Please contact us to claim your prize here

HUGE congratulations to all our winners

and a BIG thank you to everyone who took part, last week and every week!
we love looking at your cards every week

All it leaves now is to wish you a 'Simply' fabulous Christmas and a

Sparkling New Year

Look forward to seeing you all again in 2011

Love from

The Team xxx

Deck the Halls Winner

2010-12-16T22:20:00.002Z

Thank you everyone who took part in our Deck the Halls challenge!! We had some fab entrys this week thats for sure!! But their can be only one winner and that is....

Faye

Congratulations Faye, please get in touch here to claim your prize

Season's Greetings

2010-12-12T09:30:00.003Z

Happy Sunday once more and thank you to everyone who played along last week. The team really enjoyed seeing your fabulous Deck the Halls projects.

This week we have another generous sponsor who is Funky Kits and is offering one of our lucky players the Christmas Dress Up Stamp. We are so grateful and are sure you'll agree it's a wonderful prize. Please pop over to the website to have a look at all the gorgeous goodies they have on offer.

This week the team have been busy making samples for our theme which is Season's Greetings and the last Christmas themed challenge of the year. But before we show them, it's time to announce our Top 3 players from last week. A big round of applause to

Sally H

Manuela

Kate T

Well done ladies. You are invited to display the Top 3 Banner (at the sidebar) on your blog. Don't forget to come back on Tuesday to see who is the winner of last week's fabulous prize.

And now here are our fab creative team's samples for this week:

Sam

Clare

Sorry for the bad picture my camera has gone funny.

Mandi

Over to you now. Don't forget to leave us a direct link to your project, not your entire blog. Email entries are also welcome. Please email them to Anne and we'll make sure they get shown too. Looking forward to seeing your projects this week and announcing the overall prizewinner on Tuesday. Have a great week.

Love from The Team xxx

Joy Winner!

2010-12-10T11:10:00.002Z

And the winner of the fabulous Joy challenge is......

Laurel S

Congratulations Laurel! Please contact us to claim your prize

Deck the Halls

2010-12-05T12:25:00.003Z

Happy Sunday once more and thank you to everyone who played along last week. The team really enjoyed seeing your fabulous JOY projects.

This week we have another generous sponsor who is
Whimsy Stamps
and is offering one of our lucky players 5 digital images of their choice. We are so grateful and are sure you'll agree it's a wonderful prize. Please pop over to the website to have a look at all the gorgeous goodies they have on offer.

This week the team have been busy making samples for our theme which is
Deck the Halls.
But before we show them, it's time to announce our Top 3 players from last week. A big round of applause to

Karen

Laurel

Linby

Well done ladies. You are invited to display the Top 3 Banner (at the sidebar) on your blog. Don't forget to come back on Tuesday to see who is the winner of last week's fabulous prize.

And now here are our fab creative team's samples for this week:

Janet

Pascale

Clare

Mandi

Over to you now. Don't forget to leave us a direct link to your project, not your entire blog. Email entries are also welcome. Please email them to Anne and we'll make sure they get shown too. Looking forward to seeing your projects this week and announcing the overall prizewinner on Tuesday.
Have a great week.

Love from The Team xxx

Evergreen Winner

2010-11-30T10:04:00.004Z

Thank you everyone who took part in our Evergreen challenge!! We had some fab entrys this week thats for sure!! But their can be only one winner and that is....

Dawn

Congratulations Dawn, please get in touch to claim your prize

JOY

2010-11-28T07:00:00.003Z

Happy Sunday once more and thank you to everyone who played along last week. The team really enjoyed seeing your fabulous Evergreen projects.

This week we have another generous sponsor who is Delicious Doodles and is offering one of our lucky players 4 Digital images. We are so grateful and are sure you'll agree it's a wonderful prize. Please pop over to the website to have a look at all the gorgeous goodies they have on offer.

This week the team have been busy making samples for our theme which is JOY. But before we show them, it's time to announce our Top 3 players from last week. A big round of applause to

Sue

Brenda

Mervi

Well done ladies. You are invited to display the Top 3 Banner (at the sidebar) on your blog. Don't forget to come back on Tuesday to see who is the winner of last week's fabulous prize.

And now here are our fab creative team's samples for this week:

Pascale

Janet

Mandi

Clare

Anne

Sam

Wonderland Winner

2010-11-22T09:52:00.004Z

Hi folks, just want announce who won the Wonderland challenge and Funky Kits fabulous prize ...

Chrissie

Huge congratulations!!!!

Please contact us using our contact details in the sidebar to claim your prize!!

Excuse the lase posting of this...my first time 'in charge' on the theme and I erm....forgot!!

sorry xx

Evergreen

2010-11-21T10:42:00.002Z

Happy Sunday once more and thank you to everyone who played along last week. The team really enjoyed seeing your fabulous Wonderland projects.

This week we have another generous sponsor who is Pollycrafts and is offering one of our lucky players 5 digital images. We are so grateful and are sure you'll agree it's a wonderful prize. Please pop over to the website to have a look at all the gorgeous goodies they have on offer.

The team have been busy making samples for our theme which is EVERGREEN. But before we show them, it's time to announce our Top 3 players from last week. A big round of applause to

Dawn
Cazro
Irene

Well done ladies. You are invited to display the Top 3 Banner (at the sidebar) on your blog. Don't forget to come back on Tuesday to see who is the winner of last week's fabulous prize.

And now here are our fab creative team's samples for this week:

Mandi

Janet

Anne

Sam

Pascale

Clare

Shape Up!! Winner

2010-11-16T11:59:00.001Z

Annndddd the winner is.......

12. Elaine

Congratulations Elaine, please e-mail Clare to claim your prize.

Wonderland

2010-11-14T08:50:00.003Z

Happy Sunday once more and thank you to everyone who played along last week. The team really enjoyed seeing your fabulous shaped projects.

This week we have another generous sponsor who is Funky Kits and is offering one of our lucky players this gorgeous stamp.

Mary Hall's Wrapped Up Toddlers

We are so grateful and are sure you'll agree it's a wonderful prize. Please pop over to the website to have a look at all the gorgeous goodies they have on offer.

This week the team have been busy making samples for our theme which is Wonderland. But before we show them, it's time to announce our Top 3 players from last week. A big round of applause to

Lisa
Irene
Pinky

Clare

Sam

Pascale

Anne

Mandi

Love from The Team xxx

Shape Up!!

2010-11-07T08:25:00.001Z

Oops!! Maybe posting a theme on the day of the event is probably not one of our best moves. We expected to be inundated with players for our Halloween theme, but sadly this wasn't to be. But Thank You to Wendy for her contribution, and being the only player this entitles you to the Winner's badge and the prize for last week's theme!

This week we have another generous sponsor who is Clare from our design team and is offering one of our lucky players the fab prize pictured below. We are so grateful and are sure you'll agree it's a wonderful prize.

This week the team have been busy making samples for our theme which is Shape Up!! As usual it's entirely up to you how you interpret this but we hope that it will entice our regulars and new players back.
And now here are our fab creative team's samples for this week:

Sam

Pascale

Clare

Anne

Mandi

Janet

Love from The Team xxx

Take A Bow Winner!

2010-11-02T15:48:00.002Z

Hi folks, just want announce who the random number generator picked to win the Take A Bow challenge and Janet's fabulous prize ...

True Random Number Generator

Min: 1
Max: 22
Result: 4

Maureen W

Huge congratulations!!!! Please contact us using our contact details in the sidebar to claim your prize!!

Oooh Spooky!

2010-10-31T10:22:00.000Z

Happy Sunday once more and thank you to everyone who played along last week. The team really enjoyed seeing your fabulous Take a Bow projects.

We have to begin this week by making a sad announcement :o( Our lovely teamie, Cazro, has decided to step down from the team because she has lots of other stuff happening that she quite rightly wants to dedicate her time to. Carole, we would all like to say a huge THANK YOU to you for all you've done for KIS, we're gonna miss you and wish you well in everything you do!

And now onto this week. We have another generous sponsor who is Funkykits and is offering one of our lucky players a delicious stamp by Mary Hall called Pulling Sledge. It is one of their sugar Nellie stamps. We are so grateful and are sure you'll agree it's a wonderful prize. Please pop over to the website to have a look at all the gorgeous goodies they have on offer.

This week the team have been busy making samples for our theme which is " Oooh Spooky". But before we show them, it's time to announce our Top 3 players from last week. A big round of applause to

Kate (nosey critters)

Anne (wicked witch)

Raindropecho

Sam

Janet

Clare

Pascale

Mandi

Anne

So now it's your turn. Don't forget to leave us your link! We can't wait to see your spooky projects!

Love from the team xxx

Charming Winner

2010-10-26T09:00:00.002+01:00

Hi there just popping in to announce who the random number generator picked to win the Charming challenge.
And the Winner with her stunning card is:
True Random Number Generator

Min: 1
Max: 15
Result: 5

SUE
Huge congratulations!!!! Please contact us using our contact details in the sidebar to claim your gorgeous Digital stamps from Delicious Doodles
Don't forget we have a great challenge this week " Take a Bow" we are looking forward to seeing all your lovely projects x
Hugs The Creative Team xxx

Take a Bow

2010-10-24T09:09:00.005+01:00

Happy Sunday once more and thank you to everyone who played along last week. The team really enjoyed seeing your fabulous Charming projects.

This week we have one of the team as a sponsor Janet is offering one of our lucky players the goodies below. Please pop over to her Christmas blog to have a look at all the creations she has been making all year round.

This week the team have been busy making samples for our theme which is Take a Bow!. But before we show them, it's time to announce our Top 3 players from last week. A big round of applause to

FAYE
JACKY
CAROLINE
Well done ladies. You are invited to display the Top 3 Banner (at the sidebar) on your blog. Don't forget to come back on Tuesday to see who is the winner of last week's fabulous prize.

And now here are our fab creative team's samples for this week:

Sam

Anne

Janet

Mandi

Seeing Stars Winner!!

2010-10-19T17:18:00.000+01:00

This weeks winner for the Seeing Stars challenge is...............

Number 9 Chrissie. Congratulations Chrissie, please contact us for details on how to claim your prize. This weeks challenge is Charming, so what you waiting for!!

Charming!

2010-10-17T08:58:00.004+01:00

Happy Sunday once more and thank you to everyone who played along last week. The team really enjoyed seeing your fabulous "Seeing Stars" projects.

And we are really excited this week to welcome on board a new teamie. Please say a big "HIYA" to Mandi who's agreed to join us on a permanent basis! Mandi not only creates the most gorgeous projects, but she's also a Stampin' Up demonstrator too! Welcome to the Keep It Simple team from all of us Mandi!

This week we have another generous sponsor who is Delicious Doodles and is offering one of our lucky players 4 Digital stamps of their choice.

We are so grateful and are sure you'll agree it's a wonderful prize. Please pop over to the shop to have a look at all the gorgeous goodies they have on offer.

This week the team have been busy making samples for our theme which is "Charming". We want to see charms somewhere on your projects. But before we show them, it's time to announce our Top 3 players from last week. A big round of applause to

Allison
Lisa (Wishcraft)
Amy

Well done ladies. You are invited to display the Top 3 Banner (at the sidebar) on your blog. Don't forget to come back on Tuesday to see who is the winner of last week's fabulous prize.

The owner of our sponser Delicious Doodles is the wonderful Teri and she has made this amazing and elegant card for our "Charming" theme.

And now here are our fab creative team's samples for this week:

Pascale

Sam

Anne

Mandi

Love from The Team xxx

emailed pic from Peggy

Thank you - Winner

2010-10-12T11:29:00.000+01:00

What a wonderful selection of cards that were entered into the Thank You Challenge. Thank you all for your wonderful creations!!

This weeks winner is...........

Number 5 Lyndi!!! Please contact us to claim your fab prize from Whimsy stamps.

our next challenge Seeing Stars is well under way, we cant wait to see all your creations.

The Keep it Simple Team

XXX

Seeing Stars!

2010-10-10T09:00:00.005+01:00

Good morning everyone and welcome to challenge 7 at Keep it Simple!! Can you believe we are on challenge 7 already, we sure cant! The team would like to thank everyone for their continued support and hope to see you all back for this weeks challenge Seeing Stars!

This weeks Top 3 from our Thank You challenge are:

Dawn

Sharon

Mandi

Congratulations ladies!! Please help yourselves to our Top 3 badge from the sidebar. Don't forget to check back on Tuesday to find out who is the lucky winner of those Whimsy Stamps.

On to this weeks challenge, we are sponsored by the lovely Jane of Jane's Doodles who is offering a fab prize of 4 of her wonderful digi stamps. Thanks Jane!! Please go check out Jane's site and see these gorgeous images!

And now here are our fab creative team's wonderful samples for this week:

Cazro

Sam

Clare

Pascale

Anne

Janet

Mandi

Now it's your turn. Don't forget to leave us a link to your project (not the whole blog please) so that we can come and visit you too. And don't forget to pop back on Tuesday to see who is the winner of those fab Whimsey images.

Have a great week,

Love from The Team xxx

The winner of the Gold Dust challenge

2010-10-05T00:36:00.002+01:00

Is No.5 Chrissie!

Well done Chrissie

please email Janet here to arrange receiving your prize x

Thank You!

2010-10-03T09:00:00.079+01:00

Hi and welcome to another new theme from Keep it Simple! Thank You to the many wonderful players who took part in our theme last week, there were just so many gorgeous 'Gold Dust' projects and it was so hard to pick just 3 for our Top 3 spot, but we decided upon

2. Wishcraft

9. Meggymay

4. Meera

So well done ladies, you may snag yourselves the Top 3 badge to display on your blog if you wish! ;o) And don't forget to check back on Tuesday to see who the winner of last week's prize is!

This week we have another fab sponsor in the form of Whimsy Stamps who have very generously offered 5 stamps to the winner of this week's theme, which is Thank You. What could be more simple?

And as usual our wonderful creative team have been making samples which we hope will inspire you - you may guess from most of them that we were very lucky to have been given images to use for ourselves - and very gorgeous they are too!! So here we go:

Cazro

Pascale

Sam

Anne

Janet

Clare

And now it's your turn. Please don't forget to leave us your link so that we can come and visit you too!

Love from The Team xxx

Bling It Winner!!

2010-09-28T09:02:00.002+01:00

And the winner of Bling It and the £10 voucher from Crafty Devils Papercraft Ltd is ...

No. 11 TAMS (Droplets in a Rusty Bucket)!!

Congratulations Tams!! Please contact the team (email address on the side bar) to receive your fab prize!

For everyone else there's still time to join in with our current challenge Gold Dust where we have another great sponsor and prize ... see you there! ;)

Gold Dust

2010-09-26T10:13:00.002+01:00

Hi all, and welcome to another new theme here at Keep it Simple!! Wow!!! We were overwhelmed with the fantastic cards and projects that you submitted for our theme last week. Everyone loves a bit of bling and so we're (kind of!) extending it this week with our new theme Gold Dust. And this week we are extremely fortunate to be sponsored by a lovely Stampin' Up demonstrator called Emma, who I'm sure most of you have met in blogland. Emma has very generously donated this fab giveaway, and the team would like to say a huge Thank You to her for this wonderful gesture. Please pop over to Emma's blog and see the magnificent projects she creates herself.

Our team have worked hard to come up with some gorgeous samples to inspire you once more, but first we want to announce the Top 3 from last week's players. They are:

Diane (Diane's Rambles)

Sharon

Joanne (Made by Joanne)

Well done ladies - please feel free to snag yourself our banner from the sidebar. And don't forget to check back on Tuesday to see who was the overall winner of last week's fab giveaway!

And now to our team's Gold Dust samples:

Janet

Cazro

Pascale

Clare

Anne

Sam:

So now it's your turn. Don't forget to link us to your project so that we can come over and visit you too. Please link directly to your project and not to your blog.

Love from The Team xxx

Give us a Swirl Winner!!!

2010-09-22T17:29:00.001+01:00

And the winner of the fab Sassy Studio Designs is........

Number7 Georgina!!!!!

Please get in contact with us ASAP so we can sort out your prize

You still have a few days to join in with our Bling It!! challenge and we have a great sponsor, so what you waiting for.....

Bling It!

2010-09-19T08:00:00.004+01:00

Hi bloggers and welcome to a new week at Keep it Simple! Thank you SO much to everyone who played along with us last week - we saw some amazing projects and are so inspired by your creativity! The team have pondered long and hard over this and have decided to give our top 3 badges to:

Tenia
Kathleen
Kate T

Don't forget to pop back later in the week to find out who the winner of our fab giveaway is.

Onto this week's theme which is Bling It! and we are very lucky to be able to offer a £10.00 gift voucher from our fab sponsor this week who is Crafty Devils Papercraft Ltd. Please pop over to visit our sponsor to see what other goodies they have to offer.

In the meantime, our wonderful creative team have put together a few simple samples to inspire you and we hope to see lots of you playing along once more!

Cazro

Pascale

Clare

Sam

Anne

Janet

Now it's your turn. Just leave us your link so that we can come over and visit you at your blog.

Have a great week and don't forget to check back to see who the winner of those fab Sassy Images is.

Love from the team xxx

And the winner is........

2010-09-14T10:00:00.002+01:00

It was really a hard job choosing a winner this week as we had so many fabulous entries, but eventually we had to make a decision and we are really pleased to announce that the winner of the 4 great digi images by Delicious Doodles is:

Congratulations Diane Please contact us for details of how to claim your prize. You are also welcome to display our winners badge on your blog.

And in addition to our winner we are also pleased to offer our "Top 3" badge to

Kate T

Mandi
Tenia Nelson

Many thanks to everyone who played along last week, don't forget to join in this week and ''Give us a swirl''.

Give us a Swirl

2010-09-12T09:00:00.021+01:00

Happy Sunday once more, and a huge Thank You to all who played along with our autumnal theme last week, your cards were all amazing!!

This week's theme is Give us a Swirl and we are very lucky to be sponsored by

Sassy Studio Designs

One lucky player will be entitled to claim 4 of these fabulous images for their prize - please pop over there to see for yourselves these very popular Sassy Miss's.

So, without further ado, let's show you what our fab creative team have produced with swirls on their KIS cards this week:

Cazro

Janet

Pascale

Clare

Sam

Anne

So now it's your turn. Please don't forget to leave a link direct to your card (not your whole blog please!) so that we can come over and have a sigh over your designs.

Love from the team xxx

Take a Leaf!

2010-09-05T07:00:00.001+01:00

Good Morning welcome to Challenge #2 here at Keep It Simple Challenge Blog. We loved your Traditional Christmas creations in the clean and simple style and want to thank you all for joining in with us. We would also like to thank everyone who has expressed a wish to join our team as it was so difficult to choose from so many wonderful crafters out there. However, we are delighted to announce that our first challenge winner, Carole (Cazro) has agreed to join us in creating inspiring samples and keeping our blog running smoothly, I and hope you will join us in welcoming her aboard.

This week we are feeling very seasonal and as autumn has now with us we have chosen for our theme Take a Leaf.

Our Sponsor this week is the lovely Teri owner of Delicious Doodles. She is offering a great prize of 4 Digital stamp images of your choice from her wonderful shop!

All of Teri's images are hand-drawn, extremely inexpensive to buy and absolutely stunning. If you haven't already seen them, please pop over to take a look.

Here is a sample of Teri's gorgeous work with her own image, and some wonderful samples from our Creative Team:

Teri (GDT and owner of Delicious Doodles)

Janet

Pascale

Clare

Anne

Sam

Now before we go on, one thing has caught our eye while visiting your blogs last week. Many of you have picked up on the "30 minute" rule and commented on how challenging that was. Whilst we all do love a challenge, we would hate it if the "30 minute" rule put some people off, and we would say that it really isn't that important. The empahsis is meant to be on the 'Simple' - that in itself can be a huge challenge!! So please don't feel you have to rush to make your cards, take as long as you like as long as you Keep It Simple! ;o)

Have a great week, don't forget to link back to your project and we can't wait to see your leafy cards! Check back next Saturday too to see if you are the lucky winner of Teri's Delicious Doodles!

Love from the team xxx

And the winner is....

2010-09-04T09:10:00.000+01:00

It was really tough choosing a winner as we had so many fabulous entries in our first challenge, but eventually we had to made a decision and we are really pleased to announce that the winner of those fab digi images by Jane's Doodles is:

Cazro

Congratulations Carol - please contact Anne for details of how to claim your prize! You are also welcome to display our Winner's Badge on your blog too!

And in addition to our winner we are also pleased to offer our "Top 3" badge to

Diane
Zoechaos
Brenda

Well done to all you ladies, and to all those who played along with us - it was so lovely to see everybody's cards and we can't wait to show you what's in store in our next challenge, so please come back on Sunday 5th for a brand new theme and some more fabulous giveaways! :o)

Love from the team xxx

Challenge# 1 - Christmas Card with Traditional Colours.

2010-08-29T09:26:00.000+01:00

Good Morning and Welcome. If you're reading this on (or around) Sunday 29th August then you've joined us at the very start of our brand new challenge blog which is designed to Keep it Simple!! The basic idea is to make a clean, stylish and simple card using our theme to inspire you in 30 minutes or less! For some people this is no challenge at all, and we envy you that, but for many the 'less is more' idea can be quite tough. Over the next few weeks our fabulous creative team have some wonderful themes and gorgeous samples to help you on your way and we hope that you will be able to join us on our journey!

To kick us off we're going to start with a lovely simple theme. We want you to make a Christmas card using traditional colours in 30 minutes or under. There are no other instructions (except to enjoy making it!) so you can use whatever medium you prefer. Once you've made your card, don't forget to link it back to us so that we can come and visit you too!

And as an added bonus we have been really lucky to be sponsored by a wonderful artist called Jane Beljo who is offering the winner of our first challenge 4 of her fabulous digi images of your choice. Check them out here

Our fab team have put together some samples to inspire you. We would like to thank everyone who has shown an interest in joining our team and we will announce who will be creating alongside us next week so it's still not too late to contact us if you're interested!

Janet

Sam:

Pascale

Anne

Clare

And so now it's your turn! We can't wait to come and see what you've done! Don't forget to click on the "Follow" button on the top line so that you don't forget where we are!! See you next week - have fun!

Love from The Team xxx

Blip with 'Followers'

2010-08-28T08:07:00.000+01:00

A number of people have left us messages saying that they are unable to follow our blog. At the moment it is not possible to click on the sidebar and follow - we don't yet know why this is happening, but if you click on the "Follow" link on the top line you shouldn't have any problems! Sorry for the inconvenience, but Thank You for letting us know! Hope to have it resolved soon! :o) See you tomorrow!
xxx

WELCOME!

2010-08-27T07:44:00.000+01:00

Hello bloggers and welcome to a brand new weekly blog challenge where we like to Keep it Simple! Each Sunday our Creative Team will post a brand new theme to challenge you to create a quick, clean and simple card in under 30 minutes!

Our challenges will begin on Sunday 29th August and we are looking to expand our team with a few more players.

We are looking for cardmakers who can make clean and simple stylish cards in 30 minutes or less who will be willing to commit to contributing to the running of this challenge blog, post weekly samples and visit player's blogs to leave feedback. We are a really friendly and easy-going team who have worked together on many projects and we are looking for members who are very easy-going and friendly too!

If you think you would be interested and can offer your commitment to our challenges, we would love to hear from you. Please email Anne and attach a link to your blog and the team will follow it up.

If however you don't want to commit to being part of our team but you love to make quick, clean and simple cards, then please make yourself a follower and come back on Sunday 29th August for our first challenge! See you then! :o)