I love crisp and clean (I have always loved Cathy Z's style and her books), and I want desperately to do it, but I can't quite pull it off. I just like embellishments a bit too much; and when my layouts are too crisp and clean, they look naked to me. LOL.
However, I do think my layouts are photo and journal focused, in that, for the most part, I hope my embellishments don't take center stage and overwhelm the photos and the journaling.
I looked through my gallery, and here are the simplest layouts I can find in my SSD gallery, which aren't that minimal--
