Sunset Layout & Digital Stamps

What is better than watching a sunset?  How about watching a sunset in the Caribbean while there are dolphins jumping along your cruise ship.  It was such a terrific experience - I had to scrapbook it!

I used lots of different elements and techniques to make this layout.  I added color to the ivory cardstock using a sponge and glimmer mists.  The sun is a modified digital stamp by Tiffany Doodles.  If you are not familiar with digital stamps, they are digital images made to look like stamps, which you print out versus using a stamp and ink.  Did you know you can cut clean-lined digital stamps in Sure Cuts A Lot using the Trace function?  I will show you how to do this in a future post.  There are many free digital stamps available online.  In fact, there is a blog that provides links to these stamps.  Check out the Free Digital Stamps blog here.

I created the journaling in Microsoft Word and enlarged and colored the key descriptive words used (perfect, serene, sunset, and dream). 

To enhance the way we felt watching the dolphins jumping, I added a quote by Elegant Wordart by Bethany.  I printed the quote on transparency paper to make it easier to center and place on my layout.

Other materials used:

• Glimmers Mists in Tuscan Sun and Lemon Meringue
• Sunset title cut using Sure Cuts a Lot and my Cricut.  The font used is "akaDora" by The Scrapping Table.  I used the shadow feature to create all 3 layers of the title.
• Rhinestones, brad, and bunched/stapled ribbon to embellish.

I am entering this layout into the following challenges:

• Simply Sunday Challenge at Getting Cricky - must relate to pack your bags/travel
• Shine On Challenge at Do You Stack Up - must include some bling - I used lots of rhinestones and glimmer mist to color the background.  Also, I used a digi stamp from Tiffany Doodles which I found on the Free Digital Stamps Blog.

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy Friday!