Hello craft friends. I’ve got another look at the SHAC Dancing Girls stamps for you today, with my happy dancer pirouetting on one of the Statement Sentiments.

My starting point, however, was with the background – I trimmed one of the Painterly Soft Panoramic Landscape cards to a square and then cut a frame into it using one of the Nested Square Doodle Aperture Frame-It dies (these are sadly out of stock, but you could use one of the other shapes that are still available).

I stamped the Statement Sentiment into place using ‘watering can’ Archival ink, then perched my dancer on top (lining her toe up with the T), which left me room to add ‘happy birthday’ from the Dancing Girls set. I backed the topper with a mount of Amazonia companion paper, which also showed through the die cut frame, then shaded the dancer with ‘pink madder lake’ and ‘violet’ Polychromo pencils.

Taking a 6×6 card blank, I embossed a frame onto it with a square embedder and a ball tool and attached the topper inside it.

Don’t you think these little dancers are just delightful? You can really get a sense of movement from them, can’t you? And there’s another opportunity to see them in action today, as Barbara is on HobbyMaker TV with them from 2-4pm this afternoon.

Before then I’m heading off to share this with the challenges at Just Add Ink for their die cuts option, and with Word Power thanks to those fab sentiments.