Birds and Bees for Allsorts

 The theme for  Allsorts challenge #830, chosen by Ellie, is ** I spy with my little eye, something beginning with B** or, as usual, there is the *anything goes option*.  There are two prizes of coordinating stamps and dies - more details can be found on the Allsorts Blog.  Time to get thinking of what you can make to be in with a chance.

For my DT card this time I actually ended up with two , both of which match  the theme - one with Birds and another with bees.  For the bird card I made my version of a tutorial from Sharon Goold which took my fancy and I was quite pleased with the result. although I can't claim credit for the design. It is more or less self explanatory but I added some detail within the moon using part of an ink blot stencil

Stamps - all  Lavinia
Stencil - ink blots by Marianne Designs
Sentiment - produced using MS Word
Background - Distress and Elements ink pads
Wire - hand drawn using black fine liner pen

For my second card I turned to die cutting and made this 'Bee Happy' card using some slatted hexagon dies and some of the dies from a honey bee set.  The background paper was from my stash and the sentiment was a stamp which was part of a magazine give-away from several years ago.

Background - printed from a Buddly Crafts download
Sentiment - stamp, part of a magazine gift from several years back
Dies - Slatted Hexagons from Craft Addiction UK
Bee Dies - Honey Bee die set also from Craft Addiction UK