How excited am I

Wow I'm so excited! I still can't believe it!!

The lovely Bron wrote to me recently and asked if I would like to make a card for her Christmas Advent Calendar

From the worlds Best

Koala hugs Tilda,

on her challenge blog Maggie lovers

Each day she is showcasing cards made from around the world with the theme

 an Aussie Xmas card
 using of course her exclusive Koala Tilda,

check it out here

Believe me there is some awesome cards on display, every day and is well worth looking,

I still can't believe she asked me! 

Now as you know I love this Koala  stamp,

Tilda with Koala is masked with the Magnolia fir trees stamp,  and being as our Christmas is a bit different from in Australia I have left off the snow and snow flakes lol, then I have cut out her foot and bottom tree branch so that they weren't cut off when I used the Nestie, as you can see these both sit outside the oval,

I've coloured my images with copics, my main card stock is distressed and grunged with white acylic paint, the outer paper is machine sewn as is the the main oval shape,

my inner paper is torn and distressed with vintage photo distress ink,

Close up of  my masked images,  I have a masking tutorial on my sidebar if your interested,

to keep in with the Australian theme I got some postage stamps off the net, printed them out and added them to the card,

Koala Tilda is available exclusively  from Brons shop

ShopBron 

Bron is also doing a challenge #3 here
 Make An Aussie Xmas Card
where you can win the exclusive ShopBron
Koala stamp
entries to be in by the 10th of December
and you must use at least one Magnolia stamp

Thanks so much  Bron  for asking me to be part of the Christmas Advent Calendar,
I've loved being part of it,

Bron also sent me a Koala stamp to give away as candy, link on my sidebar, it's open till the 7th of January,
good luck everyone who enters!

will check back later for any challenges,
catch you soon,

challenges
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