September Monthly Swaps

New month, new swaps, new theme! For September the theme was fall/Halloween. Almost half were Halloween, but could easily be changed to fall, a birthday, or something else. If this is your first time visiting my blog, I'm part of a group of about 10 Stampin' Up! Demonstrators and we take turns being the host of our monthly swap. When it's your month, you get to choose the theme of the swap.

This first card was done by Jen. She used Merry Cafe in the Holiday Mini and coordinates with Coffee Cup Framelits in the annual catalog. This stamp set several sentiments for fall, Christmas, the New Year, & more. I think you could use this year round and would be great for those who love coffee or tea. Jen also stamped the first layer of Fresh Fig with the Burlap background stamp in Archival Black, then layered the Merry Little Christmas Designer Series Paper. I love the use of the Black Vintage Crochet Trim just under the cup cap. She also used a few of the Black Rhinestones from the Holiday Mini as well.

This next card uses the Spooky Cat Bundle which I featured last month as my Product of the Month. The cat image is from the Spooky Night Designer Series Paper as is the striped background. I don't know why but I really like those chemistry beakers. The beakers themselves is one stamp and then there are 3 separate stamps to fill in the beakers. Pat also used the Stitched Shapes and Layering Circles Framelits and added a bit of Clear Wink of Stella to the beakers. This is a great card sketch. You can easily change out the elements for any theme!

This next card was done by Gayle. She shows the same cat as in the previous card as well as the orange cat. Both of these were punched with the Cat Punch out of the Spooky Night Designer Series Paper. The hat on the one cat is from another sheet of the paper as well as the background. Gayle also used a tiny bit of the Black Vintage Crochet Trim by the sentiment and tied a Black Baker's Twine around the one cat.

I hope you enjoyed this first group of swaps. I'll have have a few each Wednesday in October. If you don't have a demonstrator and would like to purchase any of these products, you can find them all in my STORE. Don't forget to use my VIP Host Code.

Thanks for stopping by and look forward to hearing from you.