13 Santas of Iceland + the yule cat = 14 Swap 2023 - FULL!

Mine came yesterday!!! Once again blown away!!!!!!!! Amazing pieces-all of them! And gramma thanks for all those beautiful cards!


blemon This is it what its is all about! Getting crafty, creating, making. Swapping and sharing. LOVE IT!! Love hearing the story behind the creating. And the ticket was well worth the time! It is fabulous!

Gonna get sappy for a minute, and share, which is hard for this introvert. I don't do oct or dec daily. My kids are grown and I have not scrapbooked at all in forever. I make a few cards, mostly for immediate family. Most of the stuff I dabble around with stays in my craft room. So why do I swap? I shared last year that signing up gave me a reason to make something. I had had a rough couple of years (honestly everyone here had!!) and having a deadline gave me a reason to get back to making. Well, this year has proved to be like some of the past ones, so the swap has been good for me this time around as well. But doing it again this year was more than that for me.

I got so much inspiration from last year's swap pieces. I made tags for a church group where I sewed hearts together liked the stacked stitched star. The stitched initial sweater and gingerbread man intrigued me, and when some Spellbinders stitching dies came up in the clearance section at HL this summer, I grabbed them, and I am HOOKED. I have found dies and companies that I didn't know of after googling some of the die cuts and shaker pieces, and tried new-to-me techniques. The glittery pink car Christmas card was beautiful, but never colors I would attempt to use because I am so-not-pink. I used it for my son's girlfriend's Christmas card, because she is a glittery pink girl. I immediately thought of her when I opened it in the swap. I wish you guys could've seen her reaction to it! I got to tell her all about our swap, LOL. And now, I have tried to use more colors that are a little out of my comfort zone. And hearing the stories behind things....like blemon 's tickets or pantsonfire 's coloring. I have seen questions she posts here about developing her coloring skills, and then to receive pieces she colored is kinda cool (that polar bear!). I grin every time I see Mr. Sugar Skull, as I am obsessed with sugar skulls. And there are so many more examples......I take out the "swap box" and go through piece by piece from time to time, and hang stuff up periodically, just in awe still.....

THANKS to each one of you!! And thanks especially to blemon for being willing to host each time! Hope everyone has a restful and peaceful Thanksgiving day!

azcrafty
sarahsprettypapers
Ryann
mcjunkin
gramma
pantsonfire
craftmepink
@northrigg
jensen84
susan0911
requiem
snow4197
jenna

Hi all!

If you're still on 2peas, please help mom out.
One of you make the cool little gingerbread man from a die (I think) and stitched around the edges. I used it in a layout but I can't find a photo of it.

If it was you, can you please share who made the die? Thanks!

I think you may be talking about me.

mom There are few options for stitching gingerbread dies. The one I have is retired; it was from PTI. They have a new version that includes accessories, but I'm unsure if the gingerbread die is exactly the same.

Papertrey Ink - they just released this, it's sold out on their website, but in the "coming soon" section to SB.com (link)


Some other options

Poshta
Ellen Hutson - I have the Ellen Hutson ones, too, in addition to the skeleton add-on.


I hope this helps.  

Thank you so much! It's perfect for this year!