I'm glad this topic got started. More and more I'm looking at ways to work the low growing sedums into my gardens. Both of your photos show nice combinations.
Here is a photo I took the other day of a Japanese iris seedling with a daylily in the background to the right and behind that Autumn Joy which won't bloom for quite a while yet. The daylily (Afternoon Delight) has started blooming but not in the photo.
S. makinoi Ogon seeded itself there and is now actually starting to grow over the S. hispanica. I don't plan these things at all; when I get a plant I hope to find space for it then it gets shoved in. Now I want to try working sedums into other areas.