I began hand-carving stamps in my first surface design classes at the Southwest School of Art & Craft, and have always enjoyed how the act of translating an image from paper to block reveals the unique mark of the carver's hand. Even if the source material is a found image and not an original drawing, the stamp is always one-of-a-kind.

What will you stamp?  A skirt, a card, some soft clay, a wall?  Everyone will make their own patterns.  I hope that these little tools will keep singing with the happy calm I've felt while making them, and be objects that inspire folks to experiment and wander off on their own creative adventures.

I love the idea of all the new things that will be created with my little art pieces:

...an eight-year-old makes a spaceship fly across a paper planet...
...an eighty-year-old decorates a special birthday card for a friend...
...a new mom takes a creative break to stamp a onesie for her babe....

what would you make with these stamps? make your own!