Make it for Monday: Hand Carved Stamps!

It was terrible, awful outside today. Just miserably misty and rainy and glum...

Bender Oak and I decided to stay inside and craft.

Well, Bender decided to take a nap:

That left me to sit at my craft table and stare at all my supplies.  What would I do?  Would I carve a stamp? Would I crochet something?  Play with my Zutter machine?

Well, I ended up making a couple of stamps, and then getting bored.  

So, I threw some of my extra stamps I made on Etsy, and then I made something with one of my stamps!

I carved a really awesome stamp.  I took a vintage illustration I found from an old book... It's for all those times I'm "Bending over backwards" to please the rest of the world.

Well, I wanted to do something with this stamp, but didn't know what. 

Then I thought, hey, I should make a card!

One of my super nice coworkers gave me some of her paper crafting gear, and I decided to break it out.

Using a paper cutter as a paper scoring tool, I cut out several paper shapes, and came up with this:

I'm pretty psyched. I'm not that great with designing cards, but I think I'll work on my card making skills now that I'm carving my own stamps and I've got some decent card stock in my collection.

I hope to give this little card to one of my other overworked, overwhelmed, and completely "Over it" friends.

By the way, check out all the new stamps I carved. Their listed in the Leftovers4Dinner Etsy Shop!

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