Crafting with School Supplies: Carved Eraser Veggie Stamps and Notecard Set

Love those veggies!

The theme for this month's Designer Craft Connection Blog Hop is "Crafting with school supplies" and all I can say is that I'm sure glad that I didn't know about carving erasers to make stamps when I was in school because no eraser would have been safe from my carving zeal!

It is so easy to carve rubber erasers into little stamps and an easy way to add artwork to the stamps is to use clipart. My favorite clipart collections are the Dover Publication books. I've been collecting them for years and have so many that they have their own bookcase in my house. They are great for pretty artwork, inspiration and research. With the older books, you used to have to scan or copy the artwork to use it. More recently each book comes with the artwork on CD which makes things so much easier. And even more fabulous is that nowadays you can skip buying books and CDs altogether and purchase and download Dover artwork straight off their website! Plus you don't even have to buy the entire collection anymore; you can just download whatever images you want. Way cool!

Here's how: