Potato stamp and a blog award tomorrow

Tomorrow I will share a blog award I received and yesterday I showed my first ever carved rubber stamp.

I've made stamps before. Sadly, they didn't last very long. In 2008, I made the number 5. The circles are the approximate size of a CD. By the time I remembered to take a photo of the "stamp," it was on its way to the compost pile.

And I got carried away last year making "hands" using my Hands potato stamps until they shriveled up and died a very slow, old, and ugly death. In the photo above, I'm using the stamps in a tutorial. I also used dye ink to stamp a bunch of pages pulled from my AB about Hands. I'm so glad I stamped those pages and so glad I saved them.

Here is one of those pages that will eventually become part of a six page accordion fold spread. I apologize that the pages are larger than my scanner, but I think you can see most of it. Click to enlarge. I'm off to clean up a mess I made early this morning. Have a great crafting day and don't forget tomorrow I'll be blogging about a reward I received.

Linda Elbourne, from A Crafting Journey, is my blog pick today. I met Linda during WOYWW, but I bet she's familiar to a lot of people, since she's on several design teams, including Zutter (Bind-it-All) and Happy Daze. She loves to stamp, and her art shows it. Linda was also one who made it around to everyone during WOYWWAC, the anniversary challenge blog hop. So honoring her with a day was only a natural. If you're a rubber stamper, and like Ranger products and projects, you will love Linda's Crafting Journey.