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I like to carve rubber stamps as a hobby. My process involves first sketching out my design on paper in pencil, cleaning it up and transferring it to the rubber by placing the paper on top of the block of rubber and going over the back of the paper with the pencil. Then, I'll go over the design on the stamp in sharpie to make sure it's easy to carve around. Designing on paper first and inverting it when you transfer it to the rubber ensures that any text or visual elements that rely on direction get flipped on the rubber, which (by flipping them again) ensures they come out the right direction.
This section of the site is an archive of stamps I've made. I have scanned them roughly and included the initial sketches for some of them, to show the process of making them. Typically, the scans featured here are the rough "first prints" I do after I make the stamp, usually on some random scrap of paper right next to where I drew the sketch; some of them are more carefully produced images.
I make stamps of a variety of different subjects and topics. I've loosely organized them here: