2009 First Day Covers

One of my hobbies is carving soft vinyl blocks or erasers to make rubber stamps.  I love to carve blocks for mail art, especially First Day Covers.  You can read about some of my previous work here and  here. 

For the Christmas stamp, I made a version of the reindeer stamp and turned him into Rudolph:

The Love stamp that came out last spring was called "the King and Queen of Love". I immediately thought of the kings and queens in playing cards, and made this stamp: