Rubber Stamps

I buy baskets and boxes of rubber stamps at the YSM, for a ridiculous low price.  I can't resist them if you get a dozen rubber stamps for a dollar or so.  Yowzee... it is just too good to pass up!  But now, even after I have picked through all the bargains, and passed the little cutsey or childish ones to my car girls, I have so many, it became necessary to organize and store in a manner that makes them more usable.  I do not have a perfect method, but it helping.
Earlier this last spring, I bought a giant sized book that had been given to a member of union person.  The book had about six or so pages, with hand written history on them.  The rest of the pages blank.  Each page is like the size of four regular sized notebooks.  I decided it would be good to put all my rubber stamp prints in the book so I could see which ones I actually have.  I started by sorting them catagorically, like "stars", butterflies, and such.  Then, I eventually moved to alphabetical.  I thought I would show you the book and some, just some of the pages of the book.  I put the catagorized stamps into zip lock bags, so I only have to look through a few stamps, rather than all of the stamps.

My giant book with some basic collage elements started on the cover.

All my star stamps

Lots of butter fly stamps + I see one or two dragon flies, do you?

Flower stamps of all sizes...

Oh, and some of my favorites are the leaves...

Gardening type stamps... not too much liked...

My "A" page.... astrological and alchemy stamps, animals, aliens, lol

B is for background stamps... two or three pages of these!

More backgrounds on the left... C is for cake, cats, clock...

What's this?  Doll stamp and more backgrounds... nope, that is designs!

E is for eyes...

I have a whole alphabet of pages.  Most of them have stamps on them.

I enjoyed doing the stamping and sorting and remembering the stamps I have.  

So, I continued on after the alphabet pages and a few more overflow stamps, to doing my water colours, colored pencils, gel pens, etc.  It is nice to have your very own reference book!

It still has oodles and oodles of unused pages so I will continue to add to them as I find a need.

(Really, it is just rather fun to make mindless swatches with art supplies at times, lol)