I decided to hand carve my own stamp to print business cards one by one. Here's a pictorial of what I did...
I used Speedy-Carve for the first time. Usually I use Master Carve but I can't find anymore of that stuff anywhere. I also ordered MOO Carve at the same time. I like both speedy and moo, but speedy seems like it's great for doing tiny details. Moo carves like butter.
It seems like this material would be great to mount on wood since the speedy carve isn't as thick as some other things I've used to carve. This stamp is about 2.75" x 2.75" so it's kind of big to stamp without backing if you want an even print. I put a small thick notebook over the stamp each time I tried to print with it for extra substance and that seemed to work better than just pressing it down with my fingers.
The craziest and sometimes funnest part of making stuff is what the workshop turns out looking like at the end. I was in the deep creative zone working on this project for about 3 hours. When I finally back down to reality, the space looked like this... yikes! And yes...that is a tiny carrot on top of my pencil.
Update: I was able to get a bunch of copies made of these and payed only 2 bucks!
