Hand-carved stamps: CarveDecember 2025

Every December since 2018, I’ve participated in a stamp carving challenge. Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, an artist and printmaker from Massachusetts, hosts the challenge and provides optional prompts to inspire anyone who wants to jump in. The idea is to carve something every day–soomething quick, but hopefully useful. Because December is a very busy month, I have never carved a stamp every day, and this year was no different. But I thought I’d share some of the stamps I did manage to carve this year.