Miniature books and Sarubobo

My friend in the U.S. (EmiShimosato) sent me some elastics for carving stamps.
I tried one of them, and it was quite good! It's much easier than Japanese rubber what I used before. I've never tried Japanese elastics for stamp...

Several days ago, I made this stamp for my name cards. Before then, I hand wrote every name card and it took long time (But I enjoyed it very much).
Now, I can make my name cards with this stamp.


Now, I'm hooked on carving stamps, so I made these tiny books.

Each of them are from one piece of Origami paper. I found the tutorial in Youtube.

You need only one piece of square paper, so please try it. It's very cute!


Then, I hand carved some sarubobo for the books and stamped them.


I like these tiny things. Then, I wanted to put them in Sarubobo's hands.
So I made small Sarubobo for them.


I put elastics to keep their books.


But my boyfriend says it's not good because the elastics are in their stomachs. But I wanted to hide the knots...

Anyway, I enjoyed making them! Thank you very much EmiShimosato!!!!