Nicole Yost, a rubber stamp artist, offers retro tattoo designs and other hip images that feature skulls and crossbones, pinup girls, sharks, flames, and other stuff you might find tattooed on a sailor's arm, on her website at Asta Arts.

"My designs are a little out there for some folks," says Yost, an avid rubber stamp artist with a passion for tattoo art and pop culture." At first I thought my customers would primarily be rubber stampers, but about half of the folks who buy my stamps don't fall into that category at all. A lot of people just like the designs. They use them to make their own t-shirts and cuff bracelets, make edgy scrapbook pages, or just to add a little personal zing to personal notes and letters."

"Some people even use them for making temporary tattoos," says Yost. "I sold a bunch to a biker in Arkansas who just wanted to try out different tattoo ideas before getting inked."

The inspiration for the retro-cool stamps came to Yost during a late-night crafting session. "I was making a stack of hand-stamped cards and I just thought, 'Why doesn't anyone make any cool rubber stamps?' I knew exactly what I wanted, but no one was selling anything like that." Eventually, Yost drew up the designs herself and her company, Asta Arts, was born. "Now I have a great stamp collection and a business I love," says Yost.