Troll Knoll Card

Remember those trolls we used to collect? Well, I found this troll stamp at a thrift store and just had to have it. You see my little sister, as a child, bought a small troll doll for my mother for her birthday one year. Mom said it was so ugly it was cute! Several years ago, my mother returned the favor, giving my sister a 12" one for Christmas, so you see why I just had to have this stamp (so I could make a birthday card for each of their upcoming birthdays. *wink*) I was inspired to make the knoll from the Hobbit homes on the movie – "The Lord of the Rings." It is made from a sheet of 8 ½" x 11" piece of tan cardstock, folded in half, with the fold as the top of the card, cut into a bowl shape, then stamped all over with the grass stamp turned upside down. I made the other parts separate and glued them down to the base card. I stuck two tiny pieces of sticky backed velcro squares to the inside covers, so that a ribbon could be used to make it stand up. The grey tongue looking thing is actually the flagstone sidewalk. I folded it up inside the card when I sent it through the mail. 

Here's the stamps I used to make it:

Uptown Rubber Stamps Holly Pond Hill by Susan Wheeler #G13056 window; Stampabilities Spring Wheelbarrow #GR1024; Stampcraft Picket Fence #440H11; Rubber Stampede Background stamp > looks like giraffe spots; Stamp Affair The Troll Company Norfin; All Night Media Posh Presents #550-G24 Grass; Stampcraft Daisy #440D99, Dots Grass Cluster #D103; TM Designs True Love Rosebud; Rubber Stampede Large Dot Label #3217F.

A Bookmark

I made these little bookmarks for our Wednesday morning Ladies Bible Study group that I participate in. The front side with the embossed tulip, has a punched out star by the handwritten word "faith" with a tiny mustard seed in it. The back side is a list of Christ-like attributes from the book we were studying at the time – "The Power of a Praying Woman" by Stormie Omartian. I laminated the bookmarks so they would remain sturdy.

Tell Me

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered . . .” ~ Exodus 17: 14- 15

Moses argued with God too. He knew his shortcomings only too well, but God chose him in spite of them and equipped him to not only be a messenger to the Egyptian Pharaoh, but to also lead his people from Egypt and to be instrumental in the forming of the new Israelite nation by writing down God’s law.

I often feel inadequate and intimidated by my shortcomings too. Many times I have felt “slow of speech and tongue” nor eloquent when writing in a card. Yet, the Lord reminds me that he is my Creator just as he was Moses’ and he will instruct me in the words to say.

Prayer: Lord, today, I ask you for wisdom (James 1:5). Please give me the right words to bless & encourage those I am writing today. I ask these things in Jesus’ name, Amen!

Today’s Tip:

"Keep up the public relations portion of the church. Send birthday or anniversary cards, write letters, and make phone calls. Write letters to members or just people in the community when they have achieved something or had their names in the news media. Thank people for helping with a function. Write those who have problems or are despondent. Write college students and encourage them to be sure and have a church home in their college town." ~ Bob Hinds.