Here's a rough 'visual' over-view of the SoulCollage® card-making process.

How to create your own SoulCollage® cards: TOOLS

The thicker card is made of 'art-board' which comes in many colours. (Art-board is often used by professional picture framers when framing paintings or photos). Art-board is obviously more expensive than the flimsier index cards, but it is much easier to work with.

Of course, if you wish, you can use smaller or larger size cards. Or you could even make a large collage, say A4 or A3, and reduce it down to pocket size using a photocopy machine. Some people laminate their cards.

Glue: I use pva glue and a large glue stick. I find the large glue stick works best for me, especially covering large areas. I cover the board with glue stick first and then stick down the background.

It's important to cover every part of the surface with glue, otherwise you may get air bubbles.

Once the background is in place, I then carefully apply glue stick or pva to the back of the images and stick them down on the background. I like the fact that both pva and glue stick dry colourless.

Scissors: I mainly use a small pair of nail scissors. I find them helpful in cutting out detailed pieces and getting round tricky corners. For long straight lines I use larger scissors.

Magazines:
As varied an assortment of magazines as you can lay your hands on. I use any of the following:

Women’s magazines (the glossier and more expensive tend to have unusual images – particularly in the adverts)

Nature and wildlife mags

Country life mags

Spiritual mags (good images for your ‘Source card’!)

Sunday supplements (unusual advertisement images)

Catalogues of all sorts

Photos (from your own collection)

Postcards, greetings cards and art cards (e.g. from museums and galleries)

You could even use illustrations from books but personally I have not yet allowed myself to ‘destroy’ a book in this way! Another way is to use photocopies or computer scanned images.

If you have a computer and a good printer you can also get images from the internet, but this is not really necessary. Once you put the word out to family and friends that you are happy to take their old magazines, you will have more than enough images to choose from!