how to make a card
Creating a SoulCollage® card is less about making art and more about making space. With curiosity and care, images come together to express a part of you that wants to be known. Each card offers an invitation into deeper listening and gentle self-connection.
1. Center and Intend
Begin by pausing and turning your attention inward. Take a few slow breaths, feel your body, and place a hand on your heart if that feels supportive. Set a gentle intention—something like “I’m open to what wants to be seen or expressed right now.” This step is about shifting out of thinking and into listening.
2. Invite and Choose Images
As you look through images, move slowly and notice your body’s responses. Pay attention to what draws you in—and also what you want to turn away from. Attraction, curiosity, discomfort, or resistance are all forms of information. Choose images that feel meaningful or charged in some way, trusting that your response—positive or negative—is part of the guidance.
3. Choose the Energy or Part
From the images you’ve gathered, notice which one most clearly represents the energy or part that wants your attention. This is often a person or figure. You don’t need to analyze it—simply notice which image feels central or alive.
4. Separate the Image from Its Original Context
Carefully cut the chosen image out completely, removing it from its original background. As you do this, you may imagine the energy being freed from old surroundings or stories, making space for something new.
5. Find a New Background
Look for a background image that feels like the right environment for this energy now. This might be a landscape, a color field, or a symbolic setting. Trust what feels supportive, spacious, or true, even if you don’t yet know why.
6. Assemble the Card
Place the image onto the new background and move the pieces around until the card feels complete. Take your time. When it feels right, glue everything down.
6. Assemble the Card
7. Listen and Name
Spend a few quiet moments with the finished card. Notice sensations, emotions, images, or words that arise. You may choose to journal from the card’s voice using “I am…” statements, or write about what you see and feel as you sit with it. From this place, you might give the card a name, allowing its meaning to unfold over time rather than needing to be fully understood right away.
8. Invite the Energy to Stay
Take a moment to consciously invite this energy or part to stay with you. You might silently welcome it, thank it, or let it know you’re open to learning more. Place the card somewhere you’ll see it often in the days or weeks ahead. Let it be a point of gentle curiosity—a way to stay in relationship with this part of yourself as it continues to reveal more over time.
6. Assemble the Card
A Single Card Is Just the Beginning
Making one SoulCollage® card is a beautiful moment of insight—but it’s really just the doorway. Each card you create becomes a portal into deeper self-discovery, healing, and relationship with your inner world. Over time, as a full deck begins to form, patterns emerge, voices become clearer, and a living conversation unfolds between you and the many parts of yourself. You’re always welcome to continue this practice on your own, letting the cards guide you at your own pace. And if you’d like support, structure, and loving guidance, the Signature Series workshops offer a deeper journey into what’s possible when you build a full deck—how the cards speak to one another, how they support healing, and how they become trusted companions on your path. Creating one card opens the door; walking the journey is where the real transformation happens.