making a start on backing my cards

Both these papers are free downloads from Activity Village (I've mentioned them already, in this post). Both designs are actually from their Chinese New Year collection. I've used the one with bunnies and fish for my Companion cards and the cloud design for my Transpersonal cards.

Ash Wednesday SoulCollage® (linked post)

Here's another SoulCollage® blog post that I found encouraging and inspirational. 


Ash Wednesday SoulCollage®: It seems the grace of the Mass and the message of Lent was still in full effect when I sat down to make the card.

Evolution of a Warrior (linked post)

I came across this blog post about a week ago, and felt I had to share it straightaway with the others who trained with me as SoulCollage® Facilitators. What a wonderfully encouraging story! I'm grateful to this blogger for being so open. It put a huge smile on my face to read her story of growth.

Heart In SoulCollage®: Evolution of a Warrior: My battle-scarred Inner Warrior had grown out of that need to protect Lost Child... I knew I needed to make a new card to represent my inner warrior...

free backing designs

The prototypical SoulCollage®  deck contains four-plus-one suits of cards - the Committee, the Council, the Community, and the Companions. There are also three Transpersonal cards (that's the "plus-one"), which are rather different. If you are using suits (which is not a requirement), it's handy to put a backing paper onto your cards so you can easily pick out a card from a certain suit without knowing in advance which particular card you are choosing.

Even if you aren't using the suits you might choose to back your cards if you are using upcycled cardboard (e.g. boxes made of non-corrugated cardboard) for the cards!

"SoulCollage® does not advocate copying or infringing on the copyrighted work of others in any way", (this is a statement taken direct from the Principles of SoulCollage®) so I think many people use wrapping paper to back their cards. But one woman who trained with me told the story of going back to the store when she needed more and not being able to find that pattern anymore! It occurred to me to hunt for free scrapbook backgrounds online, and download some to use as SoulCollage backgrounds. Since they're free and intended for sharing it seemed the perfect solution to me.

Here are some sites I've found useful:

• Activity Village Scrapbook Paper
• Freebies from Papercraft Inspirations Magazine
• the Crafticious blog
• (the last link is to Halloween (!) resources, but there's no reason a pretty-coloured web needs to be saved only for Halloween)

First Post

I was recently trained as a SoulCollage® Facilitator, and for the short term, this blog is a way of keeping track of links I come across... but of course it will likely also serve as a way of recording some of my experiences - in SoulCollaging, in Facilitating SoulCollaging for others, and related activities.

The birth mother of SoulCollage® is Seena Frost, and she's written a comprehensive guide called SoulCollage® Evolving. She has also made a number of videos, and there's an official website.