Decide on the theme of my project.  This one is about the need to be grounded after a stressful time in my day job.

Decide what collections I want to combine.  As this was a team project this step was kindly done for the Team by Traci (great choice on her part!)

Gather together supplies from the collections. I have pouches that hold pre-printed elements from Traci's collections so I gathered those first but then I grabbed my iPad so I could look through the files I have and decide what (if any) I wanted to print.  This is one of my favourite things about working with printable collections - as many gorgeous products as I need - I just have to print them!!

Look through patterned papers and select 3-4 favourites.  My intention with this project was to many use up papers from My Person with some accents from Rooted.  It ended up going a very different way!! I fell back in love with those black and white line drawing papers from Rooted and decided to use those as my background!  Working with  neutrals from either collection is always a safe move - they can then match with any of the colours from the other collection!

Decide on a focal statement piece . I went with the quote card from Rooted

Pull out other papers and embellishments that match the colour scheme.  Here I was no longer even thinking in terms of which collection was which.  I was simply scrolling through my files and favouriting the ones I thought I may want to print.  Then I was holding the elements I already had printed next to the iPad screen to see which matched together. I ended up using mostly papers from Rooted with a couple of pinks from My Person.  I combined journalling blocks from both collections and my embellishments (those amazing hearts and rainbows) were from My Person.