It depends really. If I'm making for the fun of it I just shut the door on my workroom and dive head first into my stash. If I'm doing an order I will rough out a few ideas in a notebook, then have an EMPTY catlitter tray and pick out stamps, backingpapers peeloffs etc and then make a couple of samples. The samples that don't get chosen get modified and put in my emergency 'Have you got a card for?' box.image