If you’re anything like me, one of your favorite childhood crafts was making collages. I would cut out pages upon pages from magazines to create little collages to hang around my room. My favorite school projects, too, were always the ones that involved collages.

Although I still use physical collages for inspiration, most of my mood board curation these days happens on apps like Pinterest, WeHeartIt, and Instagram.

So today, I’m taking you inside my mood board curation process and showing you how to make a mood board that reflects your unique vision — and looks completely gorgeous at the same time!

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What is a Mood Board?

A mood board is a concise collection of visual assets that represents an idea, theme, or concept. It can contain inspirational examples ranging from photos to, colors or typography all in one place.

What Is the Purpose of a Mood Board?

Mood Boards are an essential tool in the world of design, especially when it comes to fashion. Fashion designers create mood boards to give their teams a general idea of the feel of a collection, photographers create mood boards to direct their shoots, and of course, fashion fans like us create mood boards to distill our style direction for the season!

Why Make a Mood Board? Mood Board Uses:

Mood boards have so many great uses!

For one thing, making them really gets your creativity flowing – you go in with an idea and then expand on it to create a theme of photos, whether it’s a color scheme or a feeling that you’re trying to describe.

They can help you plan out events, vacations and even your wardrobe.