The faq suggests coming up with images that mash the sound/meaning of foreign vocab words.
I’d like to create anki decks for the foreign language words I’m going to try to memorize.
Would you suggest using standard decks and simply putting the word on one side and the translation on the other?
Or is there a type of card that would present an image or a prompt if I fail to get the right answer?
Or I guess more broadly, what sort of card setup do you use?
English in black. Target language in a specific colour based on their flag:
No images or other prompts. I don’t think they are suitable for the Anki cards themselves, but can be very useful when trying to learn vocab words that don’t “stick”. If you’re learning the words at a sensible rate (i.e., not too many in one day) then each word should fall into long-term memory fast enough anyway.
I learn the more important words first (adjectives, verbs, basic grammatical structures, connecting words, parts of the body, etc.) because then I’ll continue to train them as I use them in the language.
For example, before I went to the Amazon in Colombia to work as a Spanish-English interpreter, I made a deck of jungle-specific terms like “to rot”, “vulture”, “oar” and “toad”, which I hadn’t previously encountered enough to recognize, let alone recall.
Wow. Any other travel adventures?
Haha, yes quite a few but that was probably the most wild! I’ve been moving around internationally for the last 6 years (nomadic), and also worked as a hiking and extreme sports guide in Nicaragua for a while (Google “volcano boarding cerro negro”).
Right now I’m back at my home base in the UK, so much less exotic 
What sort of images do you utilize when the words you’re thinking about are abstract?
For instance, two words in Latin I’ve struggled with:
Ipsorum : of themselves
Quarum: of which
For ipsorum, I imagine the town of ipswitch, Mass drinking rum. But I can’t think of imagery linking it to “of themselves.”
For Quarum, I imagine people quarreling. But again, I have no idea what to link this idea to.
Of which and of themselves are so abstract that I have nothing to latch onto.
How do you handle this?
You’ll be pleased to know there is a massive shortcut that you’re missing here 
“-orum” is the Group II genitive plural. So you would expect that “of themselves” would end in “-orum”. So as long as you know the word for “himself” you can easily remember “herself”, “themselves”, “of herself”, “of themselves”, “[with] themselves” etc. from your knowledge of Latin grammar.
Equivalent comment for “quo” and “quarum”.
Until you think about the Latin language like this, you’re making things much harder than necessary. Same for any language with lots of morphological features—which is most of them except for e.g. English and Chinese.
Rather than having one connection each for all of the possible inflected forms of every Latin word, you can just remember the base form (e.g. for verbs, the 4 principal parts) and remember the basic rules that link everything else to that.