Thanks ever so much. The site you sent is so good. I need to spend time in the tutorials as I am not very good at using the Jasc Paint shop yet. I really appreciate this.

thanks much for your warning. I am always leary of sites like this.

We are limited here, too. Hobby Lobby has quite a good selection of supplies (much better than Walmart, and their prices on equipment are about the same). However, the best here is a store that 2 fellow addicts just opened about a month ago. It's called Scrapbook Station and they have the prettiest papers, a huge selection of stickers by all the best manufactuers, a really fancy die-cut machine( for a nominal fee, they will cut your pictures in the shape you want), absolutely gorgeous albums--It's just paradise. Their papers and stickers are about the same price as anywhere else, but other supplies (punches, etc.) are really much higher. I won a free crop during their grand opening week, but I'm not going to use it until school's out--I want to stay all day and get the good out of it! i wish we had a Michael's around here. I hear they are about the best as far as chains go. Agree?

I lurk at the Scrapper's Talk message board at Scrapbookaddict.com everyday. Everyone there is very talented and they post many beautiful pages! Here is a link that might be useful: Scrapper's Talk Message Board