I have managed fine so far with a versafine pad (which I use for watercolouring anyway) and making sure I wafted my heatgun over it to make sure it was really dry before colouring in the image - but I will be trying a Memento pad when we get them in to see if I think it's loads better

paper wise there are lots of suggestions - again I have made do - the piece of paper I was using in the lofty demo on Sunday was a sheet of 160gsm text and graphics paper from Staples - but make sure you dont colour straight onto a good surface - i keep a pile of paper underneath as it can seep through.

You can get other papers and boards that work and there wasa good link earlier - i will repeat it agin on this thread in a mo

this was the really useful post that playingwithpaper added this morning great link there

http://joannasheenscraftforum2966.yuku.com/topic/45924