Mustangmom, use the heavier card stock, and use donatalie's journal pages, if you have the time and money, it might be cheaper to upload them to staples and have them print them, I used about 5 sets of ink!! BUT, is is definedly worth it, cause they turned out AWESOME!! I also cut a page of the card stock in half, and made pockets, got that idea from another thread, start early!! I made 5 journals, so it might not be as bad if you only make one. Good luck, let me know how it goes for ya!