I am brand new to card making and paper crafts. I have spent a good amount of $$ on random and various products, designs and dies and yet, I am artistically challenged to know what to do with all that stuff. I just got my first two Alte&New kits and am thrilled! The amount of product, quality of the dies and stamps and especially the instructions and inspirations are beyond what I expected. I made two beautiful cards within minutes and have inspiration options for more! I am more interested in contemporary and geometric designs, but the flower designs have won me over! They are so modern, artistic and fresh - Iβm doing flowers!! I just ordered the ink pads because - I want the Alte & New total look and have no doubt that they will be high quality at a great price. Gosh - I sound like Iβm smitten! PS - being a new maker, I did have a bit of trouble figuring out how to position the stamp layers, but eventually I got it. Thankfully, they were labeled in A, B, C order or I would have been totally lost.