Listening to : she wants revolution : Bronken promisses to broken hearts.

Well, I got the sticker bug from quite some time now, as well as the stencil one...
thing is, since I didn't had the time to invest in it it kinda got on the side (of note books and such).
But now I see that the style got quite developed around our little penninsular corner (Pt), wich got me more motivated than before.
now I just would really apreciate some help from those more "veterans" on the styles.. I'm kinda new in it, for example,I got Illustrator not long ago, and I seem to be getting the hold of it very quickly, but i still don't know some basic stuff like how to put the "trim line" around the images so it would b easier to cut them later..or how to paint those grids for "coloring" in grayscale like in manga..
Can anyone help me? give me some tips?
thanks