Illustrator help

Hello all. Been a while since I posted anything on Kirupa.

I’m having a bit of a problem. The issue seems to be I’m about as useful with Illustrator CS4 as an [insert topical analogy here]…

I’m currently attempting to design a kind of retro wedding invite (for myself and my partner) and have an idea of some hand drawn kind of motif. I was thinking I might then just take some quick photos of this and somehow, magically, paths would appear in illustrator from which I could basically cut and shut something that didn’t look like I was a complete tool…

I appear to have failed.

Could anyone offer me some quick, easy steps that any drunken oaf might be able to follow in order for me to achieve anything like what I just described…

I have access to:-
[LIST]
[]A large sketchpad
[
]12 papermate Flairs
[]A computer
[
]Photoshop CS4
[]Illy CS4
[
]An Android phone with an ok camera
[]A fairly substantial quantity of german and [URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weihenstephan_Abbey”]more german lager…
[
]About 14 Marlboro lights…
[*]A small (20cm) remote controlled helicopter that is currently fully charged…
[/LIST]

If anyone knows of a search term I can put into google to make this magically happen then please, feel absolutely free to LMGTFY me… I would be happy to click said link.

Over and out…!