I just found a site that has some nice tutorials for making country backgrounds and wanted to be sure I didn't loose it so I'm posting a link to it at our site.
I'm in the process of checking out some of the other tutorials at this site and think I'll make one of a bear sitting in a wagon.
Here's a link to this tutorial.
Here's the link to the main page for your tutorials. There's a lot of nice ones.
Sheryl