I have heard that instead of pounce pads people have used baby powder in a sock and they pounce it on the stencil.
For drawing designs I use a marker (from walmart) that is blue (water sol.) on one end, and purple (disappearing ink) on the other end. It comes out really easy as long as you do what the directions say. I find that the blue end does not last long though! They are fairly cheap too though, I keep three around so I can swap them out by the time that the last one "runs dry" the first one is "juicy" again! lol