I am afraid neither of these do much for me. In terms of photography, as BHT says you don't need a lot. I also bought a light cube off amazon, about £60, with 2 x 500W lights on tripods (essential for diffuse lighting through the cube walls). On the inside I use a box to lift items up a little, and a variety of coloured A1 sheets from hobbycraft for the backgrounds. The cube is up pretty much all the time in a spare room, with a camera on a tripod.
As soon as you start cutting things out and putting them on a different background, the whole picture starts looking artificial unless you spend a lot of time. I found it much better and faster to have a range of differently coloured backgrounds to suit the various colour balances in my pieces.