My sister croppers and I meet once a month for hours of cropping. I live by "power layouts." Which means to layer your paper, photos, stickers etc., in a scrapbook box and tote it with me to a crop. Last night I created 12 pages, with details too. It is like making Lasagna, layering all of your pages on top of one another and then it takes no time to complete. The only time invested wisely, that may be a little consuming is the layering. If you are organized then you can layer enough stuff to take to a crop to complete as many as the pages I did. It takes me about two hours to prepare and then it's crop till I drop, literally. Enjoy, try it it works you will see....