Do you use these papers?

I mainly use the main side but have also used the small cut apart as a background as well as have cut them and used them as embellishments or on tags.

I will sometimes cut a whole strip of them to use as a border... there are some from echo park with seed packs or birdhouses.. I used part of it as border... then I used some of it as matting around a matted photo... i like 2 or 3 mats.. lol...

for these I might use the different letters on a grandchild page with thier initial in a cluster..

Lots of great ideas, here. I think I remember Paige Evans doing a whole workshop on creating a two page spread by deconstructing one like this. It was a Christmas LO I think.

If the theme works for my LO, I will cut them out and use them in some sort of embellishment cluster. I've been using 6x8 albums the past few years, so my pages are smaller, and therefore smaller embellishments like this make a bigger impact as a main embellishment as well.

I have never used SS 12x12. Their 6x8 pads have some pages that are 4 3x4 cutaparts. Jess Crafts often has good sketches for using them as focal images for cards.

If I use them, I am more likely to fussy cut and use them in a cluster, or use one as a layer on a card.

I much prefer ptretty papers that I can use in a variety of ways. I feel the cut aparts are more limited.

Correction: the cut apart cards are hard to use. I do like the cut apart ephemera.

I’m also more likely to buy it for the other side. I have gotten some in collection packs and once or twice I’ve purchased a page because I love it and intend o cu out my favorite parts. When I get around to actually using them I’ll let you know

I love a grid design, so I might use it for that.

For me, the challenge is storing this kind of stuff so that I remember I have it when I have a need for it. I thought a lot about this when I was reorganizing my patterned paper and realized that this is a category where I actually would think "I need a cut apart" sheet (I'm thinking more of the Jen Hadfield ones) for a card or a grid design plan, but then stop because it's too overwhelming to try to paw through my stuff to find one. So, at first it would stay with the collection until I use the collection for a while. Then when I break it up, I have a storage tray called "cut aparts." I did have in mind more for the Jen Hadfield cut aparts that seem to clearly be designed to make into cards, but I am really pleased that I now have a little pile of them that I can put my hands on in less than 10 seconds.

Close-up of A-Z Categories by Seanna., on Flickr

kind of depends on what i'm working on.  But always first check to see if b-side is usable as thst wouild be my preference, followed by tags images that might work on a card.

I purchase patterned paper by the sheet & am not a theme scrapper, so I typically do not buy/use these 2x2-ish papers (unless for the classic pattern on the reverse). 

I don't usually buy many of that type of pp (depends on the design) but of the ones that I have purchased I cut apart the different sections and use them as embellishments. Good question @breetheflea.