Origami Takes Time

A recent prompt from Shimelle in her Pretty Paper Party class suggested doing some origami and using it on a layout.  Loved the idea, and I especially loved a folded circle border she did, which I believe she described as "easy peasy." Well, maybe for her! For me, it took quite a while to figure out. LOL! Luckily, I liked the results (I added some punched Christmas trees as well), and the embellishment was just the thing that I needed to finish up this layout from our visit to the Christmas tree farm (click on it to enlarge it and see more details):

The layout, without the origami borders and journaling square took me about ten minutes to put together. I spent about 45 minutes on the easy-peasy embellies! So, this layout ended up taking about an hour to make. I would guess that most of my layouts take about 30 minutes (now that I'm in the creative zone and am working mainly from a selected group of papers). What about you? How long does your typical layout take?
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Today I am grateful for: The fact that my schedule is lightening up a bit, and I am able to exercise more regularly.