So many beautiful pages in this thread! Thank you all so much for playing along. You are all so creative and have offered really good questions, so I am further clarifying. See here and in the clarifications post.
** The spirit of this challenge is to work with limited supplies and create a page with limited embellishment other than from paper and paint. "Cutting" paper into basic shapes is absolutely fine. However, cutting out specific objects or patterns from the paper serves to create your own elements which are not allowed. Templates used for placement and basic shapes are fine. But please don't clip papers to the portions of a template that are meant to represent embellishments, this also defeats the intent of the challenge. I know that sometimes these rules seem arbitrary, but it is a challenge after all. Thank you!**