I love taking designer templates and adjusting them to work with my hybrid layouts. I find that it helps stimulate my creative processes for other layout ideas as well as preventing my TN layouts from looking to samey (see, I get creative with words, too). Here are 2 TN layouts that I created using templates. I re-size in PS and design my layout and then I print all my layers and then assemble. First one is using @Soco From the Heart No 6 templates that were released this weekend: The one is using @Scrapping with Liz Heart Paper Templates that were also released this weekend. I also took that heart cutout portion and modified and exported as a png to use in the Cricut Design Space and cut it out that way. There are more details in my gallery posts for each layout.
These are amazing. I too design everything in PS, but it hasn't occurred to me to use templates. Seriously brilliant my friend!!