I absolutely love to cut vinyl! I was so intimidated by the idea of it, and so it took me a while before I tried it. Man o man, is it easy! I know it's not usual to use vinyl on scrap layouts, but this one was just crying out for it. It's hard to tell looking at the page, but the cardstock has a very shiny finish. When I was looking at adding Disneyland and the date, (in the lower left corner). I was afraid that plain cardstock would take away from the page. To me, the vinyl looks like it's part of the page.