Cutting the Paper
One of the 12 X 12 cardstock sheets can be patterned paper but not both. It is just too confusing. You can make your own embellishments and they can be cut from any color that goes with your color palette. Access has quite a few images and it is easy to find things that go with your page.
Cricut will write the words on each page. The two writing styles are actually the same font. They are a fill in font I created because of my frustration with Design Spacenot filling in drawn fonts. Made Large, like the title, the inner details appear while the journaling looks filled in. You can read more about these fonts here.
Design Space cuts the top page to 11.5 X 11.5 inches, making a 1/4 inch border around the whole page