Tutorial | Create a Circle-Filled Layout with Geralyn Sy

This month’s Cirque Scrapbook kit came with lots of unique embellishments that I love. Unfortunately, I didn’t have much time to play with the cool circle transparencies when I made my layout for the month. That is why I decided to pull them out today and highlight how fun they can be with a simple, circle-filled layout.

I printed out my photograph and cut it into a circle shape with my circle cutter. Then I matted my photo on a white cardstock circle.

I went through the Cirque scrapbook kits to find any circle embellishments. I also printed out a few printables.

I started with the circle transparencies and arranged them around my photograph and cardstock base to get an idea of how I wanted them to look on my page.

Using my x-acto knife, I carefully cut around part of the heart on one of the circle transparencies so that I could tuck in my photo.

I also altered the yellow circle transparency by punching it with my 2” circle punch since I wanted it to be a different size than the ‘LOVE’ circle. It is really easy to alter these circle transparencies to fit your project.

I glued the circle transparencies behind my photograph and added a flair button and some printable circles.

Using the Ringmaster add-on stamp set, I stamped two circles on my page using Color Theory inks. This set is really fun because you can combine the words and icons with the solid circle.

I chose the pink alphas from the Pantomime add-on to use for my title. (‘Siobe’ means ‘little sister’ in the Chinese dialect I speak.)

Lastly, I added washi tape (from Ringmaster – love!) to the bottom of my layout and one of the word strips before I wrote my journaling at the bottom.

It’s a simple layout, but I’m loving all the bold and bright colors I got to use on this page! I have just a few of those circle transparencies left but you can bet I’ll be saving them for something special. Thanks for following along with my step-by-step process for putting together this page!

Supplies: Cirque Scrapbook kit - word strip, circle transparencies; Ringmaster add-on - flair, stamps, washi tape; Pantomime add-on – alphas; inks – Color Theory Blush Crush, Mint Hint, Versafine; printables – Cirque Printables by In a Creative Bubble, Cirque Printables by Hello Forever; pen - Muji