Friday Tip: Use those circles!

Happy Friday everyone! I hope that you've enjoyed the blog this week, and for a final posting from me this week, I bring you an easy way to enhance your projects and layouts. Everywhere I look, in patterns, punches, stickers and other things, circles are everywhere! They are such an easy thing to add to you layouts and such a fun way to create a "punch" in the layout.

With this week's tip, I asked the design team members to come up with some great ways to incorporate circles into their layouts. For my own layout, I used an ad from the Wednesday inspiration posting to create this fun 8.5 x 11 layout. I just love the way the way the circles really make this layout fun and unique. For me, the circles also have some hidden meaning to it, seeing as the title is grow and explore, the circles to me represent the circle of life that my son is going through each and everyday that he grows as an individual. I punched out the circles with a circle punch and also added a piece of circle chipboard to emphasize my son's photo. Here you'll see the results from using circle's in this layout:

Here are the layouts that the design team members came up with as well.

With this layout, Beth was able to incorporate the circles in her title, the flower shapes, the brads, ribbon balls and even the clip. Her papers even got into the fun of the circles with the flower shapes and the polka dot papers. Even though Beth used a lot of different types of circle shapes in her layout, it's not overpowering and it all works so well together.

"Motley" by Beth Root

In this second layout that Beth did, again, her circles are subtle, as when you look at her flowers, and the circle stickers as well. Very well done, and such a gorgeous layout!

"Today" by Beth Root

With this next layout, I just love how Ginnifer used all of the circles in her layout. It's such a fun layout and the circles lead your eye throughout her layout. I love all of the different sizes she used as well. This is a very fun layout!

"Goodies 4 sale" by Ginnifer Maloney

Finally, design team member Sophia made her layout with circles by making the circles a main part of the layout and one of her main embellishments on the page. This is a wonderful way to make your own circle embellishments on the page, as you will see in the close up photos that Sophia took for us with this layout.

"U & U" by Sophia Allison

Here are two close up photos showing off these great circles.

Just look at how fun those circles are!

I hope you will go ahead and add circles to you layouts, cards and projects as well! I would love to see what you come up, so please add your links to your projects and leave a comment! Next week, your blog hostess has a great Monday challenge ahead, so remember to stop by to see what the Pebble's team has in store for you!

Have a wonderful weekend, and enjoy your Halloween!
-Deanna