paper: Five Ideas for Creating with Circles by Jill Cornell | pretty paper. true stories. {and scrapbooking classes with cupcakes.}

Linear design and clean lines are traditionally how most of us scrapbook but I think it is a little bit exciting to incorporate something round to offset those square and rectangular shapes. Working with circles open so many possibilities and I have five ideas to share with you today.

1) Crop photos into a circle – For this layout, I created a simple template in Photoshop and placed each photo into the circle and printed them out. Another option would be using a circle template to cut the physical photo. I made a simple grid and then added a few circle embellishments in the form of a transparent doily and flair.

2) Cut circles in half – On this layout about one of my daughters, I used the halves of a few strategically placed doily stickers as embellishments. The rounded designs form a visual triangle.

3) Punch circles to form scallops – For this love card, I punched rows of 6 circles from patterned paper and adhered them so they ran off the card. I trimmed the sides and then embellished with stickers.

4) Make a circular statement – On this layout about my daughters and their daddy, I used a pre-made circle die-cut sheet by Jillibean Soup (use a die-cut machine to create a similar look). I backed several of the open circles with patterned paper and embellished other circles with dimensional stickers.

5) Create a cluster of circles – For this final layout, I took my inspiration from the pre-printed doily in the corner of the background patterned paper and created a cluster of patterned paper circles with a photo cropped into a circle.

Jill Cornell lives with her husband of 10 years and 4-year-old twin daughters in Windsor Heights, Iowa. She has a degree and career experience in public relations and broadcasting but is now a stay-at-home mom. Jill has been scrapbooking and papercrafting for 10 years and has a soft, shabby chic style that incorporates linear design elements. She loves having girls to scrapbook because it gives her an excuse to use pink and feminine details on her work. Jill is currently designing for American Crafts, Simple Stories, Webster’s Pages, Gossamer Blue, and Emma’s Paperie. Visit Jill at her blog, Blessed Scrapper .

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23 August 2013

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