 Hello everybody, welcome to my channel, it's Iwa from Bohemian Crafting and today I'm coming with the circles. I was thinking to do some sharing about shapes and how we are using them, so I'm gonna start with this. With circles, I do like circles, but I'm not using them often and they are very powerful shape. If you will think about it, all important things are like circle, the earth, the sun, the moon, human head. And if you will throw to the water anything, it will make circles, right? So circles are good, but I'm not using them often, so I was thinking how I can use them. First of course, make them like a label, like this. What I used, it was just some stamp, I think, yeah, I used this number from a studio light and it's so easy to make stamps like this or patches like this. Just take your stamp, take the circle, take the pencil, here I used this red one, this red pen and here I'm gonna use the black one and I'm gonna make fake stitching all around, just using my pen. And I can go even one more time, like this, just simple stitching. Then take your stamp, the ink and you can try very easy way to stamp. And you will use your circle to decorate some page and glue your circle on your page, maybe like this. Another way how to use circles in our journals is to use them on paper clips and decorate the paper clips the way you like. I do have full tutorial for these paper clips, it is in the tutorial where I was talking about embossing powders and how we can use them. So I made few paper clips with embossed effect as well, but the base was circle and I do like them so much and I think the most common usage of those circles for our string pockets. So there is few ways how you can do those closures, one way it's when you punch the circle, you punch the hole in the circle and you are using eyelets. You punch same hole in the flop of your envelope, slide there the eyelet with that circle and press it together and fix it. And then another one you are putting on the pocket of that all composition and again press it together, then you glue your envelope together and you have beautiful closure like this. The other way it's using brats and it's very easy, you just need to punch the circle, fix the circle to your envelope straight away. Or you can prepare few those up front like strips of paper and maybe make them decorative. Like I do have here, if you do have already your envelope, just take your paper with this closure, not ready yet, I have to put their string as well. But this is like prepared, so I punch those circles, I made the hole in the middle of those circles, I use the brats and I punch it through the paper. Both of them are on the same position, on that paper, same paper, same position where I place those circles using those brats. And now I'm gonna glue one here and the second one I'm gonna glue it here, I'm gonna try to match the circles kinda like even. Fix the string on one side, gonna cut that shorter one, so now I do have closure for my pocket. So that's another way how to use it and once we are using that string, we can do beautiful decoration using circles as well. So here I prepared, I punched two circles one and a half inch and then I took one inch paper punch, I just slide that one and a half inch circle, that was idea after I punched those large circles. So I slide it inside and I punched and I didn't mind that it will be not in the middle, because for me it's decorative like it is. So I do have here these and I already punched two butterflies, these are like off-cuts, which I can use for those closures. So here I do have kinda like rings and I do have two butterflies, I'm gonna choose some page and we can make beautiful decoration using circles. And I do love to use butterflies because they are always decorative no matter what, they always do beautiful decoration like this. I'm gonna take that one inch circle, I punched that inside and I will punch somewhere, I'm gonna take a string and glue, I'm gonna put a glue on one of these rings. I'm going to place there the string and maybe I will do it decorative including that string, why not? So this, now the ring, I'm gonna glue it over and I'm gonna try to match it with the punch, I'm gonna take the other one, I'm gonna place it from other side. I should make some background decoration here as well and again I'm gonna try to match it all together. And now I'm gonna find my butterflies, I'm gonna put a glue on the body of the butterfly and this will be like where, tiptoe, tiptoe, tiptoe, be careful where I am placing it to make sure that both butterflies will fit there. Today I'm gonna a little bit fold it, place it over it and try to match the bodies to fix them together. If you do have butterflies small enough, once it's dry you can actually twist it inside and make it run all around but it needs to be dry. So give it time and then you will have movable part through to your Europe page. So that's another part, another beautiful decoration using strings, well strings using rings or circles. If you have hit this, I think it's one and a half. I'm gonna use embossing folder and I'm gonna emboss that ear mail but before I will do so I'm gonna take this tool, it's slot punch and I'm gonna punch one side and I'm gonna punch the other side as well like this. Now I'm gonna emboss it, gonna place it here and emboss that piece. So I embossed it and I used T-died distress ink to distress it a little bit and I do have hit this lace so what I can do, you can use it like decorative part on the lace if I will wanna decorate some pocket or some page in my journal. So I'm gonna just slide the lace from the front to the back and from the back to the front like this and now I can use it maybe somewhere on my page. So if I will glue that lace here, I need to let it dry and once it's dry everything you can make sure you've got it on the spot you want because you can move it here and there. I think I'm gonna leave it here and it's beautiful decoration and when I am on the pudding I place those one inch circles here on the ends just like a decoration. And when I am putting on those on the end of string, so when we have small circles like this they are perfect for the ends of your string. They look so cute, so decorative and it will also help to hold the string much much better than when it's without the circle on the end. It just looks so cute with it. So put some small circles on the end of those strings or threads in your pocket, in your signatures, in the middle of your signature and it will make beautiful decoration. You can use, you know, cutouts maybe from some dice, these are actually cutouts from dice. I mean of cuts from dice. So save these, if you do have some die where of cuts are circles, even those small, save them. Because then you have this beautiful ending on the string for the pockets and when we are in those circles you can make beautiful, beautiful decorations like small clusters using circles. And this is pretty simple. As a base I used the circle cutout from my collage sheet. It is kind of strong one. It was many layers. So that was base. Then I used this die, this is Sizzix die. I think it's this year or last year die. I will have to have a look. I will put all links down below, all names down below. And here I used, see that eyelet circle. I just punched the hole and fixed that eyelet with the circle. I hung there this circle charm on the chain and then I put just these notes on it. That was very simple this one and I think it's beautiful. So I'm gonna glue it right here as a tag spot, as decoration and tag spot as well. And just right here. I'm using hot glue because for these dimensional things where I want to have there, you know, some space under the hot glue, especially when you do have lace. So hot glue, I think it's the best. So I do have circles here, here, here and one more thing. I'm saying that every single time when I'm using some die or paper punch. Do not throw away your offcuts. Here are two samples how I used the offcuts from these circles. So I save the offcut like this. Here I glued that offcut on piece of paper and two of them I stamped with circle stamps. And in one of them I used silwax and I made this decoration and it can be used like tag spot. And here I glued underneath a glued piece of acetate. And here I glued just those beautiful butterflies and this can be used as tag spot as well. Maybe I can place it here straight away, I guess. And because here it's acetate piece, I'm gonna use double sided tape maybe here. Yeah, maybe there. Maybe there. So I'm gonna put double sided tape just on one side of this offcut, decorative offcut. And I'm gonna place it right here, press it together, I'm gonna flip it over. So I do have tag spot where I can see a little bit what it's slided in. And I think it looks really beautiful, it's decorative. So this is my small sharing how you can use, there is so many other things you can do with the circles. But this is my small sharing how you can use them very quickly. Here is another circle like clocks which is wonderful for using. I hope it's dry. Yeah, but I do have big butterfly. This is kind of stuck, you know, on the side. If that butterfly will be just a little bit smaller, I can twist it this way many, many times. And when I will release that, it will circle back. But because the butterfly, it's a little bit bigger, it will be just like decoration. But I think it's beautiful decoration. So this is my sharing for today. I hope you did enjoy it. I hope you got some idea. Thank you so much for visiting me. Have a wonderful day, take care about yourself and I will see you soon. Bye.