What's the best way to create a circular "frame," in Affinity Publisher in which I'll have some lines which people can write text on and a greyish background tinge?

[AntiqueFlaneur]

I'd like to have a page of my book contain a circle. Inside this circle will be some lines on which the reader can write something in response to a prompt. I'd like this circle to have a slight greyish tinge to stand out from the white paper. 

What's the best approach to doing this?

[NotMyFault]

2 hours ago, AntiqueFlaneur said:

I'd like to have a page of my book contain a circle. Inside this circle will be some lines on which the reader can write something in response to a prompt. I'd like this circle to have a slight greyish tinge to stand out from the white paper. 

What's the best approach to doing this?

Something  like this?

1. add a circle in light grey fill
2. add a rectangle, no fill, black stroke in 1pt width
3. use power duplicate to create as many lines as needed
4. nest all rectangle to the circle

 

lines in a circle.afdesign

[G13RL]

@AntiqueFlaneur, a slightly different way of doing things than the one proposed by @NotMyFault, but in the same spirit.
1/ Draw the circle, keep it selected, "Layer", "Insert", "Inside".
2/ Draw a horizontal line at the place where you want the top line to be, going beyond the right and left limits of the circle.
3/ Copy and paste this line on itself as many times as you want.
4/ Move the upper line (the last one created), to the desired location for the lower line.
5/ Select all the lines, "Space Vertically".
6/ Group the strokes.
7/ Possibly align horizontally with the circle.

[AntiqueFlaneur]

7 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

Something  like this?

1. add a circle in light grey fill
2. add a rectangle, no fill, black stroke in 1pt width
3. use power duplicate to create as many lines as needed
4. nest all rectangle to the circle

 

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You're using Designer for this, correct?

[NotMyFault]

9 minutes ago, AntiqueFlaneur said:

You're using Designer for this, correct?

Yes, because i did it on iPad. You can do the exact same in publisher, or open the designer file in publisher and copy/paste my template, and adjust it to taste. 

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, AntiqueFlaneur said:

You're using Designer for this, correct?

It can be done using the same techniques in any of the Affinity apps.