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It sounds to me that your selection is inside-out Solistar. Press Ctrl+Shift+I to inverse it. You should only see a selection marquee around the circle object... not running around the outer edge of the canvas area.

PLUS...

I did not use Vector Shapes for this image. I just created/used basic good ol' selection shapes. That may be your real problem here.

If you want to, it would be a simple thing to convert these basic shapes to Vector when you're done the image.