Artistic Prompt - Cathy Zielske page template and a Ripple update

I'm not one for slushy stuff on layouts,and I've never used vellum on a layout either.One of the latest layouts pages over at Camp Scrap was a page template from Cathy Zielske.One of the techniques that was used was to make a rose from sticky backed canvas. Last night I settled myself in the craft room with Big Brother on the tv in the background and set to. It's funny how some pages just evolve, the photos I had were all ones that I like and it just seemed to come together.I didn't like the swirly rose at the beginning but after I'd inked it and flicked a bit of Perfect Pearls over it I quite liked it.
The rose was made using a link from here - on  Tim Holtz's blog using Claudine Helmuth's sticky backed canvas.

I was pleased with how this turned out in the end as I got to do some 'messy' stuff too and I don't normally think to do that sort of thing on layouts.The other flower was using a Paperartsy stamp and the technique we learned at the Artsycrasfts weekend recently....

and now on to the crochet project of the Ripple....the original had to be undone as I went wrong and one of the sides were all lop sided (if that makes sense) somewhere along the line I had missed a stitch and it messed all the flow of the sides up.After thinking I couldl maybe 'cover ' it at the end by edging it or sewing tape round the sides, I decided I couldn't bear it and undid it all .

Pleased to say I have now got the next one going ok and am re- using all the wool so all is not lost!

This is how far I've got, ends and all !