This lesson is easy enough for beginners and can be done with ALL versions of PI & DIP. You will need to know where some of the areas are in your version of PI, I have done this one in PI2000 and the other at the bottom in DIP. You will be making this

First before you begin, you need to find flowers you want to use, either ones you have already or search google image search for some with the word "flowers" or even look at florist sites! Link to google image search is on my main PI page.
When you have your flowers, we now need a vase. You will add a circle shape.

You need to fill it with gradient (or solid or even a picture if you wish).

I chose these 2 filters in my gradients

Now you need to go to Illusions

And find this filter

Click on this filter and then go down a little ways and click on this

You will then change the last slider bar that looks like this

Slide it ALL the way to the right, until it says 10 on it. You may want to try the other sliders, and play around to see if you like something better

Your circle should now look something like this, after you squash it down a little to make it more of a side way oval.

Now to add the base, you need to add a square shape this time

You will now go back to fill with gradient. And click this

Then click on the first color choice

You will now use the eye dropper to choose 2 color from the gradient colors in your vase,

there is not right or wrong way for this, all up to what you like. Now click on the 2nd color choice and do the same thing

Your vase bottom should look like this

You can stop here, or you can do a little more to make it look a little more fancy. I chose to make mine a little more fancy, by beveling the base. You do this by clicking on your base, click CTRL+d to duplicate your base. Click on the bottom one and go to Brightness & Contrast, slide each bar to the left until it is as dark as you like.

Now click on the top layer of your base and go to Soft edges and move the slider over toward the right until you see as much of the bottom layer as you like.

Now your base should look something like this

Now add your flowers, make sure they are cutout, and dont have a background. And you have a new vase!

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