I kept my stroke color at R144 G63 B145 and my fill color at R192 G192 B255 throughout making this graphic. On all the brushes I had the brush variation checked. For the border around the graphic I used the twirly star. The only thing I changed on the brush was the size to 50. On the brush variation I made the color blend Fade in at 100, Hue to Oscillating Fade at 0, the Fade rate at 100, Position jitter at 79 and the Impressions per step to 1. All the rest was set at default settings. The inside of the graphic is the rounded flower brush. I left the brush and the brush variations at the default settings. For the very center of the flower I used the Van Gogh brush with default settings for brush and brush variations. My text for my initials is font Black Chancery, size 28, stroke width 0.5, line opposing arrowheads equal. I added a drop shadow to the text of V&H 3, opacity 75, blur 5.00 and color black. All the graphics for this lesson I saved using the gif optimizer. I have really enjoyed learning what all the paint brush in version 8 is capable of. I kept everything I did to what the lesson covered.