 The Pot Take the Transform tool, set it to perspective, and slide the bottom in a bit to form this shape. 
In the EasyPalette , go to "fills" and find a nice fill you want for the pot. I used "Background" BT15. Go back to the path drawing tool and make another rectangle for the top of the pot. Just a skinny one this time. In the Path panel move the roundness same as you did for the bottom of the pot. Go to "Object" Convert Object Type, and convert from path to image. With the eyedropper tool, pick a color from the bottom of the pot to use for the top. Fill with this color. Go to the EasyPalette and go to painting gallery, click on weathered. 
You can add a drop shadow to the top now. Right click on it and go to shadow. When the window pops up , use these settings. 
You should now have this. 
You can use the burn tool to burn the edges of the pot just a bit.
Merge the top and the bottom of the pot as single object. 
Make the stem of the plant . 
Change the border on the line tool in the panel box to 1 and make a little curly thing and duplicate it , place them on the stem like this. 
Merge the stem and the little curly things as single object. Now for the leaves. Use the path drawing tool, custom shapes, and pick leaf 1. Draw your leaf, use a dark geeen, I used RGB 102, 102, 51. Go to "effects" Noise, add noise , click on the last box in the middle row. Now go to effects, Natural Painting, watercolor, click on the last box in the middle row. Place your leaves on the stem at random like this. 
Merge the leaves and the stem as single object, right click , duplicate , go to edit, rotate and flip, flip horizontally.Place on the other side of your pot. Make sure the stems are behind the pot. You can now merge the pot and the stems as single object. You should have something like this now. 
Now for the flower. Using the path drawing tool, 2D color black make a round circle. Using the bristle brush shape 14, color yellow, transparency 0 ,Preset- pepperdot. Click on Mode, Make some yellow dots on the circle. Click on mode again to exit. Merge the flower and the dots as single object. 
To make the petals, go to your path drawing tool, 2 D color yellow,custom shape, and choose raindrop. Draw the first petal, with the burn tool, burn the top left side of the petal. Place it behind your flower. Now with the transform tool, duplicate your petal and rotate it 10degrees to the right. Do this until you have all the petals around your flower. You will have to increaase the degrees to 15 or 20 , as you go around the flower. When you have it the way you like , merge the petals and the flower as single object. You flower should look like this. I zoomed in on this screenshot to give you a better look. 
Place the flower on your stem, duplicate it and place the second one on the other stem.Select all objects and merge as singls object. Add a drop shadow , and your all finished. 
And you now have a friendship plant , to give to your bestest friends:) If you have any trouble with this tutorial, just email me and I will be happy to help you . ~Polly
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