Eileen - For some simple roses on your beads, take a rod of either light pink or white and encase with Rubino (I usually encase about 1" of the end of the rod) and pull that into a stringer - not too thin. Take the stringer and make a spiral type flower bud (looks like a little cinnamon roll shape) on your bead. I usually will either put some greenish frit, or some vines (I use a vine stringer made with different shades of green for my floral beads) first, then do the flowers. If you want simple flowers, just put opaque dots in either groups of 3, 4 or 5 around the bead (make sure they aren't too close together or they'll just melt into a blob and you'll lose the petal shapes. I generally use white, pink, ink blue or opal yellow for the base dots), then take a transparent color that compliments the opaque dots and put a dot of trans over the opaque dots. Take a stringer of yellow or green and heat the center of each of the "flowers" - the dots will begin to pull in towards the heat. When this happens, bring the bead out of the flame, let it cool for a couple of seconds and then poke with the stringer. Let the bead cool some more until you can snap off the stringer. After you get all of the centers done, heat the whole bead to melt the flowers and then press or finish however you're going to finish it. I hope this helps and you're able to understand my instructions.
Here are a couple of pics of some beads I made with the dot type flowers. Unfortunately I don't have any pics of the roses.
Let me know if you need any more help.
Carla
roses or flowers...HELP...
