[Mary K]

Nice flower Will.
Try this.
First make the line STRAIGHT, not curved.
Use the cuticle pusher to curve it, and sort of gently
push the petal away from the staymens. Lightly,
and I mean lightly, indent the cuticle pusher.
Make your staymen area larger, like twice as large as
what you did here. Use jet black for staymens, or layer
jet black over the color you have here( or green ) and pull out for
staymen cane. Lightly prick each staymen dot with
tiny very sharp tungsten pick.
The staymens that are lightly indented are going to want
to travel up as you heat the maria for the compression,
As they go up, they will also drag the petals along with them,
producing a slighly cupped effect. Sometimes when I push the
petals out with the cuticle pusher there is room for another row
of tiny dots, so I put those on and don't pick them at all.
Actually most times I only use the pick on the center dots.
Try this and post what you get, I'll talk/type you thru it.