2. Draw a circle with the ellipse tool. Hold the shift button to create the circle. Leave the colour as default (white fill and black line). The size doesn't matter too much at this stage.
3. Go to the Effects menu > Distort and Transform > Roughen
4. Using the sliders, make the circle slightly rough. You will need to experiment. There really is not the "right" amount to chose. Smooth points might be best as we are creating flowers. But again you might want to experiment.
5. The circle will look something like the one below.
6. Expand the circle. Go to the Object menu > Expand Appearance. There will be no change in the appearance of the rough circle
7. Double click on the Scale Tool (in the Tool Panel). It is the middle tool in the picture below.
8. Enter 80 in the Uniform Scale field. Again there is not "right" amount and you should eventually experiment. But this is fine for now. Don't click OK.
9. Make sure the Preview is turned on. Press the Copy button. (The other options are fine to leave as they are).
Now you will have two objects on the art board similar to the picture below.
10. Rotate the selected object slightly by clicking on the Selection Tool (black arrow) and rotating a corner handle. OR you could click on the Rotate Tool in the Tool panel and rotate the object.
11. Keep repeating step 7 though 10 so that you have many objects on the art board. 
Nice piece of work. You might want to try the gradient tool on it. At the moment you might not realise it is meant to be a flower. It does mention gradient in the title! Steve
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