Open the rose frame mask. Please note that I used this as a template to make an object and not
as a true mask. Go to edit, trace image. You should see a broken line with little dots surrounding your image. In the menu bar the mode is horizontal deform, change it to 2d object. Choose edit, then fill from the menu bar, browse to where you put the gold fill and select it. Make sure you have the fit image marked as show in the picture. Click okYour image should now be gold edged. Right click and duplicate. Leave this one selected.
Select the paint brush and make sure the paint is in object mode button is selected.
Paint the roses red and the leaves green. You can change paintbrush sizes and colors without leaving the
paint in object mode. Be careful not to go outside the edges of the roses and leaves, but you
also want to completely fill them with the colors. The lines inside the leaves and roses are painted over. 
When you are satisfied with your painting choose the pick tool. Click ok when the diaglog box
informs you that this action will leave the paint in object mode.
You can put a texture to the paint at this point, or not as you choose. If you want a texture one option is to go to effect, material effect, texture filter. I chose the second example and scaled it back to 50%. Then used apply to this picture.
With the painted object still selected send it to the back. Choose object from the menu bar, select
all object and merge as single object. Open a black canvas 400px wide and 500px in height.Drag to the black canvas, choose object, align, center both.
Open another white canvas the same size as the black one...400 by 500 px. Choose the linear gradient fill tool (bucket fill drop down menu). This tool gives you much more control of the gradient fill than does the fill command from the menu bar. Choose your fill colors by clicking in the fill colors box in the tool attribute bar. I choose #F7BC5B, #FDEDBB. Click in the upper left corner and drag the line towards the middle of the canvas and let go. When you have time experiment a little with this tool. You can start from any point and go to any point...very useful.
Chose the standard selection tool, elipitical shape. You can set the size to 330 width and 348 height if you want (the sizes on the pic are not correct), Or use a duplicate frame as I did to get the correct oval size. You can always use the transform tool to resize the oval too. Make yourselection on the golden canvas. You can use the arrow keys to move the selection around if you are not happy with your original placement. When you are happy with it, right click and convert to an object.
Change to the pick tool and drag your selection to the black canvas, place in the frame and send to the back. Again you can use the arrow keys for exact placement.
Drag the lady image to the black canvas, resize to fit the frame. Send backwards until it is
behind the rose frame. Right click on the image and set the transparency between 15 to 20 percent.
You are finished!!
There are several variations possible with the frame object. There are a few thumnails below.
One of my favorite is applying a bevel to the frame. Replacing the black background with different colors gives a lot of choices and uses.
I hope you like your Gold Edged Rose Frame as much as I like mine. Thanks Bunches, Dorothy Irene!
