The flowers I used in that tut are part of the brush library; a floral sample. I played around with the size, spacing, that kind of thing. Now as far as saving it as a template, you can't do it in the way you are suggesting. Because you size everything according to your photo, one size does not fit all. Before going further, there is a way you could set it up to be used repeatedly (in a manner of speaking), save it as an action. Which is what you would want to do if this was
PS you were using. I have only played around slightly with the action process in Illustrator, so I would not be able to give you any good info on how to do that. Noel sorry I could not be of more help, btw, welcom to Biorust!---bedlam123