Stroke only outside path object

Hi all,

I’m trying to understand illustrator to learn more about the techniques.
Now I have drawn a shape and I would like to put white lines only around the flower, but it comes also in the object, what i not want:

I have tried clipping maks, merge layers, release layer, expand layer.
But this doesn’t work at all.

I also want to remove the tip of the flower as you can see in the red circle.

Anyone who knows how to fix this?

This is the wrong forum for that question. This forum is for developers and scripters making plugins and extensions for certain Creative Cloud products.

You should ask this question in this forum: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/ct-p/ct-illustrator?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all&lang=all&tabid=discussions&topics=label-how-to

Ideally with the label “How to”.

Hi Erin,

Thankyou for your message. I will put my question there.