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Donnie,
That's a great piece and you did an excellent job with your feature ring.
Lamination PRO gives you a way to make the same star design and you may find that it will make things easier and faster than using the stacked wood approach. With this method, every cut you make will be at 36 degrees.
Start with a laminated board with two 1" strips of contrasting wood. Make a first generation board with an angle of 36 degrees and where the strips are cut at 1" wide or wider. Now, using the same 36 degree angle, cut the first generation board, flip it edge-for-edge, make your next cut and repeat.
Lamination PRO will show you where to make your cuts. With the first generation board displayed, click the Radial button and change to 5 Repeating Units and 'Single Strip' Radial Segments and then click the Circle button. Using just the top segments will give you a star and the bottom segments will give you the identical star with the species reversed - kind of a 2 for 1.
If you look at the tutorial at the following link and look at the 'Tips and Tricks' pdf file, the 'Relative Positioning System' is a good way to make your radial cuts repeatable:
http://woodturnerpro.com/software-tutorials/155-lamination-pro-tutorials-multi-generation-laminations.html
You can add a border to the star by simply adding a 1/8" contrasting strip between the two 1" strips.
Thanks for posting this, Donnie, and welcome to the community. I look forward to seeing more of your work.
Lloyd

Thanks for the complement and the information. That way will make it a lot easier. This is the first vase that I have done. I was really happy with the way it turned out.