Cloning is best done during veg cycle rather than while budding.The genetic program that dictates and regulates growth is switched to a reproductive stage while budding and does not encourage easy vegging/cloning. It is not impossible just a more difficult and less successful time to do it.
I would say, and this is just my personal opinion, let your plant bud out, harvest it, and then reveg it and after two months of revegging take your cuttings.
So rather than continue and go into explaining a fool proof method of cloning here, consider what I have said and post an email addy if you want more details.