Custom Graphic

I went for a more artistic approach to my graphic. I customed the pattern of the picnic blanket and the pattern of the tree. I traced out the silhouette of the birds and made them a brush as well as using an image from the internet to make the butterflies http://globe-views.com/dcim/dreams/butterfly/butterfly-03.jpg to make them a brush as well. I used brushes to create the texture of the grass as well as the clouds and used different blending modes to make them fit into the picture i was trying to create. Lastly I made the sun by creating a circle shape and three copies of the shape changing the blur on each one to create a glowing affect and used multiply to create a shadowy effect from the clouds.