First I used the blob brush and eraser to create the tree. This took a while, and it still didn't look like the reference. However, it looked close enough for me. The I used the ellipse tool to make an oval. Then I used the direct selection tool and convert anchor point tool to make it into the petals of the cherry blossom. I think I went rogue on this step, but now I cannot remember how.
I then rotated while copying using the alt key. Then I used the blob brush again to make the center of the petal. I then grouped it together before copying and pasting it numerous times. Then I just resized, rotated, and placed the flowers all over the tree.
Then the instructions wanted me to blur my flowers, which I spent too much time on for them to be blurry. I did it once just to follow instructions before doing the undo feature. Instead of blurring I copied the tree twice and made those trees slightly transparent.
Then I used the blob brush to make the mountain and the ellipse tool to make the sun.
Next I googled a background (I think I did parchment). I put it as its own layer over the mountain and sun, but above the trees.
It looked weird, because my trees were so short, so I made the trees bigger.
I still didn't like it, so I went to photoshop to make a shadow for the mountain. First I took a screen shot of the mountain layer. Next, I pasted it into photoshop. This had some difficulties because there were different pasting options. Some wouldn't let you edit it, some just showed an outline, but one finally option worked how I wanted it to.
I then used the burn tool to make the mountain darker. This took a couple tried, because what looked too bright or too dark in photoshop wasn't the same in illustrator, especially after I made it transparent.
Once I had the "shadow" mountain, I screenshotted that. Then I placed the mountain into illustrator on the same layer as the mountain. I made it slightly bigger than the original and put it to the upper right. Then I made it transparent.
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