Garden

For this piece, there were a lot of different pieces, which made it fun!  First we started with the growing carrots.  I used the ellipse tool to create a long oval, which I then used the eyedropper tool to change to a nice orange color.  Then I took the direct selection tool and selected the left and right anchor points, holding down the shift key.  I then dragged these points up, creating more of a carrot shape.  Then, I used the pencil tool with a light red color, and I drew lines on the image to add some dimension.  Then, I made the pencil tool a little big thicker and made it a green color.  With this, I drew the leaves of the carrot coming out the top.  Now I moved onto the long pot.  I took the rectangle tool and made a long rectangle, horizontal.  I then went to effect, warp, bulge and changed the bend to 17% and the vertical to -7%.  I then selected my whole carrot and grouped it.  Then I copied and pasted the carrot so there are now five carrots.  I used the horizontal center align to make sure they were evenly spread out, then I adjusted them in my pot to make them look cute!

Next, I made a tree.  I made a green circle with the ellipse tool, using the eyedropper tool to use the same color green as the leaves of the carrots.  On top of that circle, I drew another one with the ellipse tool, a little smaller than the first, and I made it a lighter shade of green.  Now to do the stem, I made a very skinny and long rectangle using the rectangle tool and set its color to a very dark green.  Next, for the pot, I made a rectangle and changed the color to brown.  Leaving it selected, I went to effect, warp, bulge and changed the bend to 25% and the vertical to -25%.  I then grouped all of the parts together.  I then made a flower, using the polygon tool.  I made a hexagon, by clicking the up arrow until there were six sides, then I went to effect, distort and transform, pucker and bloat and moved the slider to 50%.  This created a flower shape, which I then changed to a light cream/ivory color.  In the center, I placed a yellow circle which I made with the ellipse tool and holding down the shift key to make a perfect circle.  I grouped the flower parts, and copy and pasted until there were eight flowers.  I then placed them onto the tree and grouped the whole thing together.

Next was the fence.  I picked the rectangle tool and drew a long vertical rectangle.  I then took the add anchor point tool under the pen tool and added an anchor point in the middle of the top of the rectangle.  I picked the direct select tool and move this anchor point up until I had a nice fence board look.  I changed the color of the fence to the pot’s color in the carrots piece using the eyedropper tool.  Next, I copy and pasted until there were three of these planks.  I selected all three and made sure they were evenly spaced by using the horizontal align center tool.  Then, I made another rectangle to go horizontally across all three planks.  I made this plank a little darker of a blue.  I then grouped this fence together.  To create the ladybug on top, I drew an oval with the ellipse tool and filled it with a bright red.   I copied and pasted this oval and changed the fill color to black.  I then dragged this shape in until it was extremely thin.  To make sure it was correctly in place, I used the horizontal align center and vertical align center buttons.  Then, I created a black circle for the head and sent it to the back.  Then,