Congrats on getting that nice shiny ribbon!

 yeah, third place :D

That background is great!

i think, its not important. its just a fantasy landscape, so let me. yes i remove the bottom, and now? now it fit the challenge rules. i see, nothing makes sense to you, but i told you my opinion.

 You simply removed the whole bottom of the trunk and now call it floating because you figured out this was the easiest way to make it fit the rules. Too bad. I think it would've looked a lot better if you let the whole tree come up including all its roots and maybe some earth between them. 

I must confess I have no idea what you did on the right side. Are those supposed to be mushrooms? And if they really are, why did you put them sort of into the cloud or where it would continue? Doesn't make any sense to me.

Why wouldn't be as it's a different, more realistic, perspective of this piece :)

 sorry, now he is again floating…

the trees are easily spotted on earth... maybe only in my area but they exist on earth ;) so i wonder if your work satisfy challenge's requirements

Very Nice Job ;D

 is that allowed?

Awesome!

I like it 

Bring back the old piece with the real tree and long bg, add it as an other piece please, it was awesome too :)

 I'm glad I could help :D
They did accept it, right?

This is beatuiful <3

and, i think you got one of my votes…

if i saw this, i knew that its yours. your style is such a... i dont can explain it. wunderfull…

 i like it,

...though, i think its a pity u got rid of the background layer on the right side, maybe try something like this ...., also the shading on those bubbly clouds might blend i bit more, the floating effect of the tree looks kinda rushed too

i like the effect.