Blender 2.65.9 modeling and Cycles strand rendering
200 samples
render time 25minute
:yes: great work…
Awesome! It is hard to pick a favorite between the two lighting and compositing approaches! 
Very nice render! Imo the top one looks the better of the two.
Thanks for your comments
really nice! i would also favour the top one.
awesome! the top one looks better for me too
Okay, that looks pretty cool. For some reason the color on the grass makes me think icing sparkles or something candy related
Top one is better imo! Great job overall! but theres some things I would fix:
Balloons look a bit flat to me, maybe you should add some reflections or something to give them the feel of depth? Also the pose of little fellas seems to be somehow a bit akward.