I loved this class!  I've layered my lavendar brush strokes with 3 colors for the buds and 4 colors for the stems.  I think this gives the group a full painterly affect but I could still reduce colors for printing if necessary and not loose any of the details.  Thank you for the deeper explanation of image trace as well- it's always been a bit of a mystery to me (noise vs. threshold).  Happy with this!