Well this took a really long time to create but I learned a lot along the way! Next time I would do much finer lineart to start with since my lines were a little thick for my taste. I didn't really love painting the shapes in illustrator it felt tedious and I couldn't get them exactly how I wanted but I'm going to keep playing with it. I was able to have way more success using illustrator on my iPad. 

Here is my original sketch: 

And the two other color palettes I tried: 

Banana Split: 

Peony: