How did you use the elements of Art (line, color, pattern, visual texture, shapes, values) to enhance or hide the folding?

I used color, visual texture, pattern, and words to enhance my folding. The camo pattern conveyed that the message on the project is some sort of a war. A non violent war over preserving the countries trees. The color also helped send a similar message. The words obviously delivered the very blunt message, but the color and patterns helped emphasize. When the design is opened it shows a hidden tree.

What is your audience supposed to think of the design? What "clues" have you give them to make them think that?

I wanted the message of my design to be to conserve our trees and protect our forests. I portrayed this by writing the words "going green?" with the answer: "you're going the wrong way" with pictures of bulldozers and patterns of red and green camo to convey this message of non violent war. When the design is opened it shows a tree. It is a peaceful symbol in an otherwise angry looking design, what with camouflage covering the whole thing.

This is the pattern for my folding project.

 How can I use COLOR and VALUE to create an emotional reaction in my audience? 
I used color and value to create an emotional reaction in my audience because i used a black and white background  in the summer picture, with a rainbow gradient colored grass. Then I used spring like colors to fill out the background. This shows the differences in different seasons through color.

What selection SHAPES will best relate to, or react with the image I chose?
The selection shapes i used were mostly flowers because I wanted to use a theme of different seasons, so I used flower shapes to create a pattern, and to fill in the background of the main focal point which is the tree in the picture.

How can I have a FOCAL POINT in all this visual craziness? 
I used the shape and outline of a moon, which coincidentally created a snow globe effect over a summer scene. I then filled the background in with different vibrant colors and the outline of flower shapes. I created a focal point by creating the background in the summer scene with the tree black and white, while the grass was a rainbow colored gradient. These two techniques are so opposite that it makes the image pop. Also, the main image is centered on the page, while the background images are equally symmetrical in the corner of the page, drawing the eye to the center image.

Whats the deeper/second meaning of my design? My design is very simplistic-the way I like. From far away, the design looks like a silhouette of a graduate throwing the letters WA into the air, instead of a graduation cap. At a closer look, the letters WA, are made up of the words seniors class of 2013.

What elements/principals did i used to achieve it? I used mostly text to compose the complicated part of the design, the WA, but for the body I worked a lot with color and lines.