Papertrey Make it Monday #65 - Background Patterns from Patterned Paper Scraps - shaped card

This week's Make it Monday from Papertrey Ink is a great way to use up your patterned paper scraps. The fabulous Dawn McVey made a great video talking about proportion and pattern ... great stuff!!

I keep my pp scraps in with each of the pads so they're easy to find and often make use of them.  I even keep slivers of scraps as they can be useful for grounding other background patterns.  I dove into my Basic Grey patterned papers and came up with this card:

It's a shaped card cut with Mega Mat Stack 4 and then used my two sizes of Mat Stack 4 dies for the focal point with a Beautiful Blooms flower in the centre.  The background is impressed with my new Chevron Impression plate from Wplus9.  I waited and waited for PTI to come out with one but became impatient so I am using, gasp, a product from another company! ;-) 

Even the BB die cuts used up some patterned scraps!  So altogether I used 7 patterns.  Since they are quite monochromatic I think it ends up not being too overwhelming ... that's what I'm hoping for at least! :)

This is for a friend going through a tough time so I send a card at least a few times a month so she knows she's in my thoughts.   Hopefully she likes it ... she enjoys this sort of a colour scheme rather than bright ...

Supplies:
Paper:  PTI Kraft, Gina K chocolate; Basic Grey Manila and Kraft Basics 6x6 pads
Stamps: Mat Stack 4 (sentiments broken up in two parts and selectively inked)
Ink: Jenni Bowlin Brown Sugar, PTI Vintage Tea Dye duo (inked up edges of flower)
Misc: PTI dies (Mat Stack 4, Mega Mat Stack 4, Layerz Mat Stack 4; Beautiful Blooms); Wplus9 Chevron IP; foam dots, PTI button and button twine