Make-it Monday #206: Stamping & Mixing Patterns

This week's PTI MIM Challenge was to create a card using a mix of at least three background patterns. See the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vRN1wdLBo80

At first, I thought this was going to be easy.  Boy, was I wrong!  I tried several different combinations of colors and patterns, but nothing seemed to turn out quite right.  Finally, I noticed the cute little circular "smile" stamp from the Enclosed:  Flower stamp set and decided to work with that.  After stamping a row of smile circles in Pure Poppy and Hawaiian Shores, I was happy.  However, then came the daunting task of what to mix with it.  I settled on some Hawaiin Shores and Aqua Mist for backgrounds, but still needed to stamp them.  I searched through all of my stamp sets and chose the star from Sparkle & Shine and a patterned print from Background Basics:  Botanicals.  I stayed with the red and aqua theme, using the same ink colors for stamping.  Next, I cut out the list die that matches the Divided stamp set from the Moments Inked collection and cut off the bottom third.  I have a little stamp that looks like washi tape and thought it would look cute under my "Smile" sentiment.  I completed the card with a red button and I few vertical strips of red cardstock to break up the background.