Sometimes, when you want a no brainer when it comes to picking card stock or pattern paper to work with, I have found THE tool you need.
I stumbled upon color palette generator recently. It creates a color palette base on a photo you selected. This is a useful tool because you can simply upload the photo and it shows you all the major colors that are present in your photo. Below is an example of a photo I tried with this tool and a layout I created using this palette:

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A big majority of my palette were muted grays and blues so it's my primary shade on this page. I used dark browns as my accent color and everything came together easily.