Pretty Paper, A Flower Button, A Fastenator, Ribbon and Glitter

If you have been following my previous posts, this is the same paper that served as the inspiration for the previous card. In fact, this one came first and the previous card was actually made from the leftover strip that was cut off the top of this one. You can get a much better appreciation of the paper on this card - it was really designed to show off the paper. Can you guess what my two other goals were? Using the fastenator and incorporating a button are the correct guesses. In order to tie the elements together, I ended up covering a square of the white paper with silver glitter glue to set off the button and adding a line of silver glitter glue right above the scalloping. The ribbon border at the top is pretty thick so the whole strip of white paper is bumped up. This also helps hide the fastenator's prongs if you attach it just to the white strip of paper. The Happy Birthday stamp was just as hard to use as it was on the previous cards, but it gave an image that had the right height and width and most importantly, it was still sitting on the craft table from the previous card.