Birthday card featuring a punched border, a die cut butterfly and a stamped greeting

 A birthday card for a young lady in my extended family whose birthday is very close to Christmas.  

I started with a #6 envelope and created a card to fit inside from purple cardstock.  I found two pieces of decorative paper that coordinated - a colour printed background and a scrap of paste paper which I made a while back.  I punched the edge of the printed paper with a border punch (MS) and then glued it to my card front.  I added glue to the paste paper and slid it under the punched border.  There was not enough contrast to highlight the pattern so I trimmed a small strip of silver cardstock and slid it between the two pieces under the punched border and that was much better.  I trimmed a stamped greeting (individual font letters) and adhered it to my card front and then added a strip of black cardstock over it that was the same length as they decorative paper.  I found a silver butterfly die cut that coordinated with the little strip under the border and adhered it to my card front using 3D foam tape.  Very happy with that and it will soon be on its way to her.  Therese