My iphone won't backup even though I have plenty of icloud storage

I just recently brought more iCloud storage because I was out of iCloud storage.  However, my iPhone 4S still won't back up.  I show that I have 15 GB of storage and 9.4GB available.  I also show that my next backup size is 5.5 GB.  Why is my phone not able to backup?   The "back up now" option is blacked out and the message shows "this iPhone cannot be backed up because there is not enought iCloud storage avaiable."   But I should have plenty of storage available.    What am I doing wrong? 
Thanks for your help!

It's probably refering to your iPad and not iCloud.
Check your balance space on iPad here:
Settings>General>Usage>Storage
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