EBTKS - Wrapping Paper Challenge

Wow--it's been way too long!!  Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year celebration.  The Christmas holidays were a lot of fun for us, but very busy = I had little to no time to papercraft, let alone blog.  My 3 year old had a sleepover tonight at my parents', so I finally got some time to sit at my craft table!!

The current EBTKS Around the House challenge is to use wrapping paper in our card creation. 

I've actually made 2 cards for this challenge.  I used stitching on both too--I got a sewing machine from my hubby for Christmas (it's what I asked for), and I've been practicing with it!! 

My first card is a birthday card:

I stitched some old wrapping paper I found to the bottom half of card.  Stamped sentiment and ribbon are both from Michaels' bin.  Black paper is punched with EK Success border punch.

The second card is a Valentine's card I made using kraft parcel paper (had some left from Christmas parcels I mailed):

I stamped the kraft paper repeatedly with a border stamp from Stampology using Colorbox Dragonfly Black.  Then I put the paper through my Cricut and cut out two hearts with the George cartridge.  I mounted the hearts on some scrap creamy coloured paper and adhered them to the card (Recollections cardstock)--adhered the right one with foam dimensionals.  Oops, I did stitch the kraft strip on first.  The "I Love You" strip is from some patterned paper--but can't remember the company.  Ribbon is from Michaels.

Thanks 4 your time!!