Embossing

I haven't played at CAS-ual Fridays in awhile, but I do love embossing in all its forms, so I made a card for their current challenge:  to use dry or heat embossing on a Clean and Simple project.  Here's my entry:

To start I sized a digital poinsettia by Jane Beljo into 2 sizes, then printed them out on vellum.  Since I had had smearing problems before, I immediately sprinkled some clear embossing powder over them and heated them - problem solved.  The heating made them naturally curl a bit, so I had instant dimension, too!  Then I used 2 shades of pink markers to roughly color them in, and then fussy-cut them out and layered them up, three-deep, adding white pearls to the center.  My dry embossing is a Cuttlebug embossing folder called Juli's Garden, embossed on Core'dinations whitewash corner hutch.  Then I sanded it to bring the pink out a bit more.  My sentiment is from The Craft's Meow's Christmas Lantern, embossed in white.