I was going to comment on Sarah's problem she mentioned she had with her BG being all covered with embossing powder when she added the EP to it....I read the tutorial on Splitcoaststamper and one thing she did was after she colored the embossed CS, she went over the entire piece with her embossing buddy---she pounced it in the video at the bottom of the tutorial instead of rubbing it with the embossing buddy to help keep it from getting too much of the ink on the embossing buddy. Then she added the Versamark, EP, heat, etc.....
I haven't got to try this step yet, but I am going to see if that step matters or not....since the I had that issue on mine.