Apply the CEP Midnight Sepia (one of CEP's so called *Stylizing* filters). You can see what this did relative to the step 7 result - sepia tones and more drama. In looking at it now, I see that the flower needs toned down a bit. Easy enough to do; I was not paying enough attention when I did it.
NOTE - The time from start to end (here) is about 2 minutes tops. We're not talking spending hours slaving over a hot stove. (Of course, the 2 minutes presumes you know exactly what you want to do and how to do it. That's an average of 20 seconds to get from one step to the next.)