You might recall I was experimenting with polished pigment backgrounds earlier this year. Here's an image to refresh your memory. At the time I remember saying that they were really rather hideous but I promised I would eventually use these backgrounds and here's what I did with them. Wow! ..... orchid and lime green! The image is from Rachel Greig's Darkroom Door collection and the word "tulip" is stamped with metal alphabet stamps on metal shim. I added a layer of black gloss card sprayed with gold webbing spray to make it more substantial and added a lime green layer for the card base. The next piece had really great texture and I wanted to show it off instead of covering it up with an image..... the solution, a transparency! This one is from Stylish Images. I layered it on card stock which matched the gold polished pigments so that the gold blended off the background and onto the card. The flourish at the top is a rub on and it finishes off the card nicely. Th......