The techniques I used was reflection on the lotus photo, I made my own brush stroke mask for the lotus photo, edited all my photos with TRA Rad Lab, recolored or layered and clipped to change colors and textures of any elements I used as well as my font, and ultimately edited the whole page with TRA Rad Lab to make all the colors pop a little extra!
I also posted in the Japan general subforum
HERE
Lisa, this was by far the hardest challenge for me but it was good! Boy had I gotten spoiled with templates

Thanks for the fun!