Expression blend 3 wont show Background image - silverlight

i am developing a solution using Expression blend 3 and i have a problem because my background images wont show up in design time, in run time i can see them.
As you can see in the attached picture there is no image in stackpanel.
Is there a solution to this?
Best regards,
Luka

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