Adding some Valentine flare to your designs helps to put you and your audience into the mood for love. You can add these backgrounds to flyers, posters, websites, and more for use during the Valentine holiday or really any other day of the year that you need a romantic touch.

Falling In Love by pinkperry

This small pattern with soft, pink heart-shaped leaves is very pretty and feminine and would work well on postcards for a boutique or spa.

International Love by wingedvictory

With an interwoven petal type design, this pattern is perfectly pink for any Valentine’s design.

Love Lies Bleeding by Mothra

Bright red veins act as vines in this unique and intriguing pattern. The little white flowers complete this great design.

Love Love Love by AbDawn

You will love this pallet of pinks used to create a repeating heart pattern. The detail of this pattern takes it to another level of lovely.

Love glows at night by Skyblue2u

Here is the same pattern as Love, Love, Love but with a more vibrant color pallet for those of you who enjoy the bolder colors.

Valentine’s Design

Find several versions of this lovely heart pattern on this site. The bubble like hearts are complemented by stripes, checks, or a gray tone color scheme.

10 Valentine’s day heart patterns

Any of these patterns would make a lovely addition to your Valentine’s Day designs. They are all simple and beautiful at the same time.

Free hearts patterns twitter backgrounds and vector graphics

Adding a heart background to your Twitter account is fun and easy. Check out the hearts in this design and others like it.

Valentine’s Background

This background is very sweet and simple. The beautiful pinks create a side border that would add romance to any design.

Red Valentine’s Background

Add some spice to your Valentine’s design with this red background. It has some orange and white swirls and hearts, very nice.

4 Free Valentine patterns background

These four Valentine’s designs are lovely and have a hint of grunge to them. One design has a crayon colored look to the hearts, another looks like delicate red, pink, and white hearts overlayed with each other.

Free Valentine Backgrounds

If you enjoy bold and bright reds and pinks, then you will love these designs. Each of the several color schemes have shimmering hearts with lots of vibrant color.

Heart Patterns

This design is nice and simple, with hearts in four different color schemes.

3 Valentine Backgrounds

You are sure to love these Valentine backgrounds. They are more than your average heart design; the extra detail gives these patterns quite the artistic look.

Soft waxen Valentine hearts pattern

The red, pink, brown, and cream color pallet makes these hearts look sweet enough to eat. This would make a perfect background for a candy shop’s promotional Valentine’s Day flyers or posters.

Smooth glassy Valentine hearts

These small, blue-green, glossy hearts with wings are fun and pretty and nice break from the traditional red and pink colors of the holiday.

Have fun adding some festive hearts to your website or other Valentine designs this year. Just remember to view the designers’ terms of use before using any of these patterns commercially. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Colors and more colors, here you have with this excellent artist from France, at the beginning a webdesigner now an illustrator  fulltime, he’s worked for clients like : Nike, Oakley AOL, ComputerArts UK and more, much more.

Enjoy some of the works of this artist and don’t forget to visit his portoflio to see more of his awesome work.

Designious has just released Design Cocktail II, a bundle for creatives worth $829 made available for the very low price of $29!

I would like to announce today the release of the second Design Cocktail bundle. This new premium bundle with more quality resources for creative people than before, is worth $829 and the price remains the same, only $29. You save $800 from the start!

Today thanks to the great guys of Designious I have a Design Cocktail for you.

The amazing goodies included in this pack are offered by Designious.com, Vectorious.net, Tshirt-designs.com, Paternsshop.com, WPwizz.com and Quickpayscript.com, so you can be sure that you get only the best quality products.

This is a fantastic opportunity for designers, artists and creatives of all types to get their hands on some really awesome resources for such a low price.

Here you have the official list of product, where you can almost take for nothing all this bundle.

How to Win?

Simple.

- Tweet this giveaway

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That’s all, comments will be valid until October 31, the day the bundle is finished and the winner will be announced on a post for this purpose the days after.

Good luck to everyone!!

Ok I am back, and hope this time, is for real!!

This time we start “again” with the really talented Greg Darroll from Durban, South Africa and his awesome vector illustrations, full of colors and humor, maybe the ironic on his art is what make the really interesting. From his portfolio we got some of the best illlustrations, to showcase theme here for you.
If you like his work don’t hesitate to visit him on  Devianart.

Let’s see what he got for us!!

It’s been a while since my last post, I can even imagine you remember right know what was it but anyway, it doesn’t matter at this point.

After having a lot of thing coming this last year I was really  busy  and the blog sadly became one of my last priorities for a while. As you can imagine, writing good content is really consuming and most if you are not a English native “so if you see spelling or grammar mistakes on my blog is normal”.

As you can see there is a new theme on the blog, but is just a really beta version, I just wanted to test it after having some problems with the WordPress upgrade last month, the lost some content (in this moment I’m scared about that) and the fact that I was working on it before letting on the side, but something I had to do.

Anyway, just don’t forget to stay in touch trough Twitter (follow me) and RSS. Because I have some other projects coming really soon.

The first thing when creating a website, after having a good company name, is the search of a web hosting company, you need the best service according to your necessities, not all the websites have the same needs, neither all providers the same plans and prices. This can become a hard task with all the companies out there offering the best hosting service everywhere, but how do you really know that one of those is the best, well, thanks to some factors like; clients and testimonials, offers and discounts, number of clients etc, but collecting all that information can be a long and painful task, most if you are not really a internet search master. In this troubled moment WebHostingSearch come to your help, they are one of the best source of information if you have to take the decision of a hosting provider.

Hosting Companies and More

In our times all this research can be done with one website, thanks to Webhostingsearch.com, there, you will find the best hosting providers, classified by different categories or services. If you are looking for a hosting to your personal portfolio or for a big company this is the place to find the best offers and services, thanks to some great tools they have prepared for you. The advantage of Web Hosting Search is that the ranking is created based on what real users say about their providers, that way you are sure to find both sides, happy and unhappy costumers for a specific company. You can take a look to some reviews and see by yourself what I am talking about.

Services

Another great feature is the categories they use to guide you trough your needs. If you may need some extra information, they have a series of articles about all kind of hosting problems and tutorials about dealing with some of the common situations, the main objective is that you will find the most adequate hosting service for you, from personal sites or small companies sites, to the big plans for ecommerce or private servers. What ever you search they have it in some way. Another tip when going to webhostingsearch.com is the web hosting coupons page, once you choose your provider, go and search for the discount code and maybe you will get a better price.

Good Stuff

They have some great articles about all web design related subjects but mostly about hosting as is their primary objective, one of the best and well explain articles they have written is 3 Steps in Publishing Your Website, is mainly dedicated to new people creating their first website, but they also have some complete articles about Linux or Programming thus anyone can learn something new. Another great help for you when just doing the first research, visit the domain search page and look if you can get the domain you want before doing the rest, is really important to me. Then go to my favorite tool, the comparison chart, select the providers you want to compare and just click on compare plans, you will get a huge list with all the important element of a hosting plan.

Bad Stuff

One of the things I personally don’t like is the fact that most of the hosting companies presented on the site are from EEUU so if you are looking for something local or closer to you is not easy to find, maybe because the website is made by people from USA but is something to get better in the future, anyway if you are hosted by a company which is not listed on the website you can totally send them a review of your hosting company.

Recently Re-Design

Old Design

New Design

They recently changed the design of the website and logo as well, that means they are really engaged with their website, and even if the new design is easier to read, changes are not evident for the normal visitor, but if you are someone interested on design I am sure you will notice it. The new design is aimed purely to the non designer visitor, as the pages are full of information everywhere, three columns instead of two and the use of white background to make easy to read all that text. The new logo is better than before, as it represent the main service they offer. To search for you is the idea of this website, and now is really clear what the website can offer you when you see its logo. The new design can help you find the information easier than before and if that was the idea of redesign, they succeed on that point, but the advertising banner on the top besides the logo can be very distracting as neither the logo looks important or the search field.

Final Thoughts

If you need a hosting provider and don’t know how to choose it, go right now and take a look at some information on Web Hosting Search, I am sure, after that you will have enough information to take a good decision and sure you will find the best cheap hosting plan for you. Including WordPress hosting, they have an impressive list of the best providers for this CMS we all love.