Valentine’s Day Backgrounds: 16 Papers with Hearts, Love Letters, Roses and Cupid’s Arrows plus 4 Widescreen Versions and Motion Clips

These Valentine’s Day backgrounds look like the paper bits you would tuck into a scrapbook or a card box: a love letter, envelopes, LOVE postage stamps, pressed flowers, bows and cupid arrows, all in one palette of cherry red, blush pink, soft green leaves and warm cream. The shapes are flat and clean, with thin pale outlines, and most designs leave plenty of cream showing around the motifs.

The 16 papers

Hearts. Heart Sprinkles scatters rows of small tilted red hearts. Satin Heart is a single big heart with a glossy, ribbon-like shine, sitting under a pale pink arch with a bow at its tip. Glitter Hearts puts one red heart in the middle of a pink ground flecked with tiny gold and red specks. Cloud Hearts floats pink clouds carrying little red hearts. Lace Heart clusters hearts with dotted white lace edges into two opposite corners and keeps the middle clear.

Letters and keepsakes. Love Letter is a cream sheet ruled with faint wavy lines where the writing would go, with a rose in one corner and a pink envelope in the other. Lovecore Collage sets eight small tiles in a grid: envelopes, hearts, roses and bows on pink, peach and cream squares. Postage Love has four stamps with dashed edges, two with a heart and two with a rose, each printed with LOVE. Xoxo Type writes XOXO in red script in the center, with a bow in each corner.

Repeats and stripes. Heart Gingham is red and pink gingham with hearts on top. Red White Stripes is plain vertical cherry-red stripes on cream. Cupid Arrows and Ribbon Bows are small scattered prints of heart-tipped arrows and red bows.

Flowers. Rose Petals drops angular red petals marked with fine lines. Pressed Flowers lays sprigs of tiny pink and red blossoms across the page. Rose Oval is a ring of pink roses on a leafy green vine, with an empty center that fits a name, a date or a photo.

Seamless tiles

Five designs come with a PNG tile as well as the JPG: Heart Sprinkles, Heart Gingham, Cupid Arrows, Red White Stripes and Ribbon Bows. Set the PNG at 100%, with no rotation or spacing, and the edges meet without a seam, which is what you want for wrapping paper or a large print. The tiles are solid paper designs, not cut-out hearts on a transparent layer.

Wide screens and motion clips

Satin Heart, Rose Petals, Cloud Hearts and Rose Oval also come at 16:9. These are rearranged, not cropped: the motifs move out to the corners on a soft pink-to-cream gradient and the center stays open. The wide Satin Heart is three glossy hearts without the arch, and the wide Rose Oval shows three single long-stemmed roses rather than the ring. That open center leaves room for a title or a desktop full of icons.

Each of the four also has an MP4 at 1920 x 1080 and 3840 x 2160. The clips run eight seconds at 24 frames per second with no audio, and the picture pans slowly and only a little, so it reads as a calm moving backdrop behind slideshow titles or a video rather than an animation.

Printing

The two PDFs give you one design per page, centered with a white border and labeled with its number and name. Choose Actual Size in the print dialog and you get a 7.5-inch square on US Letter, or roughly 7.27 inches on A4, a good size for card fronts, journal pages and box liners. For a 12-inch scrapbook page, print the 3600-pixel JPG at 300 dpi on 12 x 12 paper. The reds are strong, so print one page first and adjust if your printer runs warm.

For a set made only of hearts, from pink lattices to heart trees, see the heart backgrounds. The February backgrounds add a blank month grid, desk organizer screens and phone wallpapers.