Blog Design: 22 Free Photo Overlays

We are all about customizing your blog to make sure it reflects you and your content and attracts the readers you want. Another way you can amp up your blog posts is to add some photo overlays to your photos. What are photo overlays? They are fun images and bits you can add to your photos to personalize them more. I've rounded up 22 photo overlays that are totally free and totally awesome. Not sure how to use photo overlays? Hold tight - a tutorial will be coming soon! Then you too can make awesome photos like this:

Okay or more like this one:

22 Free Photo Overlays 

(also known as blog bling!)

via IROCKSOWHAT

via Pugly Pixel

via Sweetly Scrapped

via Olive & Ivy (formerly Yours Truly)

via Cora Mae Design

via Sweetly Scrapped

via IROCKSOWHAT

via Pugly Pixel

via Olive & Ivy (formerly Yours Truly)

via SeasonsTea on Deviantart

via Pugly Pixel

via Joy Laforme

via Mel Stampz Flickr

This one has literally hundreds of texture and patterns you can use!

via CaT-S0ul via Deviantart

via IROCKSOWHAT

via Sweetly Scrapped

via Pure Imagination

via Joy Laforme

via AmEeR-Sa on Deviantart

via Cora Mae Designs

via Aimelle on Deviantart

via Pugly Pixel

How excited are you now? For real. Check back in a couple weeks for a post on how to use these awesome overlays if you aren't familiar!

Blog Design: 25 Free Social Media Icon Sets

We talked in a previous post about how there are thousands of free resources on the web that you can use to make your blog your own. To delve into that a bit more, I've rounded some 25 FREE social media icon sets that will make your site look like the bomb-dot-com. Check out the aforementioned post for even more free icon sets and design resources!

via Dinosaur Stew & Lena B Actually

via IROCKSOWHAT

via Pancake Ninja

via Pure Imagination

via rafiki270 on Deviantart

via Social Media Delivered

via Craftiments

via The Pixelista

via Geek Fairy

via Joy Laforme

via c.w frosting

via IROCKSOWHAT

via Pink Moustache

via The Pepper and Her Pups

via Geek Fairy

via Besotted

via Totally Tates

via Design Bolts

via Dreierlei Liebelei

via 15 Minute Beauty Fanatic

via The Shoppe Designs

via Crab + Fish

via c.w frosting

via Hazel & Agnes

via verve & sass

PHEW! That's a lot of icons!

Let us know if you end up using these icons on your site! And as always, if you do, make sure to give credit to the original sources and if you pin the sets, PLEASE pin from the original source too! Only pin the title image from this post - we want to make sure we direct traffic to the designers for all their hard work.