Today, it's my 20th Birthday. Instead of receiving presents, I'm handing out some high quality freebies for my loyal readers.

Currently, it's freezing in the Netherlands: 20 degrees celsius minus 0. Everything is covered in a small layer of snow, lakes are totally frozen and people are ice skating.

While I was taking a walk through the nature last week, I saw that everything was totally frozen. All the textures of the leaves were clearly visible: Better than normal. It's pretty obvious that I'm presenting another high resolution texture pack called Frozen Nature. This pack contains 6 textures (1000 px of width) with some nature stuff were you can see their texture really well!

I hope you enjoy them and use them well. The textures are totally free for all kinds of use.

Past saturday I visited another great Q-Dance event called Qlimax. There is a possibility you know the name already since I've mentioned them before. Next to the awesome hardstyle beats and wonderful show, Q-dance managed to create a super laser show. This was really inspirational and I'm sure you'll find this inspiration too in the beautiful lights.

This article rounds up some beautiful and wicked laser shows, just to get your design juices going. Get inspired by the beautiful lights that can help you in your next design work.

A while ago I placed an article about the colours of game heroes. That article showed the colour schemes of several game heroes, from Crash Bandicoot untill Yoshi.

Today, we're finding inspiration in the colour schemes of TV toons (cartoons). Did you know that Avatar Aang, Stewie Griffin or Homer Simpson could give you some nice inspiration too?

You could surely try out one of the following colour schemes in your next design project or artwork. I picked the most colourful toons that are (or recently were) on the TV. If you feel nostalgic, you can also watch (some of) these series online.

Collages, mash-ups, photomanipulations, compilations; They all are basically the same thing: Choosing a subject you want your design te be about, mix them up with some good elements and colours and produce stunning artwork.

But how do you define "good elements"? This depends on the kind of design you're making. There are some kind of elements that keep on repeating on several kinds of modern design.

Of course, you must remember that this is a round-up of the most used elements at this moment. This doesn't mean that you should stick with them: Be on top of the game, but be innovative and try something new! But for now: Here's a great collection of most used elements in collage artwork. Get inspired and be amazed!

Inspiration can be found everywhere. Even in the games that everybody knows. Game heroes like Mario, Link, Donkey Kong and Mega Man are characters that almost everybody will recognize in an instant.

This article is showing the colours of game heroes just to feed your inspiration fluids and get them juiced up. I had to leave out heroes that don't have much color (like Solid Snake) or didn't had a high quality picture (like BattleToads). Enjoy!