You could do a lot more with the text and background, but nothing sticks out to me as extremely ugly or anything. The blue is kind of nice.
I like v1 better, those bullets don't fit in very much. I like the effects, but it is too bright on the white areas and the text needs some work. Maybe make v3 with the text position of v2 but without the bullets like v1?
The text could use some work, and the BG is a little to simple but other than that I like it. Blue = Favorite Color