Free Hand-Painted Watercolor iPhone Wallpapers & Hand-Lettered Lock Screen

Hey, y'all!  I have a really fun freebie for you today!  Recently when I was working on watercolor backgrounds for my Bible Journaling Cards that I shared with a you a few weeks back, my friend Adrianne of Happy Hour Projects suggested that I make the watercolor backgrounds into iPhone wallpapers.  I thought that was a great idea, so today I'm sharing those wallpaper with you, plus a free hand-lettered lock screen.

These iPhone wallpapers are sized to fit the iPhone 6, but you can use them on other iPhone models.  

{#MFB Zombie Edition: Free iPhone Wallpaper}

Hey, y'all!  I'm excited today that a few of my bloggy friends and I are bringing you a special zombie edition of #MyFavoriteBloggers in honor of The Walking Dead returning after its mid-season hiatus.  I have an awesome iPhone wallpaper to share with you today.  

I have a confession to make.  I'm a huge scaredy cat.  I hate scary movies because, well, they're really scary.  I was totally against The Walking Dead when my husband started watching it because of all scary things, zombies are probably the scariest.  My computer is in the living room, though, so when my husband would watch the show, I would be at the computer with my back to the TV, but I could still hear what was going on.  The more I heard the story, the more intrigued I was.  So I started peeking at the TV here and there until the most recent episode of the show when I pretty much watched the entire thing.  If you're a loyal fan of the show, you know that this season Hershel risked his life in order to take care of the sick in the prison.  His lines about risking his life were really inspiring, so I thought they were perfect for my creation.

You can download the wallpaper {HERE}.  (I created the wallpaper for the iPhone 5.) Please note that any files shared here at Pitter and Glink are for personal use only. Before you go, check out these other zombie-inspired projects from My Favorite Bloggers!

Top Row, from left to right: 

Brain Shaped Ham and Onion Cheeseball‏ from Happy Hour Projects

Zombie Warning Yard Signs from 4 You with Love

Zombie Warning Door Hanging from It Happens in a Blink

Middle Row: 

Free Zombie-Inspired iPhone Wallpaper from Pitter and Glink 

Bottom Row, from left to right: 

Friendly Crochet Zombie Doll from Repeat Crafter Me

 Free Printable Zombie Valentine from Do Small Things with Love 

Zombie Makeup Using Basic Household Items from Creative Capital B.

Happy zombie crafting!

{Create a Personalized Lock Screen with PicMonkey}

Hey, y'all!  My blogging schedule is all off with school starting back.  I hope to be back on schedule next week, but we'll see if that happens.  Anyway, tonight I have a fun "tech-y" tutorial for you.  You know by now that I'm Southern, and we Southern girls love ourselves some monograms and personalization!  When I got an iPhone in November (I know.  It was about time, right?), I wanted to personalize it, so I created my own lock screen using PicMonkey, and I'm going to show you how to do it.

First of all, you need something you want to use as the base for your lock screen.  You can download free digital paper from Mel Stampz or Dreamlike Magic Designs to use, or you can simply use a photo and cover it up with an overlay in PicMonkey.  I chose to use {this paper} from Mel Stampz.  To begin, open your paper or image in PicMonkey and crop it.  (You can click on any of these screen shots to enlarge them.)

I have an iPhone 4s.  I did a Google search to find out what the size of my lock screen is, and I found that it's 640 x 960 pixels.  I cropped my image to that size.  (If you have an iPhone 5, the dimensions will be a little different.  Just google the dimensions of your lock screen like I did.)  To ensure I was able to use lots of the pattern, I checked the "Scale Photo" box so that I could enlarge my crop box without changing the dimensions.  Then I added a label.

Under the overlay section of PicMonkey, I found a label that I liked and put it in the center of my chevron background.  (I know it doesn't look like I centered it vertically, but that's because I cropped the screen shot.)  You can change the color of your label if you'd like by using the tools in the overlay box.  Once I had the label like I wanted it, I added my text.

Choose a font and center it in your label.  I like my text to have a shadow, so I used the text edit box to change the color of the text to a dark gray.  I then right clicked on the text and chose "duplicate text."

I changed the color of the duplicate text to white and positioned it over the gray text until the gray text looked like a shadow.  At this point I was happy with my image, so I clicked "Save" near the top of the browser. NOTE: I didn't choose to add texture to this, but you might want to.  If you want to add texture to your lock screen, you need to click the icon near the top of the page that looks like an arrow with two pieces of paper beside it.  This will merge all your layers of texts and overlays together.  Then click on the diamond shape on the toolbar on the left of the page, choose a texture, and fade it if you want a subtler look.  The textures are fun to experiment with!

Of course, now you're wondering how to get the lock screen to your phone, right?  All you have to do is simply email the picture to whatever email is connected to your iPhone.  Open the image from the email and long-press it.  Click "Save Picture," and in your phone settings, choose that image for your lock screen.

My phone now looks like this when it's locked.  Isn't that fun?  I created a few other lock screens as well.  It's really a bit addictive!

The background of the left one came from Mel Stampz, while the background of the right one came from Dreamlike Magic Designs.  I used a texture overlay on each.  The one on the right is my favorite of all three that I've created.  To personalize your phone even more, crop the digital paper you originally started with to the lock screen dimensions and set it as your phone wallpaper.  You will have a coordinating lock screen and wallpaper that everyone will be jealous of!  :)