Free Spooky Valentine’s Day Phone Wallpapers with Tutorial

Hi, spooky friends!

As we know, Halloween is the best holiday of the year. And no, I will not be entertaining other opinions (lol). I actually don’t mind Valentine’s Day, but I feel like it could be better if it was, well, spookier. In fact, I’ve seen it suggested by many online that instead of Valentine’s Day, we should have a second Halloween. I wouldn’t be mad at that.

Anyway, I have created some fun and FREE spooky Valentine’s Day phone wallpapers for your enjoyment.

I also think it would be a good idea to include a quick tutorial on how I made them in case you want to make your own. It’s great fun, free, and easy! Feel free to scroll down for your free Valentine’s Day wallpapers below the tutorial.

Free Valentine’s Day Phone Wallpaper Tutorial:

The first thing to do is to log into your Canva account. If you do not have one, it is very simple to create one via canva.com. There are both paid and free options available. I do have a Pro account, which is the paid version, but I am going to show you a completely free project so you can see that you can accomplish quite a bit with the free version.

First thing after logging in, you will choose “other” under “What will you design today?” on your home screen. Scroll all the way until you see “Phone Wallpaper” and select “create blank”.

Now you have a blank canvas to work from!

***Side note: There are ready-made templates available to choose from. You have to be careful about using these if you are intending to sell them. You may not sell a ready-made template as-is. I am not an expert on the legality of commercial use, however, I am just giving you a friendly heads-up that you will definitely want to do some research if you plan on using anything from Canva for commercial use. For this tutorial, I am going to proceed on the assumption that whatever you create will be for your own personal enjoyment.

Back to the tutorial:

When I am working on a project, I like to gather some graphics and put them on the blank canvas so I have them ready to go. To find graphics, choose “Elements” and you can fill in the search bar with different combinations of words to narrow down your results.

For this example, I chose, “cute Halloween”, and then filtered to “free” elements so I could keep this as an example of what you can do for free in Canva.

Steps:

Choose Elements on Left bar
Search “cute Halloween”
Filter to “free” on drop-down menu (where you can see the “1”)
Graphics, see all

I got some great free graphics with that search alone, but I did try a few different searches to get a good number of graphics to start with.

Here is my collection of graphics to start with. I adjust as needed as I work if I feel like I might want a few other things for my design.

Now I need another blank canvas, just to play with some of the graphics that I chose; so I added another one. You can do this by clicking the plus sign on the top right, as shown below. Or simply click “+ Add page” located below your first canvas.

Now, I want 2 of the same ghosts. So I select the graphic and choose the + sign in the box of the menu that pops up.

Now I have 2 of the same exact ghosts. But I want them mirrored to face each other. So still keeping 1 ghost selected, I select “flip” on the top bar, choose “flip horizontal” and that gives me the same ghost, but facing the opposite direction.

These ghosts are exactly the same size, shape, everything, but now they face each other.

These little ghosties are in love since we’re doing a spooky Valentine’s Day project.

Moving on to some other elements… I want to add a skull and crossbones to a plain bottle. I had to search a few different things here, I believe the first I searched was “champagne bottle”, then “skull and crossbones”.

There are plenty of designs for poison bottles, but a lot of them are for Canva’s Pro version so I want to create my own.

To work with these graphics, I increase the size of both of them. I group the skull with the bottle together so I can resize them and move them and they won’t become separated.

I want to change the color of another graphic with bats to match the color of the skull on the champagne bottle. FYI, some graphics allow this while others don’t. You have to click on the graphic you want and see if the colors show up on the top bar. This one did.

Sidenote: I should have done my color-matching before grouping the bottle and skull together, so I have to ungroup the skull and bottle to do this next part.

Now, I click on the skull and its color comes up on the top bar. I can now click on the square with the color on the top bar and find it in the color panel below and select it. This gives me the code for the pink color (#FF0066).

Now I can change the color of the bat graphic. I click its color square (black) on the top bar, which opens the sidebar. I can then type in the color code that we found #FF0066 which shows the color that I want.

Now my bats are the same color as the skull from the poison bottle! Pretty cool, right?

Now I start arranging my graphics on the canvas that I think I want to use for my design. I also added a color for the background by selecting the white part of the canvas and choosing a color from the top bar.

I am going to continue playing with the other graphics that I have found for this project.

I was able to find a few blank candy heart graphics with colors that can’t be changed. There are tons of other options for Canva’s Pro version, but again, I want to keep this free, so I am choosing a heart with a color that does not go as perfectly with the others that I am working with. It still looks nice, though, so we won’t dwell on that.

I want to add some text to the candy heart and I have taken some time to browse through some of the free fonts that I can use.

I have chosen to use a free font called “DISTILLERY DISPLAY”.

First thing after typing my text in the text box, I group the text box to the candy heart together, like we did with the poison bottle.

I want to jazz it up a bit, so I am changing the effects of the text, which is found on the top bar on the right.

I chose the “hollow” effect and I am increasing the thickness of the text itself.

I found a graphic of some champagne glasses and am adjusting their color to a more poisonous-looking green color by clicking on the colors that come up on the top bar (which is exactly the same process as changing the color of the bats, but I am not matching it to anything).

I also found a cute free graphic of a tombstone that I wanted to use. I duplicated it like I did the ghost above, but I want them to be pushed back, with the bottle and glasses in the front.

To do this, you select the graphic, choose “layer” and then “send backward” or “send to back” depending on your preference and how many other items you want to layer in that area.

I’m happy with the design for now and I want to download a copy for my phone.

Now, to save a copy of your project from Canva, choose “Share” on the top bar, scroll down, choose “Download” with your preferences put into the menu. I chose to save it as a png file.

So here is our finished product:

Spooky Valentines Day Phone Wallpaper Tutorial for Canva — *Free phone wallpaper, not for commercial use*

Feel free to save a copy directly to your phone to use as a spooky wallpaper, but please do NOT sell this design. This is strictly meant for your enjoyment and is not for your commercial use.

Here is a remixed version of the free wallpaper. I was playing around with the colors and I think I like this one more!

I hope that you have enjoyed this tutorial and are inspired to try your own phone wallpaper projects. As you can see, the possibilities are pretty much endless. You can get as intricate or as simple as you’d like. I went simple for the demonstration, but you could literally spend hours working on just 1 design.

As promised, here are a few other spooky Valentine’s Day phone wallpapers for your enjoyment. Again, please do not sell these designs, they are strictly meant for your own personal enjoyment and not for your commercial use.

Happy Valloween!