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How to Create Printables in Canva to SELL ON ETSY

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let's create some fun printables in

canva for free so you can finally open

that digital product etsy shop that's

going to bring you passive income

hi if you're new here my name is sandra

and i'm a freelance graphic designer

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i've been creating and selling printable

wall art and digital planners for a few

months now and i've gotten to a point

where i basically make daily sales

it's a super fun and creative process

and i promise you don't have to be an

expert in graphic design to do it as

well

before we start the tutorial i wanted to

let you know that i've linked my free

guide in the description box down below

on 20 digital product ideas that you can

sell online

so make sure to grab your copy before

the end of the video now without further

ado let's head over to my computer

okay first step is to find the graphics

that you want to use for your printables

i highly recommend going to creative

market that's where i get all of my

graphics

and today i'm going to be putting

together a cute little nursery wallet

so i love this one watercolor woodland

friends this is the one i'm going to be

using

as you can see i've already purchased it

but if you haven't purchased it it'll

show you for personal use commercial or

extended commercial

it will recommend that you choose

commercial which is what i purchased so

that i'm allowed to use these graphics

for my own digital products i'll link

this one in the description box down

below if you guys want to purchase this

one as well

but now that i have these graphics i'm

going to head over to

canva i'm on the home page of canva.com

right now

if you haven't used canva i highly

recommend that you browse through it

there's so many templates that you have

to work with

you can create instagram posts pinterest

pins even youtube thumbnails

so it's absolutely amazing but for now

i'm going to create a custom dimension

design

for my printable so i'm going to go up

to the top here create a design

and i'm going to start with an 8 by 10

inch artboard

so click on create new design and now i

have a blank artboard that i can work

with

you can see the menu on the left side

here that you can just go through

there's available templates that you can

use and swap out your own

images and change the fonts but for now

i'm just going to go to uploads because

this is where you upload the

graphics that you want to use for your

printable so as you can see i've already

uploaded a couple of graphics that i

want to use for this

nursery wall art but if you want to

upload anything

just go to upload media and then click

on device and then you just have to

browse through the folders and

add in your graphics so the first thing

i'm going to do

is i'm going to add this adorable little

bear so you can either drag and drop it

or just click it

and it'll show up on the artboard and

you can make it smaller or larger

and i'm going to add these flowers here

it's part of another package that i

purchased from creative market it's a

beautiful

floral package i recommend that you read

the rules of the commercial licenses

that you're purchasing because i find

that

majority of the time they're asking you

to add different graphics from different

packages

and maybe some words just so that you're

not just taking their graphic

putting it on artboard and just

reselling it so in other words make it

your own

so let's click on this to add it in

and i'm just going to rotate it you can

rotate it with this little button here

bring it back and then right click send

backward

so i'm just going to make it look like

the bear is sitting on these flowers

and i'm just going to center everything

just go to position

center

okay and now i want to add text so back

to the menu i can click on

text and i'm going to add a heading

so now i want to change the font so

you'll see here there's a drop down of

a bunch of fonts that you can use and i

know it's going to be a question

regarding

what you can and can't use in canva in

terms of personal or commercial use so

i'm going to link an article in the

description box that i found from canva

which explains what you can and can do

in terms of commercial use and personal

use

so i'm going to use this font

and if i want to change the color of the

font just click on text color

and the cool thing is right here it

shows a photo color so if i want to

choose a color that

matches the photo i can so let's see

what these look like

okay i think that looks good and then if

i want to change the spacing between the

words i can go here

okay so that's super cute now if you

want to create a few printables at a

time

just go to add page right here and then

a new artboard

will appear and you can start creating

let's say a new

nursery printable if you want to batch

design

so for now i'm just going to focus on

the one that i have

now you want to download it so that you

can upload it onto

etsy so that when somebody purchases it

they will receive this file

so go to download and you can download

it as a jpeg or a pdf

now because i've heard that if you

download a jpeg

from canva it only downloads as i think

it's 96 dpi

but it's not as high quality if someone

were to print it out

but if you save it as a pdf it will be

high quality so that's an option for you

i personally create my printables in

adobe illustrator so i

export it to 300 dpi it is possible that

if you have the premium account you

might be able to download

a higher quality jpeg file but for now

let's just do a pdf

and download and then it's just going to

download it onto your computer and this

is where

you can take that file and upload it

onto etsy

now what i do recommend is you offer

multiple sizes in your digital print

if you have the premium account you can

just go to resize again i don't have it

but as soon as you click resize and

let's say you change it to an 11x14

it's going to adjust this size and then

you can also download it as a pdf

and then you'll have two different sizes

that you can offer

but since i don't have the premium

account and you want to stick to the

free account this is what i would do

go back to the home page and you can

just create a new design again

let's say you want 11x14

now you have an by 11x14 artboard that

you can work with so what i would do is

i would go

back to my 8x10 and i would just

drag my cursor and copy

and paste it onto this artboard of

course you just have to

resize it so that it fits nicer within

this

size and then i would just repeat that

process and download it as a pdf

okay now i want to show you how you can

create an image that you're going to

post

in your listing so we're going to use a

mock-up

let's go back to the home page to create

a new custom dimension design

so because etsy recommends a minimum

2000 pixel

width for an image i'm gonna go to

pixels

and let's do 2000

by let's say 1500 i usually do square

images with a minimum 2000 pixel

width but for now we're just going to do

more of a horizontal orientation

so i'm going to go to uploads and this

is a mock-up that i

purchased as well from creative market

so click on it

and i'm just going to center it nicely

on the artboard

i'm zooming in because i want to focus

How to sell printables on etsy

How to Create Printables in Canva to SELL ON ETSY

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