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
if you haven't seen my last few videos i
talk all about selling digital products
online to create passive income
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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
more on the printable
as opposed to the rest of the mock-up
now what i'm going to do is i'm going to
download my printable in jpeg format
so i'm going to go back to my design and
go to download
jpeg
okay so now i just need to upload it
okay so you just have to click on it and
resize it to fit the frame now one last
step is i want to make sure that the
buyer knows that this is a digital
download so you can go to elements
and let's add a circle
i'm going to change the color to a
darker pink
and let's change the transparency
okay and i'm gonna go to text add a
subheading
you type instant download or digital
download
and i just want to make it more bold so
i'm going to use a different
font that looks good i'm going to change
it to white
i'm just going to make this darker so it
stands out a little more and there's no
confusion
and there you go this is what i would
download and i would make as maybe my
main photo if you need me to do a
tutorial on how to
start a listing and adding your images
your title
description and your tags let me know i
can go through that step by step
and show you how to upload the digital
files to make sure that your buyers
receive
the digital downloads immediately after
purchase now keep in mind that you don't
have to limit yourself to just printable
wall art you can create digital planners
workbooks and even templates however i
do believe that you need the premium
account in order to create and share
templates
but that's totally worth it for you if
those are the products you want to sell
now just a reminder make sure you grab
your copy on 20 digital product ideas to
sell online in the description box down
below before you go
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next i highly recommend that you check
out my video on digital downloads that
will definitely sell on etsy
as well as how to build passive income
with digital products
thank you so much for watching and i
can't wait to see you next week bye