hi guys welcome back to my channel for
those of you who are new welcome my name
is Amanda and today I wanted to share
with you how I created digital downloads
or digital prints to sell on Etsy using
a free design website before we get
started don't forget to hit the
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my Etsy shop it's called hopes and
crafts CO and I started it about two
years ago when I first started creating
these simple quote prints and I just
wanted to show you how easy it is for
you to make your own and sell them I
won't go into the whole Etsy selling
process but I will go into the tutorial
on how to design these using a website
called canva so if you're interested
let's go ahead and get started first
we'll go to canva no you don't have to
pay for the pro version although I did
the free trial when I first started
creating prints and it did make things a
lot easier I do currently sell my prints
in three different sizes and canva Pro
really helps with resizing a lot faster
and easier but it can definitely be done
using the free version so you can use
the free trial but you can also start
out with the free version first to get
started now my prints I saw them in the
sizes five by seven eight by ten and
eleven by fourteen you can definitely
figure out which one you want to start
with or if you want to start with a
different size but those are kind of
generic print sizes once you first
create an account we're going to create
a design and select custom dimensions so
make sure you put it in inches first and
then for the width you put eight and
then height you can put ten you can
obviously use whatever dimensions you'd
like but this is what I'm going to use
for this demo create new designs so
typically I do quote prints and I'll
just add text as you saw on my as a shot
my prints are very simple and
minimalistic so you can go that way but
you can also be more designing if you'd
like and be more creative with it but
I'm just going to show you how I did
mine so first I select text on the left
hand side now this will pop-up different
templates but I typically just click to
add head
and then start from here so I'm just
going to do a simple phrase and from
here the possibilities are pretty much
endless I'm going to select all what's
great about canva even though it's free
is that it has a ton of amazing fonts
for free so the pro version includes all
the fonts with the crowns but honestly
there are so many cool fonts without
that I'm just going to click this one
this one looked kind of cool it kind of
has like a vintage vibe and keva is
really easy to use so you can play
around with it however you like these
gridlines come up so that it makes sure
that things are centered I also love
adjusting the spacing so that and you
can just make it look completely
different with this spacing and then you
can change the sizing you can also
expand the text using at the corners as
well
now that's pretty much it I mean you can
use any quote you want and you can add
different elements what's nice about
canva is that it has a lot of different
elements available if you go to that
element section and then search for
something that you're interested in
they'll typically be a lot of options
that are free like you can see here and
then the ones with crowns are only
available for the pro version so it's
nice that sometimes you can change the
color so this one is black but you can
also change it to whatever color you
want so it really depends on which image
you choose and then I kind of like it at
the top you can really be very creative
with this but I just wanted to show you
an option there you can also upload your
own photos as well so there's a lot you
can do with canva for free now what you
can do to download the pdf version is
you'll go to download on the far right
and then instead of PNG you're going to
select PDF print and what I like to do
is I'll include the crop marks and bleed
which helps when people go and get this
print printed at a shop and it allows
them to cut it a lot easier because it
has guidelines so once you do that you
just click download
and gonna open that up and this is the
PDF these are the crop marks here on the
right hand side as you can see so once
those are cut out you'll have an 8 by 10
print as you can see this is really easy
to do and it took me less than 5 minutes
to create these etsy digital downloads
are really great forms of passive income
which means once you created it and you
posted it on Etsy you can just leave it
up there and you just let it sit there
the listing fee is I want to say like 20
cents for every two to three months or
something like that which is super easy
it's kind of like you set it and forget
it you can do marketing if you'd like or
promotions and stuff like that but
honestly it's a very hands-off product
which I really liked
I did also want to show you how to offer
multiple sizes of the same design now
with canva Pro what you can do is you
can resize you can get this resized to
any size it could be another art print
or it can be social media but with the
free version what I'll do is I will open
up another design say I want it to be a
5 by 7 create and then I will go to my
current design select it all and copy it
and then go to the new 5 by 7 design and
paste it and as you can see it might be
either too big or too small but all you
do is keep it both selected and you
could group it if you'd like and then
just resize it according to the size of
the new design so once I get it centered
and resized that's pretty much it all I
have to do is add a new file name at the
top and then download the whole thing
again so download PDF print include crop
marks and bleed
and that's pretty much it so now I have
an 8 by 10 version but I also have a 5
by 7 version and you can include
multiple sizes with one at Z listing so
that is how you can offer multiple sizes
be allow it to be more flexible for your
buyers I hope this tutorial helped you
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wishing you the best of luck creating
Etsy digital prints and I hope to see
you in the next video thank you so much
for watching bye