Hello everybody and welcome back to my channel
Jennifer Marie VO where I teach you different ways that you can make money online working from home.
In my last two tutorials, I talked to you about how I have made over $11,000 selling printables on
my Etsy shop. And if you aren't already familiar with Etsy, it is basically a platform where you
can sell handmade items. Now previously, I thought that you had to physically create these items and
go to your post office and mail them off to your different customers. But this is not true, you
can actually make digital downloads or PDF files like calendars, agendas, wall art, and so much
more and sell these downloads on your Etsy shop. So I have made over 19 different printables that
I put on my Etsy shop in 2016. And to this day, I am making between 103 100 extra dollars a
month selling these printables in my shop. So in my last tutorial I taught you how
to create printables using Microsoft Word. And in today's tutorial I'm going to show you how
to create printables using Canva. Now it is free to sign up to Canva and on Canva you can create
printables and graphics completely for free on their website. Now there are 1000s of different
types of printables that you can sell on Etsy. And in this tutorial, I'm going to focus on
a really popular niche on Etsy which is the wedding niche. So today I'm going to show you how
to replicate some really popular items on Etsy in the wedding niche. And I'm also going to show you
a free website that you can use to get royalty free graphics, illustrations and photos that you
can use in your designs. I'll show you how to design something within Canva how to upload your
own photos or graphics, how to customize the text and font and how to save this as a printable file
that you can later on sell on Etsy. And before we get started if you haven't already, make sure to
subscribe to my channel where I will be releasing more videos on how to set up your own shop on
Etsy. And you can also check out dozens of my other videos on how to make money online as a
freelancer as a transcriptionist and much more. So let's get started. Okay, so before I get into
showing you how exactly to create printables in Etsy, I just want to show you an example of what
kind of principles we are going to be creating. As I said before the wedding Nish is extremely
popular on Etsy you will find there are so many different women buying things on Etsy
for their weddings. And it's a great niche to get into because think about how much money
people spend on their weddings in North America $20,000 $15,000. So if you're spending that
much money on your wedding, buying a $10 or a $5 Etsy pack is going to be like nothing.
So what I'm going to show you as an example, this table numbers for weddings. And basically,
when someone has a wedding in North America, they'll put these little signs on each table
showing which table the guests are supposed to sit on. And they're just very simple designs, you can
see these people are selling them for $5 $10. And you can see these shops have hundreds of different
sales and all of them are pretty simple. And I'm going to show you how to create something like
this. And then with our own little twist on it. Because you might say well, how are people going
to find mine and want to buy my printable when there are so many available? Well, all of these
look pretty simple. So if you offer something a little bit different, like this one, they have
a little plant design, or this one, they offer your own photograph in the printable that
makes it a bit more custom. And people will be more likely to choose yours printable if
you're offering something a little different. So I'm going to show you how to create something
like this in Canva. And again, all the skills you're going to learn today about how to create
printables in Canva can be applied to any type of printable, you don't have to just make these kinds
of principles. This is just going to show you how to use Canva and how to get inspired. And you can
use these strategies to create wall art to create cards, invitations, any sort of printable that you
want to create to sell on your Etsy shop. But look at some of the this woman here 35,000 sales on her
wedding shop, this woman almost 2000 sales, almost 20,000 sales. I mean, this woman has probably
made over $100,000 on her shop. It's amazing how much money you can make on Etsy. So let's
get into how to create printables using Canva. So I'm going to show you how to create this and
this is the free version of Canva. If you want to sign up and create an account on Canva, you can
go to the description below and click on the link. And once you get into Canva you can see there's
all sorts of different things. You can look at all of these different templates, logos, posters, and
these are all things you could create cards flyers and sell on Etsy. But we're going to create
something starting from scratch. So we want a blank template. And all of these products this
size is four by six which is your standard photo size or five by seven. You're going to click
Create a design and then go to custom size and then here the pixels. We want Put in our
1200 by 1800, which is four by six. And if you want five by 715 100 by 2100, click Create new
design. And right here we have a blank slate for creating our printable. So I'm going to name this
wedding table design one. Okay, so the first thing we want to do is add some text, you're going to
click here on text. And you can use choose any of these, I'm going to click the top one, add
a heading. And then I'm going to put in table. This right now we're just going to add
the text and then later we're going to change the size and the font. So I'm going to
put table at the top, then add another one, put table one, and then at the bottom, then I'm
going to add a subheading. And what we're going to do like they do in all of these is put the name
of the bride and the groom, let's say Jennifer, and Sawyer, and then the date so may 1 2021,
for example. Okay, so now we want to make this beautiful, we're gonna click on the first one, and
then you can go up here and click on any font that you want. Now, there's so many nice types of fonts
that you can use, the ones that have the crown are premium. So we can't use those unless you have
Canva Pro, but we can use all of the other ones. So the one I saw before that I liked was
called Daydream. So I'm going to click on that. And then we can change the font size, I'm going
to change the font size to 280. Click enter. To change the positioning, just click on it,
and then you can just move it how you like it. And Canva has this nice built in grid. So
you can see here that it's telling me that it's nice and centered with the long pink line.
Then I'm going to click on number one, I'm going to change this as well to daydream. And
let's make the font size 700. Press Enter. Then at the bottom here, I'm going to change this
font, just to see, or however you say this, and you can adjust the font size however you like
it as well. So you can see that what we have just created here on Canva is very similar to what
you can see here on Etsy. But let's say we want to make our stand out a little bit, we're going
to add some elements, some nice design elements. So you can go to pixabay.com. And these are
free images and royalty free stock images that you can use in your commercial works that you can
sell and there's no copyright issues whatsoever. So here I'm going to type in a plant, for example,
plants or flowers. And you can organize this by you can search by illustrations, or
you can search by vector graphics, as well. Okay, so let's say this one, for example,
I want to use, you can see here it has the pixabay license, it's free for commercial use, and you
don't have to give any credit to the author, we're going to click free download, and
then download it and whatever size you want. And then you can click, I'm not a robot, click
download. And here we have the image that we're going to use. So to add this image into this
template here, we're going to click on uploads, then click Upload Media. Go to device or
wherever you have downloaded the image, and click on the image and click Open. So now
you'll have access to add this image into your design. So be careful when you're adding it
because if you click it to the side here, it will make it the background and we don't
want to make it the background, we want it to be a separate little element. So let's just
once you see that it's not filling the full image, it's just like this, drop it, release your
mouse and then we can play around and move it. So what we want to do first is we want to make sure
it's behind the text, we don't want it to be on top of the text. So for example, if it is on
top of the text, you're going to right click and choose Send to Back and now it will be behind
the text. Now I don't want it to be this red. I want it to be in black and white, I think it
will look nicer. So what you can do is click on it go to effects. And you can play with any of
these effects if you want to choose it and make it a different color. Or you can go to Filter. And
then you can choose any of you know these filters that you want if you wanted to make it look you
know, whimsical, and you can change the intensity, drama. I just want it to be grayscale or
straight. I want it to be in black and white. And then you can choose the intensity
of it as well. So I'm just going to put it up 70 for example. And then what I want to
do is make it transparent. So, up here, click on transparency. And then we can move this down a
little bit. So it's a bit more of like a faded flower, it's not so dark. And then you can click
on it and adjust it and drag it however, however you like, we can even move it a little bit if we
want it just to be peeking out at the side. And you can just sort of have fun playing around with
this design element. And then once you have it how you like it, we can even add another one at the
bottom here. So click on the element, right click, go copy, then right click, paste, and then we can
click on it, and click flip, and then choose Flip Horizontal, and now it's on the other
side. And then we can bring this down here, and then rotate it however you like it until
you're happy with the design. And just like that, we've created a really minimalistic but stylish
table number printable that you could sell in a wedding themed Etsy shop or any sort of design
Etsy shop. And what you could also do is offer people the customization of whatever color they
want. So let's say, you know, all of these people are just offering it in black and white or
that you have to actually, if you download and purchase their printable, you can edit
it yourself in an online editor. But again, not a lot of people are comfortable with editing
their own work, they'd rather you do it for them. So you could charge the same amount and say you'll
do all the editing for them. So if they pay you $5, you'll put in, you know the name of the bride
and the groom, or the two people getting married, and put in their wedding date, and then also
change it to whatever color that they want, let's say their wedding color, you know, is a is red or
as gold or silver or something like this and they have you know, a certain color that they want, you
can offer that for them and offer to change these elements as well to whatever color that they want.
Now, I want to show you how you can quickly add in the other table numbers because this one you
would be selling table 123. You know, it could be 10 tables or more to duplicate this design at the
top click Duplicate page. And then you would just put in table to duplicate page, table three, deep
duplicate page table for and you would just keep doing that all the way up to 10 or 12, or however
many tables there are. And then to save this printable and download it. So you could give it to
your client or to your customer, you go download. And here you can choose whatever you want, I
recommend saving it as a PNG file, so it'll be high quality. And then the customer can go
ahead and use this file to print off in their home computer or give it to a printer. And then
you just click download and it will download all four pages. So it'll open up in a zip file here.
And then your client or your customer will have all of the designs ready for them to print
out or give to their printer to print off in separate individual files. And you can just
send them this wedding table design zip file that they can go ahead and export themselves. Now let's
say you want to offer an option like this and add the option that your current client or customer
can add their own custom photo, what you can do. Let's, for example, bring this over here,
bring this over here, resize the table, make this a little bit bigger. And then you can go
over to elements. And under frames. Click see all and you can choose any of these frames to place
over this and then add any photograph you want. So let's say they wanted to have a different photo
for each table number. Let's go down here to this square, click on it and it will add it to your
image. And you can resize it however you like. And then right click and go Send to Back so the
numbers on top and also these two design elements. And then to add a photo to this, go to uploads,
choose Upload Media and upload whatever photo that the customer sends you then drag and drop
the photo into place. And then to reposition it, you'll double click on the photo and then drag it
over and you can even resize it like this. So it's exactly how you want it inside the image. Just
like that double click and drag it however you like it so it's nice and nicely inside the image.
And then there you have it a really beautiful here I can click click on this to zoom it up. And
just like that you have a really beautiful table printable that you can sell to your client
and you can do these custom and charge more because you're going to custom do it for Have
them and they don't have to worry about it themselves. You could also change this to
black and white can click on the picture, go to Filter, and you can change it,
you know, to any filter that you want. I'm going to change it to black and white or
grayscale. And you could even have fun changing or adding effects to the text by clicking on effects.
And you could add a lift, or shadow if you wanted to add a shadow and play around with that as well
give it a little splash of color. And then again, for this one, you would just click Duplicate
page. And you can again, change this to table two, you can press Delete on the photo, and then
add in whatever other photo you want to add. And just like that, we've created some really
beautiful printables that you can sell on Etsy. And especially think it's a great
idea to offer these custom options, because so many of these different shops on Etsy
are selling people editable templates, basically saying you have to make the template yourself. Me
personally, if I was in buying a template on Etsy, I don't want to make it myself, I'm paying them
to do the work. So you can offer someone Listen, I'll create all of these for you. I'll add in your
own pictures, I'll do the colors that you want. And I'm going to charge you this much to do it.
And that is one way that you can set your shop and make your shop different from the others is
that you're offering to do all the work for them. And once you are finished creating your designs
Canva will save your designs every time you log in, just click on all your designs. And then these
are all the ones that you have worked on. So you can just go ahead click on it. And then you can go
ahead and put in whatever new information you want to put in for your next client. For example,
you can also go File, Save or Save to folder, and then create a folder if you want to put all of
your wedding designs in one folder, for example, these sorts of printables would be a bit more
active, because you would be offering them to do the work for them. So you would be working with
each customer differently. But you can use these same tactics or these same strategies to create
printables that aren't necessarily customizable. For example, if you're creating wall art or
something that you can hang on a wall of a baby's in a nursery for a baby, or birthday
gift, or a Mother's Day present, you know, these are all different things that you can create
on Etsy that you don't necessarily have to offer customization options. But these are just some
ideas of how you can create really beautiful printables that you can sell in your
own shop. I recommend you go on Etsy, browse through all these different printables
these ones that are really popular. So if you're able to offer someone something
that's different from the other printables that are on Etsy, you're going to set yourself apart
from the rest of the other sellers and people will be more likely to want to buy from you. So
you guys I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you're interested in any other tutorials or you
want me to teach you how to create other sorts of media or principles using Canva using Microsoft
Word or any other sort of graphic design software, feel free to leave a comment in the comment
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