Start Selling On Etsy With ZERO Design Skill

Did you know that you don't have to have a design degree to start selling your designs on Etsy? If this information piques your interest, you're definitely going to want to stay till the very end of this video where I'm going to drop a little free tidbit of information that you're definitely going to want to know. If you are new to our channel, my name is Lauren and I'm a craft pursuer here at Makers Gonna Learn where we really do love to bring you inspiration, education, and motivation, and most of the time it's concerning your Cricut machine, but we also love teaching you other crafty things and we especially love teaching you how to make money with your crafts. With that being said, I'm going to be showing you exactly how you can make money on Etsy with zero design skills. So how can you make money with no design skill and a little cherry on top without actually having to create a physical product? I would love to tell you how and that is going to be with digital products. So there are lots and lots of digital products that you can sell on Etsy. So let's go ahead and hop over and I want to show you a couple different things that you can sell and how to create them in Etsy so that you can start making money. The first thing you want to start doing is think what kind of digital product are you passionate about that you think you would want to create. So if you want to start out, you can just literally type in the word digital and you can see you we have digital planner, digital prints. So let's just type in invitation and you can see there are invitation templates. You can do wedding invitations, just invitations. Now the cards, if you search invitation card, that's more or less going to be like a physical card, but let's just type invitation templates and you can see there are so many different templates that people are selling on Etsy that you can actually recreate in Canva. So what I highly encourage you to do is look at some of these invitations or templates that you see on here. Find one that you really like and then you can make it get inspiration from it. Do not copy. We never want to copy someone else's work, but you can get inspiration from things that others are creating. But what you need to do once you have decided from Etsy what you may want to create, we're going to hop back over to Canva. Now here is where we are going to start creating our digital file, whether it be an invitation, digital art, so many different things you can do. So first thing we're going to do is go to create a design. Now you are going to want to create your design based on the size that you are going to be selling. Now there is a lot of things that go into this, especially if you're going to be selling templates. I'm not going to go into all of the details about it, but if you want to know all the details, once again stick around to the end and I'm going to let you in on a little secret and something you're definitely going to want to sign up for if you want every single one of the details. So first thing we're going to do is we're going to start out with our size. So most invitations are going to be a five by seven, or if you want to you can just type in invitation and you can see it gives you lots of different options. So you can do a square invitation, you can do a portrait, or you can do a landscape. I think today we're going to go with portraits, so we're going to do the five by seven. So we are going to select that and that is the size that's going to pop up. Now you can see over here there are all kinds of templates that you can choose from and the cool thing about it is you can even use these templates, change them up, make them your own, and you can make the use these templates as well if as inspiration. So me personally, I'm really feeling the wildflower right now for some reason. I feel like it would be really cute. So like this one is absolutely stunning. I love this invitation, but I want to build it and really make it my own. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to use this as inspiration and I'm just going to add a page here and I'm going to start building from the bottom up. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go to elements and I'm going to type in wildflowers and from my graphics I'm going to choose the graphics that I want. I really like this corner piece and I think I want to put the corner piece here and possibly even duplicate it and we will flip it horizontally and vertically and then put another little section here in the top and we can even bring it, I think I want to bring it closer together like this. I'm loving this so far. Another thing that I want to look for is a background because I want there to be a very light background behind it. Something maybe similar to this possibly because if you look up here our background has like a watercolor background. This is one you can choose if you want it or not. You can see here I'm just going to make it very large and then we're just going to send it back. I still think it's a little bit more than I want. Maybe if we move this here we can even change the transparency so it's not as noticeable. We'll move this back here. I think I am going to bring the transparency down just a little bit and one cool thing you can do because we can't change the color of this watercolor in the background but you can go to these little arrows on the right hand side of your screen and what we can do is we can go to adjust and we can adjust the temperature so you can see I adjusted the temperature down to blue. You can change the tint of it if you want it more of like a purpley color and then I really like this violet but I think it is too much so maybe if I go back to the opacity and bringing it down a little bit more you can play around with it. Make it your own, go back and adjust, find what you like, what you want it to look like. Truly the world is your oyster at this point. You can make it whatever you want. You can bring the contrast up or down. So many different things you can do. Come back we'll change the opacity a little bit more. So many different things you can do to adjust. Now the next thing that I want to do is I want to create a focal point in the middle and that's where all of my information is going to be very much similar to this one. You can see we're using this as inspiration. We don't want to copy, we're just going to use it as an inspiration. So now I want to either have an oval or I want to have a square so I'm just going to go back to elements and I'm going to go to shapes and I am going to grab a circle but we're going to make it into an oval and see if we like this. I'm not a fan of the color number one but I do want to leave what I'm going to do is I'm going to change it to white and then I'm going to change the opacity of it so that you can see the the florals coming through but it creates a barrier. You see there I do love that and you can even make it smaller or larger whatever floats your boat. Beautiful and now what we're going to do I'm going to bump up the transparency just a little bit more. So now we are just going to add our text. So what you're going to do come over here to your text again use this section here as inspiration. I love these fonts here. I don't like how they're set up but what you could do we'll just do what I love to do is first of all ungroup. So now these are all ungrouped. I can I'm going to bring this in once again we're going to change our text color and then this does have an effect on it and I'm going to take that effect off for just a minute. I just wanted to use this font to see what it looked like and we will play around with the text colors. So now that we have gone through the whole process of getting all of the information on this invitation this one specifically I made it to be a bridal shower. This one I was my example so now what we're going to do is delete it and y'all I highly suggest you take inspiration from the templates that you see on Canva. Even using those templates and editing them to where you make it your own is a great place to start. Using Etsy as a launch pad for your inspiration is a great way to do that as well but as you all can see I literally have no design degree. All I did was I started with my inspiration up here kept referring back to it playing around with things until I got the results that I wanted and now I'm ready to put that as a template on our Etsy shop and start making money on it today. I mean it really is as simple as that. No design skills necessary. Find inspiration around you. Find inspiration and take that and truly make it your own so that you can start making money on Etsy. Now here is the secret that I wanted you to stick around for. 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