How To Make Stickers in Canva (For FREE!) Even If You’re a Total Beginner

And now we're just going to keep adding our offset onto all of our stickers on our sticker sheet. Oh yeah, that came out beautiful. I love that. And honestly, this sticker paper feels like a really nice quality. Let me guess, you have found yourself here at this video because you want to learn how to take the amazing graphics that you see inside of Canva and turn them into stickers. Well, let me just tell you, you have found yourself in the right spot because making stickers in Canva to then upload and cut on our Cricut at home is one of our favorite things to do. If you're new here, my name is Lauren and I'm a craft producer here at Makers Going to Learn, where we strive to bring you inspiration, education, and motivation to get crafty, whether that be with your Cricut or another design platform. And today we are going to be combining two of those design platforms, which is going to be Canva and Cricut Design Space. I'm going to teach you exactly how you can create your stickers in Canva. Because let's be honest, Canva has a lot of amazing graphics that would make amazing stickers. But learning how to create the offset that a lot of stickers has may be a little bit confusing. So, I'm going to walk you through all of that process in today's video. So, make sure you stick around till the end to see the final product. So, let's go ahead and dive in and start creating and making our stickers. Now, before we hop into Canva, I'm going to start here on the Makers going to Learn website because I want to show you how you can take your own files and upload them into Canva and make them into stickers, but also how you can take elements and graphics from Canva and turn them into stickers as well. Now, if you aren't a Makers going to learn member, we do have a $7 trial. If you're seeing things on here that you're like, "Oh my gosh, I want that." We do have a 7-day trial where you get access to our full website, not only cut files, which by the way, we have thousands of, and fonts and classes and courses, so much in our membership. But back to the trial, we have a $7 trial because we feel like we love to maybe try it before we buy it. So, why would our customers not? So, click that link down below if you want to try us out for $7 for a week. And also, there's Speaking of Happy New Year, I just downloaded this file, but we have another link down below because we have a New Year's Eve event coming up on December 31st that you definitely don't need to miss. You've got to get on that wait list because we have a huge announcement happening at our New Year's Eve event. So, make sure you get on the wait list for that and make sure you mark your calendars to be there if you don't have plans. So, after you have grabbed the files that you want, we are going to hop back over to Canva and we're going to start here on the home screen. Now, to create our sticker sheet, and to make it super simple and understandable for everyone, we're going to start with the purple plus or create icon up here in the left hand corner. From there, you're going to come down here to custom size. We are then going to change the units from pixels to inches. And we're going to make the width of our design 6 in by 9 in. Now, that's going to fit perfectly within the print and cut parameters that we have in Cricut Design Space. So, we're just going to make it 6x9 and select create new design. And this is the area that you have available to put all of your stickers in. Now, before we go any further, I am going to do this so that if you only have a free version of Canva, you can follow this tutorial step by step just as easily. But before I start uploading and actually creating my stickers, I'm going to come up here to and change this background color to either a light gray or something that is going to contrast well against our stickers because we're not going to be downloading this as with a transparent background. Remember, I'm going to show you how you can do this even if you have a free account. So, we're going to have to download with a background. So, we want something that is going to contrast well. Once we get into Design Space, we can remove that background. So, I'm changing this color to gray. And now, what I'm going to do is start uploading our designs. So, you can do this a couple ways in Canva. You can either do this by coming over here to uploads, select upload file. And now you can choose one of your any of these files that we have downloaded. Once it has downloaded, you can then pop it into your Canva document here. Or my personal favorite way to upload a file is just bringing my finder into view. Um, and then I can drag and drop any of these images that I want into my Canva document. Now, another thing that I want you all to be aware of and know [snorts] is we want to upload the PNG versions of these files. It's just going to make it a whole lot easier on you to upload the PNG versions. And we're just going to start arranging all of our stickers here on our page so that they fit together. After you have uploaded all of the files that you want to use, what I'm going to do now is teach you how to create an offset on these files so that you can have an offset on your stickers. So, select the graphic that you want to create an offset on. We're then going to come over here to the edit button. You are going to scroll down to where it says shadows. And then from there we are going to choose the outline. Now what this does is that creates an outline on your graphic that you can see here. But right now all of these are going to still cut out separate because they are a little further away from each other. So, if you wanted to create a larger outline, all you have to do is scroll down here. And where it says size, we can just bump the size of that up. So, until everything touches. Now, that does mean that it is going to make your graphic inside there just a little bit smaller, but you can size it up, no problem. You can then change the color. I'm going to change it to white because we just want a white offset on all of our stickers. Or you can make it really whatever color you want. And then we are just going to resize it here. And another thing that I like to do is I like to crop these bounding boxes as close as I can. It just helps me when I'm designing get a better idea of this actual size of the sticker. So now when I go when I make it smaller and larger, I can see that this is around a, you know, a little bit less than 2 in in width and 2 and 1/2 in height, which is a very good standard size for stickers. And then you can resize and you're done. So we're just going to keep working with these. Once again, we're coming up here to edit. Coming down here to shadows, adding an outline here, making either the outline larger or smaller depending on what you are going for. Changing the color. I'm just making all of mine white. This one would be very cute with a light pink. Actually, I might go with a light pink offset on this one. I think that's super cute. And then we are just going to once again this is just a personal preference. Not anything you have to do. But like I said, I like to get a really good understanding of the size by bringing this bounding box in as close as I can. And then I can resize. So that one I can actually make a little bit bigger. And then we're just going to place that there. And now we're just going to keep adding our offset onto all of our stickers on our sticker sheet. Now, if you want to use Canva elements, because let me tell you, Canva has some great elements, you can do that. So, what you would do is over here on the leftand toolbar where it says elements, you can search for exactly what you are wanting to find. So, let's just say I'm just going to do I'm kind of going for like this pink holiday. So, I'm just going to type in pink holiday and then come down here to graphics and find some things that I think would make super cute stickers. Actually, I changed directions. I'm not just going to do holiday. I'm going to make some of my own because I've seen some things like that I really think that you all would also love. Okay. So, I've grabbed a couple elements from Canva just to kind of show you how you can manipulate and turn them into stickers as well. So, this one I am going to add a text box. And I'm also going to show you how to add text and how to add an offset to your text so that you can kind of mesh them all together. So, I'm just adding a little bit of a um I'm also going to go ahead and add an off an outline to this one as well. We do have to change it to white so that we can see it. And then I might even curve it just a little bit. Yeah. So, we've got social battery. And then I'm going to also add another text box. And we're just going to do here. So, here is a social battery. Let me actually change our text color. See if it shows up better with black. Actually, I like it better with black. I think I can read it better with black. And then I'm going to select all of these and group them together. That way, I can now size them accordingly. So, there is one with some text on it to show you how you can add text to your designs and group them together. And then I'm also going to add a text box on top of this one. Once again, I'll show you how you can group them. But we're going to go to here. But before I do that, I do want to kind of think I want to cover up these lines so that you can see the words better. So, I'm just taking a box here. And then I'm going to change it to the same color as that graphic white. And then I can bring this in here like this. And I'm not feeling that. So, let's find us another Oh, I love that. And then we're going to group this one together and just kind of resize it. And then I'm also going to add I've been eyeing this sticker for a while. So I'm going to find love. We're going to change the color of this one. And I love a good tone on tone. And then once again, we're going to group these together. So after you have done all of the things added, we do have to I will say we do have to let's ungroup these. We do have to go ahead and add our offset to our base. So, we're going to come back in here. I've ungrouped those. I'm adding my offset to my heart here, like this. I'm going to change it to white. Same thing with this one. I'm going to have to ungroup this. And then go to my base layer. Come down here to effects. Add an outline. Now, it will make it just a little bit smaller, but I'll show you how we can fix that. So, I'm going to zoom back in and I'm going to bring this in. And [snorts] I'm actually I've been thinking about this. I'm going to make this white part just a little bit longer here. And another thing that you can do is you can curve the corners. You can round the corners of your design. So here I've kind of got it rounded and I'm just going to move this down and move this down as well. And then I'm going to select them both and make them both just a little bit bigger like this. And then once again we'll select them all and group them back together. [snorts] Now after you have done that and you have filled your sticker sheet up, I'm just going to duplicate some of these. I did have do have to group these back together. I'm going to duplicate some of these because I do want a couple of these. And then once you are done with that, we are ready to share. So what we're going to do is we're going to come up here to share. We are going to download this just as it is. We are not going to do it as a transparent background, but we are going to download. And then after we have done that, we are going to hop over to Cricut Design Space and we are going to pull in this sticker sheet that we have now created. So, after it's downloaded, we're here in Design Space. We're going to come over here to upload. We're going to upload image. I'm going to pull my Finder back into view. I'm going to go to my downloads, and I'm just going to drag and drop that sticker sheet that I just created. We're going to go to continue. And here is where we are going to select this gray box and we are going to delete that background. So, that is where we can do that. Now you can zoom in. If you feel like it has missed something, you can zoom in. But it looks like it did really well with that one. So after we have done that, we are going to go to apply and continue. And we want this as a flat graphic. So after we have uploaded this as a flat graphic, oh, I did miss some spaces. So let's just go ahead and go back to upload. Upload image. We do have to bring our finder back into view. Bringing that social battery back in here. Continue. You do need to be cognizant of this because I did miss up here in the candy cane. So, if you have areas on your design like right here, just make sure you go through there and contour them out. And I think I need to go in just a little bit more. There was one there in the social battery. We can get rid of that guy there. And then right here as well. The rest of it I think is great. We're going to go to apply and continue. Once again, this is a flat graphic. Upload. And now we have our sticker sheet. Now it does come in larger than what it needs to be. Now to keep the sizing properly after you have done that, you do need to come over here and make sure that we change our width back to six. That's just going to ensure that you have everything is sized properly because we are making it the same size as the document in Canva. Now, before we go to print, there is one more thing that you may want to do. If you want to check your offsets, you can change your background color to gray so that you can can check your offsets. And then from there, we're going to go to make it. We're going to change our material size to 8 1/2 by 11. For some reason, ours comes in completely different, but 8 1/2 by 11. We're going to go to continue. We are going to send this to our printer. We're going to be using our Canon 9500 series. We do not need bleed because all of our W offsets are white, but we are always going to use system dialogue. After you have done that, we're going to go to print. Now, if you do use system dialogue, it's going to pop up behind your Cricut Design Space window. From there, what I like to do is change my media and quality. I love for it to feed from my rear tray. And then change your quality to best. And after you have done that, we're going to click print. And now that we have our stickers printed, I wanted to show you the quality that you get. Even if you create these in Canva, it's still really, really good quality. Although a lot of times it'll say have that little yellow triangle with low resolution. Don't worry about it because they're still great quality. Now, today we are using Tech Wrap vinyl sticker paper. This is going to be my first time using this sticker paper and I'm just going to be honest, it's because we're out of the Cricut brand. If you want my honest opinion, the Cricut brand has the best sticker paper, especially the waterproof sticker set on the market right now. I will say it's a little bit more pricey than normal. We're actually on the hunt for our favorite sticker paper because unfortunately the last few times Zakoto has been letting us down. And I hate to even say that out loud because we have been married and loved Zakoto sticker paper, but I swear the last few times that I've used it, it feels so paper thin. So, we're going to test this out today and we're going to see if it works. So, I am going to be placing this down on my mat. And then I'm going to make sure I down really well. So, I'm just putting this up in the top left corner. Getting my brayer. Hint to what might be coming New Year's Day. Make sure you get on that wait list. And then we're going to send this to our Cricut. I'm going to cut this on the printable sticker paper white cut setting and we're gonna see how well this Tech Wrap vinyl does. Okay, let's see the final results of this sticker paper. I'm pretty pleased. Now, I did do this on this cut setting so that we would have a kiss cut. So, let's see if it passed the test. There are some places that it still cut through. Um, so it looks like we probably need to change our cut settings, but still overall pretty pleased. And there you have it. There is our one of our stickers from our sticker set that we created in Canva and then cut in Cricut Design Space. It really is super simple. You don't need to make it super complicated. Just remember if you are wanting to go ahead and set this up in Canva to then just have to upload it into Design Space, make sure you go to that edit tool and put an outline on all of your stickers so you can go ahead and have that offset kind of already predetermined so you don't have to worry about it in Design Space. Oh my goodness, guys. What did you think? Was it easier or harder than you thought to create stickers in Canva to then upload to Design Space? Personally, I think once you see the process, it makes it so much easier. And getting your canvas set up in that 6x9 in size is really going to help you just download and upload that straight into Cricut Design Space so that you have it already preset. I think that is one of the things that makes it a lot easier for us when we are creating in Canva and then uploading into Design Space is making sure our canvas is the correct size. So that is a big thing. Make sure your canvas is 6 by9 um to fit within the print and cut parameters. But like I said, it is once you see the actual process, it is so simple. [snorts] Let me know in the comments what you guys thought about today. And make sure you hit that thumbs up button, subscribe to our channel, and hit that bell notification so that you can be notified every time we get crafty. Y'all, I'm serious. Leave us a comment. Let us know what you thought. If there's anything you want us to teach you when it comes to creating in Canva and then putting into Design Space, drop that in the comment section as well. 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