Canva for Beginners: Design Stunning DIY Wedding Invites, Save-the-Dates & More

1. Let's Get Started with Canva: Hey, there. I'm Kate Silver, and if you want to design some gorgeous wedding stationary in Canva, then you've come to the right place. Quick story, I designed my own sister save the date card using Canva, and I realized how easy and fun it is to create gorgeous designs, even if you're not a pro. And now I can't wait to show you how to do the same. Now, who am I? I'm a top teacher on skill share with over 20,000 students and a background in fashion design and graphic design. Whether you're planning your very own wedding or wanting to start a side hustle in graphic design or simply a Canva beginner, wanting to learn Canva from A to Z, this class will give you everything you need to know. We'll start with the basics like Canva shortcuts and wedding formats. Then we'll dive into creating invitations, save the dates, and even animated gifts. The end of this clause, you'll have a fully designed wedding suite. I've put together free chit chat with font guides, format sizes, and Canva shortcuts, specifically for this clause. I'll be sharing Canva tips you wish you'd known sooner. By the end of this clause, you'll know how to use Canva efficiently. With shortcuts and design techniques and most importantly, have a fully designed wedding suite. Beautiful, cohesive and ready for printing and to share digitally. I'm here to guide you every step of the way. It's going to be super fun. So voila let's get started. E. 2. Welcome to the Class!: Okay. Okay, my friends, welcome to this wedding stationery Canva Class. I'm super excited because today you'll get to design wedding stationary with Canva, which is such an amazing and super easy, frankly, software or tool, whether you're on your somewhat stressful wedding journey, and you would like to create your own invitations, or perhaps you would like to start your own side business of creating wedding invitations. If this is you, then this class is for you. I actually had the idea for this class because my sister is getting married. And she asked me to design her save the date card. And usually I would use Adobe Photoshop or adobe in Design to design something like this. But this time, I decided to play with Canva because there are so many amazing existing templates, free templates. And I thought, Let's give that a go, and I fell in love with Canva, and I hope you will fall in love with Canva, too. 3. Downloading Files and Free Shortcuts: Interesting. Now, first things first, let's make sure that we have all the class files available. I've created a bunch of folders with lots of really useful information for our class. So if you can access them by clicking on the zip files and downloading them, and when you double click on a Zip file, it converts into a folder. In this huge wedding graphics folder, I created a folder with couples photography, which is just images that I've placed from on Splash and Pix of Bay and Pexels, which are some really cool, high quality free stock images websites. But if you're fancy and you have your own photography, and perhaps if you're even fancier and have videos, that's even better. Again, I've taken these videos as well from Unsplash, Pixabay and More. Now, the most exciting part about these free files is that I've created free chee heats just for you, just for this clause, and I'm super excited about it. So firstly, I've created a shortcut hee heat, which is my favorite because if you know me and the way I teach, I'm all about shortcuts. All about a good old shortcut to make the whole process go faster and smoother because we're all time poor today, let's face it. So anything that can go faster and easier, that's the way. Now one thing that's really good news is that if you've done my Adobe Photoshop or in design or Illustrator classes, you'll recognize some of these because a lot of these are the same in all softwares and tools, which is great. So you only have to learn it once, and then you know it. So in terms of MAC versus PCs, if you have a MAC, most shortcuts will start with command. If you have a PC, most shortcuts will start with control, and I'll be repeating these shortcuts. So by the end of the class, hopefully you'll know a bunch of them. So the most important ones are copy and paste, Command or Control C, which hopefully you'll know by now, but if you don't, all good. Undo and duplicate, alter option and drag. And personally, a shortcut that I've learned from Photoshop is actually to move objects or move layers forwards and backwards. And that is Command or Control square brackets, zooming in. So anyway, we'll be practicing this these as we go along. Now, another thing that I created that's also really cool I find is wedding stationary format and sizes. Like, what sizes do you need? You might be wondering. So this will depend if you would like digital invitations or printed cards, like more traditional. You're going to go for digital inventations, which is cheaper, of course, you just have to send it through email or What's up. Then ideally you would like a JPEG version for What's up or even PNG or PDF best for emails. And most of these will be 1080 pixels by 1920 pixels because that's the size of the screen that I'm using right now. It's like the standard size of, let's say, YouTube video or your phone, which is almost full screen. So you can go wrong with this format. And in terms of printed, the standard format is 5 " by 7 " for save the date for wedding, wedding details, it's a smaller card with the details. RSVP is going to be also a smaller card with the details and a thank you note as well. Smaller. Now, personally, I've actually used the 5 " times 7 " for the save the date card, which is digital. For a digital save the date card for my sister and her partner, I use this. Because I quite like that format. So literally, you can't go wrong. You can still use these for digital. So there's a lot we can play with. Okay, another really cool che cheat is font sizes. So I've compiled another list, and this time for every type of card or invitation you'll have and what each of these sections font sizes should be. So you've got the digital ones on the left and the printed ones on the right. So for the digital ones on the left, will be in pixels, and the printed ones will be in points. Just be aware of that. So it would be great that throughout the clause or throughout your own wedding stationary design, you refer back to this and you cross reference, and you make sure that all the sizes are correct. Great. So moving on to the final chee chi that I created, and that is fonts. Fonts, fonts, fonts, it's really good to have a good list of useful fonts. 4. Introduction to Canva: Interesting. Okay, now, let's get started with Canva. So in the clause description, you'll see links. You can go ahead and click on them and make sure you sign up to Canva. If you haven't already done so. You can click on Start Designing and either you already have a Canva account, which I do, or you sign up with Es design with Es and sign up with Es and add all your details. Now, you can have Canva for free, which I started with, and you have a lot of stuff, a lot of free templates, access to a lot of things if you have the free version. Or alternatively, if you have the P, there's a lot of really cool things you can do, like removing backgrounds. There's a lot of very nice illustrations and elements that you can pop into your designs. There's a lot of templates that are more cool and more complicated that you can use. But either way, do what's best for you, free or pro. Now, you can sign up to Canva on your desktop, which is what I have right now and just open it on a plain old browser. But I do recommend using the app. So in terms of downloading the app, click on the link and make sure you download for Mac if you have a Mac or PC or Windows, if you have a Windows. I have a MAC, so I'm going to click on Download Canva for MAC, and there it is. It's downloading, and I'm going to open it up like this, and then I can double click and Hello Canva. Okay, so something super exciting about Canva is that Canva did what they call a glow up or a complete update, where they changed the interface and honestly made everything look much prettier and cooler and, I think, much more clear. So this is what Canva used to be like, and by the way, this is the save the dates that I've been working on. This is what Kanva used to look like until very recently. So it's dark, it's cool, but okay. And this is what Canva looks like now. Cleaner, fresher, and I just think it looks so much better. So I'm happy with that. So if you have the older version of Canva, you can totally follow this clause. No problem. If you have the newer version, then you're in luck because I think it looks great. This is also a thank you card that I've designed that we'll be looking at in this class. Okay, so one thing we'll start with in this class is a cohesive collection of wedding invites. I called it the minimalistic designs because I find them minimalistic but pretty. And I also like to start my classes, my classes with more easier designs and then build our skills as we go. So this is what we'll start with very plain, very simple. Then we can move on to a bit more designed and lots of these illustrations, by the way, come with the Pro account which I have, which we'll use. Phew. Now that Dad is out of the way, let's get started with Canva. 5. A Minimalistic Wedding Deck - Adding Colors: Okay. So if you click on this home icon, you will be greeted with the homepage, and there's a lot of stuff all over the place. But don't worry about it. I will guide you. Okay, so let's get our Canva juices flowing, and we'll start by a very simple wedding stationary deck, and we'll use graphics and fonts and learn shortcuts like duplication and adding colors and background colors and duplicating pages. Now, I love when there's a very simple wedding design deck, and they're all very simple and similar, but in a different color. And when it's actually printed, it looks stunning. Let's start with a very simple five by 7 " printed wedding card. So let's go ahead and go to Canva and go to home and click on Create a new design. And I'm going to need Invitation Landscape seven by 5 ". If you can't see this, then you can have a little look over here and click on the arrow and see if you find it. If you still can't find it, then you can type in here Invitation landscape and see what comes up. Seven by 5 ". So there we go. That's what we need. So you can go ahead and click on that and a our blank page. Okay, so first things first, if we wanted, we could name this document simplistic wedding deck. And that's what it's going to be named with typos. Okay, cool. Now the next stop is we'll talk about colors first. So to add colors to your page, you can either click on Background Color here and choose from the solid colors. You won't have these colors because these are colors that I've personally added, or you can click on this icon and you can type a specific code in or you can click here and play by E and try and find a color, but I struggle with this. I struggle with this way of finding colors. So instead, I'm going to show you a very cool trick that I personally love to do. What is my trick? So my trick is to go to uploads and upload a bunch of images, my wedding photography, let's say, although these are images taken from Man Splash, because I want colors that are cohesive with my wedding photos. So this is just for the colors, okay? So I'm going to go to uploads. I'm going to go to upload files. And I'm going to go to that folder with all the images, multi image one and pop these images and open. And I'm going to use a trick. I'm going to derive colors from these images. And actually, Canva is going to do that for me, which is amazing. So I'm not really going to use the images. The images are there just to grab their colors. So I'm going to click and drag. And there's one. Click and Drag and another and click and drag and don't worry too much about them. Now let's see something super cool. Now when we select the background and we click on background color, Canva will do something awesome. It will show here my photo colors, which means all the colors that appear in the images, which is awesome. So I can choose this one, let's say, Whoa, that one, this one. Basically choose these colors that I love so let's choose this one. So now that we have our colors and we used colors from photos, we can move on and start designing our very simple design. Okay, cool. Let's go to duplicate page. And let's ignore that first page and start deleting these images. Click on one and press the delete button because we no longer need that. And if we want it, we could also name the page to wedding invitation. Nice and tidy. 6. Adding Text & Duplicating Text : Cool. So let's start. Let's make a little start. So we'll go to the text icon and click on Add a Text Box and boom, there's going to be a textbox in the middle of my page. So now I can start typing Emily, which is the name of one of the partners in the couple. Now we're going to start text formatting and changing the font and the typography. So this is where we do this on this bar over here. Let's click on Canva Sands, which is the current font that we don't want. And instead, let's go to font and type in a font that I find is gorgeous. And it's called Bodoni FLF. So go ahead and click on that and let's start changing the font. So first of all, if I look at my font sizes, and I look at wedding invitation, it says here that the names should be 28-36. So anywhere between that, so that's what we're going to do now. So anywhere 28-36. So let's see if I choose 36 Whoops. Let's see for now. There's gonna be more text, obviously. Great. Now, let's have it in uppercase. Yeah, that looks better. And let's make the text color white, which should be here. Because personally, whenever I have a dark background, I like to make the text light and vice versa. Okay, let me show you a really cool trick that I love. Click on this icon for spacing, and we're going to add spacing between the letters. 120 something, 26. And you'll see more letters, more spacing between the letters, which is really cool. And I think it gives it a really nice effect. I'll explain line spacing later in the next few exercises. Cool. So we can go ahead and click away now and this move Emily more to the center. Awesome. Now I'm going to show you a trick. Now we need to add the second person in the couple. James, very British. But instead of having to do adjustments and text adjustments again, I'm going to give you the first shortcut over here, and that is duplication. And the shortcut for that is alter option and drag and boom. And you'll see those pink lines. They will tell you when your image or in this case, your text is aligned. Perfect. Obviously, let's rename this text, double click and type James. Awesome. Now, let's click on one, click on the other, and perhaps center it this way. Can you see the pink line? And now they're sort of centered. I like this positioning. Great. Perhaps move Emily more to the left and then do the same for James. Awesome. Great. Now we're going to duplicate Emily, once again, alter option and drag. And we're going to double click here and type. And we can simply now click away and click on and pop it in the middle and beautiful. Now I'm going to be a bit cheeky. I quite like when the end has a different font. So I'm going to give you another font that also is really cool. So can you select the end icon? Click on Bodoni. Go to Font, click on the Clear x, remove Bodoni, and type Alex Brush, which is a very cute font. Click on that and beautiful. I quite like that. I do think it needs to be a bit smaller, so you can click and drag and make it smaller and click on this icon to move it up or down. Awesome. So now let's duplicate Emily. Once again. We're going to do this a couple more times because it will save us a lot of time just by duplicating instead of redoing the text formatting every time. So let's old and drag and duplicate, select Emily and make it smaller. And actually, we're going to make it ten points because if I look at my wedding invitation, I'll see secondary texts should be 10-12 points. And then the date should be 14-18. So let's go ahead and do that. Let's decrease the font size to ten And hello. And actually, if we wanted to, we could make it slightly bigger, perhaps 12. Let's see. Let's start typing invite you to celebrate their enter wedding Awesome. Okay, now let's add the venue at the bottom. So hold down the alter option key and drag and double click and start typing fancy Hotel, New York, making this up, by the way. First Street USA. And perhaps click on this icon and post it a bit lower. Awesome. We're getting there. Cool. Now for the date. So we're going to Alt and drag and duplicate this one more time. Double click and type first of June 2026. And remember, the font size for the date should have been bigger 14-18 points. So we can increase the font size and see what looks best, really. I quite like this 16. But of course, feel free to adjust it and make it bigger or smaller. Totally up to you. And if you wanted to, you could get rid of that space that we added here and just have text in one line to make it less busy. Again, this is up to you. Move this up. 7. Adding Graphic Elements & Lines: Okay, the next thing we're going to do is start adding graphics. So we're going to go to elements, and you'll see shapes. If you click online, we can add a line. If you can't see it, just click on CO and you'll see lines over here. Let's go to line style and perhaps make it thinner by reducing the line weight to one, perhaps. Nice and thin and rounding corners. If you wanted to, you could also add dotted lines or dash lines, which is very nice. And if it's not white, make sure that you choose white by clicking here and clicking on White. Awesome. Let's click on this arrow on this icon and push this down. Great. And now for the final part, the best part, I think, is adding a graphic, an element. So we can go to elements and go to graphics. Se all. What I like to do personally is type in flower line because it is a wedding after all, so flowers is always a good idea. And you can go ahead and pick any of these gorgeous illustrations there are so many to choose from. So go ahead and choose, and some of them, unfortunately, are for the Pro account. So if you have the Pro account, I'm sure you have more access to more illustrations. Wow, this looks cool. Books. Got to love books. So you click on one and it will appear, and then you can click and drag and make sure it's aligned to the center, click on the color and make it white. And that looks gorgeous. I kind of love that. If you want it, you can click and drag on everything and push it slightly down. To have more space for the illustration. I really love this. So I'm going to duplicate this page, and I'm going to have a look at some different illustrations so I can have a lot to choose from. So go ahead and have a play with different illustrations. Now, I'm going to cheat. I'm going to go to Graphics C O, and I'm going to go to recently used because there's a particular illustration that I'm very fond of, and it's this one. It's a flower. It's an idea bulb with flowers inside, and I think that's so cool. So I'm going to delete this, select this and delete, select this and pop that in the middle and make this white, click on the color and make it white. And there we go. Another thing that's really cool is, if you look over here, add magic recommendations, and these are all pro with the P account, but I just find that they look so stunning. Isn't that gorgeous? Make it white, as well, of course. So you have so many gorgeous illustrations to choose from. So go ahead and design it and choose a really cool illustration. And if you want, you can pop it in the project section. But let's keep going. Last but not least for this very simple wedding deck is we're going to change the colors and change the content and have a deck. So let's click on Duplicate page. And instead this time, click on Background Color and start choosing another color. I love this one. Gorgeous. And let's start changing the contents. I'm going to get rid of James by James, sorry. Get rid of the end, pop Emily in the center, and just change the content to RSVP. And obviously, this is where you would change the content to add RSVP information. And respond by certain date, and you would add all the RSVP information, which I trust you can do. Now, let's do it again. Duplicate this page, and let's choose another color. Click on the background, click on the background color, and choose this gorgeous color. Love it. And you can double click here and type details. And this is where you would have all the wedding details, and perhaps you could even change this illustration. To perhaps type a venue and see, Okay, not quite. Perhaps type mansion and see what comes up. Let's say you're one of those lucky few who are getting married in a mansion. Let's click on this. Let's click on that and make it white. And oh, my God, I love this. Doesn't that look great? So I could get rid of the light bulb here and have this one for details. So it's all very similar but slightly different. And now last but not least, let's scroll up again for this one, duplicate it. Click on the background color. Click on Background color here and make it pink because my favorite color had to put one in there. And type thank you. This will be our thank you card. Of course, you delete this and you delete that and you pop this here and you say something like thank you to our loved ones or something like that. Now, I want the U to be underneath. So I'm just going to click and drag over here so that the U is below, cause I think that looks quite good. And that looks gorgeous. So we now have our little super simple wedding deck collection. Beautiful. Love this one with the details. 8. Exporting to Jpeg, PDF, for Print & more: Okay, so for exporting this now, let's say it's for printing, then you would have to go to share, download, and bear in mind that if you have the free version, there's a lot of things that are limited, unfortunately. So if you select JPEG or PNG or PDF, which would be great for virtual, for digital, then you might have restrictions on sizes and quality. I always like to amp the quality all the way up. So for printing, you would have to select PDF Print, and you would have to select CMYK. But for digital, JPEG or PDF standards can work as well. It's the best for emails, and JPEG would be great for WhatsAp or other text softwares. So let's say you choose PDF standard, and you can save all of these in one document or untake all pages and just save the current page. And when you're done, you click on Download. And voila. That's it for our simple deck. 9. Save the Date - Format & Size: Now, let's move on to some more slightly complicated, slightly advanced, save the date invites. We're going to create simple ones like these. We play with fonts, composition and lay out images in frames or shapes, grids of images, and more. So this will be fun, I hope. Now, in this particular invite, I've actually used five by 7 " again, and that's what I actually use for my sister's Save the date Invite because I personally liked that format. But that is personal choice. So feel free alternatively to use that 19 2010 80 by 1920 size for a digital invitation or for a printed five by 7 ". If you wanted even to have both, where people that are local, you printed and people that are abroad, for instance, you could send them a digital one. So you could create just 15 by 7 " and use the same invite both for printed and for digital. It's totally up to you. Okay, so again, we can either click on Create New design, create a design, and choose from one of those popular layouts, or you could type Invitation and then I want it to be portrait this time. So we mix it around, so five by seven portraits. All right. So first of all, we're going to start by going to uploads. And if you haven't already done so, go to upload files and go to that folder or go to your own Images folder and start popping in the images. Either select them all. You could do that. No problem. Open. And voila are all going to appear in here, which is awesome. 10. Save the Date: Okay, cool. So I'm going to select this image with the horse because I love animals. And to make this bigger, you can click and drag, and we're going to try and align it and make it fill the page. And obviously, it's not the same size, so you might need to make it bigger and fill it out. Cool. So that's a good start. Now, let's start adding text. Cool. So let's go to text and add textbox. And we can start typing save and if you want to zoom in, by the way, come on, plus. Let's type in save and just start to save because I want save and and date to be in a different frame text frame. I want to make it white. And just like before, because I like consistency, I think it's quite great when you have consistent fonts and colors to give it like a cohesive feel like it's a collection. So I want to use that font again, the Bodoni FLF. So click on Canva Sans font and type Bodoni F, and I can see it over here and great. And let's make it bigger over here. Now, I don't know if you remember, but I added some space between the letters previously, so I want to do the same here. And ideally you would have the exact same spacing. You would always use the same spacing. So you would go to spacing over here, and the one we want is letter spacing between the letters, and I don't know about this. And we can click and drag and move in here and pretty. Okay, remember my shortcut, not mine, but remember D shortcut for duplication. That is alt or option and drag. So click Alter option and drag and make sure the pinky lines show that it's aligned at the top and the bottom. And double click and change this to date. Perfect. Now we're going to duplicate this Alt and drag, and we're going to do the same for the H E, THE type. And we could make it smaller because I quite like when the the is different. So make it smaller over here and push it here, and that's a style, maybe a bit smaller. So I think that looks kind of cool. I quite like this. But I want another one with another font. So perhaps I'm going to change a font for the because I quite like that. I go to X, and previously, I use a few different fonts, and what's nice is it says recent searches, so I can see the fonts that I've used previously. So there was Angela White, but I think that's a bit much. Let's retype it actually, because I think it's with all caps, and we don't want that for the. So THE, make sure all caps is off and maybe make this a little bit bigger. And you know what? I kind of like that. But let's go to X. So go back. Let's try Alex's Brush, which was the font for the end. And I kind of like that. Perhaps I'll go with Alex Brush. I like that, so I'm just gonna pop it either at the bottom or in the middle, but I quite like the bottom. And wow. I like that. So if I wanted to move all three a bit upwards, I'm going to click on Save. Hold down the shift key the entire time to add to selection. Click on the whilst holding the Shift key, click on date and press the arrow upwards on my keyboard to shift it up. Cool. Now, let's add the date. So we're going to alter option, alter option and drag to duplicate, double click and type first June 2026, sir, it's just a random date that I invented. So put your date in and make it smaller by going on the minus, or alternatively, you can make it smaller by going like this, whichever makes sense to you. And I always like to make sure that my alignment is in the center. So everything is centered. Maybe make it a tiny bit smaller. Cool. Okay, what's the next thing we want to add? I want to teach you how to add some dotted lines. So we're going to go to elements, Line. And we could just choose those ones. So click on this and then click on Line style and type dotted. Click on dotted, I mean, and make it thinner, like maybe two and actually rounded oh, that's better. Click on this color and make it white, and then let's pop it here. And maybe zoom in so we can see a tiny bit better. So I'm going to click on this and pop it in. Now, I want to resize it and make it smaller. So I can click and drag, but if I click and drag, what happens, I need to make sure I don't go up and down and I go straight so it doesn't get distorted. So to go straight, you can also hold down the Shift key. And it will allow you to go straight and make sure that the line starts where the S starts, because I quite like when things are aligned. It looks good. Now we're happy with this, so we're going to alter option and drag and duplicate this dotted line on the right. So alter option and drag and voila. Now zoom out and BEA beautiful voila Feel free to resize the text so it's smaller or bigger according to your comfort. And I'm going to start adding some names. I already forgot the names we chose for a couple. I think it was Emily and James. There we go. So we're going to go to text. Add Text Box and type James because James is on the left, and Emily. And now, if we're feeling lazy and we still have our file open somewhere, we are entirely welcome to grab that click and shift and copy and pop it in here. Paste. As you can tell, this is the same font. Now, if you don't want the names to be all caps, you can also remove the all caps. If you do that, make sure the first letters are caps. If you want it to make it bigger, feel free to either click on the plus or click and drag. So that's pretty cute. I quite like this. 11. Save The Date - Design Variations: Okay. Now what we're going to do is duplicate this, duplicate page, and we're just going to replace this same save the date card, but with another image. So we're going to select the image and delete. And it looks like there's nothing. And that's because everything is white, so don't worry about it. Now, let's go to uploads and select another image. I think this image is stunning, so I want to use this. Click and click and drag and Wow stunting and perhaps make it a bit smaller. And this works just as well with any other image. But obviously, it's chopping his head off. Ooh, and I think we lost the dotted lines along the way. So we're going to command or control left bracket push it behind. Cool. So I would like to move these a bit higher so it doesn't block his head. So click on this. Hold on the shift key the entire time while clicking on all these options, all these elements and press the upward arrow and it will beautifully go up. Now you could, as well, add some variation and change the to another color. If you click on text color, let's make it funky and add peach. Quite like that. And if we wanted maybe the dotted lines, click on the line color and select that peach. And just like that, we've created a variation. So you can move this to the right or to the left. Cool. Okay, so now let's duplicate this page, and we're going to make a slight variation. So again, I like to play around and make a lot of slight variations so that I can make up my mind and try new things and come up with new ideas, and then in the end decide which I prefer. That's how I work in most of my softwares that I use. So I want us to select the image and press the upward arrow on our keyboard to move the image up, excuse me. Now, select the text. By clicking and dragging, this is another way of selecting, clicking and dragging, and we're going to change the text color to black. Because remember, white text on white background, you can't see it. So select Emily and James. Press the upward arrow on my keyboard, and perhaps we want to add another piece of text. Click on text at Textbox and type, it's a summer wedding or something like that. Just to add a bit more text and move it down. Cool. Now, to save the date obviously is blocking their faces so you can click and hold on a shift key and move to save the date. Oh, maybe on the hand. That looks cute. Now, select dotted line first of June and a dotted line all while holding now the shift key and pop it here. And now we have our second save the date, our first one, very simple. I believe in simplicity. I like simplicity. If you have a gorgeous picture like this one, simple is great. This one, which is a slight variation, and this one. 12. Image Editing, Auto Blur & Filters: Great. Now, I'm going to teach you how to make some adjustments on this image. Select the image, and you can click on Edit. I love it. You can click on Adjust, first of all, and change a few adjustments if you wanted to. And you have a few cool things here, but I want to start with the filters. So let's click on the filters. And just like that, you have some cool stuff in your filters. Oh, I quite like this one, mist. You can also decide if you want to lower intensity of the filter. So these are very standard, very similar, I would say, to Instagram or any social media, where Astro is also nice. You could go to Duotone which is cool. It means two colors and also choose one of these. And reduced intensity, so it's slightly, but not a lot. We have so many like dusk. So this is really fun. Again, I like simplicity, and I think the picture is amazing on its own, but, you know, it's always fun to play. And if you don't have such a nice image, you can make it look really cool with these filters. Okay, another thing I love is autofocus. Let's say you didn't have such a great photographer that doesn't have like, you don't have a picture with a blurred background. Well, you can fake the blur. Like, can you see how blur the background is or remove it? So this instantly makes it look way more professional and gorgeous. So yeah, that is one of our save the dates. Cool. Another version. 13. Placing Images Inside Arch Shape: Awesome. So these look good. Just like that, we have a few different variations. So we're going to duplicate this again. Let's go ahead over here and notice how I like to duplicate pages instead of starting from scratch because it saves me a lot of time. I suggest you do the same. Click on Duplicate page for this one. Delete the image. Now, let's select all this. I want all of that to be black. Go to the color and click on Black. Same for the bottom stuff. Remember, there's some text here, so click and drag, so we select all of it and make it black. Select it and move it down and notice that pink line in the middle that tells you that it's in the middle. Okay, so for this next small section, we're going to add an image inside the frame and then after for the rest for the remaining lessons, we're going to look at images inside frames. But we'll start very easy with this chapo frame, and then later we'll build our skills. Okay, so how do we do this? So we need to go to elements, and if we scroll down, we'll see frames. So let's click on CO, and you'll see a collection of frames, all different kinds of frames, which you're welcome to pick any of these there we go. I'm going to click on this one that doesn't have a border, and then I can click and drag and distort it, click and drag, click and drag, and I personally quite like when things align, like when the text and the frame align. I think it looks very visually pleasing, and as humans, we like when things aligned and look perfect. So that's what we'll do. Click and Drag, go to uploads, choose that gorgeous image. And that didn't work, so click and drag and pop it inside and cool. Very cool. So now, actually, I want to move everything down. So I'm going to select these, push it down, and Elongate this, make it longer because I think that will look better and perhaps make this a bit higher and if you double click, you can also play with the image and decide where you would place the image. Now, to get out of this, just double click away. And Wella just like Dan, we just created another save the date. Okay, so stay tuned for some more exciting frames. 14. Placing Images inside Frames, Polaroids & Torn paper: Interesting. Okay, so let's make some more, save the dates with multiple images and grids. Alright. Now, let's duplicate this. And I just want to show you how easily you can just add an additional image or change the image and put something else in. And to do that, first, you can select this and delete. Click on this and delete, and then click on this image and click and drag inside. End Vo. Now you can double click and again move the image up or down. And just like that, we've created our own little template for Save the date. And feel free to make any adjustment you want. Okay, cool. Now I'm over this shape. Let's move on and do the same thing, but with a different shape. So let's duplicate it. Click on Duplicate page. And let's delete the image and the frame. So press delete key and also delete the frame. And now we're going to go back to elements and close this and we're going to go to so you'll see frames and grids. Let's go to frames again because we're going to look at grids later. So you have basic shapes, film and photo, which is also cool. You could totally do that. Ooh, and have, like, a sort of polroid. That could be fun. I'm just inventing this right now, FYI. So let's go to Uploads and pop this image in and I don't know, pop the ring image there. In Voila that's another save the date. That's cool, but let's duplicate and have another one. Let's go back to elements, and let's go back to shapes. I'm just going to delete this. And what I did want to show you is the paper frames because I think that looks really cool. Click on COL and select any one that you fancy. I'll just go with this one, the first one. And then I'm just going to click and drag and distort it. And change it and perhaps move my text up, perhaps move all of this down. So every time we can play around with it and distort it and change it around, which is fun. And it's so easy to use. Okay, once you're happy with the shape of your paper frame, you can go back to your uploads and choose the image you want. I'll go for this pretty image this time. Again, all these images are available in couples photography or craded ultiimage folder. So I'm going to choose this image and pop it in and Wow. That's really pretty, isn't it? Click and Drag. And just like that, we've created yet another save the date. Of course, feel free to resize things to make the names different somewhere else. By the way, if you select all three, you want to move them, move them from here, from that icon. 15. Creating Image Grids: Cool. So let's go and duplicate this again and delete this image because this time, I want to create a three page frame like this, a three image frame. So I want us to resize this, resize it. And let's start adding some more paper frames. So we go to elements, paper, make sure you're in, you know, frames, you know, that you're here, and you go to CO and that you go to paper. And then let's start adding some more paper frames. This looks good. Click and Drag, and now I'm going to turn it. Perhaps turn it this way and pop it here, and then I can resize it and play with it and feel free to choose any, you know, paper frames that you like personally. You could also click and drag and duplicate it and just elongate it if you wanted to or use a different one. It's totally up to you. Now let's go to uploads. And again, let's place a few images. Click and Drag and place this one. Click and Drag and plays that one, and, of course, the rings. Click and Drag and plays the rings. Double click on an image and then change what you see. Click and Drag on this image and click and drag to the right or use the arrows on a keyboard. Or perhaps you would like it rotated. Like this, again, I'm just playing with it. It's totally up to you. There we go. So now we have multiple frames, but in a paper. Now, duplicate this and see how nice this will look when we add frame, a colored background. So click on background color. And yikes. I don't like that color. So click on CO, and we can see every photo color that is taken from each picture. And I think that looks really good when you take colors that are derived from a picture. I just think it looks good, and I think I'm going to go with this color. Now, remember what I said when it's dark background, I think it looks better when you make the text white. So go ahead and select, click and shift on all these bits, even the lines if you wanted to, and make it white. And the names click and Shift and white. And that is a more funky save the date fun stuff. Now we have a few different save the date designs so cool. 16. A Floral Wedding Invite - Brand Colors: Okay, my friends, are you ready for this gorgeous wedding design invitation? I'm really excited. It's gonna be really gorgeous and fly and traditional yet modern. We're gonna create a full winter version like this one. And a more traditional floral version like this one, and it's just stunning. And you'll see that it's actually very easy to do so. And I'm going to teach you lots of trick to enhance your process and make it faster. Skills and shortcuts like duplicating and moving layers forwards and backwards, which are the same shortcuts that you have in Adobe Photoshop. Cool. So let's start by creating a new blank page. So we're going to go to this home icon, and we're going to click on Create a new design. And I would like us to select Invitation portrait. If you can't find it, then try and have a little look over here. And if you still can't find it, then you can type in Invitation portrait and try and find it. Make sure it's five by 7 ". So anyway, I'm going to go ahead and select this. And Vola our new document is done. So let's go to brand because I want us to start by adding our gorgeous brand colors that we're going to use. So there's a few ways of adding colors in Canva. You can either go and click on Edit, and then you might not have this. So if you don't have this, you can click on these three dots and click on Ads Palette Below. And you can rename it to my gorgeous colors or something like that. Now you will have your palette. Alternatively, if you click on the background of a page and you click on this background color, you will have access to more colors here. You can choose a color by clicking here and try and pick a color, or you can add a code, which is what we'll do now. I'll give you codes for these gorgeous colors. So I want us to go to color palette and click on the plus. And I want us to add this one, this color, a 0735f. So just type it in a 0735f. And there you go. There's this color. Let's add another color seven, three, three, four, 20, and now we have another color. Let's add this yellow d59f 36. And another color, 62, three, three, 27. Now we have that color. Let's add this pinky color. F4e a DC. And of course, you can choose any color you want. You don't have to follow my colors. Let's add this one as well. B two, 866f. And feel free to add some more of your own colors. Great. So now that we have some of the colors we'll need, and we might need to add some more later, let's get started. Let's make this background color white for now. Plain old white. 17. Drawing Arches, Text & Resize from Center: What we're going to start with first is creating these two hills, these arches, and we're going to add a border to the smaller arch. Then we're going to start adding some texts, and I'm going to teach you how to do the TH or to make the TH smaller for 30. And then we can start adding the gorgeous graphics, which is my favorite part. So let's do this. So we're going to go to elements, and we're going to click on Shapes CO. Let's scroll down and select this hill or this arch and click. And it's going to come up in a color. Now, let's click and drag and start distorting it and try and get it the way we want it. Click and drag. Every time I do this, it looks slightly different. So don't worry if it's not exactly the same. Great. So once you have that shape, make sure you click and drag and move it so that it's aligned with those pink lines. Can you see the pink line? Telling you it's aligned horizontally. Cool. So now what we're going to do is we're going to create a second one, a smaller one that's going to go on the inside with a white border. And we can do this by going Commander Control C for copy and Commander Control V for paste, and there we go. We have another one. Now, let's change it. Let's change a color so we can differentiate between those two. Oh, difficult word. Let's choose one of those lighter colors. And voila. Now we're going to align these two. So they're perfectly aligned, and I'm going to show you a little trick, a shortcut. So if you want to make the smaller, you can just click and drag from the edges. But unfortunately, it's going to be resized from the corner. So let's undo Commander control zt. I'm going to show you a trick that lets you resize from the center, and that is holding down the alter option key. And click and drag and Wow, you'll see that it will beautifully be resized from the center, which is awesome. Gorgeous. Now I want us to have a little white border in the smaller arch. So we're going to click on border style, and we're just going to click and drag and add a two millimeter border. Now let's make this white. So we're going to click on border Color and click on white, and there we go. Last but not least, for the shapes, let's make the behind arch, the bigger arch, the same color as the center arch. So if you can't select it, by the way, you can go to position and layers, and you'll find all the layers, all the objects of our page here. So go ahead and select the darker one. And then click on Color and choose that lighter color. Voila. We have our shape, our two shapes. Cool. So let's start adding text, shall we? So let's go to text and click on Add Text Box. And if you need to zoom in, press Command or Control plus for zooming in. Let's start typing Lisa, Enter and Enter Romeo. And I want us to select the whole pieces of text so we can click and drag. But if that's tricky, we can use the shortcut for select A, which is Command or Control A for A. And let's start formatting the text. So we're going to change the font. So click on Canvas Sands, and I'm going to give you a really great font. And the font is called Great Vibes. So go ahead and type in here great vibes. And there is that gorgeous handwritten font. Okay, let's make it bigger. G to click on the plus until it says 36 points. And the reason I chose 36 is because if you look at the shortcuts cheat cheats that I gave you, you will see for wedding invitation printed, which is what we're doing now, we're choosing wedding invitation printed five by 7 ". It says names 28-36 points. Now, I chose 36 points. So let's make this white. We're going to go to text Color and click on White. And then let's go ahead and apply my favorite effect. Click on spacing, and we're going to change the spacing between the letters. So we can go ahead and click and drag and perhaps make it 86, which is what I had last time, and you can see the spacing between the letters change. You can also change the letters, the spacing between the lines. And voila. Now, last but not least, we can click away to deselect and move it up or down. Click and Drag, or you can even use the arrows on your keyboard, up arrow and down to move it up. Just make sure you click and drag and that it aligns to the center of the page horizontally that you can see that pink line in the middle. Great. Let's start adding some more text. Click on Add Text Box, and it's going to appear here. Click and direct, push it down. And now the font we're going to choose is called Libre Baskerville or Libre Baskerville. I don't know how to say it in a non French accent or non Belgian accent. So anyway, let's click on Clear and start typing Libre Baskerville. And it should appear here. Another gorgeous font. Let's start typing in the text, invite you to join in celebrating enter their wedding. And now to select the whole text, click and drag or Command or Control A, for the shortcut for selecting all. Cool. We're going to make the text ten because according to my sheet, secondary text should be 10-12. So make sure the font size is ten. Again, let's make the text color white, and I think that's it. You can move it up or down. Now we're going to add a second piece of text to the bottom. And because I want it to be exactly the same font and formatting, we're going to duplicate it. So we're going to use the shortcut for duplication, which is alter option and drag. And then scroll and drag down, and there we go. And trust me, this duplicating shortcut will save you a lot of time in Canva and other softwares. So let's double click or Command or Control A, and start retyping the address of our venue. So type one, two, three, anywhere street, any city, one, two, three, four, five. So obviously, this is made up. It's a made up street. Click and Drag and move it down. Ideally, you will have added your own venue details, right? Awesome. So let's do it one more time. Let's duplicate it. And this time, we're going to add a date. So hold down the alter option key and drag. And you can even see those pink lines that tell you these two are aligned. So change a date to 30, September 2026. Awesome. Click away, and let's click on it and duplicate it one more time for the time and day. Hold down the alter option key and drag. Double click and type at 2:00 P.M. Sunday and click Away. 18. Adding Superscript Ordinal for 'th': Okay, let's make the font size for the date 14 because that's what it says here, event details 14-18. So I'm going to select this date and click. So it is 14 and gorgeous. So it stands out a little bit more. Awesome. Now, one last thing about this before we move on. This is going to be our template is the TH in September. Now, in a software like Adobe in design, this would be so easy and there would be a little button for that. Unfortunately, in Canva, I haven't found one. I don't think there is one. So we're going to make a little trick and do it anyway using a trick. So if you can zoom in Command or Control plus and double click. And we're going to replace the TH with two spaces, so we can delete that and then press one space. And a second space. Then we're going to duplicate this piece of text and retype it type TH in this formatting. So hold down the alter option key and drag to duplicate. Double click to select the whole text, press delete to delete the text and type TH. Now, you're welcome to resize it further and make it even smaller if you want it to by clicking and dragging or leave it as is. Click on this moving icon and move it here. Now, you can either align it to the top the way it is now, which that's my preference, or you can align it to the bottom, and you can move it up or down. Now, if you've lost it, I can't currently select it, and it's really frustrating, don't worry. You can just click on position, and you'll find a TH there, few. And now you can press the click and drag or press the upward arrow or downward arrow to push it down or up or in the middle. So that is totally up to you. I quite liked it when the TH was aligned to the top of this frame. Click away, Zoom out, and there we go. We have our first template. So this was the long bit. The next part is going to be easier, faster and more fun, I promise, because that's when we're going to add some gorgeous graphics, which is my favorite part. 19. Adding Fall/Autumn Leafy Flowers: So we're going to make a duplicate of this page, and perhaps we can select it first and move it up a bit. I think that's better centering it. And let's make a duplicate of our page because this is just going to be our empty template. Let's scroll down and start designing this. So let's go ahead and go to elements and click on that arrow to get out of shapes. Click on Graphics CO. And if I'm cheating, I can use my recently used flowers. But if I don't want to cheat because you don't have access probably to the same ones, I want you to type wedding in graphics and Enter. And you'll see a lot of super gorgeous wedding graphics that you can choose from. Feel free to choose any of them and design your own. But I'm going to recreate the design that I created before. So, feel free to tag along and do that, or create your own version with your own graphics and flowers and ideally post them in the project section below my class so that we can all create this gorgeous wedding hub for all of us and get inspired by each other. Okay, so you can go ahead and try and find the flowers that I'm going to be using. That's a tricky bit about wedding is trying to find it. But perhaps I can type wedding flower and see. Oh, that's already better, isn't it? Let's see if I'm going to find those flowers those exact flowers. And there it is. This is one of the flowers I'll be using. So I'm just going to click on that, and I'll see these beautifully leafy flowers here or leafs. And I can click and drag and put it there for now. And I'll see here magic recommendations. This might be just available to Canva Pro, and some of the graphics are only available to Canva Pro, see what is available to you. So I'm going to click on C O, and I'll see some more graphics that I'll need like this one. This is one of them, and, wow, that's stunning. So I'm just going to click and drag pop it here. And then finally, choose this one because this one, the brownie one is also the look I'm going for like a fall winter esque wedding. So I'm just going to click and drag and also put this to the side. 20. Moving Layers back with Shortcuts & Duplicate: Okay, so what we're going to do now is we're going to start placing and duplicating these elements and start filling it up. Using our shortcut for duplication, which is alter option and drag. And then we're going to put it behind the small arch, and it's going to create a really stunning effect. So let's start with this flower, shall we? So we can resize it and perhaps duplicate it. Hold down the alter option key and pop it here. And now to move it layer back, hold down the command R control key and the left square bracket, and Wow. Starting. Now you can press the arrows on your keyboard up and down to move it up or down. Cool. Feel free to click and drag and resize it. Let's start adding some more. So we're going to duplicate this by holding down the alter option key and drag and pop it here. Stunning. Let's do the same on this side because I want things to be symmetrical. So hold down the alter option key and drag and pop it here, and you can even align it perfectly if you follow the pinky magenta lines. Let's scroll down and add some more to the bottom. So hold down the alter option key, select this one, and drag it over here. The reason it's all behind the smaller arch is because I've already placed it behind it, and when I duplicated it, it automatically came there. So holding down the alter option key and drag and add one here, and alten option key and drag and pop it here. Beautiful. It's starting to fill out, isn't it? Feel free to resize them and make them smaller if needed. Cool. So we're done with this little flower for now, and we're going to start adding some more different ones. Let's start with the brownie leaves. So let's resize it, click and drag, and let's rotate it, perhaps, and click and drag and pop it here is. And now to move it a layer backward, press Command or Control left square bracket, on your keyboard, and voila. Stunning. Let's duplicate it and pop it on the right. Symmetrical. So hold down the alter option key and drag and Wow. Pop it there. Click on flip and flip horizontal Whoops, and click and drag and rotate it. Stunning. Let's start filling it out more. So let's click on this one and duplicate it. Alter option and drag and pop it here. Stunning. Let's do the same alter option and drag and pop it there and perhaps rotate it. Beautiful. Let's keep going and start filling it up. Let's add some more here. So hold down the alter optim kin drag and rotate it, not too much and place it so it looks pretty. And maybe I'll even flip it vertically. And click and drag and rotate it. Cool. Let's do the same on the right. Click and drag and perhaps rotate it. And, wow, stunning. It's getting filled up very quickly. But let's start adding the leaf now. So we can click and drag and pop it here and rotate it. And perhaps I want the leaf to be a bit bigger than the other flowers. So I'm going to pop it here and then move it a layer back, pressing Command or Control, left square bracket. Beautiful. Now, let's duplicate it to the right, so holding down the alter option key and drag and perhaps rotating it and if that doesn't work, perhaps clicking on flip flip horizontal, and then rotating it. So again, trying to make it symmetrical and pretty and filling it up. Again, if you're struggling to select one of them, and you're getting frustrated, and you're like, Whoa, how do I do this? Don't worry. Go to position, and then you can select individual elements over here. Cool. Let's keep going, shall we? We're on a roll. Let's select this. Hold down the alter option key and drag and duplicate it and perhaps make it smaller. Click and Drag, pop it here. And again, duplicating this, holding down the alter option key and drag. Now we're going to duplicate both of these in one go. So we're going to click on one. Hold down the shift key and click on the other. And now Alt and drag and duplicate both in one go. And last but not least, click on flip Flip Horizontal. Again, both in one go and then click and drag. See, once you use the shortcuts, things are a lot more faster and efficient. Okay, let's start adding the leafy bits here and fill it up. Holding down the alter option key and drag and click and drag to rotate one more time, alter option and drag over here, and perhaps click on flip flip horizontal, and we'll rotate it and voila. Feel free to adjust things and move things a bit more around, so it's more filled up. And that is gorgeous, isn't it? Okay, so we're not entirely done just yet. We're just going to add some little flowers that stick out that are on the edges like over here. So we're going to click and drag and make this smaller and added here is, and perhaps make a second one, so duplicating it. Alt and drag over here and make it smaller. Add a second 110 drag and make it smaller perhaps. And let's do the same for the other side. So select all three by going click and holding down Shift and then alt or option and drag and pop it to that side and start moving things manually around and adjusting it just so it looks a bit like a sprinkle of fairy dust going all over the place. Or something like that. Cool. So once you like that and you're happy with it, I kind of want to flip this, actually. Click and Drag and I think that looks better, doesn't it? Beautiful. So zoom out and stunning. Now let's add some more of these little flowers to the bottom holding down the alter option key and drag, add one here, Altern option and drag and add one here, maybe make it smaller. Do the same for this side, and that side, and gorgeous. Now, last but not least, I'm going to add a little pinky background to make it even more stunning. So select this page. Click on this color. And we're going to choose a color that you might not have actually. So I'm going to give you another code. And that's going to be FFF nine F nine. So click on this, add new color, and type FFFF nine. And that gorgeous subtle color zoom in and Wow. Stunning. So absolutely gorgeous. 21. A Much Appreciated Class Review: All right, my friends. I hope you're really enjoying the claw so far and that you're learning a whole bunch of tips and tricks and shortcuts. Now, it would be super, super helpful to me if you could leave a class review, letting us know how you're experiencing the claw so far. I would be ever so grateful. And Voila, let's get back to Canva. 22. A Version for Save the Date: Not done just yet because one of my favorite things to do is creating a duplication and then changing the illustration and the colors ever so slightly to create, for instance, the details and RSVP page and then create another one, another variation for the save the date. So let's go ahead and do that. So we're going to click on Duplicate Page, and let's start changing things ever so slightly. Let's start with this. I want our Hill to be a different lighter color. So I want us to click on color and choose this color for the hill. And I want us to select the background Hill, but it's hard to select because there's a lot of stuff there. So let's click on position layers and try and find the back hill. Here it is, click. And now select the color and choose that same background color. Gorgeous. Now, let's select the background. Click on the background color and choose the original color we started with. So we reverse it, essentially. Wow, that's so pretty. I'm so obsessed. Now, one of the things I do is that when there's a light background, I like to have dark text. And when there's a dark background, I like to have light text. So let's select all these pieces of text and make them dark. So click on one, holding down the Shift key the whole time and click on the other ones. To make sure you change a text color in one go, saving time. Click on Tex Color and click on any of the brownie colors that you find nice. Gorgeous. Now I want to select the TH as well and make that as well that same brown. If I can't find it, again, go to position and click on TH. Stunning. Just like that, I've created yet another variation. And perhaps we can type save the date instead, and this will be your save the date card. So it's gonna be a really cohesive wedding card and save the date. Cool. Let's do another variation. So duplicate this and this time make this yellow because it's very pretty. So select color and select yellow. Let's select the arch, click on position, scroll down and select the back arch. And let's make that yellow as well. So click here and click on yellow. Stunning. Last but not least, let's make save the date White. So we're going to go to text Color, click on White and Wow, that looks pretty and change the text to details and RSVP. So details Enter and Enter RSVP and gorgeous. Now we have three of these stunning. So once you're happy with your wedding invite, you save the date and RSVP that are all cohesive, you would go to share and save it as a PDF, and it will be ready for printing. Now, for printing, just make sure you always talk things through with the printer or printer services that you always do a test print. So you want to go to download and select PDF Print. Now, if you want your objects, your images to line to the edge of the page, then you would have to have crop marks and bleed. Which means the printers will trim it and print it on larger piece of paper and then trim it. But if instead you're using a color paper or printed color, then you wouldn't need that. So it all depends. So let's say we're using printed paper. So we're just going to print this on printed paper. So in that case, we won't have to use crop marks and bleed marks. Make sure for the color profile, you select CMYK best for professional printing. Also available only on P, unfortunately. And then select the three pages that you're printing and download it and it will appear in your downloads. Over here, we've got the three types of design, and they're gorgeous. I'm obsessed. 23. A Traditional Floral Invite Design: Cool. We're not finished because if you know me, you know that I love creating a bunch of variations, and now we're going to create a more traditional floral wedding design. And it's also gorgeous. But now that we have our template, this is going to be a lot easier to design. Trust me, it's just a matter of adding some more flowers and using our shortcuts. So let's go ahead and click on Duplicate page. And let's go back on this arrow and back to wedding graphics and perhaps type wedding flowers this time and see what comes up. So I'm going to be using a bunch of these flowers, and I want us to use the exact same flowers that we've used or for you to use your own and pick your own and design your own style and pop it in the project section. Okay, so go ahead and try and find these flowers, and I'm going to cheat a little bit right now, and I'm just going to click on recently used C O. And the ones I'll be using are this one. So I can go ahead and click. And it's a gorgeous bouquet, and I'm going to scroll, make it smaller, click and drag and pop it here. Gorgeous. I'm also going to use this one because that's going to be gorgeous for the edges. It just looks like an edge. So I'm going to click and drag and make it smaller and already pop it here for now, I'm also going to use this one because I love this dried flowers look. I'm going to click and drag and pop it here, and that should be all for the flowers for now. So let's start doing this. So I want us to move this layer backward by pressing Command or Control, left square bracket and voila. Now, let's duplicate this for the right side, symmetrical. Hold down the alter option key and drag and flip it horizontally. Easy PZ, right? Click and Drag and adjust it, and Wow. I'm already filling it up so quickly. Cool. Let's start adding some more. So I'm going to select this bouquet and duplicate it. Alton drag and pop it there, and perhaps rotate it. So I can see that lovely white flour and pop it here. Move this away. Click on the shortcut for moving it a layer backward and that is Command or Control left square bracket. Cool. Let's start duplicating this bouquet, shall we? So hold down the alter option key and drag and start popping it all over the place. Pop it here, and then Alton drag and duplicate and pop it here. And if I want it, I can rotate it. No problem. I could make it bigger and make it more inwards and do the same for this one. So whatever you think looks good, you be the designer here. Let's duplicate it again and add it here and another one here. And then I can select this one, select that one, holding down the Shift key, and duplicate both in one go by holding down the alter option key and drag and Wow. Duplication. I can also click on flip flip horizontal. And just like that, it's getting filled up so quickly. Love this. My shortcuts that I'm using are pretty easy and cool, right? Cool. Let's add one for the bottom. So hold down this and duplicate it to the bottom Alton dragon, perhaps make it a bit bigger. Cool. Let's start adding the fluffy, dried flour one, this one. That is hiding. So I'm going to click and drag and make it smaller and start placing it here is, I think, and then move it a layer backwards. Come under control, left square bracket. Duplicate it, alter option and drag and pop it here. Rotate it. And you know the drill by now, hopefully, that is the goal of this clause is that it becomes second nature and fluent and easy. Let's start adding some more. So Alton drag and pop one here, Alton drag and pop it here, Alton drag and pop one there. And I think you're starting to get the gist of it, right? Let's add some more and fill it up. And, of course, if it's too filled up for you, that's also fine. You can also use fewer flowers. Alton drag One more time or a couple more times Walton dreg. And here and see how quick that was to create this stunning and maybe make this a bit bigger, though. Stunning and floral and great. And we just created another design very similar using that existing template. Cool. So once you're happy with this design, yet again, I think you can expect what's next. We're going to make a variation. So we're going to duplicate this and perhaps we're going to give it a background with a color so we can click on background color and perhaps make it yellow and Wow or perhaps I changed my mind undo. And instead, I'm going to make this yellow. Select this and make it yellow and try and select the back arch by clicking on position. Click on this on the layer and make it yellow and voila, another variation. Perhaps double click and type save the date. Obviously, you would change all the information. Awesome. Let's see what other variations can we make? Let's duplicate this. And actually, let's make the background yellow. And let's make this more like a white color. So click on color and this or white, whichever you think looks best. Let's select the back arch position. And find that layer, which is yellow and back choose that white or that pink. Again, when there's a clear or light background, you want to select all the text and make it dark. So select, click and shift and start selecting all the pieces of text. Click on A and make it dark and gorgeous. Don't forget that little TH. Click on A and make it dark. And isn't that stunning? You can also type now details and RSVP. Change the text, all the text so that it's the details of the wedding like I did here. I deleted everything, and I popped this text over here, and I moved the flower here. So I think you get the gist of it. Let's do one more variation. I promise it's the last one duplicated. Select the background and select the color and this color because I love it. And, wow. Isn't that stunning? I'm obsessed. I hope you enjoyed this, and I hope you know now how to save it, export it for printing. I hope you had a blast. I sure did. 24. BONUS: Animated Save the Date Video: Oh. Interesting. Okay, so now for a really exciting part of this clause, I'm super excited about it because it's animation and video. And the reason I'm so excited about it because I think Canva made it so easy to add some really, super easy and cool animation or video. And I'm just super psyched about it. Like, I just created all these animation clips in Canva and I think it took me maybe 20 minutes to do it, maybe less. And I love it. And these are very minimalistic and simplistic because it goes with the theme of our, you know, collection today. But I just wanted to show you that you can easily add animations. You can easily add graphics and stickers, and I love it. Cool. So I added a video here, a video clip of all the animations that I just created in like 20 minutes, one with images and text animation. And just illustrations and stickers that I added from Canva. Canva has such a huge collection of existing stickers and illustrations and animations, and I think it's so cool. So you can just find a couple that looks like you or perhaps you're fancy, and perhaps you have an illustrator that you might have asked them to do a beautiful illustration of you or not. So anyway, let's get to it, right? So let's start from scratch. We'll go to home, and there's a few ways around it. You can either go back to old templates, template, templates. And perhaps you can type in wedding animation invite. I'm not sure, by the way, let's see what comes up. Oh, perfect. And here you go. You have a bunch of gorgeous animations. Yeah. So this time, I actually want us to create a full screen animation. So before we've used five by 7 " for the invites. For the Save the date, we use a portrait, five by 7 ". But remember that anything digital should be 1080 1920, which is the size of most monitors and screens, and it's almost a full iPhone screen. So that's what we're going to do now. We're going to use this format in portrait. So so far we've used this, now we're going to use that. Okay. So there's a few ways around it. You can either choose an existing template or create one from scratch. So let's create one from scratch. So we can click on Create Design, and there we go. That's what we need, although we need the opposite of that. I'm pretty sure that is landscape, and we're going to need portrait. Let's see. Actually, this is what we need. Portraits, phone wallpaper. Let's go with either this or that, which is, as you can see, it's the same format, so it doesn't really matter. So any of these will work. So I'm going to click on your story, and you may notice that it's a bit longer over here. And the great news about choosing your story is that it's for Instagram stories, I assume, so it's already in a video. So let's open another file again, and let's pretend this time we didn't use your story, but instead we used phone wallpaper, which is the same format, but without the video. Exactly. This is just a page. So the one with my story is video. The other one is just a page. But it doesn't matter because as soon as we start adding the super easy animation effects that are built in Canva, it will turn into a video. So it's totally up to you if you choose a page or if you choose already a video. So let's go with my story, suggested size. Your story. Okay, so I would like to go to Uploads and go back and add that beautiful image. Now, if you don't have that image, just go to Upload Files. Desktop our little folder, couples photography and choose this image or choose any image that makes sense to you. An image of you. I love this image, actually, personally. I might use this one, actually, change my mind. So I'm going to click on Open, and I'm going to click on it and it will appear here. And now I can click and drag, click and drag and fill it with the whole screen. 25. Easy Animation with Canva: Cool. And now we can click on Ad page, and we have a second page, page one, page two. In that second page, I'm going to click on Upload Files, and this time, I want to go back to that folder. But this time, I want to go to video because I've taken some videos from Unlesh and Pixels and Pixel Bay. Feel free to use any of these. I'm going to go with this because it's like a wedding on the beach and it's pretty. So I'm just going to pop it in here. And because this is landscape and my image, my file size is portrait, I'm going to have to adjust it and click and drag and make it bigger. And unfortunately, this means that there will be a bit of white space, but that's fine because I've decided that I'm going to use that white space for some animated text. Okay, so let's go back here. Now we're going to add some text. If we're going to be lazy, which I personally am, I always believe in shortcuts. Why not? I'm going to select this text and copy it. And if you don't have it here, you can just go to text and add textbox and type save the date. And I can't remember what font it was. Oh, yes, it was Bodoni. Recently used Bodoni, and it was uppercase, make it bigger, whatnot. Make it bigger. Although if you remember, the the was actually another font. So get rid of the add a space and create another textbox for the, and the the you might want to change it to another font. So save date is Bodoni, and the the was Alex brush and not all caps, and there we go. Or you can just paste from previous document, which I'm going to do now because I'm lazy. Get rid of that. Get rid of that, and click and hold down the Shift key to select all these and push them down and perhaps resize them and make them bigger. Cool. Okay, so let's start animating, shall we? Now, if we wanted, we can click on these and give it an effect to make it boost so we can see the text a bit more. So we go to effects and lift and perhaps add more lift. And you'll see the text kind of pops up a bit more, which I like. It becomes more readable, legible. So let's click and Shift and select Save the date, and then click on Animate. And yes, my friends, it's as easy as that. And here you'll see a collection of all kinds of animations that you can choose from. In this case, I would like to select Pan because I quite like it. And then I'll click on first of June Animate, and again select Pan. And now you've got save the date and then pen. But I think maybe we need to make the text bigger. So click and shift on all the pieces of text, make them a bit bigger. Okay, cool. Another thing I like to do is select the image and actually animate that image. So I'm going to click on Animate. And I quite like any of the ones where the image goes bigger. So this one breathe. This one is also nice. So there's so many cool ones to choose from Blur is also nice. So have a pig, decide which one works for you. I might go with breve I quite like when it goes in and out, or you could also choose out and in the opposite. That also works. Pretty. There we go. So the first is done. And actually, no, I changed my mind. I wanted the image to go out. So play. You can always click on the Play button and it will play. 26. Editing Timelines Duration & Splitting Frames: Cool. Now we've got one. Now, let's say I want the text to be animated first and then the image. So if you click on duration, so you click on duration and you'll be able to see all the timelines. Now, let's say it's too fast, as in you don't want to see the end bit, you could click and drag and make it smaller. So now it's a bit smaller. And then you could add the same text here. You could add the same text, but change it to the names. So click and shift click and shift, and then Command or Control C for copy. Then go over here and I paste Commander Control V and perhaps make the text bits black, click and shift and make them black. And you might want to remove the effects where it lifts it doesn't look that good. Oh, and the select select effect and remove cool. Now, I would like to change it to their names, which was Dave and Kate. That's me. Cool. Change it to. And what's cool is because we copied it from here, it will still have that animation. So if we go play Great. Still think the first bit needs to be a bit shorter. Okay, one, two, three, play. There we go. We have our super easy, super quick animation. Now, let's say I would like to split it here. Instead of dragging, I can also right click and click on Split Page or S, which is the same in other softwares, as well. Again, I love that. Let's go on this bit and just delete the animation, and we'll move on to the next really, really fun part. And that's my favorite part. It's adding Illustrations and animations and stickers, fun stuff. 27. Adding gorgeous Illustrations: Couples, Florals & more: Okay. So over here, you can see, I've added the chapel, the couple. I've added more couples and flowers. I've changed a background. So there's so many little things we can do. So let's go back here. And if we go to elements, you can see on all the recently used ones that I've used, but that's cheating, so I'm not going to look at that right now. Alternatively, you could type whatever you need. I'll type wedding couple because I'm looking for illustrations or graphics of a wedding couple. And then I'll click on CO and then I can start. Wow, this is beautiful, clicking on them and popping them in. Okay, so this animation, this illustration is stunning. Perhaps I'll make the background another color. Oh, I love this. So how fun to always be able to make these gorgeous illustrations and animations. So perhaps I'll change it so it can move. So I'll go to animate and perhaps I can have blur. I think fate looks nice. Fate. So again, I'll press play, and let's see. Cute. But no, that's not what I want. I will split it so we can practice our split shortcut. S. And now we have two of those. Great. Let's delete this, and let's look at some other really nice ones. We have also this one, which is pretty, but I don't want that. There we go. There is my friend, my friends that I've used earlier. Beautiful. I also really like this chapel. So I'm going to click and drag click and drag and add the chapel. Now, remember the shortcut to move a layer back. Well, it's the same here. So command or control left square bracket to move this chapel behind the couple. And perhaps you want the date here or the date there. Totally up to you. Move this up and have the date there. Love this. Oh, this is stunning, isn't it? So now I'll press play, and let's see. Beautiful. Could also have a chapel, animate the chapel, have it fade. You could also type in sparkle because I would like to add some sparkle and perhaps type animation and click on C O with Graphics and choose one of those sparkly ones, maybe this. No. And once you found a sparkle that you like, you can use that. And, wow, that looks pretty. Let's press Play. And there we go. We have a little animation. Great. Now, let's do another one, and this time, just make the color white. So I've just created another one by clicking on the plus at page. And let's go back to elements and type again wedding couple. You can see it in recent. Click on CO with graphics, and choose this one perhaps because I think it's stunning. Click and Drag. And again, me, I'm feeling lazy, so I'm just going to grab all this text. Click and Shift and Commander Control C for copy, and then Command or Control V for paste, and I'm just going to steal that text. And I'm going to be even more cheeky, and I'm going to click and select that text, as well. Commander Control C, and select this page and Commander Control V and make it maybe smaller. And I just realized I have this twice. I want to type save instead, the Make sure this is not caps date. Save the date, Dave and Kate. That rhyme's cute. This looks good. But let's scroll down and see. Are there things we can add here? Click and Drag and add this? Wow. So that's what I like to do. I like to scroll and just have a look at what would look really nice with my image, perhaps this. Pop it in here. Ooh, that fits nicely. And perhaps I want the background to be a fun color, perhaps make it yellow. And wow. Then make this another color so we can see it. And isn't that pretty? So if I press play, let's see the animation. So, that's great. I still think we need to add more animation. So select the couple, animate, again, fade. That's a bit much. I like to keep it simple. And perhaps we can add animations to these elements. Click on the rings, click on animate. And maybe this or Rise and then maybe add this and select rise. Let's see. Press play. Pretty. Love that. You can do two more. And then if you want it, you can add more pictures. So over here, I'm going to recreate this by adding another page and perhaps making it pinky, winky. I can't remember which pink, but one of them. And I'm going to add another couple. So still on wedding couple illustrations, perhaps make it less bright pink, more like baby pink. And and try and find a couple that looks good. They all look good, I think. These illustrations are incredible. There we go. I like this couple. I'm going to make it bigger, not too big. And I'm going to grab this text copy Commander Control C, and pop it in here and perhaps change the name to Julia and Dave and perhaps make these a bit smaller. And add this text. Alton drag and duplicate it down. And here I would like to retype it, double click and type a wedding celebration. And let's try and find some more fun stickers that we can add to this. Again, if we want it, we can always add dose. What else is Canva suggesting to add Mr. And misses? Just so many gorgeous designs. Oh, I love these hearts. Let's click. And hearts and Wow, just like that, we've just created like such a pretty graphic. Ooh, let's do this. Add the ring in the vax because it also adds a bit of red color, which looks really nice with these and perhaps put it here and perhaps put the hearts a bit there or make them bigger so they're a bit everywhere. So anyway, let's press Play and see. Very nice. 28. Exporting MP4, GIF & as separate files: Now I created another one here where I've added Mr. And misses and I've added flowers all over the shop. From here, just from wedding couple, you can pick so many different flower illustrations and couples, and it's just super exciting. Like, I'm quite pleased with this last design that I did. How pretty is that? And if you wanted, another thing you could do is click over here, and it will all be in full screen. So I trust that now that you have the skills for very, very, very easy animation, you can create even cooler animated, save the dates and wedding invitations. And you can use lots of existing illustrations and stickers that Canva has to offer. And that's another really amazing side of Canva. But remember that some of them are with P. So this is why I personally have Canva Pro because oftentimes I like to have the freedom and the liberty to just choose from any of these that are all pro. A lot of the best ones tend to be P. So that's great. Now, let's look at how to save these. So let's go ahead and click on Share and download. And over here, you can choose MP four video. If you choose this option, then it will come up as a video which you can easily send through emails and What's upp and whatnot. And click here. If you want to send them all and let's say it's one holistic invite, which is a bit crazy, but then you can have all pages in a single video, which is what I had before, or you can save them or actually, you might want to add three together. I think it's quite cool. Let's say these three are one video. I quite like that, actually, but that's just me. Maybe normal people like to keep it to one or two. Yeah. So normal people go ahead and just click on Download and select one or two pages instead of three. And then you click on Download. And it will download it as an MP for a video. You can go back to share, go back to Download, and you also have the option of selecting gifts without sound. And you can select all pages, and it will convert everything into a single gift or alternatively, you can tick this download pages as separate files, which means that every page will be a separate gift, which is what I have here. They're all separate gifts. Which is great. Or alternatively, one animation, one video, 42 seconds or save them all as separate videos. That is totally up to you. So I really hope you enjoy this class and that you go on and create amazing wedding invites and save the dates and wedding animations and whatnot. And that I taught you a lot of skills and shortcuts to make your process smoother and faster and more fun, hopefully. It was an honor to teach you so soon