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1. Intro: Have you ever
dreamed of designing your very own line of
holiday greeting cards, print on demand platforms today? Make it super easy to design and sell your
own greeting cards. Hi, I'm Julie. I'm an artist
from Vancouver Canada. I love finding new ways
to apply my artwork to products, especially
greeting cards. I've been selling my
art Sazle since 2014, so I have nearly ten
years of experience. I'm classified as a
pro bronze designer, which means that I've made over $1,000 in the US market alone. I also teach other
artists how to sell their art online
through my website, Youtube channel, and here on Skill Share where I share
premium long format content. The reason why I love
Zazzle is because they have an extremely powerful
design tool which allows you to combine your artwork
with elements like text and photos that you
can design as templates. So your customer can
actually go in and add their very own text and photos to create something
unique and special. In this class, I'm going
to be taking you step by step through the process of designing your very own line of holiday greeting
cards through the most basic cards to cards
with custom text elements, custom photo elements, and
even real foil elements. You can also take this class any time of the year if you're interested in just learning how to design greeting
cards in general, the steps that I'll be
teaching you in this class are relevant for any type of card
that you want to create. By the end of this class,
you'll be able to design and sell your very own line
of holiday greeting cards. If all that sounds good to you, then without further
ado, let's get started.
2. Supplies and Class Project: For your class project Today, I encourage you to
share a screenshot of one of the holiday
cards that you've created after following this class and share it in the class
project section below. In terms of supplies
for this class, all you're really going
to need is a laptop. You could follow along using
a tablet, like an ipad. However, not all of
the functions in Zazl's design tool is
available on the tablet. I recommend gathering
just a few simple holiday themed illustrations or
elements that you could use. However, it's not
completely necessary. As I'm going to show you
throughout the class, we can create some really
cute design just using text and the elements within
the Zazzle design tool. I'm also kind of assuming that you're already a
little bit familiar with Zazzle and that you
have a store already set up. And if not, don't worry, have another class
that you can follow, which will take you
step by step through the process of setting
up a Zazzle store. So if you don't already have a Zazzle store
and an account, I'm going to link my
other Zazzle class in the description below. So make sure to check
that out first. And once you've got
your store all set up, then you can come back to this class and create
some greeting cards. So let's move on to
our first lesson, where I'm going to
show you how to create a basic greeting card
design step by step. So let's get started.
3. Gathering Inspiration: So we're going to get
started working on our holiday card designs by
gathering some inspiration. And of course, the
best place to go, in my opinion, for
inspiration is Pinterest. I have a board here that I've already created
and gathered a bunch of really fun and actually quite simple
Christmas card designs. I'll leave a link to this below, but you can just go to
Pinterest yourself and search for Christmas or
holiday card designs. And just start to take
a look at some of the different themes and colors and honestly how
simple some of these are. You can really
create some really nice simple Christmas cards with just text and a few
simple illustrations. So I'm kind of assuming that
maybe you're an artist, since you're already here on
skill share and maybe you already have some illustrations that you could use
for this project. Maybe like a Christmas or some Christmas
ornaments or presents. Any sort of holiday themed
illustrations that maybe you've created in other skill chart classes
or just on your own, that would be really great
to use for this class. However, honestly we can create some really fun
designs just right in the Zazzle design tool using text and maybe some simple
shapes and things like that. So don't worry if you don't have any illustrations
to work with, but if you do, make sure
that you gather those. Another place that
we can look for card inspiration is
actually on Zazzle. I've just gone to their
Christmas card section, just taking a look
here through some of their top selling cards. And some of these
are really simple. I'm going to be showing you later in the class how you can make cards with custom
photos like this. But just start with, we're just going to make something pretty simple with text and some of
those little illustrations. Now that we have a few ideas, let's move on to creating
our first Christmas card. We'll see you in
the next lesson.
4. Basic Holiday Card Design: In this lesson, we're
going to go over the basics of creating
greeting cards on Zazzle and selecting
the correct template to use specifically
for holiday cards. I'm here on the Zazzle website and I'm logged into my account. And as I mentioned earlier, I'm kind of assuming
that you already have a Zazzle account
and you're at least a little bit familiar with how to create products on
the Zazzle website. To get started with
designing our holiday cards, I'm going to come up here to this little hamburger
menu on the top left. And then come down to the
Create your own category. So I'm going to go
up to All products. Now here under Blank Products, you can see there's a
greeting cards section here under Invitations
and Stationery. If you click into that, you can see there's 106 results. Zazzle has actually split out their greeting cards into a
few different categories. So you can see there's
a holiday card and a thank you card, and they look almost identical. In fact, I'm pretty sure
they're same product, but for some reason they
decided to split them out. I think just to organize it
in their catalog better. So I already know that the
product I want to make is like your standard
folded greeting card. But rather than scroll
through all 106 results, I'm just going to type in holiday and then see
what comes up there. So now we've got all of
their holiday cards. So the different types
of holiday cards that you can create. So they have the
flat holiday card, postcard foil, which I'll
be going over to later. So I just want to
find the folded one. Here it is, and it says small, but you can actually select different sizes
within the product. If we click into the small
folded holiday card, I'm going to change the size to the standard five by seven card. And then from here
you could change the orientation to a vertical
or a horizontal card. I think I'm going to start
with a vertical card. I feel like that's like
the most classic kind of holiday greeting card
that you might receive. To start creating our card, we're going to go into
customize this design. And that's going to bring us
into the Zazzle design tool. Again, I'm assuming
that you have a little bit of experience
with the design tool. If not, then you should
definitely head back over to my Beginner's As class. And I will link that below
in the description as well. For our first card,
we're going to just do a basic card using text only. To get started, I'm
going to head over to the layers tab over here
on the left hand side. I'm going to click there. Just before we start designing, I just want to explain the
different layers because it can be a little bit confusing how they've labeled the layers. It says inside top slash left, inside bottom slash
right and back. You can customize
every single part of this card from front to back, inside everything
inside top left. As you can see, it shows up over here on the preview
when you click on it. So this one doesn't
change because it's just showing you the left side of the card and then the bottom right is the
right hand interior side. We're going to get started
on the front of the card and I'm going to start by
adding a background color. I want a festive red and I'm going to stick with like
red and greens and whites, just classic holiday colors. I'm going to start
by adding some text. I'm going to be writing,
Merry Christmas. And I'm going to be
typing in each letter individually so that I can
change the color of each one. I'm just going to start with
my M. I like that size. We might have to
shift things around, but I'm going to
make it pretty big. Then I want to retain
the sizing and make sure the next letter is going to
be exactly the same size. Okay, now I'm just going to hit control C and control
V on my keyboard. You can also go up to Edit, copy and paste Control C, Control, move it over. And you can see it's snapping
so that it's right next to the M. And then we're going to double click on that and type, or I'm going to change the
color of this to white. Then again, I'm
going to control C, control drag that over. Double click R. There's our R. I want to make this
like a darker red. This is the same color
as our background. I'm going to go into
custom color picker and just drag it down until
it's like a really deep red. I'm just going to
continue with this. I've finished with
all of my letters. Okay? So this is what I have so far and I'll have
some work to do. I'm going to center these words. You can also group them together
just to make it a little bit easier to move
these around like that. Just center all of
these to start, I think I'm just going
to make these bigger till they are all
the same width. Another tip is you can hold down control while you click
on the plus and minus, increase and decrease the
size just by like a tiny bit. So if you need to do
more fine sizing, so this is starting
to come together. So let's head over
to our layers. So a classic holiday
card, you know, doesn't really have anything on this inner left hand side. You could even leave
the inside blank. Some people like to just
write their own messages, but I like to just add a
really simple message. You could just come up with
something on your own. There's also like holiday
card greeting generators. Now there's one on
Creative Fabrica. So I'll just show you that. It's the CF Spark, Creative Fabrica.com
slash Spark. And then if you come down, you can see all
these different like AI generators and there's this one called CF Spark Writer. If you come into here, there's actually one
for greeting cards. And so you can have it like generate a Christmas
greeting for you. And sometimes they're
kind of cheesy and long and I like to just kind
of use it for inspiration. So if I'm kind of stuck
on what I want to say, so that's a really fun
way to come up with just interior greetings
for your cards. So I'll just demonstrate
that really quick. That's pretty cute actually. It's maybe a little bit lengthy. So again, I like to keep
things pretty short and sweet. So let's just generate another one. So that's
pretty cute too. So you can just like
keep doing this over and over until you find
something that you like. You know, I might just
use this one actually. Wishing you all the joys
of the season short. Sweet. So I'm going to go
ahead and copy that into here. And then obviously we have
our font really large, so just going to use
the scale to bring this down and then change
the size to like a 16. And maybe widen this text box, be all on one or two
lines. That looks good. So I'm just like snapping
this to the middle and maybe bring it down
even more so like that, putting that right
in the middle. And if we hit done now
we can preview our card. And it's actually not
too bad, to be honest. I feel like these colors need to be a little
bit more saturated. So I might just continue
to play around with this. But this is pretty
much ready to upload. So if you're happy
with your design, we can go ahead and list
this product for sale. So to do that, I'm going to go over here to the salad button. And if you don't have
the salad button, there could be a couple
of reasons for that. Perhaps you've chosen
the wrong product, so if you didn't go through the steps to pick
the holiday card, you might not see
the salad button. And another reason
is maybe you're not logged in and not all is lost. I believe you could
just log in from here and it should
retain your design. So we'll come over here
to the salad button. And now it's just
double checking that you meant to leave
some areas blank. So I'm happy with this, so I'm going to click on Publish It, and then we'll give it a title. And then if I click off, it's going to add holiday
card to the end of my title. It says, we've automatically
added that under Department. It's already suggesting a couple of departments here, honestly. You could go into
either of these. Since our card does
say Christmas, I'm going to add it to
Christmas cards, specifically, if you made more of a
non denominational card, happy holidays, for example, you could just leave it in the overall holidays department. I'm going to click on that
one there for some reason. We have the
merchandising showing the inside of the
card To change that, I'm going to go up here
to change Options, and then I'm going to
select the front of the card because we want to
show the front of the card, obviously, for our listing. So I'm going to go back to hit. Okay, Now that looks how we want it to show up on
the Zavo marketplace. I'm just going to fill
out a quick description adding some key words. Okay, so we've got our
description and now we got to select the correct
category for this product. So we're going to
go here to select, and then it's going to be
under holidays, Christmas. So make sure we've selected
that and click Okay. The recipient, I feel
like could be anybody. So I'm just going to
leave that blank. If you created a
very specific card, then you would want to make sure you select that category. But for this one, it's a
little bit more generic, so we don't really
need to do that. And then my store category, I have created these
categories and we went through how to eight
categories in class, so I'm not really
going to explain that. Collections as well. I go over in my other cloth, but I'm going to select
Christmas cards, collection that I've created. So I'm going to add that there. And then we're going
to add some tags scrolling down under
additional information. We're going to say
this is suitable for a general audience and we're going to just
leave these on. Royalty percentage is fine. Now coming down here
to instant download, I'm going to have this enabled
as an instant download. But if you look here, it has the retail price is like $12
which is really strange. For some reason,
it automatically has the percentage high. So you're going to get $10 if
someone buys this product. But I mean, who's
going to pay for this? So I'm going to
change this to 75% and then click to the side. And now you can
see it's reverted to more of a reasonable price. So like people are
going to pay $3.97 for the physical card and then the digital card
is about the same. So I feel like
that's fair and I'm actually going to make
even more of a royalty. So now that we've changed that we've got this enabled for sale, you can also obviously choose to disable it for
instant download. It's totally up to you, you know, learn more about
that if you're concerned. So now I'm ready to publish it. I'm going to click on this rights agreement and then go ahead and
post it for sale. Now we can scroll down to
where it says, See my product. And now we can see we've created our first
Christmas card. In the next lesson,
we're going to create a more complex greeting card that includes
customizable options. So we'll see you in
the next lesson.
5. Cards with Custom Text: So the next card that
we're going to create is going to feature
customizable text. So what I mean by that
is on the product page, your customer or the person
shopping for and purchasing this card is going
to have options that they can add or
remove or change. So we're going to add some text that the
customer can personalize. So there's like a custom
element to the card. And I feel like people come to Zazzle
specifically because they offer this type of
personalized products. So it's definitely
something you want to consider adding to your product. So I also want to show you a quicker way to make
another Christmas card. Instead of going all the way
back through and searching for the card and setting up
the size and the orientation, I'm just going to
basically make a copy of this card by going
into edit design. And then we can
just delete all of these layers and just
basically start fresh. So this time I'm going to use some of my assets
that I've created. So I'm going to choose
this wreath design. And this is why I stressed the importance
having your assets with a transparent background because it just gives
you way more options. If you wanted to change
the background color, for example, I'm just going to stick with a white
background for this one. But as you can see, it just
really expands the options of what you can design
with your illustration. So I'm going to stick
with a white background for this and I'm going to add my text layer and I'm going to go
with Happy Holidays. For this card, you can do a merry Christmas or whatever other greeting
you want to add. And I'm actually going to create two layers of text just so I can more easily move
each line around because I'm going to
have each word line. I'm going to add another
text layer for holidays. Now I'm going to
change the color. I'm going to use this
color picker here and pick a color from
my actual design. I think I'm going to go
with this red color. I'm not crazy about this font. I want to have something a
little bit more decorative. I'm going to go up to fonts, then I'm going to go down
to script and calligraphy. That's just going to narrow
down my font choices. Then I'm just going
to start going through until I find
one that I like. Now I'm going to go
to my other line of text by just
clicking right on it. And then I'm going to
apply the same font. So I like that. So now we're going to add
our customizable text. So I'm actually going to
go back to my layers. I'm going to hold down shift. I'm selecting all
three of these layers. I'm just going to drag
this design up a little bit just to give us some more space down here
for our custom text. So I'm going to add
yet another text box. My text is going to say
from the Johnson family, we've got our text layer. I'm going to make it
significantly smaller. Let's go to like a 35, maybe even a bit lower. Drag this down to about here. I'm going to change
the color to black. Finally, we're going to change the font to like a San Sera. We're trying to create
some contrasts. I'm just going to center that, just go through a few of these fonts until I find
one that looks appropriate, like that, maybe a bit smaller. Now I'm just going
to visually make sure everything looks good. Just making sure everything
is aligned nicely. Now in order to make this a customizable layer
on the product page, we're going to go down here to make this a template object. Turning that on here, it says product page label. This is what's going to show
up on the product page. We're going to add family
name for URL, parameter name. We're going to leave
this as text one, leave this allow editing
on product page on. Now we also have the inside of the card which copied
over from our other card. We could probably
just leave this as is because it still
works as a card. But we also want to add the ability for our customer
to change this as well. Again, we're going to click on Make This a template object. Then here on a
product page label, we're going to label
it, interior greeting. I think the font is okay. I'm going to just
leave it actually, I might just go back to
recently used and just choose the same font as we
have on the front of the card just to kind
of add some continuity. And the beauty about this is
your customer could come in to this design tool and actually further customize
this if they wanted. But this is all we're
going to do for this card, so we're going to hit Done. So now on the product page, you can see there's this
personalize this template. So we're going to click on that. And now we can see here the family name and
the interior greeting is all set up for someone
to come in and personalize. So I could come in here and add my name and whatever
I want on the inside. You can add even
more text there. So I'm just going to
change this back. It's always good to
just double check that your fields are all
set up correctly and that URL parameter that I talked about that has the
text one and text two, that is actually
going to indicate the order of these text fields. So whichever one you want
to show up first on top, make sure that's the text one, then the second one be
text two and so on. So that's going to keep your
text fields in the order. That makes sense. Now I'm all done with that and just double
checking all the layers. Look how I want. And now we're going to
go in and click Sell It. And then again, we're going
to click on Publish It. And here it's retained
all of the information from our previous
card that we did. And I'm just going to go through and update all of
this information. And since we already
went through this, I'm not going to go through
it again for this card. In the next lesson, I'm going
to show you how to create a template from a photo
using like a stock photo. We're actually going to create these personalizable
fields using a photo, so make sure you stick
around for that. And we'll see you
in the next lesson.
6. Cards with Custom Photos: The next type of
card we're going to make is one that
has a custom photo. By that I mean a photo
that you're using as a template for your customer to actually replace
with their own photo. This is a really simple
example of one that I created with a
photo of my cat. And if you come over here
to personalize this plate, you can see that it
shows the image. And then a button
that says replace. So whoever is purchasing this card can
replace the photo of my cat with their own cat or their own pet or whatever
photo they want. And then just keep
the background and the interior greeting and
everything else that I set up. So you're basically just
creating a card that has some photo templates for people to replace with
their own photos. So to get started, I'm going back into one of the other cards that we've
already created because we already know that
it's going to be a holiday card and it's going to be correct size and category. But if you wanted
to create, say, a postcard or some
other type of card, you could come down here and
transfer it to the postcard, the flat holiday card. Just make sure that it's
one of the ones that has holiday in the title. But for now I'm going to
stick with the folded card. But I think I'm going to
change the orientation to a horizontal card just
to switch things up. So I'm going to head
into edit design. And I'm just going to
go ahead and delete everything that I
have here and just start with a blank
slate before we get started actually
adding our photo template, we need to download
stock photos. If you're not familiar with
where to get stock photos, there's a few websites that
you can use such as Pixabay, Pexels.com Splash
is another one, so I'm just going
to use Pixabay. I tried holiday couple, but that just kept bringing
up couples on holiday in like tropical locations which is not really the
theme I'm going for. So I'm just going to search Christmas couple and
then see what comes up. You could also do like family Christmas,
family, Christmas pets. Just depending on the type
of card that you're making. These ones on the top
are actually not ones. We have to scroll down in order to find the royalty free ones, and there's already
some cute ones here that would definitely
work for our design. So we're looking for
something that's horizontal, which most of these are. But if you're doing
a vertical card, you'll want to get
something vertical. So I found this photo
here of kind of like a family or some
friends in the snow, so pretty Christmas
or Winter themed. So I'm going to use that one for my template to upload this. I just went here to my files
and then upload images, and then I just
uploaded this image that I downloaded from Pixabay. Now we can head back over to layers and you can see this
is on the front of our card. And we're just going to center
this for the background. I just have this red color, so you could just play with
the background colors here. Or if you wanted, you
could add like a pattern or some sort of festive
image for your background. For example, I have this
candy cane swirl pattern. I can make this super tiny. Then come up here to tiling. And then I'm click on centered. And then I'm going to come
over to layers and just drag it under our photo that's
already coming together. We can remove the
background color. Now I'm going to click on this photo over
here on the right. You have all these options. I'm going to come down to
make this a template object, the same way that we created a template from our text
in the previous lesson. We could do the same
thing with a photo. We're going to click on that. Then I'm just going to
change the product page label to your photo. I'm going to leave it fill
as the interfit fill mode. That means that the image is
automatically going to fill this whole square
and there's not going to be any weird
gaps around the outside. And the other really
important option is to check off this, force customers to replace with their own content because
we used a stock image, we don't want people to
actually be able to buy this card with this photo because it's not even our photo. And also just be weird, you want to make
sure that selected. And then if someone's
going to buy this card, there's actually
going to be a pop up that says you must replace this with your own
photo before you can proceed to add it to your card. Definitely, don't
forget to turn that on. Now, let's see what we have
for our inner greeting. It's still the same generic
one that we set up before. I'm actually going
to turn on make this a template as well just in case somebody wants to change it or make it longer or add
whatever text they want. I'm going to change
the product label to Interior greeting. Now let's take a
look at our product. I'm going to click done. So you can see we have
the front of the card, the inside, and the
back. That looks good. Now I'm going to come down to personalize this template
and click on that. And now you can see we have
our interior greeting is a template and the photo
is also a template. That's exactly what we wanted. Now we've created our first card that has an image as a template. So now we can go ahead and click on Sell It to list
it in our store. I'm going to go to
publish it then. I'm just going to go
ahead and fill this out. But one thing to note is if you come down here to
additional information, make sure that
this make product, a template is turned on and the Customize It
button is turned on. So if somebody wants to go
in and they can even go into the design tool and make
further edits to the card. So just make sure that you're kind of covering
all your bases and that your customer has full control to customize it
exactly how they want. I do want to share with
you one more thing in relation to creating
templates from images. So we're going to create
one more holiday card with a photo in the next lesson, so make sure you stick
around for that.
7. Complex Custom Photo using Masking: For this next card,
I'm going to go back to this one with the
wreath that we created. And I'm going to make a copy of this and go into Edit Design. From here I'm going
to delete this text. And then I'm going to go ahead
and add our photo that we downloaded earlier and went
back over to our layers. And I'm going to drag this
layer underneath our wreath. And I want to center this behind the wreath
that looks okay. I might bring it down in
scale just a bit good. From here I'm going
to add an element. I'm going to go up to elements and I'm going to
add a circle shape. I'm just going to
make the border and the fill color white. Now I also want to
center this right on our wreath and
going into layers. I'm going to, again, drag this
down just below the photo. Now what I'm going to
do is holding shift, I'm going to select both this
oval and the image layers. Now you can see there is this button that came
up that says mask. We're on that. Now you can see
that our image has been cropped into that circle. Just to get a better
look at this, I'm going to just turn off this wreath layer really quick. Now we can see how that circle has cropped
the outside of our photo, But it's left a
little bit of room on the top and bottom to fix that, I'm just going to unmask, then I'm going to
change the color of this just to red for both
the border and the film. I'm just going to make
sure that the photo is going all the way to
the edge of the circle. Now I'm going to go
ahead and select those two layers
again and hit Mask. Now we can turn our
wreath back on. Mostly we want to make sure that it's just
centered so we can go to align tools and just make sure it's
perfectly centered. And then make sure our wreath is perfectly
centered as well. Now we can select the
Christmas wreath layer. And then holding shift, I'm going to select
this mask layer. And then I'm just going to
drag these up a little bit. We go to do, we don't actually have the
template for the photo, we need to go back to edit. Then we need to unmask. We need to make this
a template first, we're going to go to make
it a template object, label it your image. And also make sure
we check off to force customers to replace
with their own content. Now we can go back through those steps of
holding down shift, select the oval and the
image, and then mask. If we hit down to personalize, now you can see that
you can replace the image with your own image. So I realized I had to add back the Merry Christmas
that we deleted, so I just went ahead
and added that line. And this is our finished card, and now we can go ahead and
list this product for sale. So there's just
one other type of card that I want to share
with you in this class, and those are cards
that have real foil. So in the next lesson,
I'll show you how to create Christmas
cards with the foil. So we'll see you in
the next lesson.
8. Cards with Real Foil: For our next card, we're going to head back over to the blank product section. Another way to get there is through this Create
button here on the left hand side and under blank I'm going to
go to view all. Now from here I'm just going
to search for holiday card. Up here at the top you can see this one called
Foil holiday card. We're going to go
ahead and click on this foil holiday card. Here you can see they
have the foil color gold, silver, and rose, gold. This little tag here
says real foil. So it's actually going to
use real foil on this card, so you can have squared or
rounded shape for these cards. Remember this is
just going to be a flat card so there's
no interior section. Now we're going to
go ahead and create our card by clicking
Customize This Design. Under our Layers tab here, you can see there's actually two layers for the
front of the card. On this layer you're going to place anything that
you want to be, the foil part of your design. And then this front is
where you could just add any other elements that you want on your card that are
not going to be foil. We'll just start with
something simple again, let's choose our red background and then come back
to the foil layer. And I'm just going to
demonstrate this with text, but you could actually use
images as well like that. You can already see
in the preview here that is showing up with
this in gold foil. Anything that you
place on this layer is going to show in gold foil. Now you can see
this a lot better. I'm just going to come down
here and change the line spacing and make the text a little bit closer
together like this. You can also use
images on this layer. When I selected my image, this dialogue box comes up. Whatever you see here in black is what's going to show in gold. This line is going to be gold. But then these lights on here are kind of like weird stripes. So there's different sort of
filters here that you can use that are going to show
the gold in different ways. So you can just
kind of go through these and see which one
makes the most sense. So anywhere that is black is what's going to
show as gold foil. So this one here is basically making everything on
here completely black. And that's sort of what I want. So let's see what
that looks like. Okay, And then I'm going to use the crop tool and just crop out the top line of
my Christmas lights. And then click off. And now let's do that
and center this. And now I'm going
to press control C and control V to
copy this layer, I'm going to flip it
horizontally and vertically. And then bring it down to
the bottom of the card. Okay, so let's click Done
and see how this looks. So here you can see that my
lights are completely in gold foil and maybe I want the lights actually to
retain their original color. So if I want to do that, I'm going to just
delete these two. Come back to layers. Come to our front
layer and you can actually see where you've
got the gold foil, which is handy for
decorating around this. I'm going to add my lights
again onto this layer. Now you can see that they've got all the colors and
everything still retained. Maybe we need to change
the background to white. Now let's crop those
lights and just do the same thing
that I did before. Okay, now let's take
a look at our design. Design is starting
to come together. Let's see how it
looks with silver. There's all sorts of
possibilities that you can do with the foil. I encourage you just
to play around with your own text and images and see what
you can come up with. Okay, here is my final design. I just decided to make all the text capital
letters and make sure they're all
lined up and put it on this darker
green background. The backside looks like this. You can actually edit this as well if you wanted
to go into edit. And then on the back of the card there's
just this divider and then the stamp placement. You could remove all of
this if you want to. I'm just going to
leave it as is, so I'm going to select done. Then if you don't like
this QR code on the back, you can actually check
off this attribution. So you can select none and then that'll remove
that from the card. Now, right now it's not showing the slit button
for some reason. But I did notice if I go down to envelopes and I select white, now it shows me the sell button. So I don't know if that's
some sort of glitch, but if you're not
seeing the slit button, just try selecting the envelope
and see if that works. Now we can go ahead and list this product for
sale in our shop. Again, I'm just
going to go through the whole listing process
like we already did. And that's pretty much
it for this card. So make sure you stick
around for the next lesson. I'm just going to be sharing some information about
Azs affiliate program. You can actually make
extra money selling your own products as well as other people's
products on Sazles. If you're already selling
on Sazle, I mean, there's no point in not being part of the
affiliate program. If you're interested in that, make sure you stick around for the next lesson and we'll
see you over there.
9. Bonus Lesson: In this lesson, I just
wanted to make sure that you're aware about Azs
affiliate program. If you're already
creating products like these greeting cards that we created today and
then selling them, you might as well
take advantage of their referral program
so you can make even more money
from your products. To get to this
Associate section, I just went over here and
clicked on my account. And then there's
this Associates tab. If you click on this,
you may have to apply, but there's no barrier to entry. So you'll just
automatically receive this referral code as long as
you have a Zazzle account. So the most important part
is this referral code here. So question mark RF, and then you're going
to have a unique number attached to your account. And make sure you add this to the end of any link that you're sharing links of
your own products and even other
people's products. You can add your
referral code and then you'll get 15% of the sale. So definitely make
sure you're taking advantage of this
associates program. Aka, and affiliate link. Now Zazzle also has this other affiliate program that's kind of lesser
known and it's the Zazzle Promoter
Program 2.0 Now this one's actually for more like
established sale sellers. So if you've been on the
platform for a while, you've made a few sales, make sure you check
out this program. I'll leave the link
below to this form. So basically what you're
going to do is fill out this form and apply to
the promoter program. And you may or may not be
accepted at this point. So it is a little bit higher
barrier than the associates. But if you do get
into this program, you can then earn 35% on sales of your own
products that you refer. So the difference with this
is that you don't have to add your referral code once you're accepted
into the program. You can just share
your products like normal without adding
the referral code. And you'll automatically earn that 35% If somebody
clicks on your link, goes to your store, buys
your product from your link, you'll earn your regular 10% or whatever royalty plus an
additional 35% Let me tell you, you definitely
want to be earning this extra 35% It makes
a huge difference. So I'll leave the
link to this below. Definitely check it out. And in the next lesson, we're just going to wrap up
everything we learned today. And I'll share with you
where you can find me, how we can connect further. Don't leave just yet. We'll see you in
the next lesson.
10. Final Thoughts: So throughout this class, I taught you how to create holiday greeting cards from
the most basic card to cards with customizable text and customizable photos
and even real foil. So I really hope you enjoyed learning with me today
and that you were inspired to create
your own line of holiday greeting
cards with Zazzle. Don't forget to share
a screenshot of one of the cards you created today
in the class project section so that me and other
students can be inspired by what you've created and leave me a review if
you have a moment. It really helps me
prepare my future. You can find me on Instagram and every other social media
platform at Juliann Designs. I also have a
Youtube channel and a website where you can
learn more about how to sell your designs online through various
print on demand websites. Also, in my other
skillshare classes, I teach this as well. Make sure you hit that
Follow button above, so you'll be notified when
I publish my next class. I really enjoyed
learning with you today and I hope you'll
join me in my next class. Cheers and happy holidays.
Julie Erin Designs, Artist and Entrepreneur
