Easy Etsy Branding: Custom Banners & Icons with Canva Templates

1. Hello & Welcome!: If you're looking to give your Etsy shop a professional look without spending hours on design, you're in the right place. In this class, we're going to create beautiful eye catching banners and icons for your etsy shop by using curated Canva templates. There's no need to start from scratch or worry about mastering design principles. These templates are all ready for you to customize. I'm Kelly, an artist with a top 1% etc shop with over a decade of experience. I know that making a good first impression is essential, especially on Etsy, where your shops visuals are one of the first things that customers see. That's why I've created three specialized templates just for this class, one for minimalist banners, one for photo frame banners, and one for Etsy shop icons. Each template includes 20 different options tailored for Etsy, so you'll have plenty of ways to make your shop stand out. And you want to hear about the best part? I'll guide you through every step from choosing and editing your templates to uploading them to EDS. For a broader overview of Canva and Color Palettes, check out my previous class. Color your brand, a beginner's introduction to Canva and palettes. By the end of this class, you'll have a polished banner and icon ready for Etsy, all created with Es using Canva, templates, and tools. Plus, I've added eight free color palettes you can use to make your designs pop. This class is perfect for beginners and for anyone that wants a quick, straightforward way to elevate their Etzshop. Let's get started. Your beautiful customized Etzi shop awaits. 2. Class Project & Resources: Let's jump into the class project and look at the resources that will make designing your Etsy shop both easy and fun. These are graphics that make a big impact as soon as a visitor lands on your page. When you're finished, you'll upload these images to the project gallery. One of the best things about this class is the set of Canva templates that I've created for you. I've put together three curated templates. They'll make the design process simple and give you plenty of options to make each piece feel like your own. First, there's a minimalist banner template for clean modern designs. It's perfect if you want to polish look without too many distractions. You'll also find a photo frame banner template. This is ideal if you'd like to feature your own product photos. Finally, there's a shop icon template that will create that recognizable stamp for your brand. Each of these templates has 20 customizable options. You can mix and match styles to find which option suits your brand best. To make the process even smoother, I'm providing eight free color palettes that you can use right away to bring your designs to life. These palettes are perfect for Etsy shops. Whether you want something that's vibrant, soft, or earthy, you'll have options at your fingertips. When you're done, upload your final designs to the class Project Gallery. Sharing your work here is a great way to get feedback and see what other students have created. To get started, download the class worksheet and take a quick peek at the templates and the color palettes. This will give you a feel for what's ahead and make it easy for you to follow along in the lessons. I'm so excited to see how you bring your shop's personality to life. Let's dive in and start creating. 3. Etsy Branding Worksheet: You'll find a self audit worksheet in the class resources to guide you. The self audit starts with three pro tips. First, look at the shops on a browser and mobile and the Etsy shopping app. You'll see that the shops look really different based on how you're looking at them. When you look at it in the browser, you have the largest view of it and the most complete view of it. But I'll also be interspersing views of how that shop looks in the app and while you're shopping on mobile. You want to look in a private browser so your results aren't affected by your past browsing and shopping activity on EtS. And next, we're going to filter by Star seller, and I'll show you how to do that when we are browsing. But Star sellers on Etsy consistently earn five star reviews, ship orders on time and reply quickly to messages. Etsy doesn't retain the filters for each search, so you will want to click Star seller for each new search that you do. So if you search for candles in Star seller, and then you want to switch to looking at weddings in Star seller, you'll need to click Star Seller each time. In the self audit, we'll be looking at three different areas colors, fonts, and vibe check. So are the colors cohesive? Do they work together well? Are they consistent? Is there some contrast? As far as the fonts, are they legible? Are they consistent? Are they limited to two or three Max? And finally, vibe check. Is there a clear vibe that reflects the offerings? And some examples of vibes would be artsy, cool, clean, cozy, earthy, elegant, luxurious, moody, natural, whimsical. Getting clear on your vibe and your audience will really help you in creating your banner and icon. Finally, there's two links at the bottom that will take you to areas within the Etsy seller handbook and the Etsy Help Center, so you can get information directly from Etsy on what they say about banners and icons. When I browse, I'm going to take some ideas from the complete Etsy category list, looking at the top level categories. So, let's get started. 4. Browsing Etsy for Inspiration : Welcome back. In this lesson, we're going to browse Etsy shops looking at their banners and icons for inspiration. You want to look in a private browser so your results aren't affected by your past browsing and shopping activity on Etsy. And next, we're going to filter by Star seller, and I'll show you how to do that when we are browsing. But star sellers on EtS consistently earn five star reviews, ship orders on time and reply quickly to messages. When I browse, I'm going to take some ideas from the complete at S category list, looking at the top level categories. So let's get started. So here's the Etsy homepage. I'm going to start by searching for candles. And I want to filter by Star Seller, and I am in a private browsing mode in Safari. So I'm looking for something that catches my eye, and then we're going to go directly to the homepage on Etsy. I just want to show you that this row is a row of ads. So when you're clicking on those, you're costing sellers money. So you just want to be careful about that. I try not to unless I have to. I saw this before and I'm going to click on it. I think this is very eye catching and it's called off color Candles. So here we are. I'm going to click right here so we can look at the homepage. This looks great. It looks very professional. There are just a few colors. The fonts are very legible. They highlight four things that they're proud of here, the ingredients, the prices, and the shipping. This is the icon right here, and that also is cohesive with banner. And you'll see here that the off color candles, this looks exactly the same as that except the off is vertical. But it has those same little dashes. I think this is very cohesive, and this is the shop owner. Etsy recommends that you show your smiling face here so customers can see who they're dealing with and that they're dealing with a real person. That looks great. It's a clear photo of her face. I think this looks fantastic. The photos are all really consistent too, if you saw any of these photos in search again, you would recognize this shop. All right. Let's look at something else. Let's look at this one. This has a different vibe. It's not as trendy and bright and cool. It's still very nice. It's very clean, and they have a collage of different items here, making it clear what they sell. They sell scented things. Here is the icon right here. What are the things about this icon? I think it looks good. The words here say Established 2018, and that would not be as legible if we looked at it on a mobile or in the shopping app. And here is the shop owner's photo. And again, we have a nice photo of a smiling face, and you can see how the vibe is completely different from that other shop. I think this looks really great. Okay, let's look for something else on EtS. Let's just go abroad and look at accessories. That's a top category on EtS. And again, we have to reflter by Star seller. Here are some accessories. It's a large variety of accessories. I think Etsy is showing me candles because I already searched for candles. Let's just see what we want to look at here. Okay, so this is really cute flour linen hair clips. So we're gonna click on that. Okay, so these are really cute. Let's click on the homepage. My first impression here is that there's a lot to look at. If we remember the candle shop that we just looked at had four photos. I think that's more effective than what this shop is doing, which is showing ten different photos. And I can see that they're trying to show their different offerings, but I think it would be a lot more effective if they used fewer photos. I think the icon looks very nice. We see another smiling face with a dog. I like that. My main feedback here would be that it would be more effective with fewer photos. Let's look at another top category on EtS books. So let's see what we can see here. And we are limiting by Star seller. Okay. Lots of different options here. Let's just see what catches my eye. So this is interesting. A book page flower bouquet. The shop is called Melting Prose. Let's tap on there. I think the banner looks pretty good. They make it clear what they are. It's bookish candles and gifts. Right here, the icon, again, we have the written word and a candle. We have a smiling face for the shop owner. I think it's pretty good and cohesive. I would prefer to see their product in the banner. That's just my opinion. Let's search for weddings, another top category. And let's just see what's catching my eye here. Let's look at this shop called Keepsake hankies. So that's embroidered and ready to ship. Let's click on their homepage. Okay, here we have a shop that is choosing not to use a banner, and this is what it looks like on the browser. I'll also show you what that shop looks like on mobile and in the Etsy Shopping App. Here is a picture of the shop owner, which is a picture of their product. It's pretty hard to see here and it will be even harder to see on a smaller screen, but it is an embroidered napkin with some pearls, so it looks pretty wettingy doesn't give you an idea of who the shop owner is, of course. And this is their icon, which shows you a hanky, but again, it's going to be too small to read. And I don't know if you'd necessarily grasp what it is at a glance. So I think my main critique about this is it's not really giving you an idea of what the shop is. It's like going into a store that doesn't have any signs or anything in the windows really that you can see clearly. It's not setting the tone for the shop. So I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to be seeing when I'm browsing these items. That being said, it is a star seller shop. They have over 7,000 sales. So clearly, they're doing a lot of things right. Let's wrap up the inspiration gathering part of this lesson. And remember the goal here is to find inspiration. So use these ideas for a springboard for creating something unique for your own shop. Let's take a quick break. In the next lesson, we'll go over your eight free brand palettes. I will see you in the next lesson. 5. Using the Free Color Palettes in Canva: Welcome back. Last time we browsed Etsy for inspiration. Now, let's take a look at your eight free palettes and how to use them in Canva. If you need a brand color palette or you want to experiment, feel free to use any of mine. I'll be using one from the class resources throughout. If you're looking for more options, you can also purchase an additional 48 palettes. They're linked in the class resources and worksheet. For a more detailed look into working with color palettes, check out my previous class. Color your brand, a beginner's guide to Canva and palettes. While I'll guide you through my process here, that class covers everything in depth. Okay, so let's get started by opening your eight free palettes. There are Canva templates, and each lesson in this class uses a template, so you'll keep learning more about Canva as we go. All of the templates are linked in the Canva worksheet. So here is the link in Safari. When you click it, the template will pop right into Canva. And here's Canva in my Safari browser. I'm moving to the Canva app for this class as it offers the color picker tool which we'll be using. Either the free or pro version of Canva will work fine for this class. Okay, so here are the eight branding color palettes. Each color has a six digit hex code above it, which is a universal way to identify colors, and hex codes combine letters and numbers. So this one is 6b69 73 for this dusty purple color. So I'm going to save the template, and I'm going to hit Share, save as, and I am going to just save it right to my camera role. If you're using one of the class pallets for the class, I recommend that you download it too and then bring it into Canva by clicking Upload over here and then upload files, and I'm going to go to my photo library, and here they are. I know I'm going to be using just this sheet, so I'm going to bring just one in right now. And so here is another copy of it. I am going to so this is a flat copy of the worksheet as opposed to the layered ones that you have here. So that's why we brought in this copy. And I'm going to make it smaller by grabbing these little rectangles and dragging it in, so all we can see is the colors, and that will make it easy for the color picker to do its color picking thing. Okay, now that we have it cropped in, I just want to make it bigger but still cropped. So now that we have it cropped in small, I am going to add a new page in Canva by hitting the plus sign here and hitting add page. And I'm going to find this color palette, and I'm going to move it over to this empty page. And this is so we can save it easily with a transparent background, and I'll walk you through that. We're also going to stretch this out and bring in the color palette with the hex codes. So we'll have both of them in our uploaded files if we need to refer to them. So now that they are here on the second page, I'm going to hit Share, and I want it to be a transparent background. So I'm going to hit Save as PNG. A PNG is the only file that can have a transparent background. So I'm going to click Transparent Background. And I don't want all of the pages. I just want page two. So I'm going to download that I know this seems like kind of busy work, but it will make it easier in the class. This is the way you can do a workaround over using a brand color palette in Canva. If you have a pro Canva account, you can have a saved color palette and I'll show you what that looks like later. If you don't, you can only save three colors of a color palette. So that's why we are doing this workaround. And I'm going to upload these files again, and I'm going to go here. Now that it's up here, I'm going to delete these by hitting the little trash can, and I'm going to bring these back. And if you can see here, there's a little checkerboard background, and that means it's a PNG with a transparent background. So this sets us up nicely for the next lesson. Let's take a quick break. I'll see you soon. 6. Minimalist Etsy Banners: Project 1: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we explored color palettes in Canva. Now, we'll start editing our next Canva template, minimalist banners. Let's open the minimalist banner template and start editing. Again, I will walk you through every step. So I'm tapping right here and it opened in Canva. So we're going to hit open to bring it up in the Canva app. Okay, so here are 20 minimalist banners that are curated for at C shops. I put them all together. This lesson, we're going to edit some of them together. So I'm going to pretend that my shop is a natural candle shop and I will be editing the banners accordingly. The goal here is to show you different techniques in Canva. It's not for me to make stunning perfect banners, and I'm saying that for myself because I can get hung up on that. So this is just a learning exercise. So we will start with this one. I always like to look at what makes up the Canva template, and you can do that by tapping position, and you can see here what all the different elements are. Right here, this guy is off the screen, and I'm going to bring it back by hitting Undo. Same with this one. There's a lot that you don't see that's off the screen. And let's bring our color palette back. We uploaded that in the previous lesson. I don't really need the numbers right now, so I'm just going to put those off the screen. I'm just going to start changing the colors to the new color palette. So I'm going to go back to position, and I'm going to tap this, which is the background, and I am going to tap this colored circle, and I'm going to make the background, this dark color. And if you can see here, Canva brings up the photo coolors here. So that's how we can get around using the color picker or the brand palette. So I'm going to change the background to this dark purple color. That looks good. Let's keep going. I am going to change these little stars to the light pink color, so I'm going to tap here and tap here, and let's keep going. I'm going to change these little guys again to the light pink color. It's asking if I want to change all the colors at the same time. I do, so I'm just going to do that. It helps with this if you try and save similar color. So the background was a dark color, so I did a dark color. This was a light color, so I did a light color and so on. This element right here is kind of reddish, so I'll change it to the peach, and I'm going to change all of the colors to that. Let's move on to this gold abstract shape, and let's change that color to the lavender. So I'm going to change them all. It looks like they have an extra color here that maybe we don't have. Maybe we don't have the second darkest purple. Let's see if that shows up. Instead, I'm going to do that the lightest purple, and then I'm going to do these the darker purple because I want more contrast between the peach and the purple color. So I'm going to do this. Yeah. Uh, don't love it. I'm gonna go back to the way it was before. So we have all of our colors changed, and we have all of our colors represented. I think this one is the light purple still, so I'm gonna tap this circle and do the medium purple, and that's fine for it to be just kind of a subtle element hanging out there. I'm going to change the font here and let's just call my candle Company. I'll be really clever. Candle Company. You can also change the fonts if you have brand fonts. You can use the suggested fonts here if you like them, or you can use any of the free fonts in Canva. These are my brand kit fonts. I will just change this to Alta, which is similar but different. Sure. I could make it bigger by tapping on the plus sign. Or by just saying like 200 here. That's probably, that's not too much. It's fine. I am going to move this palette down here for the next one so we can take a look at this, and I could change this to natural sense. So that is how you could edit this template and make it your own. Let's move on to the next Canva template. And this one, it looks like it's for a photography company. Let's tap position and look inside here. There are just three elements to this banner. It's the background photo and the font here and the font there. So that is easy enough. Instead, we want to make that our candle photo. So I'm going to delete the background picture. I'm going to go to elements, and I'm going to search candles. And I'm going to go to photos. I'm going to actually add horizontal to this so we can get a horizontal photo. These colors work really nicely with our brand colors. However, I'm seeing that it is a pro photo. So if you wanted to use that and you didn't have a Pro account, Canva would charge you a small fee. But since I want this class aimed for free Canva users, I'm not going to use it. I'm going to trash it, and I'm going to go up here and I'm going to hit free. So we want only free candle elements. So this is what we have here. I'm looking for one that could look nice horizontally. This looks close to our color palette. So let's just see what this looks. I'm stretching it out by grabbing the corners, and I'm going to bring this up here. And, you know, if you wanted an abstract banner with just like that BCO effect, you could use something like that. But here is my candle. I'm going to tap position again and bring it down to the bottom. I think in this case, we might want the words to be left justified. So I'm going to tap up here and left justify these two different sets of words. I'm going to move this over here. And I'm going to show you a trick to make this candle color look a little bit more like our color palette. So we're going to go to elements, again, and we're going to go to graphics. I'm just going to type square or rectangle. Both will do. Here is a rectangle with this color, and instead, I'm going to make it our color. So I'm going to tap on this color circle and oh, here's something to see. Now there are two sets of photos. It's the background photo that it's pulling from and also our palette. That can be a cool way to create color palettes by using pictures. That's just another way to do it. But instead, I'm going to just change it to this purple color, and let's see what happens if we stretch this across here and make it transparent by clicking on these little checkerboards. Checker boards mean transparent. Let me just bring down the transparency to let's say 44. I'm going to X out this and I'm going to tap here and I'm going to look at the position, and I'm going to move this down. So it's just right above the photo. That makes it look, I think, a little bit more like our color palette. What if I deleted it? Yep, and then brought it back. Yeah, it makes it closer to our color palette. I also see that this is not stretched all the way now, so I'm doing that. And you could play with a transparency again to make it. Oh, the transparency went back to 100 when we moved it. So let's bring it back to, like, here, I have a transparency of 70. So that changes it. It's not perfect in this instance, but that is a good trick for changing colors to the way you want them. Actually, I just thought of an easier way that we could change the color that might work. So I'm going to go in position. I'm going to tap on this candle photo. I'm going to hit Edit. And I'm going to go to filters. I'm going to look for a filter that looks kind of like our color palette right here. Again, this is just training. It doesn't need to be perfect. So we want peachy lavenderi. Oh, and I still have that color thing up here. I'm going to bring it under by dragging it down underneath the photo, and then we can see the colors more clearly. So here we have our photo, going back to edit. Look at the filters. I don't know if I'm seeing a perfect match here, but you get the idea. That is another way to change colors within Canva. And once again, I'm going to change the font here. What is my candle company called? It's called Candle Co. And one last step, we want to change the color to our lightest color, which is down here, and then we want to change this color again to our lightest color. Again, we could change the font to anything we wanted. It's an all cap, so that looks weird because it's a script font, but we could tap these three dots and hit the AA, and that makes it mostly lowercase. So you could play around with the fonts if you wanted. I'm going to grab this palette and move it on to the next banner. Okay, let's take a quick break. In the next lesson, we will continue editing our minimalist at C Banners. I will see you soon. 7. More Minimalist Banners for Etsy : O. Let's move on to the next one. So Lycia and C, I'm going to go to position, and these are the elements. We have these abstract figures again. These I call them abstract blobs. We might as well. So I'm going to start by changing those colors. I'm going to change it to our lightest purple color right here, and I'm going to change both of them at the same time. I'm going to change the background, which is usually a good place to start. So we're going to go to position. And I'm going to tap on this background, and we'll change it to our lightest color. So if we wanted to use a little icon that was candle esque, we could look for, like, maybe a flame and then look specifically within graphics. And here are some flame graphics, and I still have it. So we're only seeing free options. So we're going to continue with that. So here are some options. What about this one? We want one that we can change the color and if you can change the color, then you'll see this color up here. I'm going to make it bigger so we can see it. We can change the color. Here we go. And we're going to change all of that to this. What we could do here is I'm going to hit Copy, so we have that copied. I'm going to bring this up here where the little star was. I'm going to make it a little bit smaller and move it around. And now I'm going to actually copy it now that I have it the right size. And then if we wanted to customize this, we could get rid of the other little stars and paste. And here we have our little candle logo again. I could also duplicate this by hitting the plus sign here, and we would then just be replacing all of the stars with the little flame icons, and that could be part of your logo, too, if you wanted. The other elements to change colors are the title. So we're going to tap on that A. I'm not going to keep changing the name of my shop to Candle Company because I think you got it. So I'm going to tap that, change all of the colors, and then the other thing to change are these little lines. And if you wanted to move the lines, you can by hitting this little double arrow, and if you wanted to angle them, you can do that by hitting a little compassy thing, and then the circular arrows will twist it. So I'm going to hit Undo, so that goes back to the right place. I just wanted to show you a little bit of that, and you can change the color of this line right here with a circle that has the little empty center, and let's change that to this color, and we want to change all of them. That's another way that you can personalize your Canva banner. Let's move on to this one. It's a shop that has soaps and lotions. I'm going to make this bigger for you. I'm going to hit position, and right here the picture is set to the background instead of it just being above sitting in the layers. So I'm going to hit these three dots and I'm going to hit detach image from background, and there you can see the picture that they use there. So the background can either be the bottom layer or you can make any picture. I'm going to do it by tapping these three pictures and hit Replace background. So it just pops into shape there. But I'm going to undo that and get rid of that because I have a candle shop. I am going to look for another horizontal candle picture. I am going to go to my elements and go to photos and do candles horizontal again. I continue to have free options here. Because it's in the background, we want to keep aware that there's a color overlay to this also of course, keep in mind that it's a horizontal photo. And ideally, have it work well with our color palette so I'm going to move our color palette over to Barcell, which I should have done earlier. Let's just say that works for our color palette. So I'm going to take this photo and I'm going to stretch it out by the corners, and I'm going to tap position, and I'm going to bring it down to the bottom layer. Okay, so here is our candles. Let's see if we can filter that back photo so it looks a little bit more like our color palette. Edit filters CA. That sangria looks nice with our peachy overlay, so I'm going to choose that one. Let's go back into position. Maybe we can change this overlay. It's right here. If you want to get the idea of it. I'm going to undo it and put it back where it was. Let's change that. Let's see how it looks with our peachy color. You know, I like it. Let's change that. The only things left to do would be to change our font color. To this light color, then change the second font to our light color. I think that looks pretty good. This soaps and lotion isn't super clear, so I would change that font because kind of it's a busy background. Another thing we could do is go to here, and we're tapping on this layer, and let's see how transparent it is. The transparency is 28%, so we could make it less transparent. So maybe the font would be more clear. That's 36. We'll leave it at that for now. And again, I would just change this font to something more bold. This bold font doesn't go with a vibe exactly, but let's try this. And let's see if we can bold that. There we go. You know, I do like this one, and I would just be very conscious of the fonts that I'm using so it doesn't get lost here. Another way you could experiment with fonts in Canva is by going to text over here, and you can see some different examples of fonts paired together. But this is a good place to check out different font pairings. Let's say we wanted to use that font. I mean, we don't. But that's how you would do it. You would just put it back in there, and then you would change the color to whatever you wanted. I deleted our photo with our color palette, so that's not there anymore, so I'll just get rid of the sticker. That's another way to find fonts. You are welcome to use any of these templates for your own, and I would love to see the template that you designed or edited as a class project. I will give you feedback on it. Please remember to share one or more banners as a class project. So that was our lesson using our minimalist banners. In the next lesson, we are going to move on to a different Canva template that also has 20 different options for you to use, and we'll continue to edit them. These banners are slightly more complex because they're going to be using something called frames in Canva. And I will tell you all about that in the next lesson. I will see you soon. 8. Using Photo Frames in Canva: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we finished our minimalist banners. This lesson features templates that use Canva photo frames. Canva photo frame banners are for sellers who want to showcase their product photography directly within the banner. They're perfect if you have strong images that you'd like to highlight. Alright, let's get started. So, here's another Canva template. Let's open it up in the Canva app. So here's the template within the app. Let's open her up. So here is the template. And let's just scroll through so you can get an idea of what kind of options we have here. They are all using photo frames. There are 20 options here for you to choose from. All perfect for Etsy banners. I'm going to click out of there, and I'm just going to start a new page down here. I have this new page, and if I click on these little squares down here, it will open up just to this new page. And this new page is just for practice with frames. So if we go to elements, there is a frame option right here. And so if we tap frame, here are the kind of frames you might think about like frames for a photo. But then there's Canva frames which have all of these different shapes and they have the little cloud the green landscape. So let me just show you one to start. I'm going to make it bigger by dragging here and I'm just going to find a photo. I'm just going to use one of these from my other class about color palettes and Canva, and you can see that it hops right into there. Let me undo it. So if you can see here, I'm tapping on this thing again and it gets pulled right in to that frame. And if I wanted to undo it and try something else, I can trash this one. Let me show you what happens if I put something in there that's too long. So here is a long image, and if we put it within this frame, it just crops it off to the center. So let's just go back to our elements and to our frames, and there are some really interesting ones you can use. There's this one right here that kind of looks like paint or it looks scribbled on there. So we could find a photo, and let's put this right in there. Here it is. So a frame is a container that highlights a photo that you already have. And when you're getting rid of a photo and you hit trash, you can either delete the image, which leaves the frame or I'm going to back up or you can trash the whole thing. So delete the frame and the whole thing's gone. So that is just a quick intro to frames in Canva. 9. Canva Frame Banners: Project 2: Let's get into the lesson. Let's start with this first banner, and I'm going to bring back my colors that I was using my brand colors that I had saved in the elements here. So I'm going to go back to uploads. There we go. Okay. So here's our photos, and I still have my pretend candle shop. So we are going to move this over here, so we have the colors. I am going to start by changing the background. So I'm going to go to position. I'm going to go to layers, and I'm going to go to this bottom layer, and I'm going to change the color to this light pink color. It asks us if we want to change all, sure, it might affect another template down the line, but that's fine. And then we are going to change this font. Let's do it the darkest color in our palette. And here is our palette right here. So I'm going to choose that, and I'm going to change all of the colors to that color. And then we are on this brush strokes here, and we can change the color. You can't always change the color on things, but if there's this color dot up here, we can change it. So let's change that. Let's try our peachy color, or I like the lavender color better. What if we went dark? Now, let's do this color. And now that we are finished with our colors here, I'm just going to move that swatch down to the next banner, and we will find a different picture for our frame. So, again, if we hit trash here, it gives us the option to delete the image or delete the frame, and we're going to delete the image, and we are going to go back into elements, and we are going to find a picture of a candle. You had your own candle photos, this would be a great place to put them. And again, I'm going to limit my search by free. So I have candle. I'm going to tap up here and tap free. And so now we only have free candle photos. And so, again, this lesson is not about me making perfect banners. It's about showing you how to make really good banners. So I'm going to tap on this picture again that has that kind of purply hue, and I'm going to put it in there. Oh, that's interesting. Let's back up and see what happened. Ah, I see. This is tilted to the side. So if we went like this, it has a zero down here. So now if we do this, I bet it will Yep, it'll go in there well. And now we have a very purple banner, too much purple, one might argue. It's a very purple banner. It's fine. There's not a lot of contrast. The paint swatch might be better in, like, a peach color. But there you go. Not perfect, but you get the idea. Let's move on to this next banner, and this is for skin care. Let's start by changing the background. What if we did darker color, Let's see what that looks like. So I'm tapping on here on this color dot, and sure, let's. Then let's change these photos to candle photos. And we have our free candle photos over here. And again, if you have your own product photos, it's a great place to use them. Let's move this one into here. It's a little off centered. Let's see if we can fix that. I'm going to undo that. And I'm just going to crop this in a little bit, so it's a little bit more square, so maybe it will work in there better. Yeah, still did the same thing. Anyway, it's fine. This is another frame, so I'm going to delete this image. And we are going to find another candle photo, or maybe it would be a picture of your gift wrapping. So let's say this is your gift wrapping. I would have to be a very small candle, but there you go. So we can pop that right in there. And that looks nice. I wasn't conscious. Whoops. We got rid of some undo, undo. Okay, here we go. Ah, I see what happened. My palette popped into the frame. So we're going to move this around until it goes in there, and that color actually works pretty well. It's not super centered. Let's see if we can fix that. It looks a little bit better there. There's a little chunk of her thumb cut off, but that's fine. And let's click on these images. Okay, so this one we can't change the color because there's no color thing up here. The Avery Davis, we can change to our lightest color. This one, we could. I'm just going to move this palette over to the next space. It's a picture of a woman, so we could find something else, like in graphics. Let's do self care aesthetic. They don't really match this vibe. What if we did a candle line drawing? Here we go. The other one was flowers, and we could do flowers again. Let's use this one, and maybe we could, like, double her up. We can change the color, so I'm going to tap here and make this whitish pink that's already on there. So I think that's right there, and we want to change all of those. I could change this to candles, but you know how to do that. I'm going to go to this A and change it to here. Actually, I think this is our pink right here. If we wanted to, we could duplicate this by clicking plus, and now we have two, and we want to hit flip to flip one horizontal, and then we can bring it over here where these can kind of book end each other. I think they would look better the other way. Yeah. So let's move Avery Davis to the center. I'm going to delete the skin care, and we're just going to move these over here. So if I want to look at my work here and critique my own work, I'm going to shut this so I can make this bigger. The Avery Davis here is kind of lost in the center. Let's see if I can make that bold. I could keep the same font and make it bold. I could move these things down a little bit. You can also stretch this out. Again, not perfect, but you get the idea. Maybe I would put some more texts down here. I could duplicate this text and just write Candles unbold that. I'm going to highlight it, unfold it there, make this smaller, and then just bring it up here. Anyway, not perfect, but you get the idea. Okay, let's move on to the next one. 10. More Canva Frame Banners: Okay, this is a little bit different. I'm going to go back to my uploads, grab the color palette, and here we go. So let's look at what we have here. They have two computers and like an iPhone. If we look in the position, we can see that the background is also like a texture of sorts, kind of abstract. So we could switch that one out. We're going to detach it from the background. Let's find something else. Candles don't exactly work with these computer things, but let's say now I have a candle making class. That's what I'm going to be promoting. So I'm going to find in the elements, a background. We're just going to look for something abstract for our background. Ideally, we want it within our color palette, and we want it to be free. That's still selected. Remember, we do have the option with a filter of changing a color a little bit, so it works more for us. I'm not sure if we use this one before. Let's just try it. So we have it right here. We're going to go into position, and we're going to bring it down here and I'm going to tap here and hit Replace background. So that is our background now, and I'm going to delete this original photo. This isn't exactly our color, so let's go to Edit and see if we can make it more peach. That's the chroma filter, or Zeal is even better. Hazel, let's just go with zeal for our filter for that. So now our background is within our palette. We're going to look at these little flowers down here and we can change the color. There are two different colors. So we're going to make the darker one our darker color. So I don't see our palette here, and that's because it's picking up these other photos that already exist. So I'm going to delete the images that are within the frames so now we can see our own palette again. So back to these little flowers. We'll click on the dark color, make it that color. I'm going to change all of those. I'm going to go to here and change it to this light purple color. So I changed all those. We could change the font to something that's ours. Let's just change it to here. We're going to change all of them. And if we wanted a different font to play with, we could look for something that looks like calligraphy. And you'll see here with the fonts that there's pro fonts, and there are free fonts. And in this case, there is a font that I uploaded to Canva, the Winter Calligraphy Sands regular font. So we have changed the colors. We've changed the font, and now we just want pictures that are ideally within our color palette but I'm just going to move the color palette over here so we can work with it next time. This phone has all of these different colors of gray and black in here to give it some depth, I would imagine. But let's go back to elements, look for candle making because now I'm doing a candle making class. And I want free photos again. This photo I like, and it's horizontal. So let's see if we can plug it in here. That looks good. We could also filter it, edit it so it's better with our color palette, which is down here. Let's just choose this area filter, and maybe we can filter all of our photos area so they are consistent. Let's go back to our candle making and let's look for a horizontal picture for our phone. Here we go. And let's filter that to area. Edit, filter, see all. Right there. So we change that. Now we have an iPad that needs a photo, and let's do this one. So we're going to pop that in there, and we are going to change the filter again to area, Edit filters, see all and area. So I'm going to delete this photo, and this is what we have. I don't know, love the font here. I don't love this, frankly, but we're going to move on. Here, we have a shop that sells kids things, but we are going to make it into a candle shop, and so we are going to delete the images. We are going to change the colors, so they work for us. So we are going to change this orange to our light purple. We are going to change this yellow to our peach. There's actually two colors here. So let me just finish doing this and I'll show you. I'm going to change them all. It looks like this graphic, if we put it on top, is actually a graphic with two different colors, which you don't see that terribly often, but we can change both of them. I just wanted to show you. So we're going to undo that and put it back where it was. So we're going to change this different color to our pink. This will be our white pink color. I think that looks nice. I can't tap on that text exactly, so I'm going to go to position. And here and change the color to this color right here. I'm going to get rid of that palette, and now we have our colors, so we would just put our pictures up there. So I'm going to delete this one, and let's say I'm still promoting a candle making class just because we have them up here. So I'm going to put this here. It's a horizontal photo. That doesn't work. Undo. And the reason it doesn't work is because this is off the page. I'm going to undo that. So it would be centered if it was within the page, and maybe we could find a photo that would be better off if it was cut off. What about this one? This one, again, there's a lot of action at the bottom. Let's see how that works. Sure. That works. We could change the filters again to go with our brand or we could just keep going. And let's put this over here. That works. And let's put this over here. And actually, just a little detail here because this hand, it makes us look like off the page at the direction. And if we just flip horizontal, then it's looking kind of into the page, if you know what I mean? And then there's something taller and lower and taller and lower there. So I think that looks pretty good. If we wanted to, we could give these a border. Let me show you how to do that. So I'm clicking on that one. I'm clicking on these lines, and I'm going to give it a border weight of four, which is Canva's default border weight. So I'm going to hit Return, and now it has a border, and I can also change the border's color to work within my color palette. And now what it's doing here is it's pulling up all of the photos in all of the templates. But let's see if I can find it. I think this is probably our color. So now it's changed to our color for a border. You can't see it very well, so maybe I want to change the thickness of that, and let's just make it just so we can see at ten. So there you go. That is how you would put a border on a frame. I think this looks. Good. And again, if you like these fonts, you can keep the fonts. This one's called Glicker. This one's called Lexin Deca. So we have done four different banners together. I'm just going to scroll here and see if there's anything to show you. I like these gold lines, so I wanted to show you how you would do that. You would go to position, and they're right here. In this case, there are three different gold lines. And if you wanted more gold lines, I don't think you would with this. I think it looks great as it is, but you could go to elements and look for thin gold lines. So we're going to go to graphics. Here's an example of gold lines and so on. When you start choosing a couple lines, Canva will come up with some magic recommendations. There's also frames that look like polaroids, which is fun, so you can pop your images in there. I think that is a pretty good overview of using frames in Canva. Remember, I'd love to see your banner in the class projects, so pop that in there. And the next lesson, we'll be working on our final template, and that is for icons, the little square images on a shop's homepage. And we'll do that with my existing color palette and my existing pretend candle shop. I will see you in the next lesson. 11. Etsy Shop Icons: Project 3: Hello, and welcome back. In the last lesson, we edited our Canva frame banners. In this lesson, we are going to be working on our last template, our Canva icon templates. And this is what it looks like, and I'm going to open it up in Canva, and I'm going to move it on over to the Canva app. Okay, so here are our icons. You'll find the icon right here on your Etsy profile. So there are 31 different options that I gave you for icons. You'll definitely want your icon to be in the same palette, vibe and font as your banner, so keep that in mind. I am going to bring up this color palette that I've been using throughout the class, and here it is. I'm just going to copy it. And let's start on this first icon. It's very simple. If we go to position and layers, we can see what it's made of. It just has the background, the heart, and the text. I think it looks very nice and simple, and I'm going to paste that color palette that I grabbed before, and here we go. Let's try a dark background. I think that might be pretty. Here's the colors from the palette. That looks nice. Let's click on this heart and let's change the color of the heart to our lighter purple. Now we're going to have to have the text be in a light font. So let's do that. It's very simple and minimalist, and we have our colors represented. I am going to move this palette to the next one, and let's take a look at this. I think it looks nice simple and nice. We could play with the transparency of the heart. That's 52%. I think that looks good. Okay. Again, you can play with the fonts if you would like. I like these two fonts, pinon and Leto. I think they look nice together. Okay, let's move on to the next icon. This again is a very simple icon. If we look at position, we can see what it's made of. So what they did here, I just want to point out this. It's a good trick. They put a rectangle that's the same color as the background over the DG to put the name. I think that looks nice. What color do we want to do this? What if we did it our darkest color And then also did this square. It needs to be the same color. And then, of course, we need to make the font light. So I'm going to click on here. I'm on the font or light pink color. No, that's peach. Here we go. Go back to the words. Make it pale pink. I don't know why I haven't been changing all of the colors. I'll do it this time. Yes, that was much easier. So here we have going to move this color palette over to the next one. A very nice and simple icon. We could also make it a little bit bigger if we grouped the elements together. And to do that, you would tap on those three dots and hit Select multiple. And sometimes it's kind of tricky. It's easier to do on a computer than it is an iPad, but I think it's working. I just need to grab this, and you can see that we're grabbing it, and then I grab the G, and it says five elements selected, so I'm going to hit done, and I'm going to group them. So I'm going to move them. So it's just a little bit bigger, and Canva will help me center it. I'll put it right in the middle there. But you can also tap on these three dots and tap on a line to page and make sure that it's in the center and in the middle. Or if we wanted it to the left, it would look like that. But for this, we definitely want it in the center and in the middle. This one, it's not super legible as it is, but let's work on it. Let's change the colors. Let's go back to position and see, Okay, we have a white circle behind there, and we're going to change that to this light pink. So we'll change all of those, and then we have this green circle. Let's try this color, I think that looks nice. Let's go back to the position and we have that circle right there, and I'm going to change that to our darkest color. And I think it would probably look more legible if the rest of the font was in a darker color. I don't know if I've gone over this in this class, but I definitely did at length in my previous class about color palettes in Canva. But Canva has an accessibility check to see if the fonts contrast enough. And you can go to file accessibility, check design accessibility. And it says that there are 32 issues with color contrast, and we want to see if there's any for page three. And indeed it is saying that that color is not easy to read, so it's suggesting a different color within our palette, and we'll just keep going in that fashion to change it to the darker color. I'm going to move this palette on over to the next one, and let's take a look at what we have here. I'm realizing as I'm going along that I don't really love that peach color in the palette. I'm not necessarily a peach person, so you can see I've kind of been avoiding it. But that's a good thing to notice when you're doing this. If there's a color within your palette that you just don't use, then it's probably not a great color for you. Speaking of the accessibility, let's go back. It says that we have accessibility issues on page one, that this is not dark enough. I'm wondering if we made the heart more transparent that that would eliminate the issue. If we go to color contrast, we no longer have a color contrast issue. On page one, our first color contrast issue is on page eight. That's a great tool. And once again, it's file accessibility, check design accessibility. And you want to look at color contrast. Let's move on. Let's first look and see what we have here. This background here, if I detach it from the background, it looks like it's just abstract paint. It is within our color, that works within our color palette. Let's just put that back where it was, we'll keep it, and then we will swap out the photo. I'm going to trash the image, and we're going to put in a different image. This would be you or one of your product photos, if it was for your shop, but let's just look in the elements for a woman smiling. And we're going to look at photos, and we want to keep in mind our color palette. We can also edit the photo again. I think she might look nice. Let's put her in that frame. She doesn't want to get in there. Okay, lady. There we go. Just had to talk sternly to her. Okay, so this works okay. We could make it work better with our color palette by going to edit and filters and making her purply, whimsy or black and white. I don't know if I like these filters on her. That one's nice. But is it better than none? It probably isn't. So we'll just leave her as is. So that's that icon with a photo frame. 12. More Etsy Shop Icons : On to this one because I don't think we've worked with curved font yet. And let's pretend that I still have my candle shop, and here is my color palette. I'm just going to copy it and paste it. I am going to start by changing the background to our peach color. There we go, and I am going to change the text to our dark color. And I'm going to change it all. That looks good. And while we are in the text, this text has an effect. And if we tap here on effect, it has a curve. So this curve is at 45 degrees, and you can change the amount of curve, so it will do whatever you want. But we will bring it back to 45 and if we wanted to undo that curve, we could hit none, but we do want it, so we're going to undo again with this little button. Okay. And so this font down here has a negative 45 degrees curve, so it matches that one. This is positive 45, this is negative 45. Okay, so we're going to keep on changing the colors. Let's also change this leaf here. And instead of the leaf, we want a candle graphic. So I want to go back to free, and here we go That was cute. It has a lot of different colors. Let's give it a try. So we're going to make this dark color, this color, we're going to make this yellow. What about that color? Sure. What if we make that yellow, this white? That's better. And what if we make the pink, the lavender? That's okay. You know, I think the real deal is that I don't like this peach background. But let's just keep going. And where's this pink color? I don't understand? I don't know, but I just changed it. Okay, so there we go here. There we go here. And now we have these little stars that we want to change colors. We could also do different things like flames, but I like these little stars. Let's change the colors. Let's change this one to a different color in our palette. How does the purple look? That is too light. So we could do that color or the darkest color. Oops, I just changed a bunch of things. I want to undo that. So let's move this on over to another screen and take a look at what we have here. I think that actually looks really good, despite the fact that I don't like that peach. What would happen? I'm going to see if we grab a square and we are going to make it our peach color. There we go. I am going to spread this across the page. I am going to tap here I'm going to close this so we can look at the layers. I'm going to move this all the way down. So I'm going to change the background here to just a white color. That's fine. And I'm going to go up to this little checkerboard and change the transparency. Yeah, I think I would like that peach different if it was just a little lighter. So that's another thing you can do with colors. You can play with the opacity to keep it within your color palette. But you can see it kind of pops more. It contrasts more with this dark color, so I will keep it that way for now. I want to show you this one because it's another text effect. I don't think I'm going to change all of the colors here. But if we click on this first word Shadwi and we go to effects, we can see that it has an outline with a thickness of 50, so we could make the outline thinner or thicker. And because the outline is the same color as the back dot, it looks like it's only outlined on the sides there, which is kind of a cool effect. And I'm guessing this one also has an outline of 50. And there's lots of fun things you can do with text. You can give it a background color like that. If we wanted to change the background color to that, we could. I don't want to do that there, but it's just an effect. So play with those different effects within the fonts. This one right here, we looked at before how there was a rectangle covering up a letter, and here they have it too. There's a square covering that part of the bee, so we put it back. And then there's a circle here. If I move it out, what the circle is doing is it's covering up the stem of that flower behind the bee. So remember that you can use squares and circles and those kind of things to hide things that you don't want shown. Here's a nice simple icon. We can pretend that we have a candle shop here. This will be my last one. I'm going to undo this. I am going to look for, let's say, a match instead of a candle, and I'm going to go within graphics, and I'm going to go to free and let's just look at the ones that are not free, that are pro because I think we can probably find a better one just for this exercise. That's cute. The colors are not changeable, but I think it's cute, and it's similar to the needle and thread. This is a pro one here. So we have this. We could change it to any color we wanted. And again, we could change the font. I think this is kind of a bold icon. So we might want a more bold font. I mean, I think these two go together. We could just make it smaller up here. This font is called Gente. Again, if we wanted to group these, so it was in the center, we could go to select multiple and put it right in the center. And there we go. Oh, there's some other words in here that are a really light color. Let's see what they are. Oh, it's a sewing blog, but instead, we are going to say pretend candle shop. I hope that was helpful. Oh, this is cute. And this one, the colors can change. I really like that one. I like that one better. But again, that's a pro, and we're not gonna change the colors right now. But I think that's really cute. If we liked that one, we could change the angle to whatever we wanted. Um, and you can see that I could do this all day long. And sometimes I do. I hope that was a helpful introduction to icons. I hope you can find an icon that works great for you. And after you change the color to your palette and the font to your desired font, that it works perfectly with your banner. And the next lesson, we are going to upload your new banners to Etsy. I will see you in the next lesson. And again, please upload your icons as a class project as well. Alright. See you soon. 13. Uploading Your Graphics to Etsy: Welcome back. In this super quick lesson, I'm going to show you how to upload your new banner and icon to your Etsy shop. So this is my digital downloads for Creatives shop, and I'm going to tap Edit Shop, and I'm going to tap this little pencil here and I'm going to delete my current banner. I really do want the same banner, so I'm just going to re upload it from my photo library. Tara, Tara. And that looks good. I'm going to hit Save. Next, let's edit the icon, and that's also super easy and quick tap on the camera, choose a file, photo library. I want the same icon. It's right here in my photo library. I'm going to tap done. There's no need to adjust or crop it. I'm going to hit Save. Looks good. And then I'm going to go to View shop, and here is my refreshed banner and icon. And that is how you change your EtS banner and icon. The next lesson is also super, super quick. It's a quick wrap up of the class with next steps. I will see you in the next lesson. 14. Congrats & Thank You!: Congratulations on finishing this class. Each design that you've created is a unique reflection of your brand, and I'm thrilled to have helped you along the way. Designing your Etsy store front is a powerful way to set yourself apart in a crowded marketplace. And with Canvas tools at your fingertips, you can easily update and refresh your brand as it evolves. Thank you for joining me in this class. I'd love to see your final designs, so don't forget to upload them to the class project gallery. And if you have questions, feel free to drop them in the discussion section. And finally, if you enjoyed the class, please leave me a quick review. So are you ready to bring your shop's brand to life? Let's go make a lasting impression on Etsy. Thank you, and I will see you the next time.