Print your Own T-Shirt with Canva

1. Introduction: Oh, my T shirt. Great. Thank you. Thanks. Hey, what's up, guys? In this video, I'm going to show you step by step how I design and printed what's inside that box. 2. Selecting the right document type: So the way I started this project from the Canva homepage was very simple. I just hovered over the print product icon right here in the main header, I would say. So if you click here, you will see all sorts of available print product. And by all means, this will be different from country to country. So here in Spain, we have, I would say, quite a bit of choice in terms of printing. It might be that in your country, there's no options available. That is not our fault. So the document decided to start with was this one right here, it says T shirt. So you can also search for other things. Like, for example, you have invitation. You have folders, envelopes, toed bags, circle stickers, a bunch of different things. And you can filter these by category, I believe, marketing, then you have your gifts. You have your stationery, you have your clothing. And in the past, I have designed a Canva hoodie, and I have designed a couple of t shirts. All of them turned out to be of great quality. So today, we are designing T shirts. So I'm going to choose this document right here. 3. Searching Canva for a quote I like: The way I started my design was pretty unconventional. I rarely start designing on Canva like this. But the minute or the second I opened my t shirt document, I noticed this design right here, this template, and I clicked on it, and it created this very nice typography quote enjoy every moment. So my first I would say reflex was to double click on that to try to edit the text, but I realized it was not an editable text. It was a simple graphic, so an image in the library. So I kind of gave up on that idea. But what I noticed right here is the name of that element. It says green typographic quote T shirt. So I decided to search for more of these typographic quotes, right? And that's how I started. So I went back to the elements tab, and I typed typographic quote. You see, it's still here in my recent searches. So typographic quotes, you'll get a bunch of results. But if you filter by graphics and click on CO, this is where it starts to get interesting because I see here a bunch of interesting quotes that I could potentially use for my t shirt. I wanted an empowering, I wanted a kind of positive vibe kind of quote, but also was looking for an attractive typography, attractive hand lettering kind of graphic. So here, I simply started to scroll and read all of these quotes. And when I found one that I liked, let me simply delete this for now and get back to my blank page. When I found one that I like like this one, do the right thing, I would click on the three little dot right here and simply see more like this. Okay? So see more like this, and this leads me to another batch of typography quotes in the same style. So this style was a more colorful style. So yeah, I like that you can search similar items in the Canva library. So yeah, this is actually how I because I like you guys and also because I want to make your lives easier, I'm going to share with you a bunch of different keywords you could use to find similar hand lettering quotes or graphic elements that are similar to these ones right here because I did a bit of research, and I found that these keywords will work very well. The first one is hand lettering inscription. If you search for that, filter by hand lettering inscription will give you these kinds of results as well. So a bunch of interesting quotes here as well. Another key word you could search for in order to find things like that is motivational quotes. So motivational quotes. Again, I'm going to filter by graphics gives you this, for example. Okay? So you have more stuff, more choices, and some pretty cool stuff here as well. Another one that worked well for me was simply typography. So typography will give you some more of these, some of them that I haven't seen before, like this one right here, the spicy right here, girl power, and Joy. So a bunch of different cool stuff here not going to try every single keyword, but other ones that you could try are positive quotes, lettering, calligraphy or even motivational hand lettering quotes. All of these will give you, I would say, similar results, but some slightly different outcomes. So pretty much giving you more options. So that is if you are searching from inside the Canva editor, and that is if you are searching for individual elements. But what I also would try to do if I were you in order to find more of these quotes for potential t shirt or other kind of prints is to search for contributors. So the contributors are the people who create Canva elements in the library. So how would you proceed for that? Well, if you find one that you like, for me, for example, let's say, I like this one right here, B strong, I would click on the three little dots, and this would give me a name view more by bar Syd. Okay? So if I click here, I can view more. I would always filter by graphics, and I will always also filter by one of these keywords we just explore earlier. For example, here, typography. So now I am searching only the graphics from this contributor called bar Snd that contain the tag typography in so now I have a pretty curated list of typography artwork right here that I can easily explore. So something else you should see here is that this at BarsNd is actually searchable. So if you copy this, okay, and search for that in the Canva elements. Okay? So instead of typography, I could search at BarsNd, I will land on that creator's profile. Now, I'm going to show you something else. Let me get out of full screen right here. If you come back to cva.com and you add a slash Bar and paste that name, so BarsN without the land on their Canva creator profile or Canva contributor profile. Okay, I'm going to go back to full screen right here. So you see what I did? I simply copied their name, pasted that aftercva.com slash their name. And now I'm landing on their profile from which I can follow them, to see more of their stuff. And from here, it's exactly the same thing. Make sure you scroll down, and under all items, you are going to go to graphics. And here, again, type your keyword typography, for example. And now I have all of their typography work, graphic right here from their profile, so I can start them to keep them in my start folder, or I can start using them in my design. So that is what I wanted to show you. Now, very quickly, and then we'll start designing our T shirts, let me show you four or five of these Kanva contributors that I found created nice collections of motivational so this is the first one, Barcen. Another one would be this one Buch icon portfolio. So Buch icon portfolio has a bunch of cool hand lettering as well, some of them with colors, and I like their meaning. I like the type of words that he or she has been using here. For example, Obregado, which is thank you in Portuguese, forgive, keep up the good work. So some positive quotes, but also some nice hand letters. So that is another one. It's called B icon portfolio. Another one would be Lana Schmart, Lana Schmart. Don't forget to filter by graphics, not photos, graphics, typography to filter only the typography work. So this one is called Lana Schmart, okay? And again, some cool stuff, like more graffiti style, also colors, some nice hand lettering. So some cool stuff here as well. Then one last one would be vitamin RGB. Okay. Filter graphics typography, and you'll find some cool stuff here as well. So very colorful, very vibrant type of hand lettering. So really like that to make to the account. I could see myself making a t shirt with this. So yeah, some really cool ideas. Now, back to my T shirt design. Okay, so let me show you the actual quote that I chose for my t shirt. It's won by Duke icon portfolio, and it's called You've Got This Typography. I think you've got this typography. There you go. Let me see if I can find it back right here. You got this. Yes, it was this one right here. So that was the graphic I used for my first t shirt. Let me show you the actual file in which I designed my t shirt. It's right here. So you see, you've got this in the black color. The cool thing about this graphic is that you can actually change its color to any color you like. So yeah, I decided to keep it in black. 4. Adding my personal touch to the design: Alright, the next step for me was to add a little bit of a personal touch. I didn't want to create and print a t shirt solely based on an element I found in the Canva library. So I wanted to make this a little bit more on brand. So the way I did this, I used one of our custom Emojis. Okay? So I have this folder right here with our Rondi emojis, and I inserted this little heart we designed, I slightly rotated it, and I posted it on the top of the I right here, like it was the dot of the I. If I scroll down to this page right here, page number two is actually the page that I decided to put on the actual t shirt. So I think it looks great. And now let me show you a way you can actually pre visualize your T shirt. 5. Printing my Canva design on a T-shirt: So once you got there, making sure you are in a Canva T shirt or print T shirt document type. And you can do that by clicking on this button right here that says print with Canva. So if I click here, I see a preview of my t shirt. All right? You've got this on a black t shirt, black font. So that doesn't work that well. So what I will do is to, first of all, change the style. I want a men's t shirt, okay? So you have a bunch of different colors, black, red, royal blue, gray, navy, charcoal and white. I think this would work best on a white t shirt. So selecting right here, select the pages you want to print. So right now, I have my front, which is page one, and my back, which is page two. I only want to print the front size, first because of the price, if you print on both sides, it will cost you here in Spain 29 euro. Now, if I click none here, you see the price is dropping to 24 euros. So it's cheaper to print on only one side. So I only want the front side for this t shirt. Men style, white t shirt, and then size. Okay? I was not quite sure if I was a medium or large. Okay? So depending on the country, last time I bought a t shirt with Canada was when I was in Australia. I ordered a large and it turned out very large. So this time, I think I ordered a medium, but I created a second t shirt, which I'm going to show you in a second, but I want to go all the way to the end of the process first. Other one I chose the other side. So I think I ordered this one large, and then the other one in medium, something like that, we'll discover when I open the box. Still not open. Okay? Once you have your size, you can just click on Continue. This will bring you to this page right here. Let's get ready to print. So you can add that to your card. Okay? Add to card. There you go. Now you have your card. You can either go back to your design, do some more stuff and add to your card, or you can go and check out and pay for this T shirt. So what I did, you see, I have one item in my card. I went back to the design. I'm going to show you the second design right now, which is this one right here. So I wanted a t shirt that says, peace, please because during these times, there is so much violence going on in the world that it really makes me sad. Let's not become political here, but war in Ukraine, war in Israel, Palestine. All of this makes me sad. Truly makes me worried about where this world is going. So peace, please. I wanted the peace sign, okay? So I found this element by searching under elements. Let's see, let's search from the actual root folder. Believe I did peace sign hand gesture. I think that's what I put Pei, this one right here. And so what I did then, I just changed the colors for our custom pink and this screen right here that contrasted very nicely. And then I just created these two words piece, please in a font called Hibernate two, and I slightly use the curve text to make them look cool. You see, it's like actually three parts, four parts, actually five parts. Wow, amazing to make this kind of, like, wavy. So I adjusted each letter individually. 6. Payment tracking and delivery: So this was my second t shirt design, which I also sent to print also on only one side. Okay? So like so, front was page three, back nun style men, and the color was black, exactly. And the size was medium. The first one was large. So I continued, added that to my cart, add to carts. Yes. That's exactly what I did. So now I had these two t shirts for a grand total of 48 euros. I went ahead and checked out. I paid with my credit card, and then the process was pretty much done. I was payment. It was pretty straightforward with a credit card. I don't think you can pay with PayPal yet, but credit card worked fine for me. This might depend also country to country. And then I waited for exactly one business week. And what I liked is that Canva immediately sent me an email confirming telling me that if I wanted to change my order, I still had some time to do so. So if you screw up or something is wrong, you can still change that, which is pretty cool. And then they gave me a tracking number. Total, I got five different emails from Canva indicating every single step of the process where my product was, if it was already being printed, if it was already being shipped, and then even an email saying the product was coming and then it arrived, the product has been delivered. So that was kind of like the entire workflow. 7. Unboxing and final thoughts: Alright, so let's unbox this box right here. I like that canva actually uses eco friendly material. Okay, so I'm going to cut here. And there's only one cut necessary, I think, so I can keep that cutter, you go. Alright. So first thing I see here, one of a kind, just like huge canva. Alright, so this is the first one. You've got this one, and it's pretty cool. And I think this is the large one. Let me double check. Yeah. This is the large. Okay. You've got this. The color is actually very accurate. I like that, so I can show here on the secondary camera. But that's the first one. You've got this. And then the second one. This one right here, this one looks a bit smaller, looks great as well, in my opinion. Please, please. The color is quite accurate, as well. The green is not as shiny as I expected, but I mean, it looks cool. I like the framing as well of these t shirts. So now the last thing I'm going to do for this tutorial is to go put them on and come back. So there you go, guys. This is the first one. You've got this one. I'm going to stand up so you can see how big it is. This is the large one. And yeah, I think it fits me correctly, but it's still a bit long. So now, how about we try the medium one? There you go. The medium one fits me well, as well. It is considerably less long than the other one. So yeah, I'm glad I actually chose one of each so I could definitely figure out my size. I think next time I will continue going with the large size because I think this one is the right fit, but I am a bit afraid that it might shrink if I wash it a little bit too hot. So that's it for me, guys. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Thank you for sticking around until the end.