In this video I'm gonna show you how to make a St Patrick's day design
like this one right here on Canva for free. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video. My name is Juna with Detour Shirts. I've been designing and
selling t-shirts online since 2005 and St Patrick's Day has typically been one of the
biggest t-shirt holidays of the year. So I wanted to show you how to make a St Patrick's Day t-shirt
design on Canva for free. So I'll show you how to do this step by step so you can follow along.
Of course you don't want to do exactly this one because i've done it and if everybody does the
same design then nobody gets sales but i'm going to show you some techniques in canva that you can
use and how i would go about designing a t-shirt with canva for st patrick's day i'm going to
show you the graphics how i find the graphics the fonts and how i choose the fonts and how i put it
all together and then how i change the colors and things like that and just make sure that it's the
right shape so let's get into canva right now so here we are on canva.com you can see right
here canva.com i'm on the free version and what i'm going to do first is create a design i like
to click here and then custom size you can type in 4500 by 5400 if you don't have this
preset but i have mine preset so let's just do that and let's start a new one so there we go
i like to go in elements the first thing i like want to do is just color this background to be
black since it's going to be on a black t-shirt it doesn't have to be a black t-shirt it could
be a green t-shirt for st patrick's day but i want a dark t-shirt so black right here
and then i'm gonna just type in the st patrick's day um yeah just st patrick's day right there
and let's look at just the graphics okay so this one i like right here uh it is uh you
know you can see it's very rough so i'm going to click on that and then see magic recommendations
um let's look at some of these this one's cool the hat so you can see it matches so one of the
things that i like to do is use graphics in the same graphics family right so these two
you can see they match let's see this matches right if i make it bigger you can see they both
have they all have that rough look right and let's see let's do one more this this right here so
all these kind of match i'm going to use these graphics to make a t-shirt so let's move things
around i want this as a border here maybe this smaller you can put things behind and in front
this one's going to be behind and then these other things are going to be in the front so let's do
put to back right there and maybe this here i could turn it right that kind
of gives it some interest maybe put this here and then do this smaller
um what can i do with this let's see what other graphics they they have a lot of the beer stuff
drinking maybe my thing will be drinking let's get this out of the way i'll put this here and
maybe flip this and the reason i want to flip it is because the handles on this side if i want text
on this side then you know it's going to get in the way so let's put the handle on the outside
make it smaller great i can get rid of that all right so we'll have to think of something
about drinking or drinks or something like that um typically what you would want to do
is you're going to want to find a phrase something that's trending or people want to buy right so do
your research this phrase that i'm going to do i did not do the research on this but we're just
going to come up with one and again let me show you one more thing before i forget when you do
all these graphics i just picked the first one but look at all these graphics that are in the
pro version imagine all the different t-shirts you can make with the pro version so you got that
and as we scroll down we've got so many more stuff here right
you can do one with that the gnomes those are a good one um you know this is pro so
if this is your app of choice and you're seriously thinking about making lots and lots of t-shirts
you know you can see that there's a lot more choices with pro i'm just showing you the free
stuff as you get and learn the free stuff and you want to do the pro stuff you could i have
a link in the description for for pro if you want to do it but just wanted to make that clear that i
just picked the first one usually the top ones are the free ones and i picked this one because it was
rough and i like the look of it but again there's so many i didn't scroll down and actually pick one
so if you're gonna do a phrase the reason why i say this is if you're gonna go find a phrase that
is you're going to do that first you're going to find a phrase that is trending or some people
want to buy you niching down and finding that then you look for the graphics i'm
kind of doing it backwards because i'm doing the free version and just using graphics that
i want and then building the words around it but you would actually do it the other way okay
all right so let's see um let's do drinks well with others so for text all you do is hit the
letter t and you can see text right there and i'm going to say drinks
i've got a spell right and then the font that i wanted to use if you've seen my font video
in canva i wanted to use this font and it's called lava so let's do this lava rough you
can see so let's make this bigger i'm going to do this and then make this bigger like that
and lava actually has another one so let's do lava again and type in lava
grunge i saw this the last time look at that even more grungy than rough i'll do that and let's see
um others whoops gotta spell that right too fat fingering everything um you can make this bigger
and then grab the corners and kind of do that you can see how if this handle was on the other side
it would hit that o but now it works perfect um drinks let's move this up maybe smaller
um get this on the side here it's in the way let's move it over here for now uh and then
well with
let's make this one the regular lava just to give it some intro
different interests here it's pretty close but drinks well yeah i think this is going to do well
and drinks
cool so i kind of want to frame it i got some space here let me put this here on this side
maybe make that a little bigger
cool and this can be bigger
nice i have some space under here
now that i pushed this up i'm going to use this to frame it so i'm going to copy and hold
option and drag so i got two of them and i'm going to crop it so you can either hit crop right here
or you could just double click on it and then i'm going to crop it down to just that let's
see how that works yeah so now i'm going to turn this around boom i could crop it some more let's
just so it's like that okay and
i wanted to go behind the r and the s something like that yeah maybe this can be bigger
it's coming together all right let's make this bigger here
and this drinks this is great there you go one more thing
and maybe this is okay but i notice everything is green here and this is kind of orange and
it stands out and maybe that's that's great but if you wanted to change the color of that
you could go here and you'll pick one of the green colors that we had here yeah so now it matches
kind of the hat and things and then this stands out i don't know maybe the other way was better
i mean that that does kind of look cool too so if you want to change anything here you know make it
stand out a little better you can move it around but i think this is good so now that i'm done here
i'm going to download this so let's download it as a png so let's do that because i don't have the
pro version i only have the free version i'm going to have to knock out this background in photopia
so let's go to photopian and knock this out so here i am on photopia let's see how this does this
is going to be a tricky one because of all the rough stuff on it i'm just going to drag in here
and let's see here let's use our magic wand and click here and let's do that first and just delete
uh you're gonna see we're gonna have to get in here and delete some of these other ones so let's
do magic wand again and hold down shift and just click on all the black ones that should be knocked
out let's see if there's some other oh yeah up here and do that and you know you may not have to
do all of them it's going to be on a black shirt so let's make sure we get these big ones here
we can come in here with photopia and get really into the details so so i'm going to knock all of
these out and then i'm going to bring it into merch by amazon and i'll show you what it looks
like so one more thing before i show you merch by amazon i forgot after you knock it all out
and get as much black as you can off which is another reason to get the pro version because
you know fonts like this would be a lot easier if the transparent background was already taken
off so you don't have to do it but after you've done all of that go here on photopia to file and
then export as png right and then make sure that it's still 4500 by 5400 and hit save i already
saved mine but you can see it's not the closest thing like it's not perfect there's still going
to be some roughness on here but in black you can see kind of like a black outline right here which
isn't perfect but i think you'll still be okay not as good as again as if you did the pro version but
uh still pretty good let me show you what i mean on merch by amazon so here i am on merch
by amazon and i brought it in you can see it's knocked out so if i go through the other colors
right there and you can see it works really well on black because that's what we did it on but
on some of the other colors it doesn't look so good especially this green so what i would do
is if you want to do it this green color make sure to pick that as the background in canva and then
make sure that everything's works with it you can change these colors in canva like we like we
did with this mug here and just make sure that it works but on black it looks really good i got it
zoomed in here so you can see but uh olive maybe it kind of gets faded right orange could could
be good pink uh the white and the pink's not the best blue red so just go of course white on white
so if i picked white you can see right here what's happening is that you shouldn't see these letters
but because there's that outline when we cut it through with the photopia it's kind of showing
on the white which it shouldn't so oh this grass green looks really good i'm gonna click on that
one that's too dark and stuff so i would probably do these just these three with that design um this
one looks pretty good so again try it out with the different color backgrounds before you save it
if you want to use that specific background but you can see right here it works pretty good
and that was all free on canva like i said before knocking it out is a pro version but you can
do it in photopia or in preview or things like that so you can you can work around it so have
fun with this hopefully you've learned some things uh how to color it and how to crop some things and
kind of give this a tall rectangle remember we do a tall rectangle shape for t-shirts and use
fonts that match so this font kind of matches the graphics because of the roughness on it so if i
use graphics that were more flat and didn't have roughness i probably use a different kind of font
to match that so have fun with your st patrick's day t-shirts lots to design on canva you can see
that i did one here hopefully you can create a lot more for yourself using these techniques
and get a lot of sales for st patrick say it's a huge t-shirt holiday lots of people love to wear
different types of t-shirts for this holiday make sure to do your research first like i said make
sure to find that and then get the phrase and then add the graphics we kind of did it backwards like
i said in the beginning but do your research make sure you find something that um people actually
want to buy and wear and good luck so that is it for this video thanks so much for watching
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i hope that you can make more designs in canva if that's the app that you choose to use there's so
many graphics i'm surprised how many graphics different kinds of graphics there are on there
you keep looking and it just like seems forever so if you want to use canva i have a link in the
description for canva you can try it out or you can even try out the pro version for 30 days for
totally for free i have a link in the description for that see what kinds of things you can make
with either one try out that transparency see how much difference it is thanks again for watching
and the question of the day for this video is have you bought st patrick's day t-shirts ever in your
life have you worn one have you bought it for that holiday let me know in the comments i know it's
a huge holiday and lots of people buy t-shirts for that i personally haven't bought one but i
know i sell a lot of those t-shirts and i think a lot of people do so
thanks again for watching this video and if you want to see more canva tips click on these videos
right here and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye