In this video I want to share with you how you can take halloween patterns from Canva
and put them into letters in affinity designer, so that you can make designs
like this one right here and hopefully get some sales this halloween. 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 in this video I wanted to teach you a halloween technique.
Actually this technique can be used for any holiday and that is putting patterns into fonts or
into text. I'm going to do it in affinity designer and you can use any pattern from any place. Canva
has a ton of patterns so i'm just going to go there but of course you can get your patterns from
vecteezy or vexels or creative fabric or wherever you get your patterns you can even make your own
patterns if you want to but i'm going to show you if you have a pattern already how to put it
into letters and this can be used for halloween as well as thanksgiving and christmas and any major
holiday really but i see it a lot during halloween so i'm going to show you how you can do it
in halloween really easy an easy way to do it so let's get into canva first so that we
can find i'll show you how to find these patterns what patterns i'm going to use of course you can
don't have to follow me you can use any pattern you want and then i'm going to go into affinity
designer and do it real quick put it into text it's going to be super simple you can follow
along step by step let's get into canva right now though so here i am on canva i've already
added an artboard here we're just going to go to elements and we can type in a pattern so halloween
pattern specifically and you can even do by color so i'm going to do halloween pattern black right
and you can see a lot of black patterns here you can pick any one that you want a lot of them are
going to be pro if you did free version i'm going to just do free and you're going to see uh how
little patterns there are for free i mean there are some so you could use that but one of the
nice things about pro is there's a ton of patterns and let me just use the pro stuff and you can see
lots more here i'm going to click off of this that's a nice black pattern let's do
this one you can see it is black but we can do black on white you can do a rectangle so just
hit r as a rectangle and make the rectangle black uh or or purple whatever color you want really
and then you can change this one to white and make sure this is in the front oh
there we go so now we have a black pattern we're gonna do four of these because the one
that i'm gonna do the word i'm gonna do it has four letters so we want four different patterns
we don't have to but we can so here's a nice pattern here um let's do actually that one
that's really complex let's do another one um this one right here here's a nice white one
do that different colors let's look for an orange one kind of cool
that's more well let me try orange here halloween pattern orange
yeah this one's kind of neat again you can pick any one that you want here
and then let's do maybe a purple one let's see if there's a purple one that's kind of cool
yeah cool again any any one we want doesn't really matter we could we could have picked any one of
these right bats i i would just pick ones that are different that's kind of what we're doing
just picking ones that are different i'm going to add another artboard just to add some variety
so we got these for the patterns i may want to do some spiders right on top of it so spiders
um i like this one right here and we want to look for one that can change the color so we may want
to do this on a black t-shirt so we can change it to white you know or whatever color we want
so i'm going to do it black but when we get into affinity designer we definitely can change this
color because this is one of those um let's see let's try another maybe a hanging spider
well we got that spider webs let's do other spider webs let's see what else they got
is this one that you can change the color yeah yeah um let's see oh well let's do bats
yeah this is fun this one no see this one you can't change the color so this is just
a graphic i'm not going to do that i'm going to do this one yeah so this one you can change the
color right there so we need to change it black to white um oh this is kind of cool
that's kind of cool let's use that too and
good i think this is enough oh this is a cool pattern let me go back what if we did that yeah
all right anyway you can see i can change out patterns so we got our four patterns we got
this we're going to download it we're going to make sure that it is not png we're going to do
pdf standard you might have seen the trick that i did in this video right here i'll put it up
here we're going to use the pdf with canva and affinity designer and we'll download these two
pages and bring it into affinity designer and i'll show you how to put these patterns into some text
so here i am in affinity designer i have my artboard the 4500 by 5400 artboard amazon
size i also have the pdf from canva so i'm going to select all of these right here
and i'm going to hit command c to copy and then i'm going to go back to here and hit command v
and you can see it's bigger than the artboard so there they are
all of these right here i'm going to zoom back in and type out some text so i'm just going to do
uh the word mama four letters uh m a m a make it bigger here and i'm gonna use a font that
i like it's called cooper black you can use any font that you want but i'm gonna type in
cooper whoops c-o-o-p you may or may not have this font this is a nice vintage font here kind
of rounded so the next thing i'm going to do is convert these to curves when i have it the right
size i'm going to go from like edge to edge right here hit convert to curves and ungroup these so
you can see each one of these is its own group and now i'm going to take these patterns and just put
them inside of these letters really simple so the first one right here whoops i forgot i made these
two things so let's group all of this right here so this one is one let's see yeah this is two
three good four good so let's kind of do dark light dark light so
dark being the black one first let's put it under the m here if we click on this m um
oh i forgot i had we're gonna have these let's group these there we go and is this one group
group all right so that's what was doing all right so now you can see the m-a-m-a
so the first thing we're gonna do now that we got this we're gonna take that group right here
and put it inside the m so we'll do there you can see it inside let me zoom in
now let's just make it the right size here there it is that pattern so i did that pretty
quick let's do this again here's the a the second a right let's take this right here
see that and drag it into that a here and now we're gonna just see it super simple
let's just make sure like that this m here can be the purple one
so there's the purple group we'll drag it and inside the m and just make it the right size and
then lastly the a here so we have our pattern here let's just make sure it's inside the a there we go
there you go so that's a quick way to have the patterns inside the letters let's make
sure this background is black since most of the halloween t-shirts are going to be black
okay so what can help here is an outline around it and i'm going to give it two outlines a black one
and a white one so let's close these and here's the m i'm going to copy it twice hit command j
right there so the first outline here is going to be black
so let's just do a black outline right here and we'll give it a stroke and we can't really
see it because the background's black so let's change the black background to something lighter
okay there we go we can see the background now and that
curve this middle one right here let's do the stroke
a little bigger i got it at 11 points so the very back one let's make that white so we just
click all of these to white and make sure our stroke is bigger than the other one
it was 11 so it's going to have to be you know maybe 20 or so see that
so all of these together are the m so i would group this together right here so that's
m and now we can move it in back or in front now we can do this with this one too so let's do
the same thing j j command j command j the middle one again remember was 11 so we're gonna do black
here and make sure the stroke is at eleven now it would be different on
yours but we want to make sure that it's the same as the first one so the first one is 11
so we'll make sure all of these are 11 and the bottom one again
take here and go white and we did it at 20 right just make sure it's all white and oh stroke at 20.
and we can do that for all the letters here and we can make it you know if you don't
want the black outline that thick we can come back in here and say oh maybe it should be 10
because it's 10 and 20. and would probably do the same thing for this one
or you could make it nine or you can make it whatever size you want right and again you
could make these um it doesn't have to be white if you wanted it orange come in here play around
with the colors maybe instead of white you want orange here maybe like a 30 100 c and these are
now all together so you could move it in the front and kind of do it like that if you wanted to right
so you can do it any way you want you could do the middle if you wanted the middle one of the m
a white instead of black of course you could do that too so we're just giving it two outlines
right you see how that's working so kind of a fun thing to do with two outlines now i'm gonna do all
these in a different outline and i'll come back and i'll show you what happens we'll just do the
same thing command j command j pick the different colors and we'll have the outlines all right so
here i'm back i did the outlines on the different ones i did orange on the m's and white on the a's
you can do whatever one you want and you can mix up the patterns and it doesn't have to be
black orange purple white right it could be black white black white whatever you want
i'm just going to show you how what else i'm going to do to this um i may wanna put another word
on here or two so um i'm typing in the word spooky
can't see it because it's black let's do it in white because it's a black t-shirt
and i don't know if i typed it right let's see nope because i couldn't see what i was doing
spooky i'm gonna use a cursive font so one of my favorites here i'm just gonna do intro script demo
but of course you can use any script font you want or it doesn't even have to be a script font
and there's spooky mama and let's use some of the things that we got here so um let's
move all of these here including this guy let's see how this would look under here
looks like it might do really well i'm gonna make it white
that's looking cool move it in the back yeah and um maybe this uh flip it
that's kind of cool move that in the back i can't see
these guys bats so i'm gonna color the bats white so that we can see them
yeah that's looking cool um let's see we could use another bat here um
again you can use any graphics you want and i don't know if we need this guy here
i think we're fine with the spider webs um well maybe let me turn it let's see what we can do here
i don't know if it's going to match because it's a different kind of spider web it's a little thinner
maybe put it up here
does that match yeah it's too thin it's too thin it would have to be thicker so let's
just take that out we don't have to use every graphic so there we go spooky mama for halloween
again we're incorporating graphics uh different texts different kind of styles i think this would
really really be cool i don't know if spooky mama is trending you're gonna have to look what
different phrases are i'm just showing you the techniques right grab graphics from uh canva make
sure that you can come back in here and color them and then you can see i'm just incorporating it
with the with the patterns that we did really easy and the outlines and you can move things around so
that's this tutorial in affinity designer using things from canva again with that pdf real easy
to do and make your own stuff and again use use different words use different patterns
use different graphics i'm just showing you how i did this one but of course the sky's the limit you
got lots of different things i would say try it out with different words short words long words
do your research see what kind of words or come up with your own phrase that would be even better
and put into these patterns i think would be really cool for this halloween so that is it
for this video i really like how it turned out you can see you can do a lot with canva and affinity
designer together especially if you have the pro version of canva i'm going to put a link in the
description to the pro version of canva just so many different patterns that you can use of course
there's patterns in the free version too try them all out see what you like about them it's a really
good combo and which is what i said in one of my other videos so have fun with this one if
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coming especially for halloween it's one of the biggest holidays out there starting the q4 sales
picks up in october and just goes all the way till the end so you really want to get in on the
halloween designs it's my biggest month usually is october so have fun with this one the question
of the day for this video is what other halloween patterns or halloween designs do you want to learn
how to make let me know in the comments below i would love to teach you how to do other graphic
design styles thanks again for watching and if you want to see more design tutorials click on
these right here and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one