hey it's Abby from the silver on her blog and today I want to talk about making labels
now usually when I talk about making labels I'm making them in Microsoft Word that's always how
I've done it I actually have a couple tutorials on it from a couple years ago but I have found
what I think is actually maybe even an easier way to make labels and it's in a free program called
canva canv a com so today I just want to do a quick tutorial on how to make labels in canva
because I love to use labels anytime I organize my house and I thought they might be helpful for
you as well so just pop over to canva.com canv a.com they do make you sign up which is actually
a good thing because then you can see you here you can save your old projects and come back to
them later which is nice so you'll sign up and create an account and they'll probably ask you
if you want to upgrade you can if you want to get some extra features I just use the free version
so today we're just going to create a design and you can use custom dimensions you can pick one of
these type of dimensions that they have up here I am going to choose more and I'm going to scroll
down to the one that says us letter because this will give me a document that is standard letter
size so if I'm going to print on a normal piece of printer paper it will be this size so I am
going to go into elements first and I'm going to start with shapes here we're just going to make a
really simple label let's pretend that we want to make labels for our pantry some of the containers
we might have in our pantry so I'll just choose this this double circle here it's really cute and
I can change the color of it by clicking here and I can pick one of their default colors or I can
go to the color wheel and choose really any color that I want so this is really black I'll lighten
it up you can choose this dark purple and we'll be good to go so then of course I want to make it a
smaller size because right now this is the size of like my whole piece of paper so I'll drag it up to
this corner and just put my arrow over the corner and resize it like you would in you know a normal
document one drawback here is that we don't have you know exact inch sizes so they give you pixels
you can see when you drag it but if you want it to be you know a certain size you might have to
print out a copy and just see how it lines up with your container or whatever you're putting it on to
to make sure it's the right size so once we do that we have our background of our label we'll
just want to put some text on it and we click over here on the text button and you can really
click any of these I'll just push add a heading and I can type what I want it to say well make
it say flower since we're labeling our pantry I'm going to drag it up here and you can see it gives
you marks so it shows you like when you're in in the center of your shape which is really nice now
you can hardly see that because it's black so I'm going to go up here and I'm going to change
the font to white the font color to white you can see how that happened and then let's say I
don't really love this font and I want to make it somewhere something else you can go to this
drop-down and pick any one you want there's lots of pretty ones let's pick this one called rushar
I think that's cute now let's make our font size a little bigger say let's try 64 that looks good to
me but now I'm not centered anymore so I will just take my thing and drag it back to the center where
it lines up and that's my label essentially so let's say I want to make a matching one to go with
it the easiest way I think to do that is to drag your cursor over both layers that you just created
and then up here you'll have the opportunity to group it so I grouped it and then I want to copy
it can move it over and then ungroup and then I can change what this says here so I want to
change it I can make it sugar and then I have the exact same label just says something different
so that's super easy trick if you're making more than one you can fill your whole page with labels
by just copying it and dragging them around and then you can make as many matching ones that you
want so it's super easy alright so let's try a different type of design say I just had a baby
niece and I want to make a label to go on her hair bows because she's adorable and she needs
something like that so I there's a whole bunch of shapes to choose from as you can see I am going to
pick let's see maybe this one I just really like these circles that are kind of they have the dots
and again here I can pick my color so it gives me actually two choices I can pick the choice of the
background and the color of the dots so say for the background I'll give her this pretty pink
and I want the dots we'll go with like a white for the dots that looks good to me and again I'm
going to make it smaller because she doesn't need a Haribo thing that's that big so let's
say I want to layer another shape on this one to make it extra cute for her so let's go find one
up here mmm what do I want to do I think a heart would be perfect because I love her so let's just
make will make the heart white because it's going to go over this pink and we'll click to resize it
like we did before and we'll move it so it's in the center a center top and then again we need
to add our text to it I want to say hair bows we'll move this over but where I think it looks
good that's good there and I'll tie a pair bows and let's choose a different font for this one
what's something really cute for a baby girl this clicker script is cute so there and again it's a
little small so we can make it bigger and we can change the color you can really again change the
color anything you want by pushing this plus sign button here so if I want to make it I don't know
a little bit purple make it purple we'll make a little darker that it would probably look good
for her and then I can Center this again using those guides that pop out for me so one that's
really easy and you can see I always like to group mine to make sure they stay together but
you don't have to it's up to you so there's that one I want to show you how to make one other type
of label give you a couple extra tricks so let's for the third one root end that we're organizing
my kids toy bins I have two boys and this little shield looks kind of cute and masculine so we use
that for them we'll resize it to make it a little smaller so it will fit in here and let's make it
a different color we'll pick on an old a like blue blue is good for them so we have our little shield
and let's say I really this is for the carbon so I really want a picture of a car for it but I don't
want to have to scroll through a million shapes and I can go under illustrations or icons but
I don't have to scroll through a lot I can just search for a car now you can see they'll come up
some of them say free some of them say they cost a dollar so that's up to you if you want to use
the free ones or pay I usually try to stick to the free ones so I'm going to pick this car right here
and we'll make it smaller and put it on here maybe I just really like let's see change the color when
we get maybe red blue and red from my boys okay and so then we can put some text on it again
all right cars and we'll make that white and get a really boyish font see what would they
like they were picking there's so many cute ones to pick from ah this one looks cute now it says
cars can scoot it up and then I can print this out and stick it on there toy Bennet and again
if I have more than one toy bin and I want them all to have matching labels I can group
and actually I won't grab the car because the car there's going to be another type of toy on
the bin so I'll just group those two together and I will go under more and copy and then I
can drag this one down and design another one I wouldn't print it out on top of the hair bows
one obviously but so super easy to make labels with canva you can go to town get as creative
or as simple as you want but this gives you lots of options no matter what your labeling
or organizing you can make your very own label and whatever color you want and whatever font
you want and decorate it the way you like it so and it's all free that's what I love about it so
usually when I'm done and I'm going to delete this guy here because I don't need him when I
am finished with all the labels on my page you can save it you're going to go to the download
button you can save it as a PDF and download that and again if you want to change it you know canva
saves it in your account for you so you can come back and make changes later it will save
my design to my computer and then I just open it up on my computer and I print it out usually on
white cardstock sometimes if like my toy bins if the labels going to be in a really high traffic
area I'll use my laminator to laminate it and I will link to the one I have in the post and then
I just cut it out and I put a piece of tape or for the toy pins I could use those velcro
dots on the back and I stick it on there and it works for me so pretty simple to do and pretty
fun to be as creative as you want with labels so thanks for sticking with me and happy labeling