In this video I'm going to show you how to create a t-shirt with some of those
sub niches that we talked about for memorial day. The memorial day holiday,
red white and blue, the American flag, barbecue and things like that. We're going to create this
design right here and it's all going to be in Canva with free stuff from Canva. Totally free!
I'm gonna show you how to do it step by step and I'm gonna show you some of the techniques
that I haven't shown before so make sure to watch this one. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video. My name is Juna with Detour Shirts. In this video I'm gonna
show you how to create a design in Canva for free. So if you haven't seen a lot of these videos I do
this every once in a while. I have a free account on canva as you should have everybody can get one
it's all you need is your email you can go into canva.com and get it right now so go ahead and do
that if you don't have that already meet me in canva you can pause this video and we're going
to go into canva right now so here i am on canva you can see canva.com i'm using the free version
we're going to do a t-shirt design for memorial day the memorial day holiday you can see i i did
one here more in line with the memorial day i might have seen those on my social media but
i'm going to show you this one and this was more for the parties after you know the memorial day
backyard bbq those kinds of things so i'm going to create a design here just go up to the top right
if you haven't done this before click on create a design and then i'm going to use custom size and
then you can type in 4500 by 5400 if you have that already it's going to be in your recent so that's
what i use i'm going to click that and here we are our artboard our first artboard right here is just
one and the first thing we're going to do is look for some graphics some memorial day graphics so
i'm going to go to elements here and i'm just going to type in memorial day so m-e-r day
boom and we want graphic so click on graphics and then we can look down here when you're on
the free version you can't do any of these that say pro but luckily there's a lot of
free stuff on here so i'm just going to click on this heart i used this one before
there we go and then you can see magic recommendation so i'm gonna do see all and look
at all of these these are so cool they're all free too so i'm going to put the heart in the middle
kind of like that and then let's see i could pick any one of these i'll put football like that
let me put that on the side and this this burger is really cool so i'm gonna do that
and kind of make them about the same size so let's see you know you can kind of eyeball this
and the football is turning that way which kind of bumps up again against it but if i flip it i
can do flip here and flip horizontal whoops i can pick the wrong one you don't want to flip
the the heart because you want the stars on the outside pick the football and flip that horizontal
and boom now the football is blue and the burger's blue and i think the burger should
stay blue because you got the tomatoes if we made the tomatoes blue that's going to be weird
so let's make the football red just so we have red white and blue so easy way to do that is come in
here you can see the colors uh this dark blue if i click on it i'm going to make that the dark red
and the light blue the light red and the dark red the dark blue and the dark light
red the light blue and you can see we have that right here so it just totally flipped the colors
and i think that's fine on the football so the next thing we're going to do is do a rectangle i'm
going to put kind of box this in with a rectangle all you have to do for a rectangle and i didn't
show this in any of my videos but the shortcut key is r so click the r key boom and you'll
see it's a tall rectangle but you can shorten it like this so let's do that just grab the handles
pull it down and make it so it's like edge to edge here so you can pull any of these you can
make it as tall or as short as you want i kind of want to just short like that kind of box it in
and then we're going to put it in the back so backwards so we want the same one on the bottom
so while holding option down and clicking on this drag it and you'll make a copy of it right there
so instead of red i think i want blue so we can just go in here and click on the blue that we had
the dark blue that works all right the next thing i want to show you is the shortcut key for line
and that is l so just click the l button boom and you can see there's a line right there
and there's so many different lines that you can do so first of all let's do the thickness
you can do color well let's start from the left to right let's do color we're going to make it white
so white thickness we can make this a lot thicker so we can do that
and then we can make it any sorts of these so we can make it not have a rounded edge so you
can have a flat edge rounded edge dashed line or dotted line you can see how it changed right there
i'm going to do dotted line and let's bring this all the way to the end
like that and then if we want the dots bigger we just come in here and make the line thicker
so look at that it doesn't go the line doesn't get wider it just gets thicker so the dots get thicker
and that cool and then again if you want this uh to copy to the bottom hold down option
click on it and drag and we'll do the same on the bottom
like that and then this burger should be in the front so it's there's no dots in the back so you
can click on the burger position and forward or to the front there you go that's looking
nice so the next thing we're going to do is add some text so the first thing i'm going to do is
i'm going to write the word burger here so the quick key for text is t so just click on t boom
and we're going to bring the text up here just click on it and move it here use those arrows and
i'm going to type the word burger like that and you can use this caps lock right here uppercase
and it can be all one i want to use a slab serif and the slab serif that i want to use is called
typo so that's easy to remember click on here and you can just type in the word typo so t y
p o there it is typo this nice big thick font right here and i can just stretch this out
and stretch it out here kind of stretch it out from line to line and then just move it down
so once you click on it you can hold down shift and your arrow and just move it down
and just to give it contrast i'm going to make this red so click on here and do the dark red
that you have already that's in there there you go so i'm going to move this down just so we have
some room and actually i want i want to put the s here so i want i love burgers sorry burgers
all right that's good so burgers and hold down option
and click on it and drag and then i'm going to write football
and if it doesn't fit you know you can squeeze it in you want to make it
we're going to use these as guides right there perfect
all right and then i'm going to say i love burgers football and freedom so um so just
click t again for another text you can see it's pulling in that same font i'm going to do i love
make sure we move that up
okay and i want a script font for this i love so i'm going to double click on it
and the script font that i like is called atom script um so we're going to type in here script
heavy the heavy one i like that thick font and i don't want it all cap so i'm gonna
do upper lower case very good and we're gonna use that blue so you see how we're using that
red white and blue that we talked about we're going to just do this here with the dark blue
good and we can make it bigger let's make it a little bigger i love burgers football and
we're going to do that we hold down option and drag it here this is just a quick way to get
another one we're going to use the same font so i'm going to do and freedom
and make sure that this fits in here too boom boom and kind of push it up to kind of have it
go over good the only thing i want to feel is this space right here and since i love
is there we're going to use hearts and there is no quick key for hearts that you would think h
would be hearts but no we're gonna go in here and in elements we'll just type in heart
and we'll just use this red one right here
boom and we can turn it sideways just kind of give it some interest fill in that space right there
hold down option you can do this on objects as well as text so hold down option click
on this drag you can see there and then i'm just going to turn it the other way
and move it down there you go so simple right you can see we use the the different shapes
and stuff now if you wanted to make this on a dark background you could you just change the
background here if you want to do two designs i would copy this do a duplicate layer you can see
right there duplicate it copies the same thing so this is your your design on a white shirt
this could be your design on a black shirt change the background make sure to
see what it would look like you may want to change this blue to white
just so it pops a little bit on a black shirt so do that
look at that a lot better right and you could swap out other things other colors but i think this
will work pretty good on a black shirt so there's your two designs super easy one on white one on
black or dark shirt your dark one and your light one and you can put it on merch by amazon
it has the right size and you can put it all on there just make sure when you download it
download it as a png file and then go somewhere like photopia affinity photo photoshop any of
those that you can click on the background engine just delete it and then you're gonna use that that
is it for today hopefully you like this it was so simple remember those quick keys so we're going
to go over it again the quick key for rectangle is r the quick key for line is l the quick key
for text is t so those are some nice quick keys so you don't have to go and figure it out or click on
anything over here you can automatically do that so i hope this video is really helpful for you
make your own you don't have to use these you can see there are so many different graphics in here
um you don't want to do exactly this thing because if everybody does exactly the same thing
then people think you're copying so make sure to change out fonts change out um graphics change out
colors and things like that so make it your own so use the techniques that i've shown you in this
video and make something great for the holidays so that is it for this video thanks so much for
watching hopefully this canva tutorial was really helpful for you if it was make sure to give it a
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subscribe button right there the question of the day for this video is what graphics would you use
for the memorial day weekend holiday t-shirt designs i used a burger and football and a
flag and a heart tell me what you would use in the comments i would love to hear it get some ideas
kind of brainstorm use different designs that's how you can make yours different right so thanks
again for watching and if you want to see more canva tutorials i have a bunch of them click on
these right here and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye