--- title: 'Canva Templates on Etsy | Step by Step Tutorial for Beginners' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=4DV-t8FbEVs' video_id: '4DV-t8FbEVs' date: 2026-07-23 duration_sec: 479 channel: 'Happily Designing' --- # Canva Templates on Etsy | Step by Step Tutorial for Beginners > Source: [Canva Templates on Etsy | Step by Step Tutorial for Beginners](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4DV-t8FbEVs) ## Summary This tutorial demonstrates how to create a Canva template for a first birthday invitation card and sell it on Etsy. The video covers designing the card in Canva, generating a shareable template link, and creating a mockup for the Etsy listing. ### Key Points - **Researching Top Etsy Listings** [00:02] — Search for 'first birthday invitation' on Etsy to find successful shops. Example: a shop with 4.9 rating, 4,000+ reviews, 4 years old, and 61,000+ sales. - **Setting Up Canva Document** [00:42] — Create a new Canva design, search for 'invitation', rename the document to 'invitation card'. - **Designing the Title Text** [01:00] — Type 'FUN', resize and position each letter. Duplicate and change letters to spell 'FUN', then adjust alignment. - **Choosing a Color Palette** [01:55] — Search Google for 'kids color palette', copy an image, paste into Canva, and apply different colors to each letter. - **Adding More Letters** [02:27] — Duplicate text to add 'B', 'O', 'E' for 'B O E' (part of 'B O E'?), adjust positions and colors using the same palette. - **Adding Birthday Elements** [03:38] — Search Canva elements for birthday themes, add fun elements and balloons, flip and duplicate to balance the design. - **Adding Event Details** [04:56] — Insert text boxes for 'Please join us to celebrate Sarah's first birthday' and time/venue details, choose fonts. - **Creating a Template Link** [05:43] — Share the design as a template link via Canva's share menu. Copy the link and paste into Google Docs with buyer instructions. - **Downloading and Mockup** [06:42] — Download the design as PNG. Use a hand mockup from Canva elements, place the PNG into the mockup frame, and download the final mockup. ### Conclusion By following these steps, you can create a Canva template for a birthday invitation and sell it on Etsy. The key is to design an attractive card, generate a template link for buyers, and create a realistic mockup for your listing. ## Transcript So, first I'll open Etsy and type first birthday invitation in the search bar. You can see there are a lot of designs showing up here. a 4.9 rating and more than 4,000 reviews. I'm going to click on this listing and see what the shop is doing. this item in their basket. If I scroll down, I can see the shop is four years old and has generated over 61,000 sales and they mostly sell invitation cards. So, in this video, we are going to create a similar invitation card so that we can sell it as a Canva template on Etsy. Now, let's go to Canva. I'll click on create and search for invitation in. First I'm going to rename this document to invitation card. letter. Let's resize it and adjust the position. Then make a copy and paste it for the other letters which are U and N. font. Click on bold and choose a nice font. change all. So the same font applies to all three letters. Then I'll adjust the all three letters. Then I'll adjust the alignment and position properly. let's open Google and search for kids color palette. I'll click on the images and choose one palette. From here, I'm going to click, copy this image, go back going to click, copy this image, go back to Canva, and paste it here. Now, let's give each letter a different color. to apply different colors to all the letters. After that, I'll duplicate this text and change it to a B. I'll adjust the change it to a B. I'll adjust the position and alignment and use the same color palette for this letter as well. I'm going to make this one a little smaller and align it under the U. Now, let's duplicate the top text again and change it to O and E. The colors are applied differently because we're using the same palette again. I'll select the font and group it again and center everything properly. We don't need this color palette anymore. So we're going to delete it. position, and align it both vertically and horizontally. automatically. Now, I'm going to add some birthday elements. I'll go to Canva. Let's add some birthday elements. Now, let's go to elements in Canva and search for some fun elements. I'll click on see all and pick a fun I'll click on see all and pick a fun element from here. and flip it horizontally to adjust it on the other side. Go back to elements and search for balloons. Put it on one side and do the same for this one. Duplicate it and place it on this one. Duplicate it and place it on the other side as well. insert a text box and type please join us to celebrate. Sarah's first birthday. Then I'll go to the font options, pick a Then I'll go to the font options, pick a better font, and make it a bit bigger. Let's duplicate the text one more time to add the time and venue details. link. I click on share, then click on these three dots and select the template these three dots and select the template link option. copy this link. Now, let's open Google Docs and paste the link. Here, I'm going to write the instructions for the buyer. instructions for the buyer. Step one is to open a link. Step three, make your changes and download it as a PDF. When the buyer opens the link, they'll see this view template option. And once they click it, the design will open in their Canva account where they can edit it. After making changes, they can go to share and download it as a PDF, print, or PNG. like this Etsy listing. Let's go back to Canva and download this Let's go back to Canva and download this design as a PNG file. invitation again, and choose this option. Now, drag and drop the PNG file that we just downloaded. Go to elements and search for hand mockup. I'm going to choose this mockup that has a card frame. Place it on the Canva and stretch it to the edges. Then click on position and select center back. into the frame and the mockup will be ready. Next, I'm going to download this ready. Next, I'm going to download this as a PNG and upload it to my catalog. And that's how you can create a Canva template and sell it on Etsy. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel.