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I love Canva for my small business it's no  secret I share it here on my channel all   the time! You might be a little intimidated if  you've never designed before or you don't want   to have to learn new software, but it is so  much easier than you would think! Seriously,   give me 10 minutes and I will have you creating  in Canva even if you have never designed before!   This is Whiskey and Whit, my name is Whitney,  and on this channel, I love to share DIYs and   budget home decor and today I'm also pulling  back the curtain to show you how I use Canva   in my small business. A huge thank you to them  (Canva) for sponsoring today's video - I'm so   excited to share my tips and tricks with you! If you're new to canva it's an online design   platform and app focused on empowering the  world to design and if you've ever wanted to   try designing or you have different ideas that  you want to bring to life, you will love how   easy Canva is to use. It also comes with a ton  of content pre-made and time-saving features   and you can use it all for FREE! Today use Canva  for everything in my business: from my logo, to   YouTube thumbnails, video graphics, channel art,  blog graphics, cut files, printables, social media   graphics, business cards, and so much more. I have  an upgraded Canva Pro account but there are so   many amazing things you can do with the absolutely  free version of Canva. I use that for years, and   today that's what I'm going to focus on. I will  also share with you how I made a really awesome   interactive business card with a QR code to leave  a lasting impression on everyone I give them to.   Now let's get familiar with the Canva platform...  After you create your free account and log in   you'll land on Canva's home screen. Think of  this like your dashboard and your launchpad for   all your designs. The colorful top bar is a great  place to start as a beginner because this is where   you can find pre-made templates. You can always  design from scratch by clicking custom size and   entering your dimensions, but as a new designer  it really lowers the pressure to get started   and it can help you get ideas flowing. Honestly,  I do this all the time and I've been designing   for years. It's a really great tool. Canva has  templates for everything I have needed in my   small business and just when I think I have to  make my own, I'll search it and it pops up. I   recently rebranded and needed a YouTube outro and  bam there are templates for that. I could use it   as a starting point and it saved me so much time  now I've also found that many of the most popular   templates have designs that span across a ton  of items so you can find social media templates   that match newsletter headers blog graphics and  business cards. Each time you come back to Canva   all your recent designs will be shown here for  quick access and you can also click this icon to   change the view from grid to list. You can search  Canva's entire template library from the search   bar here and you can toggle to search just your  designs if you have a ton to go through like I do.   One of my biggest goals this year was to get  more eyeballs on both my website as well as   all my social media channels and so to do that I  used Canva to create an interactive business card.   And a great thing about Canva is you can  design them all the way through to printing   in the platform let me show you how easy it  is! So let's search for business cards... I'm going to select this size... And I like the look of this one. If you see  a crown at the bottom of a template's tile,   that just means that the template is available  with a Canva Pro account, so just something to   keep in mind on the free version. Now let's start  with the text, I can select a text element and   edit the font, color, size, spacing, and the text  itself. All of my options for editing will be in   this top white bar when that item is selected.  Let's enter some info here for my business   card. While I'm doing this, I always get a ton of  questions on my favorite Canva fonts and here are   my top six free fonts I use all the time. I like  Sanchez, Bebas Nue, Lovello, Moontime, Jonathan,   and Playlist Script. For this particular project,  I'm going to bring in Roca Two Thin because that's   one of my brand fonts. I like to use similar  fonts for consistency across all of my materials   and that's how you're going to get a very stylized  look while also being able to do it yourself.   Now let's add some elements to make  this feel more like Whiskey & Whit,   you guys know me, DIY and decor. Click elements on  the left-hand side and type in your search term.   This will do a wide search so I'm going to  select graphics at the top to narrow it down.   I like this one so I'm gonna click and insert it.  Now the great news here is this element can be   further edited and I know that because the color  selector has appeared up here in the white bar   I can change the color of the handle the metal  part and the bristles to match my brand color   and that's going to make it look like I have a  designer on staff making custom elements for me.   I may have just outed my secret, but we can keep  it between us. You'll have to think about the   products and services that you provide and that's  going to inform the search terms that you're going   to put into the box. The more you use the platform  you'll also learn what search terms to use to   find things that match your brand aesthetic. I  like to use terms like watercolor, hand-drawn,   paint stroke, and natural for my look and feel. As  you scroll down the elements sidebar on the left   you can also browse a ton of graphics stock photos  videos and audio and you can also insert things   like charts tables frames and grids. Also on the  left you can upload your own photos videos and   music so for my business cards I'm going to add my  logo and my headshot and there's also an option to   connect your YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, etc so  you can pull photos and videos directly from those   platforms to use in your designs. *Upbeat Music*  Now I'm preaching the choir when U say that  small businesses have a small amount of time   to dedicate to design and marketing. But it is so  important! So here are my top favorite features   that will give me the most bang for my buck  when it comes to saving time. When you find an   element that you love, to easily find something  similar you're going to hover over the element,   click the three dots in the top right, and that's  going to show you things like who designed that   element, the keywords that it's filed under  , you can star it to save it for later,   add it to a folder, or you can see more like this  I like this option because it gives me a ton of   other crafting themed options for this paintbrush.  I also like to click "find more by..." that's   going to pull up all the work by that designer and  it's going to help me find a set of elements that   are going to work well together. Now getting  creative with text is super easy with effect,   so make sure your text is selected, click  effects, and this side panel is going to   give you a ton of options including curve hollow  lift which is similar to a drop shadow, and even   background I like to use that to help  text stand out on my YouTube thumbnails. My new favorite feature, especially as a content  creator that's always trying to get people to my   website, is the ability to add a QR code directly  in Canva to your designs. I'm going to use that   option on the left-hand side panel I'm clicking  more and then I'm finding QR code. Now all you   need to do is grab the URL where you want to send  people, put it in this box, and bam you're done.   Now anytime a phone camera is pointed at it  it's going to take folks right to that link.   It's not only great for websites but think about  other possibilities for your business like booth   signs to share your payment info at a craft show  capturing signatures at a PTA meeting, or even   a realtor linking to a video of their latest  listing there is a ton of potential here and   making it easy for people is really going to help  drive traffic to wherever you want them to go.   Now for this business card let's do a little bit  more finessing. I'm going to add a circle frame to   hold my headshot I'm just going to drag my image  over the top of it and it's going to pop right in.   And then I'm going to search and add some social  media icons for the platforms I use. I'm gonna   update the colors with the little box at the top  here to match my branding and bam we are done! Now when you're all done you have a ton of  different options to share your creation you can   find those by clicking share up in the top right  and then you can either share with your team,   save it as traditional file types like jpeg png  pdf, or you can even go down to the bottom and   click more and you can see all of the different  sharing options available to you. And for me to   print my business cards it was so easy I just  click print business card up in the top right   next to share I'm going to select the printing  options, how many I want, review my proof and   then complete the order. So when somebody asks me  what project am I working on or we start talking   about what I do and I want to share my channel  I just hand them one of these cards the QR code   is on the back and they can easily scan it head  over to my website and I have captured that lead! And it's not just for business cards. Canva  does have a wide variety of items that you   can design in the platform and then print  I need to explore this because I think I'm   going to be using this a lot more often. You  can find that by clicking features and print   products from the Canva home screen and you  can explore everything they have to offer.   So what will you design today? Be sure to tag me  (Whiskey & Whit) in your creations I would love to   see what you guys are making with Canva! Have you  used Canva before? If so and you've got questions   leave me a comment. Or if you haven't tried Canva  yet, what are you waiting for?! Head down to my   description for a link to take you over there  to start designing for free. A huge thank you to   Canva for sponsoring today's video thank you for  watching and I will catch you in the next one bye! you