How To Create 100 T-Shirt Designs In 1 Hour For FREE With Canva + Chat GPT (For Etsy POD)

Summary

In this comprehensive guide, Cassiy Johnson shares her insights on creating 100 unique T-shirt designs in just one hour using Canva and Chat GPT. Aimed at helping aspiring Etsy sellers, the video outlines the importance of having multiple listings and offers a step-by-step walkthrough on leveraging scalable design templates for efficient creation. The process involves finding trendy niches, utilizing AI for idea generation, and using Canva's bulk creation feature for rapid design production. Johnson also mentions her self-guided course for further learning and provides practical tips to ensure designs are market-ready and attractive to potential buyers. This tutorial empowers entrepreneurs to maximize productivity while maintaining creativity.

Highlights

• Discover how top Etsy stores succeed with numerous listings, and why having a large product range is crucial. 🛍️
• Learn how to manage a Print On Demand (POD) business effectively with limited time by using bulk design methods. 🕒
• Follow the steps to create a scalable design template in Canva using easy font pairings for minimalistic designs. 🖌️
• See how Chat GPT can brainstorm a list of popular professions for themed designs. 💡
• Understand the importance of verifying demand for niches on Etsy before listing designs. 🔍
• Explore how to use Canva's bulk create feature to generate designs quickly and efficiently. 📈
• Discover bonus tips for using font glyphs and setting up custom listings that cater to specific customer requests. 💬

Key Takeaways

• Leverage scalable design templates to efficiently create multiple T-shirt designs. 🎨
• Utilize AI, like Chat GPT, for generating trendy niche ideas quickly. 🤖
• Explore Canva's bulk create feature for rapid and easy design production. 🚀
• Combine simple fonts in creative ways to make engaging designs. 🖋️
• Check Etsy for niche demand and tailor your products to meet market needs. 📊
• Utilize custom listings for personalized orders, increasing potential sales. 💸

Overview

Cassiy Johnson opens up her video by drawing attention to how successful Etsy shops thrive with a multitude of listings. She stresses the importance of listing volume for visibility and success in the competitive market. This is where her tutorial on creating 100 T-shirt designs in an hour aims to light the path for entrepreneurs eager to scale their product range efficiently.

The main strategy revolves around crafting scalable designs—templates that can be effortlessly altered to produce multiple variations. By utilizing Canva's powerful design tools, particularly the bulk create feature, Johnson demonstrates how even those with little time can produce hundreds of professional-looking designs. She brings Chat GPT into the mix for generating fresh and trendy niche ideas, making the design process swift and engaging.

Johnson's tutorial doesn't just stop at creation; it prepares sellers for market success. She emphasizes researching demand on Etsy for each design niche and offers insights into maximizing sales through custom listings and SEO strategies. Her approach combines creativity with practicality, ensuring that budding sellers are equipped with both the skills and the knowledge to thrive on platforms like Etsy.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Importance of Design Listings The importance of having numerous design listings is emphasized, particularly in successful Etsy shops. Top shops often have hundreds or thousands of listings, which signifies the trial and error process to discover what sells. Many listings are deleted over time as sellers identify which items perform well, indicating that the efforts to create listings were likely double what is visible in the store.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Time Management for Print on Demand Business The chapter addresses the challenge of managing time for individuals who run a print on demand business while maintaining a full-time job and family responsibilities. It offers strategies on creating a high volume of designs and listings in a limited time. Specifically, it teaches how to make 100 designs in a single day, and provides resources for further optimizing listing creation, aiming to maximize efficiency with limited available hours.
• 01:00 - 01:30: Steps for Creating T-Shirt Designs The chapter outlines steps for creating scalable T-shirt designs. First, it defines a scalable design as a template that maintains the same look while the words change, allowing for quick and mass production of designs. The second step involves a tutorial on easily creating this design template.
• 01:30 - 02:00: Design Software and Tools This chapter discusses the design software, Canva, highlighting its capabilities for bulk creating designs once a template is established. The speaker offers a free trial link for Canva to encourage following along with their tutorial. Additionally, the speaker promotes their course, 'The Pod Roadmap,' which provides more comprehensive insights into using Canva and other related topics.
• 02:00 - 02:30: Mentorship and Course Promotion The chapter discusses insights gained from a mentorship group focused on growing Etsy businesses to substantial monthly earnings, ranging from five to six figures. The author shares that successful strategies utilized in this mentorship have been integrated into a new self-guided course. This course is complemented by a free support community where the author provides daily assistance, offering a clear roadmap so participants can succeed without navigating challenges alone.
• 02:30 - 03:00: Finding a Scalable Design The chapter discusses the importance of having a clear plan and always knowing the next step in the process. It emphasizes finding a good scalable design, using the professions niche as an example due to its popularity during spring graduation season. The chapter suggests that even if one isn't interested in professions, there are other niches to explore.
• 03:00 - 04:00: Using AI for Design Ideas The chapter titled 'Using AI for Design Ideas' explores how AI can be employed to generate a multitude of design variations from a single template. The transcript suggests using artificial intelligence, specifically ChatGPT, as a creative tool to expand design ideas. It briefly guides on setting up an account on chat.openai.com to start utilizing ChatGPT for generating scalable design concepts based on various factors like hobbies, sports, and locations.
• 04:00 - 05:00: Checking Demand on Etsy This chapter introduces a free artificial intelligence tool that can be used to generate ideas quickly and efficiently. It emphasizes the difference between this AI tool and search engines like Google. The AI creates content based on previous data it has encountered, which means while it can aid in idea generation and brainstorming, its outputs are not always factually accurate and require verification. Additionally, the AI's knowledge is not updated beyond 2021, limiting its usefulness for current events or recent data.
• 05:00 - 06:30: Creating Your Scalable Design on Canva The chapter discusses how to use Canva to create scalable designs effectively. It highlights the benefits of using Canva for generating design ideas, particularly with its AI capabilities that allow for brainstorming through conversational interaction. An example given is using the AI to generate a list of popular professions that can be used in design projects, such as creating t-shirts. This demonstrates the utility of Canva's design tools in keeping up with current trends and customizing content based on AI-generated ideas.
• 06:30 - 08:00: Using Creative Fabrica for Fonts The chapter discusses the strategy of using Creative Fabrica to select fonts by analyzing demand on Etsy. It emphasizes the importance of creating designs that people are actively searching for to increase sales. The approach involves ensuring that the designs align with what buyers are looking to purchase on Etsy. A list of 50 different professions is identified as a starting point for design creation, and readers are encouraged to check demand before finalizing designs.
• 08:00 - 10:00: Bulk Creating Designs in Canva The chapter provides insights into how to utilize Chat GPT for generating ideas that can be leveraged for bulk creating designs in Canva. It highlights the process of asking Chat GPT for top suggestions in various categories, such as vacation spots or hobbies, and using these ideas to conduct research on platforms like Etsy. The chapter uses the example of the 'lawyer' niche, where the author had prior success, to demonstrate how these AI-generated ideas can be applied effectively in design creation.
• 10:00 - 12:00: Bonus Tips and Custom Designs The chapter provides insights into selling effectively on Etsy by taking advantage of the platform's search features. It gives an example of searching for a specific niche, in this case, 'lawyer shirt,' to identify top-selling designs. Instead of manually browsing through search results, the chapter suggests using the 'All filters' feature to select 'Star Seller,' which highlights best-selling products. Additionally, it points out how to further refine search results by modifying keywords in the search bar.
• 12:00 - 14:00: SEO and Listing Efficiency The chapter discusses a feature on Etsy that highlights best-selling items, which despite efforts to remove by Etsy, can still be accessed through certain means. The speaker thanks a commenter for revealing how to access this feature. When searching for best-selling lawyer items, over 120 results appear, though not all are shirts, several items are notably popular.
• 14:00 - 15:00: Conclusion and Next Steps The chapter discusses a situation where the speaker, who identifies as a lawyer, acknowledges a demand in a particular niche market for their services. The speaker proposes an innovative idea: modifying a successful design by substituting 'lawyer' with other professional terms to appeal to various occupations. The chapter emphasizes exploring scalable design variations and potential market opportunities, alluding to a strategic approach in extending their service offerings.

How To Create 100 T-Shirt Designs In 1 Hour For FREE With Canva + Chat GPT (For Etsy POD) Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 if you look at the top shops on Etsy something you'll notice is that they didn't make their thousands of sales with just 40 listings most of these shops have hundreds if not thousands of listings to get to where they are today and I'd be willing to bet just like my store they've had to delete a lot of listings along the way that didn't perform so they've probably put up even double the amount that you see in their store to figure out what works best for them but you might be asking yourself
• 00:30 - 01:00 well I only have a few hours per week to work on my print on demand business because I still work full time and have a family how can I ever get that many listings up in my store well we will be covering how to make a hundred designs in just one day in this video then I'll link a video down in the description for you to watch next on how to create 50 listings in one day so you can be making your listings as quickly and efficiently as possible with the little time that you have to grow your business here are
• 01:00 - 01:30 the steps we're going to take in this video number one we're going to find a great scalable design to create if you don't know what a scalable design is this is where you create a design template that you use over and over again with the same look of the design but you just change the words that are in it that way you can quickly and easily create tons of designs all at once step number two I'll teach you how to actually create that design template in a really simple and easy way using my
• 01:30 - 02:00 favorite design software canva and then step number three of this video I'll teach you how to bulk create all of your designs after you've made the template once using again canva I do have a free trial for them down in the description if you want to go sign up if you haven't yet that way you can follow along in this tutorial and just a quick word from our sponsor today which is me I teach this in more detail along with so so much more in my new course the pod roadmap I'll link the details Down Below
• 02:00 - 02:30 in the description I took everything that I learned from running my mentorship group last year that helped my students grow their Etsy businesses to five figure and even six figure months in their print on demand business and I rolled all of what worked for them into my new course that is completely self-guided that also comes with a free community for support where I answer your questions every single day so you don't have to figure it all out by yourself you'll have an exact road map
• 02:30 - 03:00 and plan so you always know what to do next again the course will be linked below and feel free to email me if you have any questions so let's jump into step number one which is finding a good scalable design for this video's example I'm going to be using professions because if you're watching this in the spring when I release it then the professions Niche is such a hot Niche to be in because of college graduations these make great gifts but if you're not into professions you can also do things
• 03:00 - 03:30 like Hobbies Sports and locations are all great examples of designs that you can create one template for and then turn it into 50 or 100 different designs depending on the different variations one really fun way to get ideas for your scalable designs is by utilizing artificial intelligence if you haven't used chat GPT before I'm going to show you how to use that right now so go to chat.openai.com and create an account
• 03:30 - 04:00 this is a free artificial intelligence that you're able to use to help you come up with ideas quickly and easily now it is important to know that this is not Google this is artificial intelligence so it's making things up for you based on other things that it's seen so it is important to know that not everything it gives you will be factual so you do need to fact check anything but it can be a great resource to get ideas and get moving quickly it also is not updated past 2021 so try not to ask it what's
• 04:00 - 04:30 popular right now because again it'll just make something up so it's a great place to come to get general information so this is built to be a conversation so it really wants you to ask it different questions so I asked it give me 50 professions that are popular so I can put them on a shirt enter and let's see what chat jpt comes up with for us you can see it's automatically giving us a giant list of different professions that are really popular in general once it
• 04:30 - 05:00 comes up with this list we do need to go to Etsy and make sure there's actually demand for this Niche you can make something that no one has already demand for an Etsy if you want but one strategy I really like to follow is making sure you're creating designs for that people are already searching for to buy on Etsy that way you can ensure that you are selling what people already want so now it gave us our great list of 50 different professions so this is awesome list to start with but again you can ask
• 05:00 - 05:30 chat GPT for 50 different locations that are great for vacations you can ask it for the top 50 Hobbies you can ask it anything and it will give you so much great ideas that you can then go use in research on Etsy so let's take number five for example let's take lawyer since I've actually sold quite a few lawyer things in my store before so I know this is a good Niche but this is how it'll work for you so you'll come over to Etsy and I want you to type in the niche that
• 05:30 - 06:00 you're looking to sell so in this example I'll type in lawyer shirt we want to see if there's current designs that are selling really well on Etsy for this Niche to do that you can search through the search results and see what's selling well but I like to use the all filters button and click star seller so we can actually edit this to show you the best sellers so click star seller and click apply then up here in the search bar we can actually delete the word star and type
• 06:00 - 06:30 in the word best and this actually shows us the best seller feature that Etsy tried to get rid of but we can still access it in this sneaky way after one of my commenters showed us how to do this so thank you for that so looking here there's over 120 results that come up for best sellers for lawyer items not every single one of these is going to be a shirt as you can see but there are quite a few that are really really popular so looking through here you see
• 06:30 - 07:00 it's me hi I'm the lawyer it's me born to argue I don't need a good lawyer I raised one I'm billing you for this conversation so it looks like there definitely is demand for this particular Niche and we want to look for a good way to scale out this design and others so this one here gives me a really good idea that I don't need a good lawyer I raised one you could really easily take the word lawyer and change it out to any of those other professions and really quickly and
• 07:00 - 07:30 easily have a winning design because we know that design is selling well in this Niche so it probably will sell well in those other niches that we saw for the different professions that's the one I'm going to use for this example but please don't all go copy this exact same one I want you to do this exercise with a completely different saying trust me there is tons to choose from that way you can have something completely unique just to you now on to step two actually creating your scalable design one of the
• 07:30 - 08:00 quickest and easiest ways that I like to create designs for these is going simple text only designs but doing two different fonts together to to add interest instead of that example we saw where it was just one blocky font one of the easiest ways to do this you can save time not looking for 20 or 30 minutes for two fonts that look good together is by searching for font Duos one of my favorite places to get these is creative fabrica.com this is a graphic and font
• 08:00 - 08:30 website where you pay only nine dollars per month and you get unlimited downloads so here you would come and type in font Duo and there's going to be lots of amazing fonts that you can choose where you get two different fonts that are already made to go together that you can use in your business to create your designs for this example I'm going to download this pink Vibes font and I'll show you how to actually download this font and upload it to canva where we'll be creating our design
• 08:30 - 09:00 there's a link down below for a free trial that'll give you 10 free downloads as well if you haven't tried this out yet so go ahead and click download after using the link down below now let's come over to canva to create our design you'll hit create a design in the top right again there's a free trial for them down below if you haven't used them yet and here we want to create a custom size so I'm going to type in 4500 by 5400 for our canvas size since that is a
• 09:00 - 09:30 good rectangle to create for a t-shirt design but you can use whatever size you need for your items this is going to open up a brand new canvas for us to design in so what I want you to do to add that font is just to type the t button that'll bring up a paragraph text and you'll click up here on the text box where it says canvas hands and you'll see down here a button that says upload a font here we can click this and I want you to go open that pink Vibes font duo
• 09:30 - 10:00 or any font that you just downloaded from creative Fabrica so what you'll need to do is Select both of the OTF files so for me it's this one here and this one here that's the one that we need the dot OTF so select both of those you can hit command or tab to select two at once and click upload you'll have to say you do have commercial rights to use these which you do have the commercial rights to use any font on Creative Fabrica but feel free to read through their license to make sure that you're
• 10:00 - 10:30 familiar so now we're actually going to create that design that we found for our scalable design example so for this one I changed it to the pink Vibes Sans regular for the block here font I'm going to have it say I don't need a we're going to make this a little bit larger move that up to the top because we want to think about this as it's a T-shirt and where we'd want this placed on the shirt so think of this as the printing area and how you'd want it to fit across
• 10:30 - 11:00 the chest so I said I don't need a and then I'm going to copy this because I want this one to be cursive I'm going to use the second font style that we saw there so in their example it was a good lawyer and then we're going to change this oops to the cursive version and then we're going to copy this again and bring it down here you say I raised one
• 11:00 - 11:30 so this adds a different kind of fun handwritten type style to it versus the really blocky look that the other one had so this would be a great gift for a mom to give her for Mother's Day even or to buy for herself to wear to their kids graduation just a super cute shirt idea you can leave this all black and put it on lots of different shirt colors trust me simple does sell but you can also make these colored fonts if you want but just know to use the bulk scaling method
• 11:30 - 12:00 the part that we're going to be editing and changing which is going to be this good lawyer line you can't do the every other color for like you can with a lot of things so you could do I don't need a and you could change all of these to different colors if you wanted but the part that your bulk editing needs to be one solid color so just something good to know there so now that we've kind of given this a fun look let's go into actually creating
• 12:00 - 12:30 the document to scale out this design and trust me this is where the magic happens so come back over to chatgpt and you're going to copy all of the different ideas that they gave you to create your design with so I'll do Ctrl C or command C to copy all these examples then I want you to go to sheets.google.com and start a new blank document so here we're going to create a document that's going to tell canva how
• 12:30 - 13:00 to bulk upload all of our designs so I'll paste that into this and now we have our list of 50 different professions again you'd want to go through and decide if you actually want to create each of these and if each of these actually makes sense with your design template make sure there is demand however you like and then you need to actually change the words to this depending on what you're doing for your design so again my design I wanted
• 13:00 - 13:30 to say good lawyer good doctor good engineer and so to bulk edit all of that I need to add the word good before all of these words so I'll go do that really quickly right now once you finish getting your document ready for exactly the words that you want replaced in your design you'll go to file download and then comma separated values or a DOT CSV file and
• 13:30 - 14:00 have this saved to your computer so then that brings us to step number three which is bulk creating your designs within canva again this is where the magic really happens if this seems complicated so far don't worry it'll all make sense in a second so you want to select the word that we're going to be replacing which in my case is good lawyer and then you need to come down here to bulk create if you've never used this before you'll need to go into the apps section here on the left and you can type in bulk create but if you've
• 14:00 - 14:30 ever used it before it actually won't show up it'll be down here on the left somewhere so the next time you use it make sure you're looking for it in the apps section instead of searching for it in the apps it's going to be in one of those two spots for you so click bulk create and here you can either enter the data manually or you can now upload that CSV file that you just created so now that we have that uploaded you need to right click on the words you're wanting to replace and come down to connect data
• 14:30 - 15:00 and here now you see that file we just uploaded that says good doctor because that was the first line and look at that super cute design that it just created since this file comes with some extra cute little font glyphs like that so then you'll click continue and it's going to ask you do you want me to create all of these and you'll say yes generate all 49 Pages now if you have pop-up Windows blocked then you will have to go up to your URL and unblock
• 15:00 - 15:30 this pop-up because it wants to open in a new document not the one that you were just in so it looks like this one when I bulk created it it took away the little font glyphs the little swirlies at the end which I'll show you how you can re-add those back in but it would be a manual process for each one if you wanted to do that you can see now it created all of the designs for me and I can just go ahead and go to share download transparent background all 49 pages and
• 15:30 - 16:00 download them and just that quick I have that many gorgeous designs but you do want to scroll through each one to make sure that they make sense as sometimes things are longer than others and don't fit on one line so sometimes you'll have to come through and edit these slightly but all of these look like they turned out perfect so two bonus tips for you the first is how to add those little swirls so to do that you'd come back to create a Fabrica and go to tools and come down here to font cloud
• 16:00 - 16:30 go to open font cloud and here you want to upload that same font so go to browse and you'll upload that exact same font just like you did in canva the dot OTF file for pink vibes once you upload that you'll click on the pink Vibes and you can scroll down to the bottom for the little glyphs that have the little curlies with the hearts you could add this one in between for instance so if you click it it copies it to your clipboard
• 16:30 - 17:00 we'll come back to canva and then you can delete the space in between and paste that and you could have a cute little heart in the middle or you could come back here and grab the little cute heart that put at the beginning or a little swirl whatever you like and you can add that to the beginning or the ends of your words to create a cute little extra design so there's a lot of fonts on Creative Fabrica that have these extra little pieces and that's exactly how you use them and then bonus tip number two is to
• 17:00 - 17:30 create a custom listing with this as well because I find when I have these scalable designs with lots of different professions Hobbies locations or different interests that I get a lot of custom requests to do a different word so it's nice to have a listing that's already ready for those custom orders so you'd say I don't need a good custom I raised one and then you'd create a listing just like normal but have it be custom and if you don't know how to do a
• 17:30 - 18:00 custom listing I will put my custom listing tutorial down in the description below because trust me this one has made me so much money and just like that you've created 50 designs in just a few moments so then all you need to do is go find another scalable design that you can use for those exact same professions and then create one again and in no time you'll have 100 designs to upload and the best bonus is that you can use the
• 18:00 - 18:30 exact same SEO for both designs for the same profession so for the doctor one you'll create one title and tags for the doctor and be able to use that for both designs that you create so it'll be super simple and easy to get these knocked out when you go to list them again I will put the video next for you to watch on how to create 50 listings in a day to complete this whole process to make it simple and efficient for you to get more listings in your store in less time and please take a moment to like
• 18:30 - 19:00 this video And subscribe if you enjoyed this tutorial and want to see more no fluff tutorials like this in the future with Etsy in print on demand and as always thank you so much for staying all the way until the end and I'll see you in the next one