Use Canva Mockups for Etsy Listings

Mockups Really Do Look Better 

I'm finally learning to use mockups for my Etsy shop listings. If I had  realized how much better they would look, I'd have figured out how to do it much sooner. 

I designed this Android mermaid wallpaper in honor of two little friends, Mika and Vivian. I was surprised at how few designs featured black mermaids, but now there is at least one more. 

I designed this birthday card for my pastor, who likes Bigfoot. I've actually never made a greeting card before. I had a package of greeting card paper and envelopes that I bought in the 1990s and never even opened until now. I designed this in Canva and it was pretty easy, really. Figuring out how to get it to print correctly was a bit tricky, though.

I purchased this mockup for greeting cards from Etsy, but I found the other mockups on Canva (a free graphic design app).









Here is the inside of the card: 

This dragon was one of my first graphic designs. It is a layered design intended for use with HTV iron-on vinyl.  I originally created it in Cricut Design Space (the required software for Cricut cutting machines) but that app does not allow you to get your designs out again. Since I wanted to add this to my Etsy shop I ended up recreating it in Canva then using Inkscape (a free vector graphics app) to tweak it and turn it into an SVG file that would allow purchasers to import it into Design Space. It sure was the long way around to do things. 

How to create a mockup for Etsy shop listings

Using a mockup in Canva is not difficult.

For Etsy, you want images at least 2000px wide, so begin with a 2000x2000px blank document in Canva. 

Click on the Elements menu at the left and type mockups in the search bar. Choose a mockup you like and click to add it to your document. 

Right click on the mockup in your document and click to set it as the background.

Now just add the design you want on the mockup. Resize your design until it looks good on the mockup.

Share/download the document as a JPG file which you can then use in your Etsy shop listings.