I’m so confused I don’t know which niche to concentrate on for my Zazzle store. 😂 You are so full of amazing ideas, Mey! Seriously looking forward to tomorrow’s Procreate video. I think I’m in love with her dark romantic design. Now THAT’S an appealing niche. 💜😻
These many many many products are def keeping us busy with potential and ideas LOL Also- did you have fun with the Procreate video ? Released it a bit late as UA-cam was "checking" forever before publishing it for some reason LOL
@@MeyTribe yep! Watched the Procreate video this morning. The content is right up my alley. LOVED it. You asked what we want to see more of, and I want to see anything and everything Procreate! Did I miss the part where you showed how you coloured that cute little elephant? I’ve decided patterns are my thing so will be delving into patterns and clipping them to shapes/words. A Zazzle pattern shop for me. More about that in the comments of that video. 😻
@@quirkychris2933 Patterns are joy !! I didn't show that part with coloring the elephant, felt like it would be too long, and should have a different video just for that. Like coloring stamps, or generally creating a character... Added it to future videos list :)
@@MeyTribe YESSSSSSSSS!!!! Now you’re talking my language, Mey! Definitely interested in colouring stamps, adding texture to them, and creating characters. Perfect. 😻
Thank you so much for spelling it all out.... I especially liked the formula for getting pixels from inches. That in itself was worth watching the video for but you really had lots of other great tips:) Love your artwork too🥰🥰🥰
Great video...I never had seen the filters before. So cool. Just an FYI, you can actually do a 5000 x 5000 tile on wrapping paper. When you are in the layers, if you click on design placement, on the left of the screen a radial button will show up and you can select tile...makes the canvas a square.
I actually tried that prior to the video, it places the 5x5K, or any 1:1 ratio design, inside the block with margins - to make sure there won't be a problem with the seam, but it doesn't complete the seamless pattern itself- as the ratio is different. However it can be nice if you are using a 1:1 ratio (or any other ratio) logo placement or text element. (just doesn't work with a full design seamless pattern that is not in the ratio of the wrapping paper block)
Hi Mey! Thank you for this tutorial. I followed your instructions and am still ending up with a slight break in my repeat. Have you ever found the preview image of the "Seam" to be slightly inaccurate? It's hard to tell from the low res preview image, but some of my motifs line up, and others look like they are very slightly off. I created the repeat in Illustrator and double checked it before uploading to Zazzle, so I know the repeat is accurate. Thank you!
Hello Mey, thanks for everything you teach. I have a question: can I use images purchased in the creative market with a POD license to make my designs on zazzle? Or do we have to create them ourselves?
Hi Mey, I opened my wrapping paper store today with a few items, woo-hoo! Thanks for this video and the rest of Zazzle series, I binge watched them all yesterday! I love how it looks on mockups and I always thought designing wrapping paper was a cool profession, never imagined myself to become exactly that! My only concern is the price. I'm not from US so paying 25+ dollars for a roll of wrapping paper sounds a bit crazy to me. Can't they buy it in wallmart for like two bucks? How do you see it?
Hi...Thanks a lot for sharing this insightful video. May I know the name/texture of the paper roll where we can get our designs printed. Also , if there is any source to order it online?
I figured you can use a square tile, you just need to set its size right lengthwise (the width of the tile). In the other direction it doesn't have to be a whole number of tiles. After you chose a tile option, you can set the exact tile size in inches next to it. Gosh, I got so excited after watching this video. I opened a shop and designed a couple of wrapping papers with your sizes in Affinity Designer. The seam is perfect. But the designs show up blurry on all the product mockups despite using the right px size. Even using SVG (which has other problems too). The print would be supposedly good, but you can't sell something that looks rubbish in the photos. I started a post on the forum trying to find out what can be wrong. I don't have high hopes after the moderator moved my post saying "there's no technical issue here". 😟Maybe it's a sign that my path is not Zazzle? 😅
I played around with the tile option thought it gives you that square- which makes the pattern a bit weird I guess, and def not seamless. But it is a nice thing- too bad I discovered it after the video, but hey- I learned that trick from a previous comment to this post- so it's so cool I get to learn from you guys as well !! And I'm happy that I also got to teach you about the seamless option with their wrapping paper, they don't really make it easy on us to understand how to design for them, ha? Did you make that px size in the correct DPI ? I liked their printing quality, more than S6, didn't make that review yet... And I know that moderators and these systems are often frustrating. If you like the quality yourself- go for it. If it bugs you the way they "act"- take your designs to a different platform :) There are so many platforms out there... Or take the leap and make it your own with your own Etsy/shopify store and an external supplier like Printful or Awkward Styles
@@MeyTribe This is what I love about the internet, so many opportunities to learn. :) Yes, I miss the same detailed pixel requirement page that Society6 has. On Zazzle, it's hard to guess. They should at least say the dpi, but they only disclose that for a couple of products. Yes, I used 300 dpi, so I guess that was right. It appears that more and more people experience this bug. Hopefully, they can fix it soon. I'm looking forward to your review. :) I'm not gonna open my own store, the legal and tax background is overcomplicated here, and I don't need that stress (I'm an anxious person). Getting royalties is clear and simple. Unfortunately, this narrows my choices, but hey, that's okay. For now, it's rather for practice and to get into the habit of creating regularly, because I want to make my own graphics.
Greetings, Thank you for discussing how to create wrapping paper with Canva and Zazzle. I had trouble following how you made the decision to place the elephant. I saw you split the elephant at the edges but I did not know where to exactly cut the elephant than place it. Could you share a video where you talk about this? Or could you explain?
do i have to have a transparent background to upload pics for shower curtains or wrapping paper. I noticed your mentioned the butterfly has transparent background, thank you. And if i do need transparent background where and how do i do that.
Well, generally speaking people don't use transparent backgrounds for these items, as they upload the full design. BUT, you can use elements with transparent background if you're creating the design from elements directly on the Zazzle platform. To "get" transparent background you either create a design without a background (using canva, kittl, photoshop, procreate, etc.) or you buy licenced graphics that is PNG with transparent background, from Creative Fabrica, or even the shop I made for sellers on meytribe.com
Hi Mey! I love your videos! I'm just getting involved with AI, Canva and POD. I'm excited to suppliment my retirement income. the question I have is when using Discord, sometimes, the end result is already posed in a "mock up" of it's own. I planned on using it for wrapping paper and the mockup shows a roll of rolled up wrapping paper. How am I supposed to "block" it for Zazzle so I can get wrapping or scrapbooking paper? I know you have an answer for me, thank you so much in advance.
Can I modify the product? Or delete it and upload it again? Because I tried to adjust and return to it, and it is the same as the first design, it has not changed, or does it take time?
I'm sure someone sold just the white, for I created a plain red tie and what was supposed to be blue, but forgot to add the color, thus it was plain white. Someone bought both of them. If someone can buy a white tie, then I'm sure someone has bought the white wrapping paper.
Export probably- by enlarging the end result, but maximum canvas size is 5x5K, so if you have graphic elements designed for that and you export times 3- you can end up with something very pixelated. That is of course for PNG files and not SVG :)
@@MeyTribe thank you for answer , but I think when you exporting three times the resolution will be 300 psi but when exporting without duplicate the resolution will be 96 psi , I am taking about png so duplicate three times is better but before that we have to divide the final dimension of the image that we want to get by three , thank you
@@nasako2624 It doesn't matter what the file says in terms of DPI, it can be DPI 500 but the original images you've placed with PNG are not big enough to "stretch" that way. Canva, before all, is a program for creating art for media, not for print. They have improved, and changed a lot, but their basis is art for digital and web- so you gotta make sure that whatever you do to it, that is beyond the normal use- will be printed well :)
@@MeyTribe Hi , I want to say that to get an image with good resolution we have to use element with hight resolution and exporting with hight resolution , because if we use elements in our design with height resolution und exporting them with low resolution The last result will be with low resolution , don’t you think that ? Thank you madame
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that flower paper you created with Procreate! Thanks for another great video!
Thanks Mey for the great video !
I love your sassy-jazzy attitude. Give yourself some props, you rock.
thank you again, I have been loving zazzle and you make it easy
Thanks, Mey for another great video. The baby elephant is too cute.
Thank you :) I like her too :)
I CAN NOT WAIT to play with this !!!! 😍😍😍. Thank you for this video 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Have fun LOL
And I loved the video, Mey! I bought all your bundle boxes, so cute!
Awww thanks
I’m so confused I don’t know which niche to concentrate on for my Zazzle store. 😂 You are so full of amazing ideas, Mey! Seriously looking forward to tomorrow’s Procreate video. I think I’m in love with her dark romantic design. Now THAT’S an appealing niche. 💜😻
These many many many products are def keeping us busy with potential and ideas LOL
Also- did you have fun with the Procreate video ? Released it a bit late as UA-cam was "checking" forever before publishing it for some reason LOL
@@MeyTribe yep! Watched the Procreate video this morning. The content is right up my alley. LOVED it. You asked what we want to see more of, and I want to see anything and everything Procreate! Did I miss the part where you showed how you coloured that cute little elephant? I’ve decided patterns are my thing so will be delving into patterns and clipping them to shapes/words. A Zazzle pattern shop for me. More about that in the comments of that video. 😻
@@quirkychris2933 Patterns are joy !!
I didn't show that part with coloring the elephant, felt like it would be too long, and should have a different video just for that.
Like coloring stamps, or generally creating a character... Added it to future videos list :)
@@MeyTribe YESSSSSSSSS!!!! Now you’re talking my language, Mey! Definitely interested in colouring stamps, adding texture to them, and creating characters. Perfect. 😻
Beautiful designs! You make this so easy to understand, thank you Mey :)
Happy to hear that :)
I’ve been toying with the idea and I found this super helpful thank u
Glad I could help!
Thank you so much for spelling it all out.... I especially liked the formula for getting pixels from inches. That in itself was worth watching the video for but you really had lots of other great tips:) Love your artwork too🥰🥰🥰
Glad you liked it ! and good luck making awesome wrapping papers :)
The wrapping paper is beautiful, esp the 6 fool one. :)
I know ! I just love how they came out !
Thank you for making this video! it's very helpful for me :)
Glad you liked it :)
Hello this is really nice to make your own rapping paper. Thanks for sharing the video on how someone can make this.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It helped me a lot!
Very, extremely helpful! Thanks! And this elephant is cuuuuuuuuuuute.
Great video...I never had seen the filters before. So cool. Just an FYI, you can actually do a 5000 x 5000 tile on wrapping paper. When you are in the layers, if you click on design placement, on the left of the screen a radial button will show up and you can select tile...makes the canvas a square.
I actually tried that prior to the video, it places the 5x5K, or any 1:1 ratio design, inside the block with margins - to make sure there won't be a problem with the seam, but it doesn't complete the seamless pattern itself- as the ratio is different. However it can be nice if you are using a 1:1 ratio (or any other ratio) logo placement or text element. (just doesn't work with a full design seamless pattern that is not in the ratio of the wrapping paper block)
Hi Mey! Thank you for this tutorial. I followed your instructions and am still ending up with a slight break in my repeat. Have you ever found the preview image of the "Seam" to be slightly inaccurate? It's hard to tell from the low res preview image, but some of my motifs line up, and others look like they are very slightly off. I created the repeat in Illustrator and double checked it before uploading to Zazzle, so I know the repeat is accurate.
Thank you!
Sounds good quality paper!
It was, I love these so much !! (I wish I had more people i am giving gifts to LOL)
Hi May! I wonder how I can know when is the last day for designers to create Christmas items? Is it too late to do now?
Hello Mey, thanks for everything you teach. I have a question: can I use images purchased in the creative market with a POD license to make my designs on zazzle? Or do we have to create them ourselves?
Hi Mey, I opened my wrapping paper store today with a few items, woo-hoo! Thanks for this video and the rest of Zazzle series, I binge watched them all yesterday! I love how it looks on mockups and I always thought designing wrapping paper was a cool profession, never imagined myself to become exactly that!
My only concern is the price. I'm not from US so paying 25+ dollars for a roll of wrapping paper sounds a bit crazy to me. Can't they buy it in wallmart for like two bucks? How do you see it?
As always, so useful. Great information. And I am inspired.
Thank you :) inspired to sell wrapping paper or in general ? LOL
@@MeyTribe to get back to designs and get my business up and running. And, still nervous to jump in YT
Hi...Thanks a lot for sharing this insightful video. May I know the name/texture of the paper roll where we can get our designs printed. Also , if there is any source to order it online?
Great video. Can you use Zazzle to create a pattern & use another provider to POD my wrapping pattern? I do not want to learn procreate.
I figured you can use a square tile, you just need to set its size right lengthwise (the width of the tile). In the other direction it doesn't have to be a whole number of tiles. After you chose a tile option, you can set the exact tile size in inches next to it.
Gosh, I got so excited after watching this video. I opened a shop and designed a couple of wrapping papers with your sizes in Affinity Designer. The seam is perfect. But the designs show up blurry on all the product mockups despite using the right px size. Even using SVG (which has other problems too). The print would be supposedly good, but you can't sell something that looks rubbish in the photos. I started a post on the forum trying to find out what can be wrong. I don't have high hopes after the moderator moved my post saying "there's no technical issue here". 😟Maybe it's a sign that my path is not Zazzle? 😅
I played around with the tile option thought it gives you that square- which makes the pattern a bit weird I guess, and def not seamless. But it is a nice thing- too bad I discovered it after the video, but hey- I learned that trick from a previous comment to this post- so it's so cool I get to learn from you guys as well !!
And I'm happy that I also got to teach you about the seamless option with their wrapping paper, they don't really make it easy on us to understand how to design for them, ha?
Did you make that px size in the correct DPI ?
I liked their printing quality, more than S6, didn't make that review yet...
And I know that moderators and these systems are often frustrating. If you like the quality yourself- go for it. If it bugs you the way they "act"- take your designs to a different platform :) There are so many platforms out there... Or take the leap and make it your own with your own Etsy/shopify store and an external supplier like Printful or Awkward Styles
@@MeyTribe This is what I love about the internet, so many opportunities to learn. :) Yes, I miss the same detailed pixel requirement page that Society6 has. On Zazzle, it's hard to guess. They should at least say the dpi, but they only disclose that for a couple of products. Yes, I used 300 dpi, so I guess that was right. It appears that more and more people experience this bug. Hopefully, they can fix it soon.
I'm looking forward to your review. :) I'm not gonna open my own store, the legal and tax background is overcomplicated here, and I don't need that stress (I'm an anxious person). Getting royalties is clear and simple. Unfortunately, this narrows my choices, but hey, that's okay. For now, it's rather for practice and to get into the habit of creating regularly, because I want to make my own graphics.
I love canva too been having fun with that for months
Greetings, Thank you for discussing how to create wrapping paper with Canva and Zazzle. I had trouble following how you made the decision to place the elephant. I saw you split the elephant at the edges but I did not know where to exactly cut the elephant than place it. Could you share a video where you talk about this? Or could you explain?
do i have to have a transparent background to upload pics for shower curtains or wrapping paper. I noticed your mentioned the butterfly has transparent background, thank you. And if i do need transparent background where and how do i do that.
Well, generally speaking people don't use transparent backgrounds for these items, as they upload the full design. BUT, you can use elements with transparent background if you're creating the design from elements directly on the Zazzle platform.
To "get" transparent background you either create a design without a background (using canva, kittl, photoshop, procreate, etc.) or you buy licenced graphics that is PNG with transparent background, from Creative Fabrica, or even the shop I made for sellers on meytribe.com
Hi Mey! I love your videos! I'm just getting involved with AI, Canva and POD. I'm excited to suppliment my retirement income. the question I have is when using Discord, sometimes, the end result is already posed in a "mock up" of it's own. I planned on using it for wrapping paper and the mockup shows a roll of rolled up wrapping paper. How am I supposed to "block" it for Zazzle so I can get wrapping or scrapbooking paper? I know you have an answer for me, thank you so much in advance.
The dark romantic design would look amazing on a duvet cover.
Thank you - I think so too now :)
Hello there, can i use Canva free for Zazzle platform? Will not they block my projects?
Can I modify the product? Or delete it and upload it again? Because I tried to adjust and return to it, and it is the same as the first design, it has not changed, or does it take time?
I'm sure someone sold just the white, for I created a plain red tie and what was supposed to be blue, but forgot to add the color, thus it was plain white. Someone bought both of them. If someone can buy a white tie, then I'm sure someone has bought the white wrapping paper.
I was using Prisma long before it was in Canva.
Are the pants also from Zazzle?
How do you calculate pxl ratio to inches?
Ha, you just answered my questions. Lol. I should know to wait.
@@michellemiller1722 No need to wait, i like all your comments, even when you answer yourself
Thank you , I like it , but I think that we can export image with 15000 # 15000 px using canva , merci
Export probably- by enlarging the end result, but maximum canvas size is 5x5K, so if you have graphic elements designed for that and you export times 3- you can end up with something very pixelated. That is of course for PNG files and not SVG :)
@@MeyTribe thank you for answer , but I think when you exporting three times the resolution will be 300 psi but when exporting without duplicate the resolution will be 96 psi , I am taking about png so duplicate three times is better but before that we have to divide the final dimension of the image that we want to get by three , thank you
@@nasako2624 It doesn't matter what the file says in terms of DPI, it can be DPI 500 but the original images you've placed with PNG are not big enough to "stretch" that way.
Canva, before all, is a program for creating art for media, not for print. They have improved, and changed a lot, but their basis is art for digital and web- so you gotta make sure that whatever you do to it, that is beyond the normal use- will be printed well :)
@@MeyTribe Hi , I want to say that to get an image with good resolution we have to use element with hight resolution and exporting with hight resolution , because if we use elements in our design with height resolution und exporting them with low resolution The last result will be with low resolution , don’t you think that ? Thank you madame
@@nasako2624 Yeah, I do think that, it's exactly what I wrote back to you in my comment.
I wanna order everything I've made just to see the quality in real life
like don't you just wanna buy everything you make??? I DO!!!