I’m not here to scare anyone off from printing their own envelopes. But I pride myself on honesty, so I’m just going to say it – what can go wrong when printing envelopes, at some point or another, will go wrong. Having successfully printed over 5,000 envelopes in my business, I can confidently say, here are the 3 biggest reasons your printer is not printing on envelopes. 

But before we move on, if you’d like to snag our free envelope template, click here.

If you’ve been using the free version of Canva for a while, eventually you’ll find yourself wondering if it’s actually worth paying for Canva Pro. 

(If you’re not sure whether you should be using Canva or Adobe Illustrator in your business, this post will help you out!)

As a business owner and digital product designer, let me just say, absolutely. 

Canva often gets a bad rap in the design department. It’s a template-based software that aims to bring graphic design to the non-designer crowd. And whereas some might argue that this waters down the design industry, I think it makes business ownership in general – and the creation of digital products in particular – so much easier.  

While the free version of Canva is pretty robust, there are a few things you get with Canva Pro that will actually save you money every month.  

Especially if you find yourself creating a lot of blog images, social media graphics and digital products, Canva Pro falls into that can’t-live-without category. 

Here are 5 reasons I couldn’t live without Canva Pro.

In this post, I want to show you how I use stock photos and mockups to create digital product photos in Canva.  

You don’t have to use Canva if you don’t want to. But since Canva is template-based, it’s the best software I’ve found for creating photos quickly and for keeping my images looking uniform. It also has a drag-and-drop interface so I can simply drag my designs into the image and let Canva do the rest. 

As someone who used to do this whole process in Adobe Photoshop, I can honestly say that Canva has made this part of my business 1000x easier. 

But if you want to use other software, then go right ahead! This post will still walk you through the ins and outs of creating product photos from stock photo mockups. 

I’m a huge believer in taking photos of your own digital products. But when you’re just getting started, the fewer things standing between you and your product launch, the better. That’s when you may want to find mockups for your digital products rather than make your own images. 

I think we can all agree, done is always better than perfect, right? 

These are some of my favorite places to find attractive, non-cheesy stock photos and mockups for digital products.