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How to Make a Printable On PicMonkey: Part 1 of 3

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Today, we are kicking off an awesome guest post series by Jennifer from PinkWhen and Kimber & Ashley from The Pinning Mama. Over the next week these lovely ladies will show us all how to make a printable on PicMonkey, Microsoft Word and Photoshop Elements. Knowing how to make your own printable is a great way to boost your Pinterest traffic and give your readers a nice freebie!

How to Create a Printable Using PicMonkey

How to Create a Printable Using PicMonkey

Making printables has been all the rage for a while now.  Have you seen some of the cute labels, signs, framed art that people are sharing online?  Some of your favorite blogs will offer them for free, and yet you can still find others who will charge you a fee for the print.  You can do any of these, or you can just quickly make your own!  Haven’t you ever wanted to make your own printables?

There are several different ways you can create your own printables.  You can use Picasa, Photoshop, a Silhouette or Cricut, and PicMonkey, among others. This part in the series is going to educate you on how to use PicMonkey, a free online service.  (They do have an option for an upgraded version)

Select a Blank Document:

The first thing you want to do after you set up your account with PicMonkey is to click on Edit a Photo on the home screen.  You want to load up a blank white background to get yourself started.  If you are unsure of how to do a blank document, you can use this one here:

BLANK DOCUMENT:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ep8ZYa2O97CZLu2KJBKydcjqEnzRZ6xd9U7UddALw9g/edit?usp=sharing

There are a ton of options on the sidebar to allow you to make a lot of different changes.  For this tutorial, I am going to just run step by step in how I created this cute Happy Birthday America framed printable.

After you have your white background loaded up, your tools screen will appear and you will have several options to work with.  For the printable today we are using the Geometric Shapes and grabbing the triangles.

How to Make a Printable Using PicMonkey

Once you have your shape chosen, add it to your white background.  I always choose my colors and then duplicate the colored shape.  This way I have everything the same size and color as desired.

How to Make a Printable Using PicMonkey

After you have your shapes and colors adjusted to your background, go ahead and add your text to the printable.

How to Make a Printable Using PicMonkey

Once you have those items done, you are close to finished with this printable.  Once thing you will need to do is resize your picture.  You want to have it resized to 2500 x 2000 so that it prints in 8 x 10 quality and is a rich and crisp print.

Click save, and then you have your very own printable!

How to Make a Printable In PicMonkey

You can make these for yourself, or you can make these and share them on your blog for others to use as well.  The way I share my printables is thru Google Documents.  Just make sure that you have the document saved as public so that anyone can access and share it.

How to Make a Printable in PicMonkey

I hope this helps, and I hope you enjoyed this first part in the series of printables here on SITS!

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About the Author:7249298
Jennifer is the author/owner and all around DIY gal at PinkWhen. If she isn’t busy sharing her passion for creating on PinkWhen you can find her busy with her family and friends. You can check out all of her DIY projects on Pinterest and Facebook.

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About Tracie Nall

Tracie lives in Arizona with her husband, teen daughter, and more books than her shelves will hold. She spends her days writing and editing. Many of her words end up on her blog, From Tracie. Find Tracie on Twitter @FromTracie and on Instagram where she takes pictures of things that are yellow.

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  2. Laura says

    I am still having trouble getting the blank document and I have no other idea of how to get one.. heh. so i looked through the comments and tried what someone said – right click and save, but it’s saving asa webpage.. i’m stuck! I’ve been wanting to learn this for a while now! help help! =)

    • Dagmara @ Glamista Home says

      Hello Laura, try to copy and paste the document link into your browser window of Internet Explorer. Then right click within the white space and select save as pic. You will see a pop up window, below the line where you enter the name of how you want to call this document is a drop down menu where you can select to save is as png file, which is an image file. This should save it as an image and you should be able to upload into PicMonkey. Good luck!

  4. Lara says

    Great tips! I use PicMonkey ALL the time, but I have never used the service to make a printable. I’ll definitely have to try it out.

  9. Sherra O @bakingupchaos says

    Thank you!! This was an awesome idea. Using picmonkey was a great tip! I’ve been trying too hard and this just simplified everything for me. You are my hero this week, well you and my great^5 grandfather. Thanks!

    You can check out my first two printables on my page. I posted Friday’s post a couple of hours early just to get them up!

  10. Kristi says

    This is really neat! Thanks for Sharing, I just started using comment luv. Please stop by and leave a comment!!

  11. Jin Ai says

    I’ve just started thinking about offering printables on my blog so thank you for sharing all these great tips. Perfect timing!

  17. allison c says

    Thank you so much for sharing the dimemsions on resizing. I never get that right. Can’t wait to read more about uploading diff types of dox for printables as well as hosting them. Do you watermark any part?

  18. Stacey says

    So cool! Thanks for sharing this tutorial…I will definitely have to try to make my own printable something or other 😉

    • Jennifer @ PinkWhen says

      You place them where you would like them. The banner is actually just a bunch of triangles, but when you place them on the board, there is a little circle at the top of the triangle (or picture) and you can click on the circle and that allows you to rotate the graphic. (It’s also how I turned the triangles upside down for the banner)

  28. Candi says

    So excited for this. I have been wanting to do this, but havent taken the time to learn. Now you’ve gone and just spelled it out for me.
    Thanks

  30. Carli says

    Awesome! I was just trying to figure this out the other day. The only thing is that I want to use lots of photos for my workout printable. Any ideas? I might need to upgrade to get dome of the better layouts for that. Not sure.

    • Kimber says

      Carli- Try working with the collage maker insteaf of the editor. Some of the layouts are not free, however, it gives you the flexibility to make any layout you want when you choose design your own. I use this frequently and love it!

  35. Jeanine says

    This is brilliant! I love Pic Monkey and just upgraded to pro version recently. Now I’m going to concentrate on making printables for my own birthday party instead of ordering them all from Etsy. Thank you!

  36. Cassi says

    Neat idea! I haven’t thought to use PicMonkey in that way, only to add stuff to pictures for Crowdtap.

  38. Free OpenCart Themes says

    You makes it easy! Very interesting! I always make it with photoshop but this one is more easier even photoshop brings a higher quality but I prefer this. Sometimes photoshop makes production become more unnatural. Thanks for your share.