How To Enlarge Any Pattern In Canva & Print It

Hi there, I'm Crafty Patty and welcome back to my channel, or if you're new, I am so excited to have you here with me. If you have ever wondered how to take a little tiny pattern or design and enlarge it to a much bigger design, then you're in the right place. This is great for your sewing projects to enlarge your patterns, for appliqué, for doing felt work and you want to make a pattern larger. So many reasons you can use this method to enlarge your patterns for many of your crafts, so many crafts you can use this. So I will be taking you step by step using Canva to take this little tiny design down here to this large design and it's easy. Come on along and let's get started. The frame I'm choosing to use is from my local art store from Otis and this is an Exhibition Cradled Wood Panel Deep. This size happens to be 18 by 24 inches. I will put the centimeters on the screen and the reason I'm using this cradle frame is because when you turn it over it automatically forms a frame for your artwork. Instead of painting on this side like most artists would if you're a painter, I'm using the inside. Now I just happen to be doing a kinoseiga piece of artwork that I want to do a nice big one, but you don't have to do it just for this art form. You can use it for quilting, for sewing, for appliqué, for any type of artwork you choose to do to know how to enlarge from a design to the size that you want to fit your frame. Now when I go to cut my foam pieces for this particular artwork, I'm not going to cut it so it's right up against the edge because this particular type of art form is going to have a little bit of fabric and some bulk on the edge, plus leaving that little bit of a border around your frame just accents your artwork even more. So you have to consider that when we are now doing our next really important step to measure how big we want our artwork. I've got about 2 16ths here and here, so obviously I'm going to double that because I need 2 16ths here, 2 16ths there, and same for the width, so that's obviously 4 16ths which equals 1 quarter inch. So from top to bottom on the inside my frame is measuring 16 and 7 16ths, and from our width on the inside of the frame we have 22 and 5 16ths. And some real easy math here, if we keep it all in 16ths, we are removing 4 16ths from here, that gives us 16 and 3 16ths, removing 4 16ths from those measurements, that gives us 22 and 1 16th, and now we can enlarge the size to the size. And now let's go into Canva, and up here we're going to say Create. Use your scroll down until you get to Custom Size and click on that. Change your pixels, 2 inches, so you obviously can't put fractions into your measurements, and I'm not that good at math, so I did ask internet to give me the conversion, and this is what I've got. Now I'm old school, I'm used to working in inches, if you choose to work in centimeters that might even be easier, but I'm just stuck in inches. And right to the right here we've got Create New Design, so let's click on Create New Design. And in your top right corner of your Canva screen, you should see the words Design. It says Untitled Design because we haven't saved it yet. It's done a roundup from 6 to 5 to 6 to 3, which is fine, and that's what you should see. If you see the word Dock in there, it's not going to work. Now this is very important. When you're saving your design work, now I like to save it to my desktop because it's really easy to know exactly where it is, but you can save it to your download folder if you want to. But when you save it, make sure you're saving it as a PNG, not a Dock. Docks do not work in this format. So as you can see here, I've got the PNG on the end, so I know this is a good to-go design. I'm just going to physically drag this over to my Canva screen, and now you can see I've got some tidying up to do. So I'm just going to pull in my sides here, get rid of the area I do not want in my design just by pulling on those bars, and that's what I want right there. Once you've it up, then do use your corners to drag bangly so it keeps your proportions correct. So I'm just going to keep pulling up until it fits as best I can into this canvas that I made. Now enlarging a design to a new dimension, you're not always going to get it dead on exact because you can't go from a 2x4 to a 3x7. It's just going to be a little off, but that's okay for the type of work that I'm doing. So you can see I've got some white up in here and the white up in here. So I'm just going to drag it down a little bit more, and I'm just going to offset a little bit. So I've got it in here, and I'm just going to click my mouse on the arrow here, and I'm just going to drag it a little bit and just fine-tune it the best I can and see what we've got. So I'm just going to bring it down just a little tiny bit more using my cross arrows so it's in proportion. Using these arrows here, your design, if you want to go up, your design will go to the top or to the bottom or to right or to the left. So I'll just show you what happens on the screen when I do that. I'm hitting my left arrow right now. See how it's moving to the left? Right arrow. And I'm just moving it to where I think it will be okay for my design. Same thing up. And let's try that. I'm just going to click to the side here to take those marks away. A little tiny bit of a black line down in here, but I'm not too worried about that because this is a design that I'm going to be cutting that pretty much off anyways. So there we go. I've got my design tweaked and I'm ready to continue on. And now we want to take this design and turn it into a PDF. So I'm going to go up here and hit share. You're going to scroll down to where you see the down arrow. Hit download. And right here you'll see PNG suggested. Let's just click on the down arrow here and here's your options. And what we want is we want the PDF. That's for documents and printing. So let's choose the PDF and we want to choose print. And now we can download. It has now brought my design into a new window. We are now in Acrobat. And now what we're going to do is we're going to go file here and we're going to choose print. Now I have the Epson ET-2850 series printer and this printer allows me to do posters. So you can see where the poster is highlighted. My tile scale is at 100%. I'm not going to worry about any overlap or any labels. I do have my cut marks on even though you don't need it. Now I'm just going to draw this to your attention over here because it threw me the first time. Because all of a sudden my approximately 16 by 22 inches became 34 by 22. Well it's not taking your design, it's taking in consideration your sheets of paper. So now as you can see it's going to cut, sorry, it's going to print eight sheets and that's how you get your poster. Isn't that cool? So now all we have to do is hit print and we're going to get our eight pieces of paper. And here we have our enlarged design and it came out on actually six pieces of paper, not eight like it said, but that's okay we've got our design. And now it's just a matter of carefully putting together so we line up our design. So what I like to do is on the top ones I just cut out my white border here and my white border here and I'll do the same for this one. And you don't have to be exact on this, you've got a little bit of leeway. If you cut past the white that's okay, you can still line it up. So I'm taking off that little white on the bottom, taking off my white on the side. And on the bottom row I just took off my white on this one on the side and the white on this side. I have a bad idea. Anyways, okay, so now it's a matter of matching them all up so our design is perfectly in line. Starting on the two left pieces they do give you some registration lines that you can match up and sometimes I find it's pretty dead on, sometimes it's not, but it should be. Anyways, but I go more by my actual design and let's just say it's like this. So you can see how my greenery isn't matching up and I can look at my lines on the wave. So if I just move this one into it and just keep moving it until you feel you've got it totally matched up. You can see these two lines here, this line on the bottom isn't matched up and then you can go all the way up. This is matched up but it's not right there so that means that one of these has to move in or out. So if we move this one out on the top a little bit or actually in, now we've got both lined up. This one is slightly off down there. It's a little tiny bit of a fiddling. Okay, I think I'm happy with that. I'm going all the way up matching the sides of my leaves, matching my wave lines and I think we've got it and if you don't then all of these are going to be a little bit off. So make sure the very first one you do you're happy with it. I'm just pulling this out just a bit here, that's better. Okay, once you're happy put a little bit of tape on it and check it. Let's grab this one and you can try to match up those registration marks, help you, but really the actual design is what's really going to tell you if you're dead on. Again, I'm watching my wave lines, I'm watching the greenery and all the way along. You can see I'm good here but it's off just slightly there. That little bit of off is going to throw your whole one off so make sure you get every one exact. There's my line there, that's good and for the next piece I've got my two white borders here so I'm coming over top like so and again lining it all up and here's my next one. Again, I'm going over top of my white and my key here was that little tiny piece of wave there and it was up like this and I knew I didn't have it right. I can see my black lines here, I know that's got to come down so I'm matching that up. I'm still off just a titch here so I know that's got to come up. You can also see my bottom, watching my lines here and now I've got my little tip of that wave perfect and I'm pretty happy with that. This one just has to come over just a titch to the left and the reason I'm being so fussy is that if you get one piece off then you're going to struggle with your other pieces. Okay, we'll keep that in place and here's our last piece. It's going to come over our white pieces and you can use your registration marks if wanted, give you a head start and then see how you do with getting the rest in place. Look at that, we've just gone from this to this. I'm just going to take off some of the white borders here that I don't need with my rotary cutter that I've designated for paper only and then we'll show you how this is going to fit perfectly in my frame. Remember that frame that we took our measurements from? Now I've enlarged it and look at that. Is that a thing of beauty or what? I now have my design ready for my artwork that will fit perfectly inside my frame and I forgot to tell you to name your work. I should have done that and go to all projects and here's our project right here. We can open that up and there it is and let's see, name it anything you want. How about ocean fabric art enlarged. There we go and now we're saved. Go back to our home page and there it is and we've now got our new name and you can see the size that we bumped it up to. Pretty cool, huh? Now I'm not a Canva wizard by any means so I hope you do okay and can follow along with no issues. If you've got some really technical weird thing that happens I might not be able to answer your questions but I'll try. Anyways, Canva did exactly what I needed and I love that you can create any size you want. Yours probably won't be the same dimensions that I put in unless you're doing exactly the same project but any size works. So you know what I'm going to be up to next. I'm going to be creating this beautiful ocean scene into my next largest KinuSega project I've ever done. So if you don't want to miss that one, put on your notification bell so you don't miss the next video. Until then, bye-bye.