Can I Use The Same Template In Canva For Another Project?

Copying content from one Canva pattern to another enables you to move elements effectually and add the same elements to multiple designs. It helps to save time and keep your designs coherent, specially if you want to maintain your brand identity. Whatever your objective is in copying content from one design to some other in Canva, information technology is pretty easy. There are a few different means that this can be done.

Pick 1: Re-create and paste elements

Footstep one - Open the pattern and select the elements you want to copy

We're going to use this delicious-themed calendar from our previous tutorial.

Open succulent-themed calendar design

If yous merely accept one element to copy, just click on information technology to select it. Just if y'all accept multiple elements to copy, click off to the side and drag your cursor across over all the elements. This works well when the elements are shut to each other.

Select elements to copy

If the elements are in different areas or far from each other, copy by holding the shift key and clicking each chemical element.

Select elements to be copied

Stride 2 - Copy and paste selected elements

To copy selected elements, right-click on the mouse inside the selection> copy or simply click ctrl/command + C.

Copy elements Canva

Open a new document or an existing design where you desire your copied elements pasted.

Open new Canva document

To paste selected elements, right-click on the mouse > paste or merely click ctrl/control + Five.

Paste copied elements

Option 2: Use Canva folder

If you need to copy the whole folio of a design, you tin utilize the Canva folder. This method is easier and more precise when copying and pasting.

Step 1 - Place your pattern in a folder

Go over your designs on Canva Homepage. Click on the three dots on the top correct corner of your blueprint thumbnail > Motility to binder .

Place design in a folder

You can either add it to an existing folder: binder title> movement here or create a new one: +Create new .

Add design to an existing folder

The pattern is at present inside your chosen folder.

Design inside the chosen folder

Pace 2 - Admission the folder and select the design

Open your design infinite where yous want the whole folio of a previous design pasted. Ringlet through the menu from the left console. Select Folders then find the folder where you take placed your design. I'll click the Design Bundles Tutorial folde r since that is where nosotros placed it before.

Access the folder Canva

Inside the folder, scroll down until you see the pattern you lot want to copy. We clicked the succulent agenda design . If information technology's but ane page, the design will be automatically pasted into your design space.

Select the design Canva

But if the design has multiple pages, information technology will prove all the pages. You so have to select the specific page you lot want to re-create. The whole folio will be pasted into your design infinite.

Select the specific page to copy

Selection iii: Duplicate the entire design

Some other piece of cake way of copying the whole page of a design is past duplicating it.

Footstep 1 - Make a re-create

Go over your designs on Canva Homepage. Locate the design you want to be copied. Side by side, click on the iii dots on the summit right corner of your design thumbnail > Brand a copy.

Duplicate the design

Step ii - Edit championship

Y'all now have a copy of the whole design. You can rename it by clicking on the pencil on the right bottom corner.

Edit title of the copied design

One important thing to note. If your new canvas has different dimensions from your previous blueprint, the elements will have the same size as your original design.

For example, our original design has 8.5 x 11" dimensions and our new canvas has 22 x 17" dimensions. The pasted elements will await smaller because Canva will not automatically conform the sizing of the elements to the new canvas. So, y'all have to adjust the size of each chemical element according to the new canvas. Then adapt the placement of each element to create the desired visual appearance.

Adjust elements to new canvas size

These are the different means you can copy from ane design to another in Canva.

If you lot enjoyed this tutorial you may also like our tutorials on how to save designs as a Canva Template, blur the background of a photo, and how to animate text in Canva.