Bring your Canva designs into proposals

When to use this

Many studios design mood boards, style pages, and brand pieces in Canva. Connect your Canva account and those designs are right there when you build a proposal: browse them inside BloomBoard, drop a design page in as an image, or bring it in as a full proposal page. Imported pages remember where they came from, so when the design changes in Canva, your draft picks up the new version — and Edit jumps you straight back into Canva.

Two things it does not do: BloomBoard never edits anything in your Canva account (it only reads your designs and exports them as images), and it is not a live embed — your client sees a plain image, never Canva itself.

What you need first

Your own Canva login. Imports and syncing use your account, and each teammate connects their own.
A design in Canva you want in a proposal. Designs sized A4/Letter in Canva print sharpest as full pages.

Connect your Canva account

Go to Settings → Canva.
Choose Connect Canva. Canva asks you to approve read-only access, then brings you back.
The page shows Connected as your Canva name. That is it — the Canva tab now appears wherever you pick images.

Find a design and import it as an image

In the design studio, open Images in the left rail and switch to the Canva tab (the same tab appears in the image picker anywhere you choose photos). Your designs list most recently edited first; type in Search your designs… to find one by name. A design you never named in Canva shows as Untitled design, same as in Canva.

Each design shows a small preview of every page. Click a preview and the page lands on the page you have selected (or the one in view) as an image — or drag it straight onto one of your pages, or onto a photo spot, exactly like a library photo; it holds its place while the import finishes. If there is no page of your own for it to land on, the image goes to your media library instead, ready to drag anywhere. A page you have imported before is not fetched twice: BloomBoard reuses the synced image already in your library.

Import a design as full pages

For a lookbook or style guide that deserves whole pages of its own:

Open the import dialog

In the Sections panel, choose Add page → Import from Canva. The Import from Canva — as pages dialog opens on the same design list.

Pick the pages

Click a design to select all its pages, or pick page tiles one by one. The dialog counts your remaining page slots as you go.

Choose Fit or Fill

Fit on page controls how each design lands: Fit keeps the whole design visible (with bands if the shapes differ), Fill runs it edge to edge (cropping if they differ). Then choose Add pages.

Each imported page arrives as one of your own pages with the design as its background — rename it, reorder it, give it the document’s header and footer, or layer text and photos on top. Select the page and the toolbar shows Fit | Fill so you can change the placement any time.

Stay in sync with Canva

An imported page wears a small Canva chip naming its design and page number. When you edit the design in Canva, BloomBoard notices the next time you open the proposal and refreshes the image for you. A status row at the top of the Canva tab keeps the running tally — how many designs are linked, updating, or changed — with Sync all to refresh everything at once, and Sync now on any single chip.

Pages imported into a design preset stay linked the same way: select the page in the preset’s studio and its chip is there, with Sync now and Edit working just as they do on a proposal. Applying the preset to an event carries the link along.

The chip tells you where things stand:

Changed in Canva — the design moved on; a refresh is on the way, or one click away.
Updating… — the new export is being fetched.
Needs attention — something needs your say-so before syncing (see below).
Sync failed — the last refresh did not complete; sync again.

Syncing has a daily allowance. If a very busy day reaches it, a quiet banner says Canva sync has reached today’s limit — linked designs resume syncing tomorrow, and your pages simply keep their current image until then.

A proposal that has been sent is frozen, Canva pages included. Your client always sees exactly what you sent; edits in Canva flow into drafts and revisions only.

Edit in Canva and come back

Select an imported page and choose Edit on its Canva chip. The design opens in Canva; make your changes, then use Canva’s return link to come back. BloomBoard refreshes that design straight away, so the page shows your edit when you land.

When a chip says Needs attention

Links follow page numbers, so a reshuffle in Canva can leave a link pointing somewhere unexpected. Choose Review on the chip and BloomBoard explains what changed — for example that the design has fewer pages than before, or that it can no longer be reached from your Canva account — and offers the safe ways forward: sync the page as it stands, Relink to another page…, or Unlink. Unlinking never removes anything: the image stays in your library and on your pages; it just stops following Canva.

Disconnect

Go to Settings → Canva and choose Disconnect, then confirm. BloomBoard gives up its access to your Canva account immediately, and any stored details from your Canva profile are deleted within 30 days. Your drafts keep their imported images — they are your own exports, living in your media library — they just stop syncing until you reconnect. The page then offers Reconnect whenever you want to pick the connection back up; your existing pages start syncing again.

Common questions

Do my clients see Canva? No. They see the finished image on your proposal page and in the PDF, nothing else.
Can BloomBoard change my Canva designs? No. Access is read-only: it lists your designs and exports them as images. All design editing happens in Canva.
A design will not import. A design using Canva Pro content needs a Canva plan that can export it — the toast tells you when that is the reason.
Who sees my connection? Only you. Each teammate connects their own Canva account, and imports use the login of whoever imports.