Simply On Demand

Simply On Demand Helping you create your own amazing Canva designs with 1:1 assistance OR a done-for-you solution. You decide the level of help needed! I am Stephanie Wium.

I am a creative designer exclusively within Canva and I help online business owners build confidence in their design skills in Canva with 1:1 coaching. These same business owners are also helped with visual content design for their social networking platforms when they really don't feel like it. I have successfully helped Virtual Assistants add an additional income stream to their admin-based busi

nesses with their newfound confidence in their ability to design for their clients. For a full spectrum of my services - all social media related - please send me a DM and let me know how I can help you stay visible here on social media.

As it goes with reading emails, sometimes you read something, it doesn’t clock, you move on to the next one, and then yo...
14/08/2026

As it goes with reading emails, sometimes you read something, it doesn’t clock, you move on to the next one, and then you’re like … wait … what?

That was me last night, receiving an email from EmpowerHer Community. Nothing strange about receiving emails from them; I am in the network, after all.

What stopped me in my tracks as I moved on to the next one was the shouty headline “You’ve been nominated!!!”

So backtrack, and yep, I didn’t read that wrong.

To the wonderful soul who nominated me for the NZ Small Business Awards, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Really and seriously, THANK YOU!

See you in October 😁

How Canva changed my life. My story … updated.In 2019, I resigned from my EA job in South Africa and moved to New Zealan...
13/08/2026

How Canva changed my life. My story … updated.

In 2019, I resigned from my EA job in South Africa and moved to New Zealand to join my family. The plan was to continue working as a classically admin-based virtual assistant while being Oumie to Jordaine, Riley and Morgan.

It didn’t take me long to realise that wasn’t my thing. The VA thing. I loved being Oumie.

At the time, I was already playing around in Canva and creating designs for my own social media. I loved that I could take something from inside my head and turn it into something I could actually see and share.

The fact that they weren’t “good” designs was beside the point.

I fell in love with Canva. Totally and absolutely.

That love turned me into a creative design VA, and in 2020 almost all my business income came from creating Canva designs for clients. I immersed myself up to my eyeballs in learning the platform because, if I was going to offer design as a service, I needed to feel confident doing it.

That confidence didn’t arrive neatly wrapped with a bow. It took regular nose dives. There were plenty of designs I nearly didn’t share and plenty of moments when I wondered who the hell I thought I was.

But somewhere along the way, another part of the business began taking shape.

I discovered that I didn’t only love creating in Canva. I loved teaching it. I loved watching the moment somebody stopped hunting and pecking at their designs and began to understand what they were doing and why.

Today, I’m a Canva trainer and designer. I teach incredible businesswomen how to use Canva practically, so they can create marketing that represents the businesses they’ve worked damn hard to build. And when they don’t want to create it themselves, I design it for them.

Since 2023, I’ve also been a Canva Community Canvassador, something the Stephanie who arrived in New Zealand planning to continue with admin work couldn’t possibly have imagined.

Canva didn’t wave a magic wand over my life or hand me a ready-made business. I worked bloody hard to build this. But it gave me the platform on which I could build a business that combines creativity, teaching and helping other women feel proud of what they put into the world.

And I’m still building it.

11/08/2026

I see this SO often! The biggest problem with Canva isn’t bad design. It’s overwhelm.

When Canva introduces a new thing, or a button moves from where it previously lived very happily, capable women suddenly decide they’re “bad” at design.

Not true!

Every new feature or button move can feel like another thing you’re now expected to learn. It isn’t.

You don’t need to know everything Canva can do before you can use it properly or be deemed “good” at design. You need to know what you’re creating, which tools will help you create it and where those particular tools live.

That’s why having a clear way of working in Canva matters more than watching endless tutorials about every new feature. Start with the correct size, use your brand template if you have one, add the message your design needs to communicate and then use the Canva features that help you do that job.

The rest can sit there quite happily until you actually need it.

This is also a large part of what happens during my 1:1 Canva sessions. We work with the designs you need to create and the things you need Canva to do, rather than trying to cram the whole bloody platform into your brain.

So, before you decide you’re “bad” at design, consider whether you actually need more design ability, or whether you need somebody to show you where the bloody button is hiding this time.

If that sounds familiar, book a 1:1 Canva session https://tidycal.com/m4ep4l1/60-minute-1-1-canva-session and let’s concentrate on the parts of Canva that will help you create what your business actually needs.

07/08/2026

At Onehunga Community Centre for my Canva for social media class.

Ready!

YouTube is brilliant when you know what you need to search for.But what happens when you don’t know what the Canva featu...
07/08/2026

YouTube is brilliant when you know what you need to search for.

But what happens when you don’t know what the Canva feature is called, where it lives or whether Canva can even do the thing you’re trying to do?

You can spend hours bouncing between tutorials, watching somebody create something completely different and hoping they’ll eventually click the button you need.

That’s where a 1:1 Canva session can save you a tremendous amount of time and frustration.

You bring the designs you regularly create, the things you’re struggling to do and all the questions you’ve collected while clicking around Canva. We work through them together, using your business and your actual designs rather than a generic example that may have stuff-all to do with what you need.

Sometimes that means showing you where Canva has hidden a useful feature. Sometimes it’s finding an easier way to do something you’ve been doing manually. And sometimes we look at a design and realise there’s simply too much s*t on it, with every word, image and decorative flourish clambering for attention.

You leave knowing more about Canva, but more importantly, knowing how to use it to create something that represents your business and that you feel proud to share.

What’s one thing you wish you knew how to do in Canva?

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Photo of Stephanie Wium by the lovely, talented Greer Films (who I can't tag) on the 3rd August 2026 at The Winter Gardens, Auckland Domain.

How much time do you spend choosing the same fonts, adding the same colours, the same Canva elements, and putting your l...
06/08/2026

How much time do you spend choosing the same fonts, adding the same colours, the same Canva elements, and putting your logo in roughly the same place every time you create a new design?

One of the best time-saving habits in Canva has nothing to do with keyboard shortcuts. It’s creating your own reusable brand templates for the designs you make regularly.

And no, I don’t mean scrolling through Canva’s template library, choosing something new every week and changing the colours so it somewhat, kinda resembles your brand.

I mean creating a branded starting point for something you design regularly and saving it as a brand template. Then, when you open a new canvas in that same size, Canva places your template right there between the templates you’ve recently used and the additional ones Canva suggests.

You click on it, your brand template is added to the blank canvas, and you can get straight to adding your new content. The original remains untouched, and all the design decisions you’ve already made are ready and waiting for you.

Your branding remains consistent; you’re not choosing all the choice bits all over again, and every design doesn’t start with you staring at a blank Canva page wondering where to start.

Building the framework properly once, then using it to create something new as often as you need it saves you MUCH frustration!

If you don’t yet have your own brand templates, or you’re not quite sure which designs are worth turning into templates, a personalised 1:1 Canva session can help you create a system that makes sense for the way you actually use Canva.

Do you have something you regularly share that could do with being made a brand template?

There’s something about a new month that calls for a reintroduction to the habit and (of course) an introduction to new ...
03/08/2026

There’s something about a new month that calls for a reintroduction to the habit and (of course) an introduction to new connections.

And, because it’s been a while since I introduced myself and, since my network keeps expanding, it seems only polite to tell you who you’ve connected with.

I’m Stephanie, a South African transplant living in Auckland, New Zealand. I’m 58, a partner, a mum and the very proud Oumie of three grandchildren. Two of them are ten-year-old twin boys, and the other a 19-year-old, so I’m regularly reminded that I’m neither as young nor as knowledgeable as I sometimes like to believe.

Before starting my business, I spent 13 years in the South African Police and much later worked as a C-suite Executive Assistant. These days, my working life revolves around Canva, the love of my business life. I train women in business to use it with confidence, create Canva designs for those who would rather hand the job over, and have been a Canvassador since 2023.

I am she who gets ridiculously excited when somebody discovers the button that solves a problem they’ve been wrestling with for (what feels like) months. I don’t simply teach where the buttons live, though. I teach you how to decide what belongs on your design, what doesn’t, and how to make sure the most important message is the one your audience notices first.

I am also the same person who chokes on air, falls up the stairs, bumps into everything and will laugh outrageously at something that is definitely not funny.

Outside of work, I love walking, usually while listening to an audiobook, and I’ve been known to go searching for spectacles that are already on my head (and sometimes I lose them from there too 🙄). I have strong opinions about overcrowded Canva designs; my humour is so dry you'd want to water it every now and then; don’t mind the occasional ***** (self-censored) word; and have very little interest in pretending that running a (my) business is anything but beautifully chaotic.

I’m also currently a finalist in two categories of the 2026 New Zealand VA Awards, which still feels slightly surreal after years of being far more comfortable cheering for other people than putting my own hand up.

So, that’s me: Canva trainer, designer, chronic overthinker, enthusiastic grandmother and somebody who is still figuring things out as she goes.

Now that you know a little more about me, tell me something about you that I’m unlikely to find in your professional bio.

*photo is a selfie … waiting on the lovely Hayley Greer with her amazing make-me-feel-comfortable skills to edit the few shots we did at the Winter Gardens at the Auckland Domain.

Create your own stock photo library.Instead of using stock photos found in Canva or any of the other stock photo sites, ...
31/07/2026

Create your own stock photo library.

Instead of using stock photos found in Canva or any of the other stock photo sites, create your own.

Use it as you would a photograph you find on your favourite stock photo site.

Create yourself a folder in Canva; remember you have unlimited folders available to you. Name it “My Own Stock Photos” (or something unique to you) and use it!

Besides the fact that we're always taking photos, it gives you a great starting point for content if you've run out of ideas about what to share.

Do the same with videos you take when out walking; it’s perfect for B-Roll (I don’t do this often enough)

This photo was taken through a rain-streaked window on a miserable day here in Auckland.

I uploaded it into Canva and quickly put this graphic together on my phone.

You can do this too! Stop hiding behind same-old-same-old stock photos!

30/07/2026

What keeps you creative?

We've all got some form of creativity in us, right?!

Some design websites; others write amazing copy. I've got one person in my network who's a puppet master; others are creative at teasing out the confidence in you to show up in video content. Some of us are designers; some of us are WIZARDS at helping us deal with past monsters.

and so on and so forth - the list is REALLY very comprehensive ...

So you see, we all have some form of creativity in us.

It’s not just about being creative with Canva designs. Even though many of my clients come to me saying they’ve not got a creative bone in their bodies.

I'm forever scrolling through social media looking at designs, posts by others, articles ... they're ideas for my own creativity later.

I'm a scroller, and not shy to admit it either.

I take my creativity from everything around me.

What happens in my life, what I see when I'm out, what people talk about.

LIFE keeps me creative. What keeps you creative?

One of the hardest things about learning Canva is that you don't know what you don't know.You can spend hours searching ...
29/07/2026

One of the hardest things about learning Canva is that you don't know what you don't know.

You can spend hours searching YouTube, jumping from one tutorial to the next, then head to Canva and start clicking random buttons and wondering whether you're on the right track. Sometimes you are. Other times there's a much easier way of getting to exactly the same result, but nobody has shown it to you yet.

This is why 1:1 sessions are perfect.

Yes, I'll answer the questions you've come with, but I also spot the little things that are slowing you down without you even realising it. It might be a shortcut, a feature you've never noticed before, or simply a different way of approaching a design that saves you time every single time you open Canva.

They're often small changes, but they have a habit of making Canva feel a whole lot less overwhelming.

When Lorna shared these words after our session, one sentence really stood out to me: "You don't know what you don't know."

I couldn't have summed it up better myself.

Thank you, Lorna, for trusting me with your Canva questions and for taking the time to share your experience. It was such a pleasure spending the hour with you.

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