 Hi everybody it's Sam here thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make this really lovely gift bag so this is for Mother's Day but of course just swap out the mum you can have this for any occasion change the papers and it can be more of a masculine make as well if you want but I always like to make an unusual closure or shape when I do my gift bag so this one I have these two pieces that I've added onto the top and then I've kind of attached them using that ribbon so really nice size you've got lots of space in there let me show you how to make it the paper pad I'm using today is the vintage dreams I picked this up from the range about 12 weeks ago it was before Christmas when I got this one so it may still be available I know lots of the range stores stock different styles of the craft sensations paper pads but you may also find it online places like the works may also have it as well so to make this gift bag you'll want two pieces of 12 by 12 so I've just picked out this lovely floor pattern here and you do get a wood grain on the back as well so if it's a directional paper make sure it's the right way up and you're going to score eight and eleven and a half and then you're going to rotate it and you're going to score it three and a half okay so that's all the scoring you need to do with those pieces and then for the side attachments I guess this is how it's going to end up looking so you'll want two pieces that are five and a half by three and three eighths of an inch I've come in one eighth of an inch smaller than the three and a half inch width just so that this sits in nicely on the side so three and three eighths by five and a half along the five and a half side you want to score it half an inch three inches and five inches then pop it back along the short side and you're going to score at one pass the first score line and down to the second then if you just flip it over and then score again down to the second score line so don't worry like I said they're cut lines so don't worry that the score lines are different ways it's just a guide for where you need to cut so you want to do that on both pieces so that is all the scoring done next you want to fold and burnish all of your score lines okay so with that half inch tab on the right hand side you'll have this three and a half inch section here so that's one of the sides of the bag and you've got this large section here with the other score line at the bottom so we've got this kind of square shape here it's within this piece here where we want to create that oval shape here now you don't have to add this section if you don't want to you can have it completely straight it's entirely up to you now the way I got this is by using this large die from the card making magic A5 oval dies and what I did is if I flip this over because I think it's going to be easier for you to sit mind you though it blends in with my background there possibly not let me grab some white paper there we go I've got a bit of white card stock just so you can see where we're working so you don't want you want to ignore the half inch tab you want to ignore this three and a half side like I said you're just running it from that corner to the end here so first of all I went along and I just laid this down so that the oval shape hit the point to point okay and I just drew with a pencil and then I just cut around that now what I can do with that same one is line it up on this piece here so make sure you've got the same tab there that three and a half side and I can just lay that over the top I don't want to use a circle you might want to just cut down maybe more of a square shape like come in one inch from each side and then come down or like a little rectangle and I have so many different styles of kind of finishes with gift bags and I'll share my gift bag playlist because you may well want to have a little look at that you know to get some more inspiration but that's how I created that shape along the top and with my scissors I'm going to remove the pencil line you can always rub anything out I'm just going to very neatly cut around that shape so next we want to do some cutting so you've got that half inch tab here on the right hand side again and then down here you'll have this score line you just want to cut up to that score line there so you're just removing that tiny little section like so and then you'll have another score line here again just cut up to the first score line there fold that one away and then just take a wedge off of each side it just means you won't have anything sticking out and then also take a wedge off of there and off of here now you may take a bit more off the top one in a moment because you might still see it when we attach it because obviously we've got such a thin amount at the top here so next I'm going to grab my glue and I'm just going to run some glue down the tab now also you might want to stick the side pieces on whilst it's still flat these are going to go in the top here but I think it's fine to do when you've put it all together so next you want to line up this base score line here make sure it runs perfectly with the next one as you see it kind of goes over here we can just trim and follow that curve in a moment once it's all dry so that's now dry and I'm just going to just follow the curve like so when you fold it over you'll see you get a nice join there you just want to repeat that on the other side so I'm going to fold this over again grab my glue and then all you need to do is bring that side down and the whole thing will line up it should lay completely flat and again I always say when I make my gift bags if you do want to make them now and store them away for later then don't stick the base down so when I go to stick this down in a moment you just skip that part you can still add all the decoration on the top if you need them because I know a lot of people like to make gift bags and maybe favour bags for weddings, hem parties for the bridesmaids for children's parties all kinds of things so it's a good way to store them until you need them and again just trimmed off that little bit there so now you can see we've got the start of that gift bag coming together so now I am going to stick my base down so it's going to make it easier to add the top decide which one you want to be the front or the back my patterns are exactly the same and I have got my top are going over this so I'm not too worried so I'm going to keep this one as the front here so this piece I'm going to stick down last so I'm going to stick the opposite one down first now depending on the weight of your cardstock you may feel that yours is a bit too light you know it's a lightweight card this one here actually let me just see what this is it's a 250gsm you can just see here which is brilliant but if you did feel that you wanted to add a bit more strength then you could put another sheet of maybe a 300gsm 110 pound cardstock in the bottom here or you could lay some greyboard in there it's entirely up to you I'm going to use Kalao with this and the gift that I've got going in here isn't very heavy so you know I'm not too worried but now's a good time to add any strength on top of this one and then it will be sandwiched in between all these other layers so then I'm going to pop down the sides pop some glue back on the top here so yeah if you are new to my channel I have loads of gift bags so if you do like to make packages I've got some lovely gift bag and gift box playlists so now you can just go in there you've got lots of room it's a really nice spacious gift bag maybe tissue paper to go on top or some white tissue paper either will look nice but that will now just dry nice and stiff so it will become very strong that's now done so next we've got these pieces here so you want to cut you've got this half inch here and then you've got where we've done all that scoring at this end that half inch side face away from you so you're working on this end here and you're going to cut down the score line down to the second and again pass the first score line and down to the second and then what you're going to do is cut from there down to the top of this score line here now if you would rather draw a pencil lay your ruler down first but if you've got these long scissors which I absolutely love then you can just do it in one kind of go and again I'm just going to come from the bottom here and I'm just going to line it up until I get to that point like so now this score line and this score line they're really just a guide you don't have to burnish them along with this one actually none of the score lines you need to burnish what I will do is add a little curve into this top section I've kind of done that one there we go we're next going to add some glue along here so again I'm going to bring in the quick grab glue and I'm just going to run that along here and then we're going to stick this inside and just use that score line as a guide so you get it nice and straight again depending on what you're putting in here the cloud glue would be great because that will become very very strong so you'll be able to put something heavier in there and you could also extend this longer so you stick more of it in here there's no reason why you couldn't do the whole kind of height of this that would also reinforce the sides but it would then ensure that if you did put something heavier in it it's going to be able to hold so next I'm going to do the same with the opposite side so you should have something like that next you're going to just what would be best to do is pop some glue behind here where we've got that other score line so just within that section and then you're going to stick it on the score line like so and it will hide behind there and you'll just see you get a nice finish so again just pop some glue just on there and then I'm just going to lay that down and you should have that's why it's good to put the little curve in with your bone folder or ruler or something you want to have that loop you want that to be round because you're going to thread your ribbon through there and again just repeat on this side okay so it has something like that next you want to grab your ribbon I think this is going to be long enough it was a piece of leftover from another project so you just want to thread your ribbon through and then you just kind of want to bring it together but it is also going to act as your handle so you know probably put your hand there so you can kind of get an idea and then you just want to tie a bow and then I'm going to finish it off with my topper so using those same oval dies I just picked out the sizes that I wanted and I have die cut the word mum using my chunky alphabet die set and I like to add foam behind mine so I've got this lovely thick foam here and I just die cut again using the foam and I've just stuck the blue over the top there using some foam and I'm going to have mum and then I've gone ahead and I have die cut a dragonfly which is from I think it was free in a magazine I want to say it was a card making magic one but it was just one here so if anybody recognises that let me know because I think that's where it was from but obviously you can have anything I was going to use a butterfly but I thought I always use butterflies let's go for a dragonfly and then I've taken these flowers the box number it doesn't give the number of this one oh yes it does sorry box number six there we go and I just took the flower dies from there and I've die cut them with some blue vellum on the top and then the same navy blue card stock I'm going to have one up in that left corner and then I'm going to have two down here and then I'm going to have the dragonfly kind of coming in like so so I'm going to stick all that down off with these two colours of the jewel drops I wanted something quite subtle so I'm using here grey mist because it will pick out that lovely grey colour there and steel blue and we'll add that right at the end so I'm going to go get this stuck down so there's my top I think it looks absolutely stunning you imagine once that tissue paper is coming out the top and then I always like my new vellum drops and I was looking at some of the ones I've not used for one I've got the jewel drops here and these just basically have a very subtle colour they will dry quite clear you can see the lovely little dots that you get and I'm just going to do just a few I like to do different sizes and it just fills in any kind of white space that you might have sometimes if you've made a project and you think oh it just needed something else these dots are just brilliant so I'm just using that very subtle grey colour try and have old numbers so I've got six there so I'm going to add another smaller one just there but you could obviously bring more in fact I will I think I'm going to bring a few more down here let's do a large if you go as big as that then it's going to take a bit longer to dry but if you do the small ones they're dry within about half an hour they don't take too long I also feel it needs a little bit of shine so you could use your sparkle pen but I'm going to use my glossy accent because I'm addicted to the stuff so I'm literally going to go over the letters here and I always say it will go on cloudy if you go quite thick but it will dry completely clear so I'm just pushing it right up into the corners it's very thick so it's not going to really kind of drip off the edges so you can get a nice almost looks like resin ok so there you can see now that lovely shine and dimension that you get just think it looks so good and then the Nuva drops are just drying nicely you get all that dimension there and I've got some sparkle with the little gems in the centers of the flowers there as well so there you have it a really nice size gift bag can't wait to just get some tissue paper and to fill this one this isn't going to my mum so don't worry mum if you're watching this is going to be given to somebody else but of course just swap that out and you can have this for any occasion so I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial today I will link up if I haven't already the other playlist for the other gift bags that I've got and also gift boxes on my channel and also check out the other Mother's Day playlist because I've got I think I'm on the fourth or the fifth year now of doing Mother's Day projects so there's a lot there if you do want some more inspiration and there'll be some tutorials popping up now that you may want to watch next if you haven't subscribed and you've enjoyed today's tutorial please hit the subscribe button and hit the notification bell and that way you'll be notified every time I upload a new tutorial thanks for watching and I'll be back again soon bye