 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I am back with a gift bag or this could be a gift box. I guess it's more of a box. It's a gable box, but this is using, there's no file, there's no dies needed. I've done this all from my head, racked my brain and yeah, I'm really really pleased with this rather large box. Now I'm holding it like this because my base isn't stuck down because these can fold flat. So as I do in a lot of my box tutorials, if I can, I will keep them kind of open on the bottom so I can store them away. But basically it would just undo the top and then the whole thing could be flat. So I know a couple of you will be going, yes, because you love it when I do flat-pack boxes because you like to make loads of things like I do and store them away until you need them. So that is the beauty of this one here. So like I said it's a gable box, lunch box, same kind of thing really. Again then the front one would usually be the last to go down but I've done a funny score line here where I wasn't concentrating. I was actually watching The Greatest Showman and kind of paused and was singing along and scored wrong, so it's my own fault. But you will fold down the back and then the two sides and then that one just so you got a nice finish there and you've also got a nice finish inside rather than those two side pieces you have just that one solid piece. And then you've got this flap here which will go through the back of that one so it just seals it up and keeps it all nicely contained and then you just push it down and each piece goes in the side. So I'm bringing it up there you can see. It looked really cool and then I finished off with this nice little die cut here and then these papers are the botanical papers from the first edition and I'm going to be using them again for the second one. So this measures at four by seven and three eighths of an inch so it's a really roomy size and this will work for all kinds of occasions. I don't know what I'm going to use this for no doubt it will end up being a birthday although possibly thank you I've got maybe an idea for that so I've left my sentiment empty there so I can pop whatever I need to on. So let's get straight into it bring in my scoreboard here with everything in it so I've already done one half of it because you don't need to see me doing both so we just take off all of my tools here so I've already die cut and just stuck that down ready. I haven't done the middle circle for this one because again I don't know you know I might want to stamp on it or do something else but again that's that piece there it's really nice. So that is one half already done because you're going to have two the same apart from one little piece which I'm going to talk through in a minute so I've already done all my pencil markings there to talk through with you. Basically you want two pieces of 12 by 12 cardstock now this one is slightly shorter on this side ignore that if you're looking in the video just listen to the score lines and do the score lines I tell you regardless of that again because I was watching The Great Showman I went a bit wrong but it's okay this would just be a slightly shorter one but you wouldn't notice the difference anyway. Okay so you're going to want to score along 12 inch side doesn't matter which one for a half an inch and at eight inches then rotate your card and you're now doing all of these score lines so the side ones really I guess and you're going to score at one and three quarters, three and three quarters and eight. Now I'm not going to score that one because I've actually scored slightly higher up ignore you want to score at eight on that one. Okay so that's all the score lines done get rid of your score board and you need to do some right burnish all your score lines I think that's going to be the easiest way for me to talk you through this first. Okay so you've got all your score lines now what I've done is I've started scribbling out areas that you're going to be cutting away but before you do that what will be easiest to do so at the bottom you'll have your largest base here so you've got a little quarter inch score line there this large base and then this four by four square then you've got that next section four by score four square and then a large section and then you've got these two smaller pieces it's this top one we're going to work on okay now the piece here so where this score line is along that very top one you've got that one score line there with the quarter inch and then you've got this score line all of that section there just run a pencil mark through like I've done okay just so you know you're not working you're not doing anything in that one and then this little tab here just put a pencil mark through as well you can go all the way down if you want to the second one like I've done there but just to make this easy for you to talk to talk it through okay so grab your ruler and what you want to do first of all is coming in start on this side so that score line here you're starting from the score line okay and you want to put a pencil mark along the top at one and one-eighth of an inch then come along to the other side again from that score line from where you just scribbled all that pencil mark you want to come in again at one and one-eighth of an inch and do a pencil mark and then line up those pencil marks down to that first score line so I'm gonna draw mine a bit darker now as I'm talking it through with you okay so you want to have these two lines down one and one-eighth of an inch coming in from that side and one and one-eighth of an inch coming in from those two score lines okay down to that first score line then again along that score line here always working from those two in the score lines you want to just mark at a quarter of an inch and at seven-eighth of an inch okay and then come down to that other score line and again a quarter of an inch and seven eighths of an inch and then join both of those up again okay I know with this ruler I can do it all in one go but for some of you that don't have this ruler I'm just going to talk it through as I have okay so that is now what you should have in that top long rectangle piece not in this one and not in that bit there okay then what you want to do is we're now working within just these sections here and here okay so on that top quarter inch line you want to come in at half an inch and put a pencil mark come down to the next line again half an inch and I've just put a little marker there so coming in from that score line half an inch and that one half an inch and again do that on that other one so come in from that score line half an inch and half an inch okay so what we're going to what this is starting to do is create this shape and this detail that we've got here so now put a pencil mark going through both of them just it's easier just to go through both I guess and then what you want to do is with a pencil we're going to be cutting out that very very top left our top right so you see what I've done there put a little pencil mark in there and there just so it all makes it easy for you to cut okay and then what we're going to do is do a pencil mark from let me do it and then I can explain to you this is the the most complicated part once this is done the rest is very easy so you can see what I've done now it's from the top of this one just do a pencil mark right down to there so it's hard to really say it but you can see what I've done there and down and then again put a pencil mark in all of that okay I'm going to hold that there and you can pause the video and then you can see what you need to do so you just want to do a pencil mark past that quarter inch pencil line down to the middle of those four squares and again on that side there okay so hopefully that's all been explained okay then you've got this this rectangle directly below where you've just kind of scribbled all that pencil out you want to do a mark at two inches which is halfway so it's a four inch length there just mark at two inches and again at the bottom of that box two inches join that up okay and then put another pencil mark half an inch down into that pencil line like there so that's halfway that's two inches okay and then I've just come down half an inch and put a pencil mark okay that's it but you do need to repeat exactly that on that second piece which I've already done this is already and that's this is what we're going to cut out so that's the most like I guess awkward bit of a gable box I think that's why this just everybody does them in dies or a file online prints off a template and stuff um but there is a way to do it you know freehand so now what you want to do um is cut all of this out okay so we're going to cut that section out and we're going to cut um all of this out so you're going to get that shape okay so you can see there how you will get that shape like so and then once you've cut that out we can then you can cut this out as well come down that other quarter inch um half inch sorry piece there and then miss the whole of this middle section which is the second largest section up from the bottom and then just I've put pencil marks all the way through that as well so that's everything we want to cut out so I'm going to do it I'm still going to talk you through it just because I wanted we've got all different abilities that watch these so um I'm going to turn it on its side and start cutting up from here first and just cut straight we are going to cut this again but I'm just again keeping it nice and simple now I'm removing all of the score line as I do this so all of that bulky score line is is on this section here you can see it there okay so you just want to remove that it just gives your box an overall um better look and again here I'm removing all of that score line so and then cut along again we're taking off all of the bits where we've scribbled in pencil um I should have said at the beginning actually you could do this as a template on scrap paper first on a you know an old piece of 12 by 12 um and then keep that okay so you can see what I've cut out there to give me that effect once you've rub out all the pencil marks um then you'll see that shape come together and then again all the way down this side again all of that score line is all on my right hand side and again and then go down to that next score line removing it and then take out that whole section again now that score line's on my left hand side I'm totally removing it all okay so back to the the right way up that's what you should have this piece here just take a little wedge out of each corner okay I'll just lay that down so now that's what we've got now before I rub out all of this pencil mark I'm going to just do it first and because on one of them you want to keep the the piece in and on the other one you want to cut it out completely now on this one I'm going to cut it out completely but basically what we're going to do now is I'm going to put a pencil mark on this because I'm removing it but this whole piece here along that score line I was a really badly drawn line there there we go so that section there I'm actually going to remove the whole piece so on this one on one piece you need to take the whole piece out on another one you just want to cut up here along here and down here do not cut this line you want it to stay attached like this okay so you want one where it stays and you want one where you remove it completely so I will do this as if it's going to stay just so you can see what it looks like so I'm using the Tim Holtz ruler it's got metal on the side here or just use a metal ruler push down really hard on your ruler and push your knife against the metal so that's that side and then again always taking extra care with your fingers and then go all the way along that top so so this one here you can see now so that's what you will have on one of them okay so just the three sides and now I'm going to remove all of it and I'm going to take out the score line again so I'm just coming slightly under this is a really good knife this is the tonic it's a new one that I've brought and I really like it so far it feels nice in my hand it feels safe and yeah so if any of you aren't wondering that's what it is so there you go you can see now I've removed that all completely then if we go over to this bit here so you remember we came down at half an inch what you want to do there is from the bottom left and right of that same rectangle you just want to put a pencil mark like so okay and then again now we are going to cut all of that and all of that out okay so in fact before we cut that we need to do another cutting line so then what you want to do is we're going to cut within with along this pencil line but you want to cut to the left of the pencil line and to the right of the pencil line so that you basically are taking out this tiny little like not even one eighth of an inch inches like a couple of millimeters okay so you now again from that half inch mark I would come down how far have I come down there about a quarter of an inch so come down a quarter of an inch and come up a quarter of an inch like so so just come down from there by a quarter of an inch and come up by a quarter of an inch and cut down between those two markers like I said to the to the right and left of the pencil mark just so it gives you that little kind of gap like so and then I can just use my knife to just cut the little bits across okay you can see there where I've just cut through and just open it up there okay so I don't need to rub all that out so I'm going to cut most of it away so now just cut and then just follow that same cut line from before just continue it all the way down so now I can go and rub out these pencil marks although some of mine are probably going to stay because I'm really heavily marked some of those pencil marks so you could see them but actually that's okay okay so just go and rub out all your pencil marks if you've done that that's fine I mean you're not actually going to see this bit really because it's all inside so I'm not too worried but if you've done a template then you could draw around your template on your nice paper okay but I've said I'm not too worried you're not going to see any of that now along the bottom we need to cut up this piece here which I've forgot so just cut straight up really neat because this is your base but this piece here is your side kind of tab so if I fold that one up and then just come in about half an inch from the bottom and just go all the way up on an angle and just take a nice big wedge out of that and again this will just stop any bits hanging out at the bottom when we can stick it all together like so don't worry if it's a bit wonky it doesn't really matter there we go so that is what you should have okay so again you can freeze freeze the video there just so you can catch up remembering one piece will have this completely removed the other one will have it still attached along this bottom piece here okay so now I'll bring in my other piece so like I said this has got that piece on this one hasn't that's the only difference between them and what you're going to do is stick your tab over this side here and then the other one so I'm going to grab my okay so I'm just going to pop some glue and then just butt them up against each other and just fold that over keeping it all make sure these score lines all match up I'd say that's the most important parts and it will mean then that it's nice and straight I'm just going to spread that out like so and then fold over this one and pop glue again on that one and then fold this one over and they should it was kind of not sweat at this point but hope that they do but it should just marry up perfectly that means that everything is in place you've done all your scoring correct correctly you've cut it all correctly and you can store it away now nicely flat because that is now it's flat form that's how it will be okay so I'm just gonna make sure that my glue is nicely stuck down around both sides okay so again I'm not sticking my base but if I was choose which one you want to be your from doesn't really matter they're both the same I'm gonna have this one I think so your back one will go up first then your two small sides and then your main front okay and then what you want to do is just fold these side pieces out and then those will fold out this piece of the flap needs to fold in and it's going to go through that other side okay like so and then you'll see now they all come together and then just push it down and pop it in each of your sides like so and there you have actually you'd want that to be that's it well whatever side that goes over your flap that ends up then be in the back so you want this piece to be the front so I'll put that one up two sides in there we go like so it doesn't really matter but that's how it will look like so isn't that really cool I absolutely love these and they're so big and then I've got this here which I can put on because this isn't going to affect it folding flat just pop some glue obviously you can decorate this however you want a nice big tag hanging from it loads of flowers I'm going to stick that in the middle that's about right and there you have it really lovely boxes or gable boxes so there's my other one just to give you some inspiration there so they're all yeah I love these prints really different love the mustards and the greens and yeah I think they really work well so like I said what size were they they were four by seven and oh seven and a half yeah four by seven and a half that one was slightly different I think four by seven yeah but that's the size it will be now four by seven and a half so really good size boxes love love love them hope you do too give them a go share the pictures as always and yeah please give me a thumbs up if you enjoyed today's tutorial and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye