 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Upcraft thank you for watching my tutorial today I've got a really fun huge tall gift bag which I'm calling my piñata gift bag because I've done all of this you can hear it this lovely kind of tassel trim which reminded me of a piñata you can see it all on the side there now the whole box folds flat whole box whole bag like so but again that's optional and I'll talk you through that I just recycled from some handles from a fancy bag that I had and then I've got this lovely big gift tag here all the papers and everything that I'm using are from the fiesta fever paper pack which I'll show you in a moment but it's really big so this is using A4 so it's this piece on the front is the whole piece of A4 it's not been scored or nothing that's the front piece so this is very very similar in terms of structure to the big 12 by 12 one that I've done but I was looking back through my gift bags and realized I hadn't done one that uses the full size of A4 and you can also use letter size so you can use this if you've got 11 by 8 and a half or the A4 okay so I'll talk you through that and then the back I've just kept plain again if you want to you can obviously do all that but I've also finished off my holes there with little eyelets just to give it a bit more of a luxury feel and it is it's gorgeous I absolutely love this so I'm going to fold it back down flat because it can still store I mean they're not going to go completely flat even if they're up against something they will still just want to pop up so yeah so let's crack on so that's the paper pack which I've down to a few pieces now so I did use a lot of scrap for this one which was another reason why I wanted to do it okay so you are going to need I've got all these bits here which is the tassels so again that's completely optional you might just want to make this as a very large gift bag so that's fine I've got some again recycled handles there you can obviously use your ribbon that one's the tassel that I'm going to show in a minute and there are all the other bits and pieces so the main bag it's really really straightforward there as well so you need two pieces of A4 or letter size paper it's entirely up to you this is A4 so it's eight and a quarter by eleven and a half okay so I've got two pieces if you've got the letter paper that will be 11 by eight and a half and that's fine to use as well so you need two pieces of whatever size you want there then you'll need two pieces of five by whatever length card it is you're using so either 11 or 11 and a half or even 12 but the width needs to be five okay so five by whatever length you want there and then one piece of five by this is eight and a quarter I'm sorry this is five by nine and a quarter because this is to go if if you're using let me just work this one out because I want to make sure that everybody can do it so this is the size you need for the A4 paper which is the width of eight and a quarter if you're using a letter paper which is eight and a half then this piece will need to be nine and a half long okay so it just needs to be the width of whatever it is you're using so hopefully once you watch me put this together then you'll get what I'm saying but this is for A4 size so five by eight and nine and a quarter for letter paper size it's still going to be five but this will be nine and a half just add an inch because you're having a half inch tab on each side okay so back to our two big pieces here if you want it to fold flat one of the pieces will be your back and along the bottom here you want to score it too okay that's all you need to do if you want it to fold flat then on your two side pieces here you need to score it half an inch and at four and a half okay then if you want it to fold flat rotate it and score at two okay and then rotate it back again and score it two and a half all the way down I just come up there all the way down to that first score line just that one that you done before that's only if you want it to fold flat okay these measurements here are all the same even if you're using the other sizes okay and even if you've got that longer at nine and a half this will still be the same okay because we're keeping the width as long as your width is five on everything so five five five then you're fine and then this is the base so that's that five by nine and a quarter or nine and a half along the five inch side you want to score it half an inch and four and a half sorry bring that down so you want to score it half and at four and a half then along the long side so you're going to score it half again and basically just rotate it and just score it half it's easier then so no matter what size you've got just score it half an inch on all four sides should have said that at the beginning trying to do it so that you can use any size card that you want and try not to confuse you too much along the way okay so that's done now with the scoreboard so these side pieces here where we've scored down to this line here so this score line down here we're now going to score from there down to this corner and then there down to that corner not to the corner of the card just the corner of the score lines on each side and this is what you do with all of your fold flat gift bags so the little I'll put a little um playlist up now of all my fold flat ones and you're seeing all of those tutorials this is exactly what I do so I'm just scoring there with my metal ruler along the bottom okay so construction for this is very very easy especially if you don't even want it to fold flat because all you've got is these two score lines here you're not doing anything else all you need to do with these bigger pieces is just take a little wedge just tiny just stuff of all of your sides your kind of you know the little tabs just so you don't get any of it overhanging not a lot because you still want it to obviously stick to the bag the other side of me but just a little bit there you can see I'm taking hardly anything off okay like so and then just burnish those score lines you should then be able to see these better once I've burnished all of this on the bottom one and then you can just kind of pinch that one in and then if you bring it up kind of push one of the triangle score lines there you can see there just bring it up just to kind of define all those score lines okay so just repeat that again on the second piece okay so you'll have two side pieces like this then with your base here all you want to do is cut those squares out in each corner like so so just go around and just remove those squares okay and then we're going to tidy them up as well so just take again little wedges off of each corner again just to stop any bits of cards sticking out from over the edge and then just burnish all those score lines you can burnish before or after it doesn't actually make any difference like so okay so that's our base so you can kind of see now what's happening is all of these pieces here all going to stick to the bottom very easy but before we do that I want to decorate my front piece so if you are having this as a fold flat and you've got the one with the two inch score line there that's your back so the plain piece here is what I'm now going to stick all of these on and this is what is the fun part for me this is what makes the gift bag so what I've done is cut strips that are the width of whatever I'm using so this is the A4 so it's eight and a quarter obviously if you've got the letter paper then you would have yours at eight and a half and then they're two inches thick okay and then I've got my trusty vegetable scissors here but these are great and if they ever get blunt just cut them through some foil you know aluminium foil kitchen foil just to kind of sharpen them up again but all you want to do is just go along and just cut up leaving about a quarter of an inch from the top it's really really quick and this is what I use and this is the same technique to make tassels so these could easily now be turned into tassels if you wanted but not today and then just at the end there so you've just got this trim and then just with my bone folder depending on what pattern you want I might want to have that one but whatever pattern you want showing you want that facing down so I want the plain green so I'd face that down and then just curl all of the edges there like so and now we've got this fun trim so I've done 17 of those but again you may have more you may use less it's entirely up to you now I've already gone ahead and I've put strips of red tape along the top there so you can see and now what I'm going to do is lay them out in their piles so I can kind of pick up from each one as I go so that's more pink I've got some more of some others because like I said I did raid my scrap drawer like so okay so on this one here I started with the green and I started quite high up because obviously it's two inches down so I you come up yeah about two inches all right because it does curl up at the bottom but you want to stick your first one so let's go for what have I got more of let's go for this pink one and find it here and you start from the bottom up so obviously you're layering over the top of each one so I'm just going to peel off my backing okay and then just roughly I can kind of straight and one out to see where I need to be put that one down and again just make sure that one sits nicely and then stick it down already there's our first one looks so good now when I stick the next one down I stick it let me just take the backing off of here stick it about a quarter of an inch half an inch up above it let me just check that is what I've done yeah so I just bring it up here so I'm just going to stick this one about half an inch up like so okay just like that I'm trying not to get my fingers stuck and then again you just want to the main thing for this is making sure that you keep it straight if you find yourself starting to go off at an angle and you can you know rectify it so each time you stick one down just hold it up so I can see already I've gone slightly down on that side but it doesn't matter at this point but as long as you're aware then you can obviously change it so now I'm going to do this blue one and I'm just going to work my way all the way up and I will come back when I'm nearly finished okay so that's now all done I just love brushing it you can see on the side there how it looks looks so good so now I've got the top now you could leave that nice neat strip there but I have already cut these so these pieces here are half an inch by whatever the width is that you're using so in my in in my case it's eight and a quarter yours would be eight and a half or 12 or whatever it is like I said you're using so all these measurements will be in my blog as well so if I have sounded confusing at all just to revert to that because you'll be able to see everything so I'm just going to add this over the top is very very sticky excuse me if my head is in the way but I want to make sure they get kind of lined it all up then the other one is to go on the back here so where your two inch school line is keep that at the bottom and then just run this along the top okay so that is my front and my back so now we can start putting it all together so with your base where you've burnished and done all of your school lines there it's entirely up to you whether you want to use red tape or wet glue I'm going to use red tape and I'm just going to run it along here it doesn't matter that it doesn't cover the whole half inch tab there this is the red tape which is very strong anyway but I'm just concentrating on keeping it as close to the school line and not the outer edge okay so if you have got a tape and you know it's a strong one but it's not thick enough don't worry because what I can do is run just a little bit of my wet glue along this other piece here okay so that's the base ready then get these pieces already as well so these are the two side ones with your tabs so again I'm going to run my tape all the way along again concentrating on keeping it closer to the school line than the outer side okay and again whenever you're using red tape just go along with your bone folder or a ruler and just squeeze out any air bubbles and you'll see because there'll be white little dots and when you go over them it will go nice and red and that's what you want you know then that you've got all of that tape stuck down okay so now we're ready to put it all together so flip your base over and turn in your sides and then what we do first of all is we stick down these so turn them over and basically you're going to stick this lining up your score lines and stick it down to that fold it over you just want to get a nice clean join like so and then do the other side this is when it's going to get too big for my camera now so I'm going to end up again facing down fold that one under line up your score lines and fold it like so again there's the sides and now these bits are going to all come in along with the base sides and those sides and we're going to stick the front and the back on so we do the back first okay so fold this one in take off that and it's up to you how you want to do it but this should just be the whole width of that tab so you just want to make sure that you get it perfect like so okay and then you can take this side one off here it's up to you which one you want to do first fold it right in bring it up and then basically starting from the bottom you just want to keep it completely flush your two inch score line should meet up perfectly with the score lines on this here you can see there's my two inch one and it matches with that one there and just very carefully slowly make sure it's nice and tall and it meets the top and you can just go in like that and then with my bone folder I'm just going to go in and just really push down on that red tape again getting all the air bubbles out and make sure it's all stuck down if you've got wet glue then obviously you've got the wiggle room once you use this tape you know once it's stuck there's kind of no way out so yeah wet glue might be good if you haven't done this style before and then again take this next one off it's so much static it's all sticking to me and again fold it under and just I'm holding it up with my hand so it's not actually touching I can really kind of control what bit I want to stick down as I go so again just slowly pinch it as you join this two together there and then when I get near the top just line that up flip it over like so I've opted to go for a contrast with the white sides it but you don't obviously have to do that you can have it all the same okay so there's our back done now we need to do the front so if you take this bottom piece off and you can just tack the bottoms down of your sides there like so and then just kind of fold them in and grab this piece all right and first of all you can just lift up the corner of one of these you don't want to take them right off so just kind of fold see what I've done there just kind of fold it over and then you can just very carefully line that up with the corner and all the way along there and again I need to take that one off as well I'm just going to catch it with my scissors there we go and just kind of don't pull it right off just keep it hanging out so and then I'll go back to this side here and hold the top in place it's all lined up the bottom's already tacked down I can just then pull that red tape out and I know that that is all lined up perfectly I'm just going to turn it on its side even though it's got the tassels on I can still flatten it just to make sure that's all stuck down back to this side here hold the top in place make sure this is all nicely lined up and just pull that red tape again if you're using wet glue then obviously you can't do it this way but you'll have the wiggle room so it won't matter and again flip that over just go in and look at that really lovely this is so strong this box or bag sorry really really strong we've definitely hold like heavy like wine and beer and stuff like that now to check that it obviously folds flat push your finger into the top of the triangles there and at the same time along that score line at the back just kind of bring it all together it will go and just kind of help it along a little bit there and you can see open it back out again now I just need to add my holes so this is obviously the eight and a quarter inch length so I came in at two and a half inches from the outside and half an inch down so I punched just below this strip that I added so two and a half I'm just going to put a little pencil mark on the green there and again here two and a half and again flip it over okay and then I've just got my hole punch and I'm just going to line that up and then you can add the metal eyelets it's optional I'm going to leave them off for the minute feed them through then I've got this lovely big gift tag which I'm going to feed through there and then that one and then just pop the ones in the back and there you have it a really lovely huge A4 or letter paper size gift bag it's just it's lovely it's so so nice I love this and obviously I've got this piñata style so just show you the side there the back and the side again and you can see inside you've just got so much space they really are spacious and they fold nice and flat so that's that one there and here is my other one oh I love them they're so colourful they're so fun and I just keep touching them so there I hope you like it I love this one as always if you've enjoyed it please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye