 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. Excuse the noise, it is just decided to, can you? It is absolutely hammering it down with rain. There is snow on the moors and it is freezing cold outside so I have been waiting and waiting but it just doesn't seem to be you know easing so I'm just going to have to carry on. So if you do hear anything it's the bad weather outside. Anyway nice and warm inside and I am going to be showing you how to make this really very cute concertina backpack. Now I made a backpack I've made two or three now on the channel they're always really popular and I've been requested a lot last year to do another one so it's high up on my list of requests for this year so I thought I would share this one. Some of you might recognise this part here, this is from a die set but it's very easy to do and I'll give you the measurements of all these pieces so you'll easily be able to do it without those dies but they are nice to add on to your own size and yeah I really love I love the side of it I think that that's obviously the main part for me it's just that concertina style but also the back I mean obviously you wouldn't probably be able to get that on if it was a real backpack like that it's more almost like crossover the front of your body but I just think it looked nice so if you want to do them the proper way then look at my backpack playlist up here and you'll be able to see my very popular one where they go across one that side and one that side so if you wanted to you well you could put it on like maybe a teddy bear or something but um I just thought I'd do it a little bit different so I always like to keep each tutorial you know different and then with this one here they just come out of their little slots there you open it up and you've got that nice kind of expanding side there lots of room inside of it obviously you can the width is you know that half inch if you wanted if you knew that you had something much bigger going in here then obviously that concertina would come out and your lid could come out further and then fold down so you would have to play around with your measurements but for what I need this for this size is perfect and obviously my glue is not set properly because that one's just come off but we'll just pretend that's still there and then this here is actually a birthday um badge that I had for my birthday and I thought I'm going to reuse it and the colors work perfectly with this one and then I just put a little tassel a little bit of fun on there as well but uh yeah let me show you how to make it okay so that's the dies that I use they're from the versatile backpack gift bag by simply made crafts I think it's still available I know it did sell out but they do you know when they sell it they do kind of get the stuff back in again so um I'll check and again the links will be shared below if they're still available but the buckle you can see they look brilliant they really do look really nice and you can use them on all sorts you know I use the buckles for a Father Christmas belt and you've got a little passport you've got a pen you've got all sorts but this makes your backpack and again that'll be in that playlist for those of you that maybe have this die and maybe miss that one so I've gone ahead and die cut all the bits I need now the papers I'm using are from this lovely pad which I picked up recently from the range it was $2.99 it's called happy and they're just really nice happy colors so it was nice to have something new because I was getting a bit bored of what I had so let me grab all the bits you need and also I'm using these beautiful faceted little embellishments you just need to add your hot glue or like a glue dot on the back of them because they come without the adhesive so I've got my hot glue gun on and now I can't pick them up but I'll just pop them to one side and then I've gone and die cut those bits but I'll give you the measurements for those because it's very easy to cut like I said you don't need the die but it is a nice little you know extra touch with the detail there okay so you want two pieces that are seven by twelve so the bag actually uses two pieces of twelve by twelve but what I would say is you want something that's double-sided because this piece here and this piece you can see there there's your twelve by twelve so I've cut it so that it's seven by twelve and you want two pieces of that size and you want to score it four inches along the long side fold and burnish then the reverse side I've then used so this will be your five by twelve but I flip it over and that is what I'm going to have as the side detail so you'll see on this one this was the backside of this yellow okay so when I open it if you look inside there you can see the yellow then against the blue and I just think it's a really nice way to use your you know double-sided papers not all packs have good double sides some of them are they just clash and they don't go at all but there's some really nice ones in this pad so yeah it's nice to be able to use them so yeah two pieces of twelve by twelve but also if you don't want to have your sides different then you can keep it as one piece all right so with this piece here two pieces like I said five by twelve and along the twelve inch side you want to score at four okay and then rotate it back and then along the five inch side you want to score at half an inch and four and a half all the way down but then you want to score every half half an inch after that just to that first line here so you want to score then at one inch just down to that score line one and a half two two and a half three three and a half and four yeah that's the last one because you've already done your four and a half which will be all the way down so you can just make them out there you'll see all my score lines are just to that one there which is that one that you scored at four along the long side okay okay so fold and burnish but with this one here the folding is a little bit different so I'm going to fold along that one and fold down those two that you can score the way down okay and then just to help with the um folding of the concertina parts if you cut up from the bottom so there's all the concertina score lines you're working on that bottom piece just cut up to that score line there and then just cut straight along here now you can cut them on an angle if you want I'm going to have to because I was just in the normal mode of making tabs which usually we hide and therefore we cut little notches on them and things like that but for this one because it's decorative ie um I know you don't do it on the back you only do it on oh actually yeah that's a point I can have that on the back because you won't actually see them so it's fine keep them straight if you see there they're just straight because I actually have them as a a feature you can actually see them that's optional if you want to hide them because on the back you actually do it the normal way so the tabs are inside so if you want it to look like this then that's fine I'm going to show you that anyway but I do like that detail on the front so it's entirely up to you but I just remembered yeah so that one mind you though I've done it on both so I'm going to have to cut mine so it will all come clear some of you might be thinking I don't know what you're on about Sam but in a minute you'll notice what I'm talking about I might end up putting both of mine underneath actually now saying that so I don't think I like them on an angle not for this anywhere I think I prefer them straight so anyway that's what you want there and then you want to start Constatina folding so you already have a mountain here because that's the tab so the next one needs to be a valley but you want to just kind of go down well as far as you can without obviously you know ripping anything and then do you know your mountain valley just take some time you know don't like I said don't you don't need to fold them all the way down and you will notice that you want it to have a little bit of a rock you see mine just rocks a little bit because when we stick it together you'll get a natural curve here you can see it along the bottom there so again that's all you know supposed to happen but you can see I'm just pinching down all of those score lines and go underneath I mean if you wanted to you could fold all the way down because that's going to be hidden you know it's your tab but you just have to kind of just work with it just manipulate it each way until you've got all those folds in place that one needs to be a valley this is the fiddliest part everything else is very very straightforward you'll see now and then those will end so that's what you want all right so you have a mountain yeah start with the mountain valley mountain valley mountain valley and end with the mountain one two three four five mountains you should have okay and then that's going to go under and you can see already that there's a slight curve just ever sit ever sit slightly but that's what you will have so I've already done it on that one and just prized them back apart again because it will make it easier to fold everything together also for the handles I'm using like scraps I'm going to use that side because it's got the same it's all from that same paper pad so the turquoise is the same but this is two pieces of 12 by one okay and then for the lid this is a piece of five by seven and along the five inch side I've scored at half an inch and one but obviously if you want yours to be wider you need that half inch because that's your tab that's how you're going to stick your lid down but you might then want to do your score line two and a half so then that gives you a two inch width that the the concertina fold can come open come open can be open so two and a half and then the score line would be here and come down the side okay you might just want to keep it curved and don't score at all and just curl the you know if you put a you know go like that with your bone folder and just curl the whole lid so then you can kind of almost have it as an expanding one so have a play around I always say people are new to this kind of stuff use some maybe you've got some 12 by 12 paper that you don't particularly like maybe you know you've got um just like some scraps that you use to do your kind of fest go and then you can see if you want to change it but that's what you want to have all right if you want to round off the edges and things like that you can do as well and also I haven't cut my piece but you want a little bit for the handle and this is oh wow five eighths of an inch by roughly we're looking at what's that three and a half so six seven and then half so eight yeah so I do well you could do three quarters by eight or five eighths of an inch by eight but I will cut mine in a bit so get rid of the scoreboard now we just need to stick it all together okay so you need to kind of do it bit by bit now this is when it's up to you so if you want to have your tabs showing then you would stick it outside and you will put glue under here but I actually think I'm going to do this underneath this is much much busier stripes and flowers do work well together but I think just right on top of each other like that I'm not sure if I like it so much um whereas I think I'm going to prefer this one like that whereas I don't know because they're such block colors um it's a bit different so yeah so it's up to you you either put your glue on the outside or the underside just depending on how you know you want it to be seen so I'm just going to grab my glue and plus it's a good way to show you how they look because I've done one obviously that way and then the other one I'm doing this way so just pop your glue along that tab and then just line up make sure you get your base score line lined up that's the most important one you can always trim the top just bring it around make sure it all folds in which it does so I know everything's lined up there so do that one and then we're going to do the back last because you need to add the handle so then you want to go and stick this side all right so we work all on the front first usually you work your way around but it's slightly different with this one so I need to do this one here you need to cut a wedge off the bottom as well totally forgot so it's too busy talking about the side so just take a little bit off there I'd already done that one these are now going to both stick inside like so and we're going to bring that all up so I'm going to add some glue both of these sides and stick them in just bring it up and bring that one around bring it up and you can just go in there and just stick everything down because this is the back one this one is going to stick inside on the top there so and cover all of that and make the inside really neat but what we want to do before we stick all this in is we need to prepare our handles so again just make sure that's all where it needs to be got a nice right angle everything's nice and neat at the front I'm going to keep that to one side and grab your handles just go over with the bone folder just so you can put a curl in them it will just help you know you get that look so it's up to you now how you want to do it so we pretend just so you can give you a few options so pretend that's in there so if you wanted to you could put your handle in like this and you could go in the base okay you could have one there and then another one next to it if you wanted to do I won't be able to hold them both in place but I think you can get what I mean so there'd be something obviously a little bit further apart but something like that that's you know you get backpacks like that but I like to do them from the inside there and then in the side here okay so or you can cross them over so you'll have this one going over this side and then the next one going over that side which will give you that effect so there's loads of ways that you can do this you might opt to not do them at all and just have the top little loop there and keep it at that you know you might want to just put a handle on the top it's entirely up to you so what I would say first of all is we're going to glue all of the bottom of this in place I'm going to pop that in there and again just give that a minute to stick you want that to be nice and secure okay so now we want to decide you know where you want your handles coming down I'm going to have mine because you have to do the sides first and then the top we will do when we put the lid in so there are a few steps to this just like my other one but the results are really nice when it's done so what you want to do is just you don't need to score anything you just want to put a little like you know crease in it doesn't really matter too much about the angle in that sense you just want to you want to do an angle but whatever you do on this one it needs to be the same on the other so you can see I've just folded across there so that is one and a quarter so then on this one because now what's going to happen is that can go in there and it will fold you see there and go up like so okay so it gives us that handle so this one you want it to be on the opposite you'll see there so that that fold that height there is one and a quarter so on this side again one and a quarter so I'm just going to grab a little pencil just pop a little marker there and then on this one I want to fold across that way so now if I bring it up you see what I've done got the opposite so you know you might come up one inch you might come up one and a half but whatever you do make sure they're the same on both sides okay then you want to add your glue to the underside of that triangle oh I was squeezing that so hard I was like I think there's more air in here than there is glue and look at that oh my gosh I'm going to save that because this is good glue just pop a bit on there and hopefully it will you know give me time to it won't dry too fast there we go oh my gosh I'm going to leave that in right so now you're going to go in with the point right down to the bottom of the bag there and just fold that across the fold more than enough glue on there might take a little bit longer to grab now because there's so much glue on there if I just go in from the underside can you see how it should look so just following the you know the the fold that you've done so point right down to the very bottom of the bag and then just bring the rest over this is if you want to do fiddly handles like me but I think that's what makes it a really cool project you know those backpack handles is what brings it all together so now you have something like that and this is them when you can decide if you want them to cross over because they do look I think they look quite cool like so in fact I'm going to do it again on this one but if you don't want to keep them like that and then you'll have that that effect it's entirely up to you how you do these you'll see there they kind of go off on an on an angle they point you know outwards when you go over that way that's just to keep that curve kind of going the way it should all right so but I am going to do that one again like so so what I need to do see that's they come down quite far inside and you've only got your half inch tab there so if I stick that on you're going to have it sticking out underneath so once you're kind of happy where they are I'm going to take a bit off you have to judge that yourself but you know what you know you know what you kind of need to do when I stick that in yeah it's not going to overhang it's going to all be hidden underneath that tab so you want to stick these down next so again do this one first going to pop a little bit of glue hopefully yeah there's literally nothing like I must have had such a big air bubble inside so that one's going to go there which will you know you're coming in about the same spot I got there one and a half one and a half so and then look you can see where they are on the back side there all right so it's a bit it's a funny one to try and explain it's best for you to just watch what I do and then you know you can recreate yours because you're all going to be slightly different and everybody's going to probably do their handle slightly different so yeah by doing it that way I think you've got lots of options so now you can do the handle last we'll get these side pieces stuck down and in place I'm just going to run some glue just down each of these tabs do them both at the same time or one at a time it's up to you you might just have to feed that one in a little bit more just bring that all down it should all line up and that will help strengthen this bottom part of the handle as well because it's going to be sandwiched between the two I'm just going to just hold that in place for a minute while that glue dries okay so the backs all stuck down and now you can start reworking those concertina folds just on each side just kind of refold them again really give them a good squeeze you can go quite far down like so and you'll see now you start to get this arch and they will stay in place it's really cool love it okay then we just need to stick this down so we're going to run glue on the inside and this is going to sandwich in between your tops of your handles there you might need to take a little wedge off if it's not going to go in yeah it's going to buckle a little bit this one so I'm just going to take just a slight little bit off of just both those ends there try that one again fitting perfectly so you're going down to that school line see there and that top piece will be like that and everything will all line up like so okay so again run some glue along here and just stick that one in okay just remember to stuck this down my glue's still tacky you've got to put your little handle in can't miss my handle so I'm going to use this bit of pink here that's a good thing with that callow is it does give you some time so I'm going to do just say it was five eighths of an inch so we go about it doesn't matter we go about there I think mine might be yeah mine's about eight and then again just curve that I thought it was missing something I was like oh no and then I'm going to add a bit of glue to both sides just for good measure just cover about half an inch and you want it so that your thumbs are on top bring it around so your thumbs are still both facing you and on top and then you know you've got it the right way and then so you want to stick this in first I'm just going to prize this open slot those two in just got away with it it's up to you where you have them that might bring mine a bit closer together so it's more in the middle of those pieces there but again tied up to you and like I said not everybody's going to have these anyway we'll want to use them so but I'm quite happy with that there so remembering all the steps it's all right when you're watching the tutorial because I've got that I'm there telling you but when you forget when you're doing the tutorial okay so I've still got a bit of drying time but now we can start decorating the front okay so some of you may have the Simplymade crafts die and some of you might go and look at my other tutorial because you made mystics it was about two two and a half years ago now but on that one I do a big pocket on the front I do pockets on the side but obviously this has got a fold on it so you can't add pockets there but I'm keeping this one plain because of this time the way that I'm you know using these so I've gone ahead and cut two of these but I've also reinforced them by cutting two again in the 300 gsm white cardstock just to really strengthen them and then you've got two of these which are going to be this detail here and then these tiny ones I've got two of them so I'm going to give you the measurements of these so you can cut something similar so these measure three quarters of an inch by five so two but like I said you might want to reinforce and then these are just over half an inch you want to I do five eighths of an inch by one or three quarters two of those and these tiny pieces are a quarter of an inch by I do one and a quarter again you want two of them all reinforced okay then I've got these bits here I'm going to stick these on the first just while I've got everything flat now these ones here you would have to maybe you've got a square die that you could do one and then cut it again with a smaller die inside but you're looking at it's just over one by yeah I think one by one would be two you're better off doing one and one eighth squared or one and a quarter squared but you need to cut that other hole in the middle it has to be big enough for this to go through because that's going to go like so it's a decorative piece but you know you don't need to have that little notched piece you just have a square just pop a little bit of hot glue on there and I'm just putting them on just towards the ends of these pieces just nice bit of decoration looks like a little bit of like hardware that you would get I know some of you have got some like real rivets and things like that you know from when we've done like the handbag tutorials you've got real chain all that kind of stuff you know I've got a really um I've got some really good playlists with like the handbags and I love using the hardware but I just love these little embellishments I think they work really nice add a little bit of sparkle okay so that's them ready and then you can stick this onto here as well so again I'm using my hot glue just for speed I'm just going to pop a little bit there it's up to you how far down you come I'm going to come down about one inch keep it nice and straight so you don't want anything to be wonky like so and then with this one I'm happy with that I can stick them down separately and I'll stick that down separately so actually now I use my hot glue to stick these ones on here so I'm going to add a bit of hot glue there there and there and I'm going to stick this one about there and then again I would say don't use the hot glue I would say use your normal glue because you don't have the wiggle room as much with this but I'm risking it and then that one is going to go there yeah I think I've got away with it okay and then we want to stick these down again you can still do them last so you pull this down it could be you know much lower I'm going to probably have it about there so it will be a little bit fiddly because this will obviously naturally want to kind of flip up and also you can't lean on this because you're going to squash your handle so and you want to put a small amount of glue because you don't want it oozing and sticking more of this down because that's got to fit through so like I've just there done this is terrible it's too much way too much glue coming out of this let's take some of that off like so once you know where it needs to go take it off and stick it flat so I can see that one can go there and then pop a little bit might be a little bit too fiddly to do so have a look at the other ones because you know the simple pocket and the velcro dots and then all the decoration that you know they do look wonderful and it's a really nice tutorial like I said I do like to change them up and give you something different each time so now with this one you want to pop a little bit of glue on the top of that piece but on the underside of that one you need a little bit and then this is going to go in like this and I'm going to have it one I've just taken a little bit of the top off but you won't see it once it's inside here and then just kind of curve it a little bit again it would just help you feed it into that section and I'm just going to use my pokey tool just to start it off that's why you've got to be careful with the with the glue there I think because I've reinforced it with the thicker cardstock this needs to actually be a bit longer I'm tempted to make them a bit longer because yeah it's just going to pull those apart I'm going to take this off so yeah I mean I reinforced it because I was using a very weak card like this but I'm tempted now to just keep it like that it was fine on the other one but this one seems to be a little bit more um let's just do still the same kind of width but it's just a little bit wider and I can see where I've just taken that away so I know where to stick it so just yeah I have a little play around and you know just make sure it works for you you wouldn't you know notice these are great they work but I think because I've reinforced both pieces maybe all you need to reinforce them but don't keep these as thick maybe I don't know like I said it worked on the other one but I'm dry quickly okay so I had a little fight because I could not for the life of me think why does this one feel like it's not going together like the other one and then I realised this is a completely different size so this one I don't know why I cut it to that so this I told you and it's fine the measurement I gave you because you can have it that size but this one here for the lid it's through it's four by seven and then I told you to do five by seven I don't know why so this is much bigger you see how far it comes down whereas that one there look see the difference so um that's why I didn't have so much space here and I've sorted it all out I used hot glue it was much easier just to put a very small amount of hot glue and put those together I think I've gone a bit wonky but anyway just it sometimes happens doesn't it I go to like that one came together perfectly and then I go to do a tutorial and I get all these little issues because that's why I keep popping out but I'm really pleased with it still I have got an issue there I'm going to have to put some like gems on there or something you know we cover it up but anyway I am going to finish off some decoration so I've just died cut this this is an old stamping up one I was going to use these ones here which are creative expressions but I do love that one it's just going to say celebrate like I said it is an old um don't know a couple of years ago and then to make that big like tassel getting completely optional but I've just got a piece of scrap here um it's up to you how long you have it and just cut down I've got the scissors the vegetable scissors but I want this strands even thinner so I just cut along like so it's up to you again how much you want to do so that's what I've got there so mine is about one and a quarter by four and three quarters and then if you just curl the top part there I've probably got that probably too long actually so I'm going to trim that down a little bit and then I've got some twine here and then I'm just going to pop a bead of hot glue just in there pop that one just in there just to kind of start it off and then I'm just going to pop another piece you know a couple of bits of glue there and beads of glue bits of glue and just roll it obviously be careful if you're using the hot glue I'm only using it because I'm working against mirrored card stock if it was paper then just use a normal liquid glue but if any of it oozes out of the end it will kind of peel off from the mirrored card so it's quite you know easily disguised okay you can see the back there I've got a little bit of glue but I can pick that off but wait till it's dry she says although no that's fine there's a little bit and then you've got your tassel and then you can just kind of you know curl out the bottoms there on some of the pieces just to make it or pull one off completely obviously cut that one a bit fine but you can see there and you've just got a tassel if you want to do a few of them I love making tassels I'll do them all the time I've just gone like under that one and then I'm gonna try to think how I want to do this one whether I just tie it straight around yeah I'll put the tassel through there and then tie that off that way because the tassel is one end of your bow so you just need to kind of move it around a bit you can kind of move it around and stuff but it's quite nice and then trim that so you could put a tassel on the end of that one as well which you can do you know whenever okay it's just a nice little touch to it I really really like it like so just need to sort that bit out there but I am happy I've got there in the end it just took me a little bit longer so um I mean it's up to you you can do seven by five and have it longer or that's with the seven by four so I mean it's up to you you know what what one you want I like both I guess there isn't one that I'm really swayed two more to you you know just need to decide whether you want more space for decoration or what but um yeah there you have it so I'm just going to tidy this away yeah a little bit of a fiddliness to the handles like I said you might just decide to do the velcro dots like I've done on the other ones in the pocket on the bottom but um yeah it isn't hard to do at all it's just me being yeah just sometimes you do don't you make the simplest things the hardest I originally had stuck it there and that's actually perfect that's where it needed to be but now because I moved it it's lifted up some of that this side is fine perfect no problems at all so I'm going to have to either redo that one I think I might have a bit of scrap steel with that stripe on it so if you if you don't see that in the photos then you know it was all right but um yeah I think they're super cute love the side detail on these I think that's what really makes it so I hope you've enjoyed the tutorial if you have please give me a thumbs up and consider subscribing so you get to see more thanks for watching bye