 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I am going to be showing you how to make this lovely, very cute handbag, so it's very unusual looking. This idea has come from this image of a handbag, oh I'll get it back here, this one here, this one's leather, really really cute and I don't think I've done too bad. You can see there, I think it's pretty, pretty close as I can get, it's got a big circle bit here in the middle but in terms of like all the little rivets and the actual shape, that's what I've gone for but bearing in mind this is leather so it's a bit softer and squidier, obviously this is a lot more squared off and stuff but yeah really like it. So I'll just bring it a bit closer so you can see the detail there, so basically this piece here, I have distressed this in exactly the same way that I did for my wood effect handles that I done on the gift bag which I'll share up here which you all loved, that was really really good that one. So again I've done it here just to give that real look of like wood, it's got lots of texture there, just yeah just gives the bag something and then inside it's quite big, you can fit definitely a nice big size candle in there, obviously wrap it in some tissue but it's just a really very pretty way of presenting a gift and then I've got this hardware here which I got from the works, they do still have these I checked so again I'll share those links and I've done these little kind of chain effect using the same craft card, it's the do crafts craft card 300gsm so really strong but you can really manipulate it and you know I love it, I haven't used it for ages but I seem to be on a roll with it again at the moment since the suitcase that I posted up last week and then the bottom that just goes right the way around to the back, I've not put any hardware on the back like you can do but I haven't I just decided not to and then just a nice little flower there and again these little kind of metal bits to finish it off so yeah really really love that one and it's very easy to make so you are going to need, let's bring everything in, I'll throw it all over the place okay so I have got the Distressed Oxide Vintage Photo again, the same that I used on my suitcase last week, it's a really handy one to have for distressing hence Vintage Photo so that's what I'm using so I've gone ahead and done all that, this is my little drawer of hardware I have that shouldn't be in there that's in another drawer but these are what they are just all these bits here so I've already got my two there, the pack had quite a lot in there I think it's about 20 or so but I've also got these which I'm going to be using in a coming project so they're like your jean buttons and they come with the little nails there for the backs yeah it's lots of bits and pieces so anyway that's what I've got this is the last of my little embellishments here now these were I've had these a long time I purchased these from New Look clothing shop in their accessories department and they were to go in your hair and I remember saying in previous videos there's no way I'd stick them on to my hair I'd get in a mess anyway I've only got four left so I probably won't use them on this one I'll find something else but yeah so you will need whatever you decide to go for you'll need two four six eight alright so I've already done my flower there and I use this with the scrap because this is a piece of 10 by 12 cardstock so the piece that you cut off I use then to die cut my matching flowers and then that's everything they're already distressed to talk through these so like I said you need a piece of 10 by 12 cardstock so first of all this in the 10 inch orientation that is going to be the front okay so this top square here is this square here so if you're not using pattern paper like me sorry if you're not using plain like me and you want to use pattern paper you need to make sure it's up the right way okay with that in mind so along the 10 inch side around the right way you're going to score at one inch two and a half seven and a half and nine inches and then rotate on to the 12 inch side and score four and a half and seven and a half okay so they're all mirror images of each other but start off with your if you're not using plain paper obviously if it's patterned make sure it's up this right way when it's in the 10 inch orientation okay so that's that piece then let's talk through these so this is for the main kind of closure the main flap that goes over and you need a piece that's three and a quarter by seven and a half along seven and a half inch you want to score at one inch okay burnish and then just with my distressed oxide and my little door by here you just go along and just go around and distress all your edges and do it all before you stick it down and make sure you burnish and then distress okay and then you'll get that really nice kind of authentic look I'll show you how to bend that and kind of get that crinkled look in a minute okay just pop your back back so I don't have any mishaps then this is the base so this is the piece that wraps around the bottom here and this is a piece of five by five and a half along the five and a half inch side you want to score at one and a quarter and four and a quarter okay so you will have a one and a quarter side on each side here now this one here I've already cut you're gonna cut both sides now to do that all you need to do is grab your ruler and a pencil and you'll do this on both sides I've already cut this one just to speak keep the video as short as I can but along that five inch side pop your ruler there okay five and just mark it half an inch and at four and a half so you just got a half an inch marker and then all I'm doing I draw the pencil as well is just drawing like a little half triangle their little wedge shape like so okay so just come in half an inch and then just draw your pencils there and just cut that and it again there's no real it's just part of the design that's all it is it's purely there as a decorative piece nothing more so if you don't want to do it you don't have to just rub out that pencil and then again go around fold it all and distress it and obviously I've cut into that so I just need to distress up my ends there okay so that's our base now already she needs to do that on both sides then you're gonna need for the handle this is a piece of one and a quarter by four and a quarter along the one and a quarter inch side you want to score at five eighths of an inch so just right down through the middle again burnish and distress and also with this piece here just with your bone folder once you've folded it in half just go along and curl it you want to curl it when it's in half and already a really nice especially with craft card it just starts to kind of go a bit fluffy a bit worn just like a normal leather strap would on any handbag so that's why I love using it to make bags okay you can just see if I bring that one in there just how nice that one looks okay again get that all distressed so that's our handle then these are our decorative pieces for the bottom okay so again purely optional but I think it's these bits that make the bag look more like a designer handbag so these are one by two and along the two inch side you want to score at one right through the middle you want two pieces again burnish building half and just go around and distress those all so that's those then I've got these two pieces here which are to pop our little kind of rivet on and that's there so these are one and a half by three quarters along the one and a half inch side you want to score at three quarters so again right through the middle just as you did with the other bits fold them in half and go along and distress them all so it's two pieces of those then these are all for our little kind of chain so all of our little rings and you want one two three four five and then you've got an extra bit so say six rings on each side so I've got two four and then one of them is my yeah keep that one so that's for another bit again so actually I need to cut that again for some reason not cut enough and so these are four and three quarter four and three eighths sorry by a quarter it's a tiny little strip so again four and three eighths of an inch by a quarter when you've done them to stress them fold it in half and the cut in half okay like so and again just kind of dirty up the edges there and do like so okay so you're gonna need so that was one two three yeah you need six strips because I need to do another three and make them so in total you will have 12 of these little pieces okay so that's all ready for that and then this piece here is for this bit here to kind of lock our closure in and this is a piece of four and three eighths by three eighths of an inch it's just a little bit wider you can have it thicker you can have it thinner it's entirely up to you but they're just the measurements that I've used and again get that all distressed okay so lots of little bits to talk you through there but hopefully you've got it all and as always it would all be listed in my blog okay so now let's start putting the bag together so first of all you just want to go along and just burnish all of your score lines okay so that's almost score lines burnished flip it over and what you're gonna do first of all along the side where you've got your two score lines here so this is our base okay you want to cut up and cut all the way down so go past the first score line cut down to the second score line and again on this one here like so okay so you're just cutting that piece and then you want to remove this piece all together okay and then rotate it and do the same on the other side okay so that's what you should have now with these outer pieces just fold them up okay like so and then what we're gonna do flip it over and bring in your sides and the pieces that you folded outwards gonna go like that and that's gonna give us our box shape so again just bring up the side bring up one of these keep that piece facing outwards bring the other one up and because of the way that we've scored it and the way I've worked out the measurements it meets exactly in the center there that's all gonna be stuck and that is the shape that we're gonna get it's really really easy to do so what you want to do this is a little bit not by any means hard just a little bit fiddly you want to add glue all on this piece okay then you want to put glue on the inside of this one and just do this one you don't need to do both you mean you can if you want but just might be too much glue okay like so then bring I'm gonna bring this one up first and just stick it like so make sure you get this inside piece here right flush with the corner here so the side of this piece that we just brought up get it right flush with there and then we know that we've got everything lining up nicely okay keep this one out like this bring this one round and again just concentrate on sticking that bottom bit down okay and then you can kind of they will just want to go together anyway and they should marry up perfectly because it's all the right measurements now I can stick them and stick that kind of all at the same time like so okay see the bottom there it's all nicely lined up so again with this side fold that in so you can easily pop your glue and you can use tape if you want to but just get that little bit of wiggle room okay and then I'm just going to add it just to one side of this like so and again do the one without the glue on the side first just so you can really kind of form the shape like so and then just bring the other one in kind of pinch it together and at the same time you can push it all in but it will all again should line up nicely and if for some reason it's not I've got it probably a millimeter or so where it's out a little bit you can see just here with my scissors I'm just going to go along and kind of line my scissors up with the one underneath and I can just get that all nicely tidied up again no one else would really notice that but me okay now I've got that nice and flush okay so don't worry if you do go over a little bit and just make sure that's all stuck down okay so that is the bag it's really really easy everything now is just really decoration and that main kind of flap that close a bit so let's add the base so that was this piece here which you should have all burnished all distressed and your little wedges cut out there basically that is going to sit underneath and just come up so it does create a really strong box for you which is why I said it is going to be good for like a candle or something heavier now what I would say is because I've done this exact measurement as the base obviously it's coming up around the sides it is a little bit snug but again I'm trying to do it so you don't have to do those one sixteenths of an inch those really kind of in between if you just do what I'm doing here with your bone folder and kind of just almost get rid of the score line although it will always be there what you've done is you kind of just like squashed it out a little bit and it would just allow you to curve it around you can see that it just sits around it much much nicer obviously that better be stuck down okay so then what you want to do with this piece get the right glue is cover glue all over it so on the sides okay and then get your box and just sit that over there again like I said I'm using the wet glue so I've got a little bit of wiggle room and then just bring up one side fold it over and bring down the other side okay like I said purely decorative but I do think it does really give the bag something and then with my bone folder I'm just going inside there along the inside just with my ruler and you got a really snug really nice base there to our box like I said once that's dry so that become really really hard okay so that's that piece now we've got these larger these were the one by two that we scored at one fold in half and these are going to lock in over the very bottoms of these kind of little wings that we've got on our bag like so okay so again all you want to do there is just add glue all over it I said it's all just decorative it's just some ways to really you know give your bag a very very different look this bag does take really doesn't take a lot of time I mean it takes longer because I've just stressed it if you're not just stressing your card it won't take long at all so I'm actually going to have this as my front and that is the back just because I've got a little mark although that's probably just glue anyway you can see now how it's starting to really take shape so next we need to do our handle because I'm going to do this piece last so what you want to do so I need to cut all of my extra bits in a minute right so you'll have all these pieces and you're going to have six for each side so you'll have 12 in total so pretend I've got 12 here but basically you want to get one and just go along and curl them all with your bone folder pop a little bit of glue about I don't know quarter of an inch not much at all and just stick that together once it's stuck enough I use my tweezers just to really stick it down but pinch it and stretch it okay so you want to start making it more into an oval shape like that there we go that's the shape that you want to make okay so I use the tweezers because it allows me to pull it without and at the same time obviously I can really stick that down as well okay and that's what you will have then get your next one pop it inside bring it around doesn't matter where it sits right now you just want to make sure obviously it links through because you want to create this chain so again just stick that down just so it kind of adheres initially and then I can use my tweezers to really grip it and then just stretch it out again okay and you can see now we're starting to get a little chain okay then get your next one and again link it through again pinch it and pull it and then get the next one and do four of these okay okay so I've got my four now together like so then grab another one and grab this piece here now if you don't have this you can just use make another ring okay just make another piece like this and we will just attach so basically so say this is your say this is your this is this because you don't have it just make it into a circle but I would stick it like that together so stick it that way just the same just a little bit there and then what you will do is this piece here you will cut in half so cut it so it's just two pieces and say this is the open side stick it in between like that imagine all of this is already attached as well okay and then just attach that over each side because you'll have two pieces one will be the side and one will be on the back hopefully I've made you you know understand that obviously I'm working with these it's a bit harder for me to explain so what you're going to do with these is just thread it through and around like so and then you're going to stick like that so all I'm going to do is with it open with the river in there or the ring the link whatever you want to call it probably putting glue about three quarters of the way up and then pop it in there and give a little bit of clearance for it to move on the top and just make sure it's in the middle of that piece and there you have it see how nice that looks now I feel like I'm not explaining that other one better so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to cut a scrap piece but you will have okay so like I said if you don't have this you'll have your six pieces as normal but then cut another piece okay now so this would be that extra piece you've cut and then this here which was the three-quarters by whatever it was so it's just pretend this is it here and it was folded in half so I said what you would have to do is cut it in half again okay so you'll just have two squares this piece here this extra piece so that you'll have your six one will be free still pop that through glue it like that okay stick it to one of these inside and then you will stick one side with it like that and this other piece you will stick over the other side this piece that piece will be purely decorative and that is the look you will have instead okay so hopefully that makes a bit more sense so now going back to what we were doing here so now I've popped that one on so I've got my six pieces here four five and six so this one you're going to pop through and then you're going to also then pop through here it's a bit fiddly so I've got it linked through there and also through the cardboard links that I've made and then you just want to attach it the same way that I was doing before grab my tweezers and just hold that in place for a minute and again just stretch it and there I will have my first lot all attached okay then with this one here this is going to be on the handle so this was that piece that I folded in half and then told you to curl like so with this one the last piece number six you're going to pop it through bring it around and then you're going to glue it the way that I told you to glue it if you didn't have the metal piece so this time I'm gluing a little bit inside and just sticking them together okay then open up your handle decide what's the front of the back because you want the piece that's folded over to be at the front your kind of open bit to be at the back it's not the end of the world but it's just the way I've done it and then making sure your chain is all kind of in the right it hangs right it's not twisted or anything it will naturally the way that I've done it that will fold around and it would be flat to sit in your handle like so and basically you're going to open up your handle okay pop a bit of glue underneath and just pop it inside making sure it's in the center of your handle now you'll have this other one done as well really I would stick them both down at the same time but I've just done that end because what I can still do and you can still do is you can still open it all up there okay you can see that just stuck it on that one half of it so now when I go to put the other one in I'll stick that in then I'll put glue all in the handle and fold that in half and that will give us the handle to the bag okay so hopefully I've explained that all it's pretty self-explanatory when you're doing it yourself so you should you should make sense of it all so I'm going to go ahead now and get this other one all finished okay so that one's now all in place finished it again there and then I thought I would join at this point just so you can see me do it so again making sure my chains all in the right way just gonna pop some glue under there throw that one in the bin so keep picking that one up and again just pop it inside like so that's how you should have both of them and then you just want to add glue all over that inside and then just sandwich it together I absolutely love that I think it looks so nice again you can go longer if you want to once you know how to do it you know there's no reason why you can't make that even longer okay so that's that done so now on to this piece so I told you to score at one inch along this seven and a half I think it was yeah score it one inch furnish it distress it do what you need to do then what I did at the bottom I can't remember how far I came in actually I think it was literally maybe like a quarter of an inch yeah well I remember doing it now so along the bottom here which is three and a quarter just market three and so it's market one quarter and market three okay and then all I did was just kind of just graduated it I didn't really put a pointer you can see there I'm just just roughly and then again just dirty up the edges there like so okay then to get that real kind of textured finish that I've got on there again it's entirely up to you don't want to do that I just grabbed my ruler and just curved it like so okay so you can just have it like that if you want a nice clean finish but you know me like to change it a little bit start from where you've done that burnish piece there and just literally break all of the fibers so start kind of you almost rolling it but you're not because you are just if I bring it up here can you see what I'm doing I'm literally going along and just kind of really breaking it down making it so soft exactly the same way that I made the handles on that other bag so those of you that have done that will know exactly what you're doing here because I know quite a lot of you done that bag and sent me wonderful pictures so again just and can you start to see start to get that really cool texture and what I did then as well as each time I was bending it I was just kind of rubbing over it a bit more because the distressed ink was picking up the grain you see there you really get to see it more again I'm filming in the evening so you're not getting the natural light with it but I think you'll still get it and you're certainly seeing the pictures so just keep doing that until you've gone all the way to the end if that is what you're doing okay so that's that piece now all done and all distressed then you want to flip it over and on this flat piece here you just want to add your glue okay and then again this is when you need to decide your front and your back so this is going to be my back you just want to sit that over line up the school line with the top of the bag and just make sure you've got an equal side here and here and just get that all stuck down lay it down on the other side and just with your bone folder just go in there you can really add some pressure with the bone folder make sure it's all nicely stuck down okay so you get a nice finish there on the back and now that will go over okay and the good thing about this is expandable so if you've got something taller you know it will allow for that but you can also come down really far as well so now we just need to hold that in place that's when this last strip comes in and this was that piece that was three eighths of an inch by four and three eighths of an inch okay and basically you just need to decide where you want it to go so I just put some glue about half half an inch in on both ends and I stuck it so it was so I came down the bottom part was one inch will be enough so again one inch that's roughly there so again you want to stick this down nice and straight make sure you've got an equal amount on each side there from the edge so come down one inch okay get that all stuck so and then just slide that under and it will grip to it because it's curved so it will really kind of stay wherever you want it to I brought it down so you've got kind of about a quarter of an inch showing there and that is the bag so now I've just got my little flower here and I just thought it breaks up that brown in the middle so you just want to stick this just a little bit of glue and only stick it on that strip don't stick it on your actual handle and sorry closure and just again just make sure you've got it nice and centered and there you have it and just move that around like I said it will stay there how cute is that now I've just realized the colors I've chosen it looks like a baby shower so we've got is it a one for a baby girl one for a baby boy move that out of the way so let's get worried my ink's gonna go everywhere so there's that one there and then here's the pink aren't they adorable I think they're so cute really love how these have come together and I hope you've enjoyed it too like I said I'm gonna leave these blank for the minute but if you have got any I mean you can let me just grab I've got these ones here I could put blue you know on the all of these pieces here because these have got all kinds of colors I've got pearlescent there I mean you'll see what I go for because you'll see it in the videos I might do the pearlescent ones actually that match the pearl in the middle there so anyway add whatever ones you want but I think it's gorgeous you can also personalize these I think they'd look really nice with an initial maybe in the middle here you could do a circle disc in the middle and put an initial in there or something I think it'd be super fun but anyway they have it hope you liked today's tutorial please give me a thumbs up if you have and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye