 Hi everybody it's Sam here, thank you for watching today so for this week's handbag series I'm going to try and recreate something like these traveling bags or travel bags and they've got these this like drawer at the bottom so this one here form follows function in a travel bag that holds its own stationery drawer designed for train travel this personal portman 2 was the first portable office German 1905 and then they kept that shape again and they had gas mask handbags and these were designed by the British government in World War II to resemble everyday bags sturdy sensible thrifty and safe and you can see the drawer at the bottom has the gas mask but I really like this design here and in my head I've got an idea of having a drawer that will pull out either side and that one's a British one from the 1940s so that's today's inspiration so let's get started so the paper pad I'm using today is this one that's called Happy and it's one of the craft sensations design pads picked this up a while ago now from the range it's only around $2.99 beautiful patterns I have used it I used on a backpack maybe about a year ago I'll pop that one up here now because if you've got that paper pad you may like that idea as well but it's got some beautiful some of my real favorite colors here the hot pinks the yellows the oranges and then that teal color so when I saw that I kind of wish I'd maybe brought two because I don't have a great deal left but it's a really nice one 250 gsm weight so it's a great one for making your 3d projects but for the main bag that's going to sit on top of the drawers this is a piece of 12 by 10 and along the 12 inch side you want to score it three and a half and 11 and a half then you want to i'm just thinking if it's worthwhile no yeah so then along the 10 inch side you want to score it three and a half and then you also want to score it seven but just to the first score line so just down to that one that you done earlier then pop it back and score it one and three quarters down to the score line that you just made there so just creating the side piece you want to do this twice this is what we have so if I fold all this in which I'll talk you through in a moment what we've just made there is the kind of top of that travel style so that's score line and all the the other one there is all part of this kind of folding piece then you want this piece which is what the drawers are going to slide out of so this is 12 by 8 now ignore this first score line you want to score it one or three quarters four and a quarter seven and three quarters and ten and a quarter again ignore that score line that I've got there those are going to be stuck to the bottom of the bag so it doesn't matter that I've got those there but what will happen is it will fold like so so you have that tube that tunnel and that's going to attach to the bottom of the bag and then you'll want two pieces of eight and a half by eight and seven eighths of an inch but along the eight and a half side you just want to take a little sliver you just want to take one of the one sixteenths so you've got all these tiny little markers it's one of those that you want to take off so if I lie this down and pop it in here you'll see it sits perfectly on eight and a half I'm just bringing it down to that first tiny little marker the one after that is your one eighth of an inch it's that little sixteenths it's the one in between if you would rather in centimeters I just bring that back to the eight and a half it's coming in at just over 21 and a half so I would pull it so it's just under 21 and a half centimeters okay just taking you can see there just a little slither off that's going to allow us to be able to slide it inside that little tube once you've done that you want to score it two and a half on all four sides so we'll go back to the main two pieces because you may just want this to be your bag it looks really nice as a style on its own so the drawer and everything we just add on extra so with this piece you want to fold and burnish all of your score lines okay so you'll have something like that don't worry about trying to fold these ones because until we actually start putting it together you won't be able to do it that well so along the bottom you want your half inch tab on the right hand side here and then you just want to cut up the first score line to the first score line and then you'll have this smaller section here again you just want to cut up so you just got this little piece here and then I'm just going to snip that away like so again you'll do this on both pieces now this little section just take a little wedge off of each end that's going to allow us to be able to attach it all together this is our tab and then with this square I would recommend taking the corners off of each side there as well so this will fold in nicely now that we've cut all that away you'll be able to fold that under and you'll be able to start to push that in if you pinch those ones together but push that out and you might get a little bit of buckling there in the corner just push it in with your nail but you'll see it's like a milk carton so just kind of just start manipulating it into that shape once you've got both of them ready you're going to grab your glue and I'm using the calow all purpose and I'm going to first of all run my glue down the tab it doesn't matter which one and then just flatten that down a little bit and then I'm going to make sure the base score line here lines up and then the rest will all fall into place like so and just give that a moment to dry and then just flip it over and then fold over the side where you've got your other tab and again you just want to run your glue and then just fold that one over and the whole bag will lie flat okay so you'll have something like this and then turn it over decide what you want to be the front or the back so I'm going to have this one as the back so I'm going to fold that one in first and I'm going to cover this in glue again if you want to reinforce this I would pop another sheet of cardstock in between these layers but you're also going to attach it to that tray piece on the bottom you could also reinforce that as well if you want to but because I'm sticking it to that with this glue I think it's going to be fine pop the sides in and add glue to those and then bring that one down and just give that a minute to dry so you should now have something like this and then you can just bring in the top there and you'll see you get that effect it's just like a large milk carton at the moment pop that to one side next we can start on the base okay so grab the pieces for the drawers and you just want to fold and burnish all of the score lines along the long side you want to just cut up to the first score line so just there and then here and then flip it and do the same on the opposite side so you'll have something like this and then you just want to take a little wedge off of all of the corners all of the sides sorry of all the corner pieces okay so you'll have something like that again you'll do that on both pieces and now you want to fold in all of the sides and stick them together so I'm going to add my glue onto the top doing this on each of the corner pieces and then bring that in and then the side you want to bring it up I'm just going to make a little kind of tray small box just make sure you get a nice right angle it all lines up here you can move it around a bit as well when you've got the liquid glue until it's in place and then just go around to the next one and just do that on both of them until they're all stuck down and it's nice and dry so this is one that I've already finished and you can see I've got this lovely embossed detail on the front and I've got a little handle there to be able to pull them out so you're going to want two pieces of three and a quarter by two and a quarter and then I've just embossed those and that was using the Lisa Horton it was the small embossing folder from the magazine kit one that she done so I've just used that and I'm going to stick them again on the smaller ends that you'll you'll see because they fit there and there you can see on the sides there they're too big so you're working on the smaller ends and then I've just got these I'll link them I think I can remember where I got these and I'm just going to pop a blob of pop glue and then pop that in the middle if you want to reinforce more of this the sides are reinforced because they have the sides where we've just stuck and then these ends get reinforced because we're sticking this card stock on again because I'm using the construction glue it it then strengthens all of those sides so I'm going to get that all stuck down okay so I'm just putting a blob of glue and then just let the glue just cool for a little bit just like 15 20 seconds as long as it's piping hot to start with if you just let that cool it just means it's not going to ooze out everywhere and then I can just kind of hang it where I want it to go I've got a little bit of wiggle time it might be quite hoax it's metal it will conduct through that so just be careful but now it's cooling down I can really push down on that like so now we've got our little handles okay so then you want to attach this piece now it's exactly the same amount it's half of the base basically so you want to stick one half like so and then what we'll do is we'll let this fold flat and then the other half will sit over the top so what I would recommend first of all is adding your glue in all of that section to that score line again ignore that I've got that this score line here yours won't have that one that's when I was kind of planning it to start but just lay the glue down like so and then line up that score line here with the side of the bag if we fold it over that way you can make sure you get it right up to the edge and then I'm going to add a glue now to the other end to burnish that again again you won't have that score line there just cover the same area that you just did and then you're going to lay that piece down and then fold this over and just let it go where it needs to that way we know that we've got the exact size just let that grab and then when you open it up you should have that and it will be stuck where it exactly needs to be now if you want to just while you've still got wiggle room grab your drawer and you should be able to slide that in perfectly because you took that little bit off the side you can see now how that all slides into place I've got a little bit of wiggle room I'm going to get the other drawer in that end as well at least that way if it does expand it slightly while the glue is still drying it can do and slide that one in might have to pull that one up a little bit like so and that way it'll give you a surface now to be able to push down again so you can put your hand in there push the glue down and just make sure everything's lined up so your box should now especially if you're using the all-purpose glue should start to feel really strong now I want to cover the join here with this strip which is eight by half an inch so I've got two of them so I'm going to have one this side and one on the other side and then I've got my little d-rings here and these are going to be for the top with the handle I'll link these d-rings I think they are three quarters well actually these are done in mill um they look like I think they do it from the inside possibly I'll have to double check I mean they're coming in I think these are the 25 mill and then like 17 deep any size you want will work but because I've got that size I've cut these strips here which are three quarters of an inch by two just you know just care the card stock a little bit pop the d-ring through and then I'm just going to add pop it in halfway and then I'm just putting a quick grab glue just on one side there and then just fold that over you might end up trimming this I may well have to trim mine depends on how much I have you know how high I want them but that's now and then I'll add glue and I'll attach the d-rings to the bag here the top of this I'm changing slightly because again like I always say with these I need them to work as a gift bag and with paper so I've also got this piece which I'm going to have a velcro closure you can see that's going to you know keep the top of the bag together this is a piece of three and a half by two and a half along the three and a half side I've scored at one inch and then I've come in from this end I think it was now I've come in one so I've just marked with a pencil on the back here you can see I've just come in one inch from this end and then I've just marked the middle point there which is one and a quarter and then just cut the triangles off then you can you know have this any design you want you don't have to have the triangle you could have you know um just a square like so if you wanted to it's entirely up to you but I'm going to get these pieces stuck down and then just see if there's anything else I want to add okay so they're stuck down now what I've done is I've pinched this in you can see there I've really pinched it down I've got maybe three quarters to an inch there and then I've cut myself two more strips to go along there and I've used the reverse of this as that polka dot I just think it's going to finish the top a bit more and then I'm going to stick these either in between there but then I think you're going to might you might see the although I do quite like that and that way it's concealed or if you want you can just stick it inside the actual bag in fact I think I'm going to do that I just worry that the the shape of this will come through that so I'm going to I think I'm going to stick these down first such you how much you have hanging and then you can attach your ribbon afterwards but I think I'm going to have about about there I think that looks really nice so again I'll get one in place and then I'll just measure that one for the rest and then I'm just going to add my glue to the tab this is a little piece where you scored there and then this is going to go in the middle and then I'm going to add a velcro dot underneath that one I mean if you want to cut that shorter but I like having all these different pieces over the top because it looks like a real leather bag you know they were all different sizes I've got satchel bags where this piece comes all the way down here so but if you want it to be more cleaner then you know cut that so it's the same width as this if you want then I'm going to stick down my happy birthday which is going to go in this section here if you want to add some more pattern paper and layer it up you can and I'm also going to finish it off with my ribbon okay so with the ribbon I'm going to thread through both of the this side and then I'm going to come back through this side and then I'm going to make sure that I've got enough to make a handle on each side come down a bit lower there you might see so I think that's a nice height there and then I'm going to make sure I give myself the same kind of amount so I might come through a bit more here it's kind of like a drawstring handle but it's a double one so like that and then I'm going to tie with a big bow here on the front so it's going to be on that bottom left okay so that's the finished gift bag so again I'll just bring up a bit closer so you can see everything and I've brought back the inspiration here so you can see that kind of detail at the top which I've tried to keep and then when you squash down the sides you've got that look there and then this has the one draw but we've got the two and I just think it's really good you've got lots of space in there you can decorate inside there if you want to as well I love the happy birthday along the bottom but like I said if you want to put pattern paper there you can and then maybe have something here or gift tag and then because of the way that we've thread the ribbon through it's easy to open and it kind of expands and you've got all that space inside there so yeah thoroughly pleased with this one it's really different and I'll look forward to filling this one with some gifts unless my mum pinches it which she tends to do so but yeah thank you for watching as always if you're new to my channel and this is the first of this handbag series using this book then check out the playlist that's coming up now because I've got some others there I've also got a gift bag playlist which has over a hundred tutorials there's loads of inspiration there so click on the the boxes that are popping up now and if you've enjoyed today and you haven't subscribed if you click on my face and you'll be able to hit the notification bell and that way you'll be notified every time a new tutorial is released thank you for watching check the links in the description box below and 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