 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Crowd, thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make these really cute hexagon little gift bags, so you can see how they look there, you can have the strap longer or you can lift it up so it's like doubled up and then you just lift up this one here which has got a Velcro closure and then inside you have this really roomy gift box or gift bag, you don't have to have the handles so then you can make it more into a box. Everything is really neat, really concealed it's very straightforward to make, you've just got to make sure you get your lines lined up but other than that I think I've broken it down enough and yeah I was really pleased with how these ones turned out so I've got the green one and then I've got this red one here, again I've kept the rose gold throughout and then this Ponsettia on the front, might not do that on this one and again you can see inside that one there, it folds down, you've got the bottom you can put the pattern paper all the way around if you want that was non directional paper, this is directional with the stack so I didn't bother putting one on the bottom because I thought you don't see it anyway but I think they're really cute and I've got one more to make today because I want three of these so let me show you how to make them. Ok so I'm using the first edition winter rose, I've used this for a couple of other tutorials as well, it's a really nice collection I mean I love, it's very rare that I don't like any of the first edition paper pads they're all just so nice and different and this one's just got some just really nice colours through it, it's a lot richer so I am using today the Christmas trees and I'm using black and I very rarely use black and I thought actually it looks really nice against the black so that's what we're using today, I've got some nice ribbon there it's actually a ribbon I've had a long time I've used it on the green one that I showed you just now but I thought I'm going to use it again so I'll go through all those bits in a second, first of all we're talking about the main card so they're my Velcro dots for later, ok so you want a piece of cardstock that's 12 by 9.5 I'm using my Lidl cardstock so the default width of that is 9.5 so you just want to trim a little bit off the edge because I know a lot of you have got that, ok so along that 12 inch side you want to score at 1 and 7 eighths of an inch, 3 and 3 quarters, 5 and 5 eighths of an inch, 7 and a half, 9 and 3 eighths of an inch and 11 and a quarter so you'll have a 3 quarters of an inch piece at the end which is going to be that little lip where we have the Velcro dot, then pop it on its 9 and a half inch side and you want to score, do mine the right way, so you want to score at 2 inches and 7 and a half so you'll have these 2 by 2 squares all the way down each side and then you'll have these little rectangles on that piece at the top, ok so that is all the scoring that you need you might as well as well cut your paper I'll give you the measurements while I've got my scoreboard out, you want 5 or 6 pieces depending again you know if you want to cover all the sides but this is another directional cardstocks it's the Christmas trees so I only need 5 for these I'm not going to put one on the bottom but these are 1 and 5 eighths of an inch by 5 and a quarter so I've got 5 pieces of that size and then to do the hexagon shapes for the inside you want to make a template first which I'll talk you through so just get a piece of white cardstock but then you also want to cut 4 pieces that's if you want to cover inside I do think it looks nice and you'll see once I start doing it I think you'll want to cut 4 but you need 4 pieces of 3 and 1 eighth of an inch by 3 and 5 eighths of an inch so I've got that lovely one there and then two little pieces here again optional if you're going to do the little handles it doesn't matter if you don't have these D bar rings because you can also use just cut some you know circle dies and then cut a smaller circle inside so you've got some rings and stick them on top of each other and it'll give you that similar kind of effect you can also cut these on your digital machines but they're very inexpensive to pick up and you can also use the key ring the circle one so it doesn't have to be a D ring but I picked these up from the works a while ago I've got quite a few bags of them so whatever the width is inside is what you want your with the cardstock to be so mine here is just under three quarters of an inch so if you've got these same ones from the works and that's the measurement you want to go for and then the width is one inch and I'm just threading it through there and I'll stick that down like so and it just gives us that nice decorative piece and that's what I like adding to handbags I love doing all the metal work okay so now what you want to do is just fold and burnish all of those score lines okay and then we need to do some cutting so what you want to do first of all is it doesn't matter which side you're going to work along one of the long sides and you're going to cut up every single score line to the first score line so I'm just cutting up to this one here so do that all along here and all along that side there okay so you have something like that then the two smaller ends here just cut out but don't cut a wedge like you usually would do keep it nice and straight because that's actually going to be that flap on the front so again cut that there and then these two here just cut half of it off you'll probably cut some more in a minute but just for the minute just cut half off just so you know you know that that's your top that's your lids this whole section here all the rest of this is the casing for the bag okay so what's going to happen we're going to bring all this around and that's going to be the lid and all these pieces here apart from that one we're all going to stick in to form our hexagon now the easiest way to get this hexagon kind of shape is we'll start with this ends just pop them off so they're out like that and this one here and you're going to work I always say work with opposite so just pop that around as if it's you know joined together so this shorter one here the opposite to that one is this one here so that's going to be our base of the bag so you want to fold that one completely back and fold that one back put a little cross on there if you you know worried you're going to get mixed up you're going to work on these four here doesn't matter which one you want to do first but you're going to fold one in and then I'm going to grab some I'm going to use use this glue I've got quite a few of these so I'm gonna this is the Cosmic Shimmer acrylic glue it's another good one I recommended this in my glue review so I'm just going to just unblock till there we go so I'm just going to pop some glue just on the ends here gosh more fingers and thumbs let's start again I don't think this is coming out probably that's why right anyway there we go and then you're going to pop this one across and you're going to stick it on there and you want to make sure that you get it lined up with the sides so both sides doesn't matter if there's more glue on there because it's all going to be stuck on top of each other in a minute and I'd say use a liquid glue because you are going to wiggle it around a little bit okay but now that's stuck then this one here is going to come across and stick and as long as you keep the sides straight the hexagon shape will naturally kind of form so don't panic that you're not going to get it all lined up you've got to keep these straight keep them straight everything else will fall into place so now I'm going to bring this one across I'm just going to pop a bit of glue in there just so that this one can stick to it okay and then I'm going to pop a bit of glue on top and then I'm going to lay this one down and again you want to line up the sides so it all sticks now flip that one right back and if you get a ruler and pop it underneath you'll be able to push against that and just the key to this is keeping all of these straight can you see now we've already started to get our hexagon shape now this top one when you lie it down you want it to fill that space if you were to pop that inside can you see it joins up I could probably come in a little bit on that one I'm just going to move that one in a little bit there we go that's better you see there where it meets up and that I would use as a gauge because when you want when this comes down to close you want that to close along there perfectly okay and then this one here just bring it up but you can see now that they lie they line up perfectly with with each other so if they were to stick together and that means you've got a perfect hexagon so it's all about keeping these side pieces straight and lined up with each other so again I'm just going to pop some glue down around here kind of around there we're going to be covering all of this as well so don't worry too much of what it looks like just stick all that down there and again just go in with my ruler now I'd say make sure that's completely dry before you start on the other end just so it doesn't pop open or anything like that okay so I'm really not worried about all that because I've already cut some of these but I'm going to show you one but when that goes over the top and you see how nicely that is going to frame there it's going to look really pretty so now I'm going to go to this end you just want to do the same but already it's kind of in its shape because of the one that you've done below but you do want to make sure you stick all the right ones down so again the one that's opposite the short one which is this one here I'm just pushing right back get that out of the way I'm just working on these four here so I'm going to bring that one down again just pop some glue that opposite one down and then pop some glue in here and that one just move it around a bit put my ruler in underneath and again bring that one across and you want that to close so I need to bring that in a little bit more I'm just going to lift that up just bring that across just make sure that yeah there go and this comes down this score line here wants to line up with the top there just so you can see it completes that hexagon look but that's why it's good to use the liquid glue because you do have that time to wiggle it around and again I'm just going to put some glue okay so now we've got a hexagon now these pieces here you'll find won't go in because you need to take a bit off so you want to do quite a heavy kind of wedge on these but I would also cut it a little bit shorter so I've got it more so it's three-quarters of an inch okay and then I'm going to cut a nice big wedge off of each side because you want it to be able to go in and then not catch on this side but now when that closes you see that closes up nicely so again on this side here if you want to make sure you get them the same use these triangles and sit them on there so you know where you're cutting but again I'm just going to bring it down a little bit and take a nice big wedge like so and again and it stops the bag kind of popping open but also it stops you seeing what's in there even though we're going to be you know adding the paper and everything else you'll see when it all comes together if you were to cut that away completely it just wouldn't look so good but now you can see I've got a nice finish there on my hexagon and that is going to have a magnet or yeah you could have a magnet I'm going to put Velcro just to close it up there okay so next we need to start decorating so the easiest way because you want to decorate the sides and then I've already given you the sizes for your all your mats for that each of the panels there but you want to make a hexagon so I gave you those sizes which were three was it three and five eighths by three and one eighth yeah okay and what you want to do is you're going to make a template first of all I'd say do this on some white cardstock okay I'm doing it on this because obviously I've already got my template here so along your short side you want to mark at the center so at the middle so we've got three and one eighth so it's just over one and a half okay it's that like sixteenth of an inch but you just want to mark halfway so mark a pencil there and there and then along the long side on the top and the bottom you want to come in seven eighths of an inch seven eighths yep seven eighths yeah you want to come in seven eighths of an inch on all of those corners and mark a pencil mark and then you're going to cut from the center of this one to that one so that's seven eighths of an inch so you can draw a pencil line if you want to join them up so I'll just show you there okay you do it that way and then cut down but always cut away the pencil because you would have made it slightly bigger when you draw around it and then I'm just gonna line that one up and then that last one you're gonna have four of these but like I said that for you will be your template and then I've just put hex gift bag and I pop that with all my other templates so when I need to make one of these again now I've got that ready to go for that particular size but now I've got my four pieces so you're gonna stick them on the sides then you should have a slight little border you see that looks really nice so you're gonna do one on each side and inside and then you're gonna stick all of your mats and layers down if you were you may be having layers I've only got the mats but you're gonna stick all them down so I'm gonna do that now I'm gonna bring in my cull out just because this dries nice and stiff so I want it to be nice and strong so I'm gonna get them all stuck down okay so that's all that stuck down you can see inside how much neater it looks if you do add them both now if you do want to conceal these ends then I would stick them down and then stick the other one in but because this is only a card stock and that's quite bulky I think you would see like gaps so I actually don't mind that being stuck on like so I think it all looks like you know looks nice looks like part of the handbag you know when you look at your handbag you can see all that kind of thing so anyway but now it should you pop the sides in once we add our glue dot there is just a nice gift box if you want to keep it that way you put nice big bow on top but I do like to make a little handbag and I haven't made one for a while so I'm now gonna stick these pieces on so there's one that I hadn't curled so just grab your you know bone photo or a pencil or ruler and just curl that it will just make it a bit easier for you I've got my hot glue ready I'm just gonna put a little bit there thread that through and just see what your fingers but it's only a small amount but now you've got nice and that can move freely there little detail so I'm just gonna do that one okay so now I'm gonna I'm thinking I'm not gonna do the Ponsettia on this one I'm gonna do something maybe with that but I'm gonna get these stuck down first so I just want to put a very thin bead of glue there just along the bottom and then you just want to stick it quite close to the top oh falling off that's okay there we go so you want it to you know be above you don't want it to catch because if you put the D ring too close to this here it will kind of just it make this hard to close in because you want that to be able to almost pop underneath it see like so and it'll kind of keep it shut itself and then you see a little bit that detail poking out the top it looks nice that's popping out because this one's not down but it does kind of lock it in so it'll helps when you go to close it so again another thin bead there sit that one I always love it when I make the bags because I love to see your versions so I always say and I put it on my blogs but if you haven't head over to mixed up crafters it's a page dedicated to this YouTube channel so anything that you make that's inspired by my tutorials you can share them there so many in that group now and I love it have just been seen like the advent calendars have been amazing all the different gift bags it's just so nice I love to see how other people's brains kind of work with like design and stuff and it's just such a lovely group so yeah head over there if you haven't but now we've got that and then if you just pop that inside see it kind of sits underneath like wedges itself underneath those bits so yeah it's like a self-closing now I guess okay then I've got my Velcro we do that bit see I don't think I even need to do that bit so I'm going to do yeah I like that because it really pops so let me just bring in this one just to tell you if you do want to do this strip you want something that's the full width which is five and a half and then the width that is half an inch that's that strip there and then the Ponsettia is using the smaller one from the the Helen Griffin so this is the ultimate Ponsettia dyes set this is some simply made craft sorry so I've just used two of that size which is yeah this one here to make that little one but for this here I'm using the bright rows of sprigs and twigs and it's this lovely long one but I've just used like the edge there but it is pretty and I'm gonna do something I might not use that sentiment yeah I'm not sure but I'm gonna do like sprigs coming off because this is the reverse side of that print so it all kind of matches together and I might put some red berries on this do those ones a bit shorter put some red berries in the middle yeah so you'll see that I'll pop that on high speed but I just use my hot glue for that and then to attach your ribbon you just want to thread it through thread it through bring it around depends on how long you want it this is just probably about 24 inches and then I'm just going to tie your bow like so and then what I'm gonna do is you'll see on here as I put the little faux metal detail on the edge so whatever the width of your ribbon is you want to cut your cardstock by that length and then I've got about quarter of an inch on each side so do it by half an inch so I'll do that and I'll add that on but all you want to do is make sure your ribbon is straight on the edge so I'll just trim those so I've got nice straight edges but it just ties it all together so I'll find I've got like a bronzy color mirrored cardstock for this one I use the rose gold that was there and just tied it in that way but for this one I'll find something but now look how cute it looks and then you can have it longer like so so I'm going to stick all that down I'm going to do my little metal details there and then I think we're pretty much done okay so I've done that and then I just want to add the Velcro dots these are 10 mil cooking loop well they're not these are Velcro brand actually so I'm just going to pair those together again I will link this all below so many of those ones but I always get the 10 or the 20 that's what you'll see me use I'm going to stick the pair on the top there and make sure that's all in bring that one down and just stick that one in there I think they look really really nice I'll do gift tags and stuff later on but for now that's yeah what I need so I've got my three so I've got the two of the Ponsettias and then that one's got a much longer strap so again depending on the style you want to go for you know you can have it either way that's the same ribber but shorter then you've got the longer way there so I love the berries actually against with the red there I didn't go for the mirrored I just done the red card and just to tie in with the berries I thought it looked quite nice I love that little kind of cluster there looks really cute and then you've got the mirrored card on those ones yeah I really like them I love working with the hexagon shape it's really fun and hopefully you found this one you know easy to follow and enjoyed it so thank you for watching if you did enjoy today please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more bye