 Hey 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 this mini briefcase. Now I've made a larger one and you guys loved it so I will share a little drop down here for that one if anybody's missed it. But I was just going back through some of my tutorials and I thought actually it would be quite nice to make a mini one. It's using the new Fest Edition, what is that one called? I need to get used to this one forever free. So I'll show you that one in a minute but it's gorgeous, really bright, colourful, clashing colours which I love. But it opens up like so and then inside you've got a nice space to fill with any goodies you want. So you know it will fit lots of nice jewellery and make up and bits and pieces like that. But I've also decorated the back and I've used the, these are some of the dyes, the small little dyes that I received with my trim craft delivery and I just thought we always forget about the backs of our gift bags and I thought this was quite a nice way to just add, you can see that I've layered them up so I've die cut every one three times and then stuck them on top of each other so there's actually some dimension on there as well which you can see. But I think it's things like that they just kind of really finish it off and this is one of the labels that come in the pack as well so I just fussy cut that, matted it on some orange card stock the same as the flap here and again it's just a nice way to tie everything together and these are stuck on the front as well. Okay so that is what we're going to make, pop that to one side so this is everything here and this is the paper pack. So this is Forever Free so it's kind of replaced my Fiesta Fever which I absolutely loved and that's, this is all my scraps but these are one of the papers you get have all these on so I'd already gone and kind of fussy cut them ready you know for projects but look how lovely these are perfect for you know gift cards, sorry gift box toppers and you know for quick cards just to say hello congratulations is that lovely dear there so yeah lots and lots in this paper pack and it is beautiful so that's the one I'm using today and then the cardstock you're going to need. So the ones these are those little dies so I showed these in my unboxing video so these are the simply creative dies and I used the tiny little champagne and glass and the balloon okay but today I'm going to use this one here with love and you'll see why in a second but I've already die cut it so die cut it three times and stuck them all together and you can see now got a strong almost that chipboard little embellishment and you can see there the word with love so I've already done that one because you didn't really need to see me do that okay so let's just pop these bits to one side and talk you through this here so for the main bag itself you need a piece that is 8 by 12 okay then you'll need two pieces that are 3 by 6 and these are for your sides then you'll need one piece that is 4 by 8 and that's for your flap so your closure then some mats on top of that so to decorate it you want a piece at 7 and 3 quarters by 2 and 3 quarters and you can see that's going to sit nicely on there and then I've got these two strips which are three quarters of an inch by 8 that's the purple and you want two of them and that's the bit that runs along here then to mat on top of that it will be measure it that way can I let me grab this ruler this is a piece of half inch half inch by 8 okay and then for the handle I might do this one a bit longer so this was 10 and a half by 1 and then the decorative piece on top is 5 eighths of an inch by 10 and a half yeah but again you know play around that it's entirely up to you so some scoring what we need to do is on your main piece here along the 12 inch side you just want to score at 5 and 7 okay so two easy peasy score lines there then on your your kind of lid the flap this is the 4 by 8 piece along the 4 inch side you want to score at 1 inch okay and then on where you scored at 1 the opposite side to that you can see I just corner rounded the edges there again that's optional and then you'll have these two pieces I said which were the 3 by 6 what you want to do is along the 3 inch side you want to score a half an inch and at 2 and a half then rotate it and score at 5 okay then rotate it back you don't have to do this I don't know why I said that but you want to score one and a half just down approximately to 3 and a half inches it doesn't really matter if you go further or not so far down all it's going to do it just helps us you can see here you don't have to do I decided you don't need to do that score line but it just helps you bending so we're going to do these triangle score lines in a moment okay so that is everything so you really scoreboard keep these pieces here and with your metal ruler however far down you done that middle score line you then want to go from the bottom of that score line across to the bottom left and right corners of that piece of card so where you if I just do this and then bring it up you'll be able to see I just bring there we go so that was the bottom of that score line that center score line that I said it doesn't matter how far down you go wherever it is you want to start scoring from there down to the bottom left and then the bottom right all within that half inch these kind of half inch sides don't go you know across here you just want to stay and it's above that score line there okay again it's just like how I do all of my fold flat gift bags this one doesn't fall flat so we're not going to do this score line you would then do a score line there but we're not going to be doing that today because it's a small bag anyway so I didn't feel it needed to fold flat okay so while we've got this piece here we need to now make it like this so you just want to burnish all of your score lines okay and then you just want to cut the two bottom left two bottom the left and the right hand rectangles just remove those completely again like so okay and then just take little wedges off of all of these kind of ends and then again at the top just slightly not a lot you just want to take a little kind of wedge off of each side there like so and then what you can do is then just kind of bend in that middle score line and then where the triangles are just kind of lift it up and bend it across you just create those two sides okay so that's that piece then that one we'd scored so we can just burnish that's the lip and then the base we've got those two big school lines you can just burnish both of those okay so now keeping your main base what we're going to be doing is with these side pieces this bottom flap here we're going to add glue on and you're going to stick each one down to the edge the base there of your bag so for example grab this one here and with your glue you can use double-sided tape for this you don't have to use wet glue it seems to have clogged up okay if you use a wet glue don't go really close to the edge you know it will kind of spread out so I've kind of you know you don't want it kind of splodging everywhere and Tombow could be very very tacky so I'm just going to stick it down and you're lining up this score line of the fold you can see here with the edge of your bag so lift it up and just push it out until you get a really nice join like so I'm just going to grab my bone folder just spread out that glue okay so now when I bring that up you see you get a really nice join that's what you want to do the same with the other side and again there you can see now just bring that one up so that's what you should have and then you just want to start sticking all the sides down so fold one in in one of your tabs again you can use double-sided tape or wet glue it's entirely up to you just pop it on one of the tabs and then bring that up and bring whether it's the front or the back doesn't really matter at this stage and just make sure you get it joined perfectly and you get it you can see that you shouldn't really be able to see that it's you know separate cardstock unless you're using different colors because you've seen that before I've used different colored on my sides to the front because that does give a nice effect as well but you just want it to be really super neat okay so do that on the other three corners okay so that's now what you should have so we just got this kind of case at the moment and then grab your flap here and that is going to go so decide what one you want to be your front and your back I think this is going to be my front and I'll keep that as the back and that is gonna you need to glue flip it over and add glue within that one inch kind of tab then I'm gonna flip the whole thing over and I'm gonna do it from this side here you just want to lay it down and just bring the top of the bag up so it lines up with the score line of that flap so bring it right up into that one inch kind of piece that we've put the glue on just want to cover all of that okay so you've got a really nice finish there on the back next we need to decorate everything so it's all pretty straightforward from here so I'm going to grab this piece here flip it over and again you should have a nice 1 eighth of an inch border like this paper it's absolutely gorgeous like so and then I've got these strips here so one is going to go along the bottom like that and then the same on the back okay then that's done I've just remembered I forgot to cut the piece for this you can see there I've put it on the back it's entirely up to you but if you do want that piece it will be so that was one inch so it'd be three quarters by seven and three quarters okay I'll cut that off in a bit and then I've got my handle so like I said I did do this one longer and I need to also add my Velcro docks okay so just got some here just get my pair together pop it in the center of my lid and then just make sure everything lines up push it down then carefully then you can just make sure they're really secure close that first because then it makes the handle easier to attach okay so I've got a bit longer with this one I've already stuck that piece on top and then I just want to kind of curl it a little bit like so and then with your thumb on the top just bring it around and that's what you're going to have that's how your hand will be basically it's going to stick behind so can you see there's a shorter one that's the shorter handle and this one's going to be a little bit longer can you see so again it's entirely up to use that was ten and a half but this one then I'm guessing must have been eight maybe oh and that's what I done I stuck that piece stick the handle down first okay like so and then with that piece of decorative paper then stick it over the top and then it just covers that all up so you can see they get really nice finish but this must have been I'm saying for kind of roughly yeah eight inches but I remember now it was so I think I'm just going to cut this down because I do quite like that mini length so I'm just going to hack the end of that off okay and yeah it does look cute it's got to stay shorter so I am going to just add some of my wet glue you will need to hold it in place because it the because it's only a short handle there's a bit of tension on it and you want to come in at two inches so that too and then stick that down so I've covered about half an inch down okay stuck there with glue and then come in two inches I'm just going to hold that one there in place first okay so that's that one stuck and then you're just going to pop your glue again about half an inch down on that next one and pull it around like I said it will be a bit I've got a really strong cardstock but you just want to again come in about two inches like so just hold that one in place okay and then I've just cut that strip which was seven and three quarters by three quarters of an inch and that is going to stick perfectly over the top I think just by adding all those little details just really makes the bag special so while I'm on the back I'm going to just pop a little bit of glue on this bit here it's going to be great for Valentine's Day this dinky little heart I love it okay and I think I'm going to put this one up higher this time so I'm just going to make sure it's in the center how lovely is that what a nice little touch and then I have just gone and taken all the backing off of my lovely big tag here which says love and that is going to sit just need to make sure I get it nice and even I love these taste the tags that do it for me and they've got that kind of shine to them as well but it's just instant gift bags I love it you can't buy that in the shops I think that's why I'm so addicted to making gift bags but look at that it's so strong like I said you've got you know your mats and layers and everything on there so it does it kind of really you know strengthens the bag it's going to hold some really nice bits and pieces and there's the other one how fun are they gorgeous absolutely love these so I hope you've enjoyed them hope I've inspired you and like I said all 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