 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make a bottle carrier for a large bottle of wine which is standard wine bottle size and then this was three just over three inches in width okay so you can get those larger or wider ones you might be able to get it in here because I have made this three and a half in width okay so anything more than three and a half it may start to bulge a little bit on the sides but this is for your standard 750 mil okay now this is something I get asked to do a lot and the reason it's taken me so long is I wanted to make sure that I can get it as strong as possible because you need it to be really firm and you need it to be strong enough to hold the weight of a bottle these are you know heavy and the last thing I want is for someone to make it and then there's fall out or the bag and the wine go everywhere or something like that so I'm really pleased with how this has come together I think it works really well and if you follow exactly what I kind of say in terms of what I recommend for your card weights and glues and things like that and if you can get alternatives that are similar then it will work because the glues I use help give the box its stiffness and the cardstock that I use is obviously a good weight as well okay so this is how it looks it's got this really nice detail with the wooden dowels on the top I have made this gift tag which you can write on the back there and this is using my new bright rosa fern border and I've used the smaller one here and then I've done these little sprigs as well and then I've just knotted it with some of the baker's twine on the top and for the sentiment there it's just the sentiment toppers which I shared last week and what did I get and I used the gold because I thought that worked really well with the orange this is using one of the papers from the brand new national history museum papers I'll show you all that in a moment and then on the bottom it's reinforced and again with the glues that I use but that goes in it's going to have tissue wrapped around it because this is a gift this is going off to somebody and then you lift it up and I promise you you can see that I'm still holding it that is not bowing there is four five there's six layers of card in there strong cardstock that is not going anywhere and the glue that I've used as well is so stiff and it is just I confidently I could walk with that now and that's not going to go anywhere and because you've got the strong wooden dowels here as well if you don't have the wooden dowels try and find something similar otherwise you will have to maybe use ribbon but then you'll need to use brads you'll need to make sure they're not going to rip through the card when you lift it I've really thought about this and that's why it takes me time sometimes with these more heavier items so I've done the beer bottles but I used the greyboard or chipboard to make that one this one I've still got another idea with chipboard for a wine bottle so again that will come in time but for yeah for cardstock this is the best I can come up with at the moment and I think it's really nice so let me show you how to make it okay so you're going to need something to cut a circle or a semi circle with anyway I'm using the X cut circle cutter but you can use a plate anything like that it's fine papers I'm using are from the lovely natural history museum organic kaleidoscope I have shared all of the contents of these papers over on my what did I get video so I'll link that up there for you but it's a beautiful and that's the one that I've chose to use today so this is five by 12 okay you need the full length so you want two pieces of pattern paper that size then you'll need four pieces of 12 by 12 now the reason why I've got these odd colors is because I'd already started to film this and I've already made the half that I was doing in the proper colors which you'll see in a minute so I could have well I would got so cross with myself when I looked up and saw that I hadn't even hit record so ignore the colors of these these are just I'm not really a fan of these I've had them around for ages what four pieces of cardstock that's 10 by 11 okay and along the 11 inch side you want to score two pieces at three and a half then rotate and score it three and a half again and then at seven just to the first scoreline do that on two pieces and then you're also with a pencil just want to mark pencil market five and a pencil market 10 and also at 10 at the bottom here we're going to use this to line it all up okay and then also you want to come down one and a quarter along that three and a half inch scoreline so just come down to one and a quarter and put a pencil mark do that on two pieces and then on your other two pieces of 11 by 10 along the 11 inch side you want to score it seven and a half then rotate and score it three just to the first scoreline and six and a half all the way down and then back along the 11 inch side you want to put a pencil mark at one and at the bottom here at one and then one at six and then down the seven and a half inch scoreline again one and a quarter inches down again we're going to be cutting all this in a moment two pieces like that so what you will end up having is an L shape that's on this side you'll have two like that you can see my kind of L here two like that and then two with your L shape this way okay you're also going to need two wooden dowels I got these from the works but you can get these across the world from hardware stores and stuff and these are just over 12 inches long and they are about a five mil they're really strong I can't bend that without snapping it okay so with the we'll start with these ones here so you'll have two with the L on this side you just want to or fold and burnish everything okay and then you'll have that scoreline where you just scored to here you want to start from the bottom here and you'll have this square you're just going to cut straight up like so and then just cut a wedge this is now my scrap so I'm just doing this a bit rough but just cut wedges like so she's created this tab then rotate it around and you want to cut down that scoreline to the first scoreline like this rotate around again you're going to cut that out completely okay so just remove the scoreline if you just cut away your pencil mark just pop that back in again I can just about see where mine is there so you know you should have two pieces like this and then where you've got these pencil marks I'm just going to line up my cardstock on my grid anywhere it doesn't really matter it's just so I can keep my ruler straight and you just want to draw down to meet that other pencil mark like so and then you're going to cut that out okay so then I've got my two opposite ones so again I'm just going to quickly burnish that so I'm going to do it okay so you'll have this square down in the bottom and you'll have that scoreline just to there so this time we're going to cut wouldn't do exactly the same but it's all opposite so now we're going to remove sorry we're just going to then cut up that scoreline to there and then just cut wedges out of that bottom piece it'll be much neater than I am remember I've already done this once and didn't record it so you'll have that and then pop it on its side and you're going to cut all the way down that scoreline rotate it around again and remove that completely okay and then you want to join up these again make sure you get them nice and straight and again cut that out okay so now you should have two pieces like this now what you want to do is bring both of those pieces together so you'll have this okay and where you've got the pencil marks to be fair you only need the pencil marks on one of them so this is going to stick over the top of this and it's going to stick right up to the pencil marks so I need to add glue to this one inch kind of strip like so and then you're going to stick that over the top make sure you get everything lined up okay so and you want to do that on the other one so you'll have two pieces like this one is the front of your bag one is the back of your bag so now I'm going to bring in the one I've done perfectly but didn't push record and you're going to need a wooden dowel you'll need two because you'll be doing this obviously twice so this is what we now are going to do so we're going to work on this handle section okay so I'm just bringing over my other one here I'm just going to mark a pencil mark you obviously won't be able to do this because you haven't got this one ready but it's just so I know how far down that I cut so you want to come down about two and a quarter because all of this section here gets rolled around this so if I lie that over the top all of that we actually not but don't really lose it but it gets rolled down to go around the dowel so the only section you have that you really see that's cut out is this bit here and that's to be able to put our hand through to be able to carry the wine bottle so this one here I've got it set at six and a half inches which is about 16.2 centimeters no 16 and a half centimeters sorry I'm not used to working in centimeters so you want to flip this around and you want to sit this right in the middle so I think you cut it's 14 inches this piece here sorry this section here is 11 inches so you want to come in at five and a half if you put a little pencil mark there okay you want to make sure that you have this right in the middle or your plate if you've got a plate that's going over the top just imagine that's a plate you want to make sure that you've got equal overhang along this piece here so whatever you're using just make sure you've got it in the middle all right it doesn't matter and no matter how far down you come so if you come even further down just means you won't have maybe you have to decorate it differently or something so yeah don't worry too much I've got to try and line this up where I because you can't see I think it's about there okay so I've got mine where I need it so I've got it in the center here so I'm going to hold my paper and then you just want to cut out your semicircle like so okay and then grab your pattern paper okay and then you want to lie this down your pattern paper and you want it to be flush with the bottom score line here and then you want to make sure that you've got even border here so it should be about an inch I think isn't it yeah because this is 12 and this is 14 so you should have an inch either side okay so that's easy to line up and then if you hold it all there okay flip it over and then just draw around that bit and then you can just cut that out okay and now when you sit that down it will be flush with that circle now on my other one I haven't if I show you this is going to be the back can you see and that was because I cut the semicircle bigger I actually made a mistake on that one so you can have it like that if you just make your circle bigger but this is going to be the front and I'm going to keep it so that it's flush with it I I prefer that personally all right but it's entirely up to you so that's your options there so now you want to get that stuck down so I'm going to add glue to the back of this now again this is a really nice it dries nice and firm so it is helping so try and look at your glues and see what you've got also another one that I have said before is the taser easy stick this dries really really strong and rigid goes really stiff so for those of you if anybody's got it that's also another good one because you know obviously the paper plays a big part but sometimes the glue that you use as well because some glues will dry and still be quite soft so that's maybe not the best one for this we need all the strength we can get so I'm just going to turn this one over got my inch kind of there come across a little bit so good thing with this is you get all this wiggle room as well okay another thing I like about this color is anything that oozes out you can just rub your finger over it just completely rubs away it's great stuff turn it over okay so that's that now all done so you need to do that twice everything I'm doing you want to do see twice and then you want to just with a ruler just kind of curve this like top piece here so just this section here just to help you get it to roll around that piece of dowel now if you don't have this and see what else you've got that's similar maybe a plastic bit of piping you can use ribbon on this so if you wanted to have a strong ribbon coming off of this but I would really reinforce it I'd add brads to it and everything because these are heavy bottles of wine it doesn't actually say the weight of this but it is it is a heavy bottle so the last thing I want is for anybody to make this and then the bottle of wine fall out the bottom it shouldn't but don't hold me responsible especially if it's an expensive bottle okay so now they're curled over like that I'm going to run some glue I'm going to use some white liquid glue here this is the Dawn Bibby one this one dries very quick and then you want to pop in the wooden dowel and make sure that again you've got an even amount overhanging okay like so I'm just going to hold that there for a minute okay and then I'm going to add glue all around the exposed bit of dowel and all inside there again I'm not too worried if this glue kind of oozes out because it's easy to kind of wipe away and if you have one of these adhesive rubbers they will remove anything so now just want to very carefully really keep it nice and taut just roll it over until because the glue's kind of oozing out but it's moving along with it until you get to here okay to that point there and then just hold it there until it dries okay and then what you do is flip it over and just kind of bring it towards yourself make sure it's dry at this point and just kind of create a little crease underneath if you want to use like I wouldn't use that actually because it's probably too sharp I'm just going to go in there see what I'm doing just creating like a line like so reminds a little bit I've cut this side down too far can you see where that one's completely flushed with that side but this one's got that gap there I'm not going to worry the thing is straight is this has been cut down too far but hey I didn't even make a prototype I just gone straight into this one so I'm pretty pleased and then that's just drying a little bit still there okay so mine's still drying a little bit but I can get into the kind of you know putting it all together now so all you're going to do is stick your sides all together okay so this one's going to go over this one here now what I would say is always focus on this base score line get that lined up because if your squares are slightly off like I've got a little bit sticking out there I can just trim that off with my cutting knife okay whereas you don't want to line the top up and then your base be out because you won't be able to fold it so just focus on this you can always tidy up that you can cover it with some patterned paper you could put a little decorative border there there are lots of ways you can doctor and kind of save that if you want happy but you can't do it if you do it the other way around okay so I'm also going to just add glue to the base one so whatever I'm not going to add it to the one that I'm sticking over it I'm just going to stick to adding the glue to this piece here so again I'm going to stick with the callow because I know it's nice and strong I just thought you need to stick glue on here as well now you can cut this away if you want but I'm keeping all the cardstock I've got because I want this to be a strong base so this is just reinforcing all of this card so if you're thinking why have you got both there that's why I don't want to cut away anything I want to keep it all so it can stand the weight okay and then if you flip it over and just fold one of the sides you will then have this piece and again I want to focus on my score lines lining up like that so I want to make sure I've got the same because my oranges are slightly different colour I think although they were from the same batch or maybe they weren't actually that one is going to go over there don't worry if your bottom bits are slightly off because that's all hidden it's this one these actually line up really nicely so again I'm going to add glue all to this piece so you do want to go right over everything and focus on the score line the base score line this score line here okay so decide on what it's going to be your front and your back so this is going to be I think I'm going to have it as my back keep looking at it now whether I prefer that no I do prefer that okay so this is my back so that one's going to go down first okay now because that one's going to be what you're going to see inside what I would say is just just take a little sliver off of the edges here not too much but because it is going to create bulk inside along the sides of it I think so just take a little bit off you'll be able to tell if you fold it in first of all you can feel it catching on the sides then just cut it away see what I mean when you fold that in then you'll fold them in and then that if you look inside when it's all lined up see that sits better now whereas before it was just catching slightly now see how you feel what weight card stock it is that you're using and actually I didn't tell you this is 220 card stock that I'm using okay so see what it is that you're using now you're going to stick your back one down and then I'm going to add glue to both of these okay so already the sides of this bag have got three pieces of this card stock because obviously there's two on there and then this one then this over the top that's four just in the corners and that's where I wanted to have all that strength that's why I didn't want to cut any of them away so I'm just going to sit that one there for a second and then just weight that down while I do this side okay now what I've also got is I've got this 350 gsm card stocks this is again super strong and I think I'm going to add one there might add two I don't know now these are just a four length or 11 inches whatever it is you've got or 12 by three and a quarter okay and then that could be sandwiched in between just to give it more strength but I think I'm going to do both just you know just for to be on the safe side so I'm going to again stick these two together first I've just bought some glue on the back there and I'm just going to focus on that center part just again make sure you've got equal overhang there if you've got something that's 14 inches long then use that of course again just fold that down turn the whole thing over just make sure that's stuck it already does feel strong and like I said this dries really firm and now I can just add glue to all of this and stick that last piece down so you know use your own judgment see you know what the weight of your card is you might not be using this for wine obviously you don't have to put a bottle of wine in it you can put anything you want okay so there is my box finished now if you wanted to you could reinforce in there as well so there are lots of ways to be able to still strengthen this now with your side pieces you do want to just make sure because again mine's gone so stiff just curl it in towards itself just to kind of you want it to kind of sit there naturally on its own like so and then these bits you want to kind of go in your side pieces there all right but now confidently that wine bottle will be wrapped in tissue and it holds and if I pop it on its side it's half for you to see but it doesn't bow can you kind of see I'm still holding it but it doesn't bow out and that's what I didn't want and I'm sure that glue is probably still drying but that does hold a bottle of wine and I'm really pleased with it I think it looks really nice I probably had a gift tag to it like I said wrap that in tissue but it's yeah it works and I'm pleased with it obviously would I run around with it for hours no does anybody run around with a gift bag for hours no but to get to and from and then to have it displayed wherever or to just you know keep stored for a while yes it's going to hold up it's going to be fine so yeah I hope that's answered some of your questions because lots of you have asked me to do a wine bottle one but it is hard to do because I don't want to tell you to do something and I mean I have had one of these fall out the bottom of my carrier bag shopping before and smash everywhere I've seen people there's fall out of their hands in the super markets and red wine goes everywhere over the aisle I don't want to feel like I've been the one that's done that to any of you so please make sure you use a strong card stock you use a glue that you know preferably dries very stiff and you reinforce it on the bottom okay and you shouldn't have any problems with it so yeah I hope you've enjoyed this one it's a bit of a different one slightly different kind of process than normal but it's the the best way that I could think to do it for the minute and still I keep going back to the box style but I want to get it right before I put the tutorial out there so it is something that I've gone to a few times now but I'm still not happy with it so yeah until next time hope you've enjoyed it if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye