 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixup Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this washed faceted gift bag because it is basically a larger size of the faceted gift bag that I made about a year and a half ago and I will link that one up here because that's tall, a lot thinner and it's made with one piece of A4 or it might have even been letter paper size I'm not sure but if you want to make something smaller but this same style go check that video out. So it's basically that one but like I said I've made it bigger so this is using two pieces of 12 by 12 so it's considerably bigger sorry my focus went funny then with all the mirrored card there but it's it's a really wide you can see just how lovely it is and then inside just open this up here you can see there all that space you have so yeah it's it's really easy to make I've broken all the steps down as always I've used the lovely new dove craft papers which I'll show you in a moment and I've got a little wooden kind of embellishment there I've got a little metal star here one of the cutouts so I've just I've cut that out from one of the papers as long with these little tree decorations and then the papers there with all that lovely sparkle on them and I just yeah I love how it turned out I've actually also this was some ribbon but I didn't like it on its own so I've just done a plat with the ribbon and I just thought it just looked really nice um as handles for the bag so yeah let me show you how to make this unusual gift bag so this is the dove craft collection it's twilight wishes and I use this to make the star card which I know many of you enjoyed it's a beautiful very very rich paper pad it's got real deep Christmas colors um with the gold foiling they're running through it and it's lovely I've used some of the embellishments to go with it so I use the metal star so I'm going to use that again you also get buttons I've used one of the wooden shapes here which is the tree decoration the pegs as well I did put a few pegs on but I changed my mind I've used the bows and you also get these sticker sheets as well so there's lots in the collection and then I used for the embossing on this one here which is that woven basket look and that is using the woven basket this is the 3d embossing folder by Gemini crafters companion I will link it below it's lovely really really nice one but for this one I'm using this here which is a I want to say it's an x cut it might be do crafts it says design objectives I've got a feeling it might be do crafts again I'll try and find some links to it but it's just this unusual pattern I just quite liked it so that's the one I'm using today so I've gone ahead and done all of that kind of stuff off camera because you don't need to see me do that I've also done one side so this is what we're going to be aiming to achieve you're going to have two pieces that look like this so that's that one all ready to go now also I've already done my second one because I'm using a very light cardstock it doesn't pick up very well on my camera so I thought I'm going to do this one here using a marker and a ruler and I think you guys end up be able to see it much better and make more sense of it so you want two pieces of 12 by 12 card if it's directional pattern make sure it's facing the rice right way up now so the first scoreline you're going to do is at 11 and a half okay all the way down you're also then going to put a little notch with your stylus at five and three quarters okay just there but for the purposes of the video I'm also just going to put a little black mark there okay I'll probably go over this line in a minute as well if you see that change just so you can really see where all the scorelines are then rotate it and you want to score at three and one eighth of an inch and six and a quarter okay pop it back again into the original orientation flip it okay and score five and three quarters pass the first scoreline and down to the second okay and then flip it back again what you can then do is go over that it's just easier than getting a ruler out and hovering your stylus over here before you get to that first scoreline but that way you know it's not going to damage your cardstock and then you've got your scorelines in the right direction okay so that's all the scoring you need to do with the scoreboard okay so I've just gone over those scorelines so that's what you want to have at the minute next what we're going to do is we're going to score from here the center of this bottom piece to the scoreline there and from there to the top there okay again I'm going to use my pen but you will be scoring this so you want to use a metal ruler and a stylus and just score your scoreline there okay then you're going to score from your pencil mark or your notch from there to there and there to there okay so that's now what you should have then you want to do one scoreline just in this triangle here don't do it in that one I'm just using my t-square ruler because it's good that I can just use it to make sure the ruler's straight so just line it up along the top of the cardstock but you want to do a scoreline from the center of this cross here just to the top remember these are all scorelines now if you want to do a template like that as well then you can do I will take a picture of this and I'll put it on my blog okay then you want to fold and burnish all of the scorelines so you will be able to fold all of these scorelines okay even all of these and I'll show you that in my one in the moment and then I've already gone and cut that one as well so what you want to do is you want to remove this section here and you want to just cut up this line here just to there okay I'll do it a little bit darker I'm going to show you my one in a second but I just think it's much clearer if you just see on here what you will have so you're going to cut just up there and you're going to remove that section there everything else you want to burnish okay I'll hold it there so you can just pause the video right so here is my ones you can see now where I've folded all of my scorelines and burnish them you can go down this one here up to that point okay because it won't go all the way through just needs to go up to there you can see I've cut that bottom piece and I've just removed that one take a little wedge off of that piece as well just to take off any you know so you don't get anything overhanging so you want to have two pieces like this next you want to cut your decorative paper so you're going to need four pieces of three and seven eighths of an inch and these are going to go like this now you can only stick one down on each piece because the next one will go across here and it will go across the join when everything's put together so stick one down just like I've done here and keep the other one to the side okay because you will stick that one down you can see I've got this one ready because that's going to join here and then we will stick that there okay so you'll have those spare that's my two spares there and that one is going to stick there then you want four pieces that are three and three quarters squared because these are going to go in all these triangles so with these pieces here so again you'll have four I've already stuck mine onto the other piece pop them in a diamond orientation and just cut from point to point okay so once you've done this on all four pieces you'll have eight triangles and those eight triangles will cover all of these triangles so you're not apart from where you scored that one there you won't put nothing in to be fair you can if you want if you want to decorate that then you'll want to do another um well just another two of this size but you'll probably have to go smaller again and then cut through there so you've got separate triangles because you wouldn't want to just stick that there it'd be too much kind of bulk when you fold it but you could certainly do two separate ones but these ones are going to go one's going to go here one's going to go there one's going to go there hold on I want to make sure I get this right so I think I put it together no so you don't want to do that one so you don't want to do what I've done with that one there ignore that because I'm going to go over that again now so actually you only need three because you're going to have that when we put that one together like so and then that one will go over the other side that's just off the the camera there but you should if I just bring this along you can see how it's going to look okay so you should just have free unless you're going to do smaller triangles these ones here so I'm going to stick down all you want to be sticking is that okay so ignore you'll have one of these left over where you've cut that so you could cut that in half and fill it in there so anyway I'm going to go and stick all these ones down okay so I've just stuck them down also this cardstock is from the light textures pack which I got from the range in their mix and match the three pounder packs I did buy a few because they're perfect for backgrounds and things like this and they're also a really nice weight 250 gsm so that's with this which is 160 this is the paper I think 150 I wasn't far off I'm getting really good at guessing my weights now and they're mixed with the the collow glue in between this has become very very strong so yeah it is a very nice strong gift bag next we want to do these bits here so all of this all the measurements that I give you you'll need four of each okay one for each of the four sides so so the first golden mat is two and seven eighths of an inch by a five and a half then I have a pattern paper in between and that is two and five eighths of an inch by five and a quarter and then the other gold on top is two and three eighths of an inch by five so I've dropped down by quarter of an inch increment each time so I've got a nice even border and you're going to stick them in these rectangles at the bottom so again it should all look like that you just need to ignore that I've stuck that one on this so basically this will end up going over the tops it's just going to cover it anyway so it'll be okay so again I'm just going to get them stuck down okay so you will now have two pieces like that you would have already cut all of this as well next we want to stick them together so I'm just going to grab my glue and pop it along this tab here and then I'm just going to sit this over the top always make sure your base score line is lined up that's the most important one because you can always trim the top if need be but you won't be able to correct it if the base isn't lined up so I'm just going to push that up a little bit I'm just going to fold that under that way I can check that I do have it it's quite hard to see this cardstock I'm going to add glue to this one now usually you can fold your gift bags in half again but because we've got this diamond through the middle you basically have to just lift your tab up and then drop this down on top and it should all square off nicely just spend a minute just make sure that you get that perfectly all lined up okay so I think we're okay so I'm just going to open this up and you want to make sure that you've got it squared off at the bottom okay get that into place first and then what's going to happen is the two sides where you scored down the triangle you want to push so they're inside like that that will then become the top and make sure that this is all squared off everything else will start to fall into place and what I would say is kind of push these diamonds in so they kind of curve inside there just slightly you see they've ever said slightly got a curve make sure you've got that on all of them and the whole box will just fall into place okay and then we'll get the the base secure because that's the most important part and once that's kind of like I said all squared off everything else will fall into place so now the base will just kind of overhang each other by quarter of an inch okay so you always want to well decide what you want to be the front I'm going to have this one because just in case that doesn't line up properly so this is going to be the front for me so I'm going to fold in these two first and I'm just going to run a little bit of glue down there just so that grips onto that and then I'm going to put glue all on these two sides here and then we're also going to reinforce it and cover it with some more decorative paper because you'll see usually we have a piece of cardstock that's the whole kind of size of your base to cover but because of the way I've done this and I didn't want to have to you know I wanted it to be this size this is the how I had to do the base so but it's good because you can certainly put something you know pretty heavy in this because of the way it's been made and because we're going to obviously reinforce it so we're going to cut another piece of cardstock to sit perfectly over that and also inside if you want that's optional you could also lay down some very heavy weight cardstock or chipboard again that will just help reinforce it if you do have something quite heavy to go inside so I'm just making sure all that glue is spread out so pop those two sides always make sure they're in I mean you could have them out again it does give it a different look that's the look you get so if you've got your triangles if you did end up covering them there's you know no reason why you can't have it that way you know I like that a lot of the bags I do you can you can change the look just by you know doing something as simple as this folding it in or out but I want to keep my name because I just I love that shape then with these other two pieces that you will have one is going to stick on there okay and that just brings it all together and then for me the other one will go on the back and hopefully yeah it should cover that one perfectly so I'm going to stick those both down okay so I've got away with the back there and there is the front okay I've got some of these handles here which I just saved from some of my bags and what I'm going to do is just add a couple of holes you can add obviously ribbon you can have actual cardstock handles which I've done on the last gift bag I think it was I put up there's some really nice handbag styles that you can use on the boat bag that would look really nice on this as well but I'm going to use the probably going to need the larger yeah I need the larger one so I'm going to pop them just kind of I'm coming in at about half an inch from the corner of the patterned corner there so I'm going to pop this one out there entirely up to you just make sure that you shouldn't go through these side pieces because they're further down but again I'm going to eyeball this and pop that one through there okay so there are my handles now so I really love that next I want to do my little fastening and make my decorative dangle okay so I forgot to push record but don't worry I haven't missed anything so I've stuck down the well you've missed me stick this down and I've also stuck my base so these the square inside there is five and five and five eighths of an inch squared so I've got one in there and I've got one on the base okay so it's nice and strong so there's three layers of cardstock there now and then my closure here so the cardstock is three by one and three quarters and then this are my gold cardstock is two and three quarters by one and a half stick them on top of each other and just round off the edges then I put glue covering about half an inch and stuck it on the back there and then I've just put my 20 mil hook and loop dot there and then that's just kind of finds its way just stick them so you want it to kind of sit in the middle there which it does and then the dangles here are just fussy cut from this paper here so there's a big 12 by 12 sheet of all these lovely tree decorations I just cut them out then I stuck them on top of some gold card and then cut them out again hole punch them and then I've just tied three of them on there and just tied off all the edges because now I'm going to attach this one here with one of the little stars from this one and I'm also going to pull off I'm going to have one of them behind so I'm going to thread that through first pop a little bit of glue on there but I'm going to cut all this away anyway so I'm going to pop that one then the merry Christmas and then the star okay so you can just see and once we position it that one will kind of stick out a little bit and then I'm going to tie it all on top of this and I'm going to add a little bit of hot glue just to kind of keep it where you want it to stay because this will obviously move around but I want to make sure that all of that obviously stays in place I'm just going to tie it off quite tight at the top there but then I'm going to move this so you start to see it all and I'm going to knot that again and I'm going to finish it with one of the gold bows on top again so let's just trim all that off and that will all be covered by one of these bows which again is from the same collection so I'm just going to pop some hot glue just on the ends and just kind of rub it all in and that will stop any of this unraveling because all of these gift bags I'm making now are going in a plastic storage box ready for when I need them and I won't need to be able to see it like that and the dangles all underneath so then I'm going to put a blob of glue there pop that over the top and now can you see you can see that you can see this you can see the little gold star the bow and all the dangles everything kind of sits well and that's not going to move now because it's got that hot glue but it still works really well then but the handles still work really well as well get your closure take that off you got a lovely big gift bag I love how roomy this is it really will fit some you know perfect for perfumes and lots of toiletries they're all the kind of things that we like to give at Christmas but now I'm really really pleased with how that's turned out I'll just bring in the other one here as well so again if you do want to have handles like this I just done a simple plait just three strands of ribbon and again you can see I've done that exactly the same way and you've got the dangles underneath as well so yeah I think they both look really nice so I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial I hope you like my unusual gush gift bags I think they're really cool so thank you for watching please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye