 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is a big backpack gift bag and I'm really, really pleased with how this has turned out. It is, like I said, it is very big. This measures 8 by 4 inches base. You've got little magnetic pockets on the side here. You've got a big pocket on the front which closes and then your huge one here and then inside you will see the inside there. That all closes up nicely. I've got these lovely little charms on the front here. You could obviously have anything you want. You could say happy birthday on it but the idea for this one is to give to someone for either going back to school so you could have it in any theme that you want there. Really fun for the kids but this also would work lovely for someone who's travelling or going exploring or moving abroad and this would look really nice with the journal inside and maybe gifts that are obviously relevant for their journey. So like I said it's quite a mammoth job. There's lots of elements to it but I think I've made it pretty straightforward and then you can see here on the back you've got these lovely little handles here and then the little hanging tab at the top there as well. So yeah lots and lots of bits to it like I said but let's have fun and make it. So this is all the bits and pieces you're going to need. So there's lots here. So I've got my magnets for all of the pockets. I've got some glue dots to use with the magnets. These are those little wood veneers that I've used just to decorate the front and they came from the works. There's some mix of other things where you can see you've got at hashtag and all kinds of different things in there. So again I'll share all the links if I can find them all. I've got a brown pen here which is what I've used to do the stitching, pencil, cookie tool, right so all the bits and pieces you'll need. So these are just my little tags to hang so obviously you can use anything you want there. I've just got these nice ones here so I just cut them twice each one just to make them really really thick and strong and then I've just got little die cuts of the same paper that I've used for the lids and just to complement it there as well. So that's those. Right so let me talk you through all of the bits and the sizes that you will need. So first of all for your front and your back you need two pieces of eight by ten okay. So that's your main part. Then you need two side pieces so you need two pieces like this and these measure five by ten okay. So I've got my other legs I've already started to do that one. So that's those two pieces. Then you need a piece for your base and this measures five by nine okay. Then you need a piece for your front pocket and this piece measures eight and a quarter by four and three quarters. Then you need two pieces for your side pockets so these are four and a half by four. Then you need two pieces for your lid for your side pocket. These are three and a half by one and three quarters. Then you need one which is your lid for your main pocket at the front and this is seven and a quarter by two and three quarters and then your main piece which is your main lid for your backpack and this is four and three quarters by eight. Now all those measurements will be in my blog so don't worry don't need to write that all down right this minute you can just revert to the blog and then get that all prepared. This is the little piece which is the handle on the top of the backpack and this is six by three quarters of an inch and then two pieces here which are going to be for my main handles on the back. Now the length is just standard A4 length so it's 11 and three quarters or 11 and five eighths. If you're using letter paper which is 11 inches that will be fine because I probably will end up cutting this down I don't actually know how long I'm going to need it but it measures the same width as the other piece so it's three quarters of an inch that will be the same. Okay so just trim two pieces of three quarters of an inch width and then just keep the length for the moment. Right that's everything that we need so now while we've got the scoreboard here I'm going to do some scoring so all the pieces is that one that one that one that one that one that one nearly everything apart from the front and the back. So this is a large one so there's just no paper big enough unless you've got really good A3 card but then they don't generally they're not really patterns and stuff I mean you can you can downsize this obviously and just use two pieces of 12 by 12 to make the initial box but I just like to do things different. So let's grab so you'll have two side pieces these pieces here I've already finished that one with the pocket so we'll do that one now so scoring first of all along the five inch side of your of one of your side pieces this is the five by ten you should have two pieces of this. Okay so first of all just scoring along that five inch side you're going to score at half an inch all the way down and at four and a half inches all the way down remove that now and then what you want to do is score it two and a half just down to four inches now on my scoreboard here I've got them running down the side here my measurements so I can just see there just roughly I just want to score at two and a half down to four if you don't have any of those measurements on the side just grab your ruler and just hold it at the two and a half mark there and just come down until you get to the four inch marker okay then from the bottom just move the scoreboard a minute then what you want to do is come up from the bottom of the score line here you want to come up at five inches okay so there's five inches there pop your stylus so you can put a pencil mark if you want and then you just want to join that mark that five inch mark up to the end of that four inches okay so again just come up five inches there put my stylus there in place come here so you can see a bit better so again that's five inches put my stylus there and then just line my ruler up again to the bottom of that four inch marker this is just going to help us fold in those sides so you want to repeat that twice you can see there that's the score lines that you want to have okay so do that twice that's that piece keep these all in order so I know that I'm explaining every bit then again grab my scoreboard and with your main lid so this is the eight by four and three-quarter piece you basically just want to score along the four and three-quarter now you want to make sure that the side that you're going to be scoring is going to be the top of the lid so if you've got a pattern or anything obviously this is how I'm this is the main piece of this paper that I've used I wanted this tools and travels because I just thought it looked really nice on the top of the bag so this is the top here and then this is the bit that's going to be stuck at the back and then this is going to lift up and fold down so just make sure that whatever print you have is facing the right way so pop this one in so again along that four and three-quarter inch side you're going to score it half an inch all the way down and then at one inch all the way down okay that's those two there then you will have another lip or lid for the main pocket at the front and this is that two and three-quarter by seven and a quarter piece and again making sure the print you've got facing the right way and along that two and three-quarter inch side you're going to score at half an inch again just all the way down okay so that's that one then you will have these two pieces here which are your side pockets these are four and a half by four and all you want to do is along the four and a half inch side you want to score it half an inch all the way down four inches all the way down then rotate it onto the four inch side and score again at half an inch all the way down okay and then what I've done is you can burnish all of those score lines and you'll see now that I've done this just this hand stitched pen mark with a brown so that's where I've got this one here I've just gone around and just done a little stitching and it just looks like it's just gives that kind of fabric look okay so you want to do that twice on those two pieces that you have with that piece then you will have two pieces of again the little flap the lid for those side pockets these are one and three quarters by three and a half again making sure you've got the print you're doing exactly the same way along that one excuse me oh along that one and three-quarter inch side you're going to score again at half an inch all the way down now with these ones here I've just used my corner punch and just rounded off the edges there we'll go through all the sticking in a minute I think my corner punch is actually on its way out because I had it a rather long time so I always need to just cut those little bits there okay so that's what you want there burnish not stuck there but I'll talk through all the sticking in a minute this is the main pocket at the front so this is that eight and three quarter and sorry eight and a quarter by four and three quarters so along the four and three-quarter inch side you want to score again at half an inch all the way down and then rotate it and you're going to score at half an inch again and then at seven and three quarters okay again burnish all of those sides and then I've just gone around and put that stitching all along there as well we need to do a little bit of cutting on this in a minute and then for your base which is that five by nine you just need to score along the five inch side at half an inch and then again at four and a half inches and then on the nine inch side score at half an inch and at eight and a half inches or you can just score at half an inch on all four sides okay so that is everything that's all the scoring done so let's get rid of that okay so let's get everything prepped so I've got the base here now so I can remove that and basically just go around and just carefully burnish all of your score lines so just burnish those score lines and then what you want to do is cut each square on the corner completely out like so so just removing that square okay then you can see what I've done is I've put red tape I've used red tape throughout this whole project because it's really strong so I've just put red tape on all of those sides there because basically these are going to go up like so and then that's going to be our inside of our base and all of our side pieces are going to stick to this okay so that's that piece done get rid of all of that okay so yeah that's the base done then again while we're here with that front big pocket again you just burnished all of those score lines okay and you want to cut out the two bottom squares like so and again just add tape like I have done making sure you're getting it right up this is half inch red tape so it's perfect because they're half inch tabs so it fits in there nicely and also what you can do is just kind of notch off all of the sides there as well just to make it all that easy easy even to fold in you don't get any of it kind of poking out the sides and you can do that again for your base because obviously when that comes up you want it to form a nice right angle nice corner there so just go around and check in fact I don't think I need to cut those I think they're fine straight yeah I'm going to leave the base okay so that's those two so I said about these two you have two pieces like this just round punch and then pop your tape corner around us sorry and just pop your tape there and again I'm just going along and just cutting off those this is the pocket for this piece here so you have two of all of this so again what I want to do here so this one I haven't done at all because I'll show you all of it it's just cut out the bottom squares along those score lines and then I'll show you my half inch red tape oh no this has changed actually this is now the three eighths of an inch I think I used all of it up so yeah this one's three eighths of an inch so basically all you're doing is along the score line it's just running your tape so it's just kind of hogging that score line there just do that on all of those sides and that's just how I've done it on everything else okay and again just then go along just cut off a little bit there one of those edges okay so again do that on the other piece because you'll have two pieces of that and two pieces of that so that is basically all going to fold in and stick on the side like so and this piece is going to sit inside that like that and that's going to form a pocket so I've done all my stitching what we can actually do here as well is get our magnets in place so I'll share all the links to where I put my get my magnets from as well but these are just all I'm using here are these just over one eighth of an inch in diameter so just take off two of them very strong there we go so what we want to do is first of all if you want to measure all this you can do but all I'm going to do I can split them up is pop one in the middle of that piece so ignore the score line you just want to focus be helping if I'm in view if I just come down a bit there okay so all I'm doing there is just going to put that in the middle roughly of that lid so I've got my hot glue gun here be very very careful you could actually get my hot glue gun for my veneer for this I'm going to use the glue dots that's what I did before so just grab glue dot there magnets magnet is magnetic magnetized even to my pokey tool there you go so just put that glue dot on the back there and then just find the center again and just sit that down like so okay so that's what you want to do there and then with this piece here so I was going to sit over like so so what you can do is you can measure how far down it is so it's say half an inch so again half an inch down here again grab a glue dot I'm going to cover the back of this with some card so this is actually not going to be seen so again I'm just going to pop that one at half an inch down like so and then just so it's covered up I just got some scrap let's come back out here sorry I forgot I was in this is my new camera there we go let's come back out again because you can see all that now okay and then what you want to do is just grab a strip of scrap so let's just roughly mark the middle there you're not going to see this at all this is just to stop that magnet lifting so it doesn't even matter if it's not completely straight like so and then I'm just going to grab some red tape okay and then just sit that over that magnet like so like I said you're not going to see this at all you just want to make sure that that magnet is definitely not going to come out or come off okay and then you imagine when that goes so when we sit that down the magnet's caught straight away so now you can okay so that's all ready to go and we'll attach that in a bit so do all of that all again on the second piece and that is what I've done here and where it might as well do that now actually so you've got these two side panels here so that's the one I've done already so first of all let's take a lot of backing off so I'm dressing all of the sides and everything we're putting it together physically as a an actual bag right at the end it's so much easier to do all this decoration whilst you've got it flat so you want to bring up do this first bring up the bottom and fold over at your side and they should just stick just enough on the red tape like so all right so it's all folded in you can see there you've got your little pocket and then just make sure you've got an even border from the bottom there around on the sides so I reckon there we'll do okay that's that piece and then with this here again I'll put my tape already along there what you want to do is just kind of squeeze the sides there so you're just opening up that pocket and just sit your you know your flap so the score line of the flap lines up with the top of the pocket and then you can just push it down stick to the back now you have your pocket obviously we've concealed the magnet on that side so it won't catch with anything that you're going to put in and now and then your magnet just burnish that over just closes there also what I did do and I forgot to do that you can see I've curved the corners there because I wanted to try and create a bit of a aged you know bit of a I think it's been used because I might even go round and distress some of the edges but again you just kind of you're just breaking up all of those fibers really and just close it down give you a nice open and close there okay and then I've got my little wood veneer I've got my hot glue on just going to put a little bit on the back there and again just you can feel where the magnet is so you know that's the center and just kind of hold that in place so then you need to do that twice so these are the two sides and also just pinch in that middle score line you want to pinch it inwards so you're pushing down there and then those two as well just kind of lift them up and it would just help it when it all goes to close like so okay so that's the two side panels done um okay we've done all that done all of that and then you've got your two main lids here as well so again just burnish your sides run your sticky tape there and again burnish those two score lines because that's going to be it's got a little bit of room there just so that the bag can kind of expand with whatever you're putting inside of it okay so grab now I've put front and back they're both the same but you might have different prints so grab whatever is going to be your front and we'll put our pocket on that one as well so grab your big pocket here and exactly the same way as we done the other ones so I'm just going to actually know I need to do my magnets first right so let's just work out here what I want to do is I'm going to do two magnets but I'm going to put three veneers on wooden veneers I just quite like the three I think so with the two there I just kind of roughly see where this is going to how far down so I'm looking around about if I just work this out and then I can give you rough measurements okay so I'm going to stick two of my magnets let's say two inches in from each side yeah two inches and then you want to come down it's about one and a quarter okay so again I'm going to grab some more magnets again I'll cover this up again there's some actually quite good that it sticks to it like so and again just grab some more scraps I'm just going to roughly just put two over there like so like so this is just to make sure that those magnets stay in place because although you're not going to see it you just don't want anything catching so I'm just going to put some tape again on the backs of these okay so just stuck them both on the back there then turn it over grab one more magnets let it find the magnets on that side you can hear them all clicking into place there we go let them find where they need to go and then again we're going to apply some glue dots on the tops of these these glue dots are a little bit big so I'm just kind of mushing them squeezing them all onto the face of that magnet again just so I've got no sticky kind of hanging over the other sides like so and then if you get this sit the lip and the score line piece behind there okay make sure it's all nice and even and you've got it lined up at both sides and then just bring it down and stick that like so and then you'd be able to lift them up so now they come off and they're in the right place and then again grab my hot glue feel underneath where it needs to go on in place get the other one there again they are lined up I know they are all in the right place but just checking and then I'm going to put my third one in the middle there again you got a few seconds wiggle room with the hot glue which is good okay get those little stringly bits off in a minute okay so that's that now already so again grab that front piece take off the tape on all of the again hold up the bottom one bring over that one just so it kind of grips onto the corner and again that one there so you've got that pocket effect again and then you just want to hover it over again so you've got an equal border make sure that's all nice and secure up and grab your top bit here and again and I just kind of lift it up feed it in without it really hitting the back so I've got my hand in there to stop it sticking and again I'm making sure that it's all lined up with that front so okay so it's all lined up there once you're happy stick that back bit down and then you can fold your pocket over again there we go we've got a nice pocket that closes and again I forgot to curve it all again you can still kind of do that on here just like I said just ruffing it up a little is what I want to do here we go okay so that's that one done right so now we need to start putting it together but again there's a process you've got to do it bit by bit so let me just think this out so let's grab the back here first because before we stick this so you flip it over so this is the back this is going to be sticking inside like so so there's the red tape it's going to be sticking underneath there like so but first before we stick that down we need to add in this little piece here which is going to be that like handle so that's going to be sticking out of the top and also we need to add these two in and this is why I said I'm not sure about what length I want yet so and I'm still not sure I'm going to leave these hanging until I decide but they also need to be stuck in there as well so if you just roughly fold over maybe half an inch half an inch has been good for this project let's say half an inch okay so just fold over the top like that and again with this one here just enough to stick inside that's all and again what I've done with this is this has become so soft I've been like using my bone tool I've been you know curling it both directions really again breaking up all of those fibers inside the card because the idea is that this isn't physically going to be used but I want it to look quite real you know and by doing all these these kind of bits here it kind of helps distress it and age it a little so you can see that I've really just curled them up I mean you feel it get really soft you don't want it so soft that it could rip but just kind of gauge it so you know like so okay so you want to just have it flat and then just keep your fingers and thumbs like they are and just bring them right onto the front of you and it will create that shape so first of all if we get that kind of in place so let's take this one off here and just again I'm eyeballing this if you want to use a ruler so I'm just making sure that I've got equal distance from this side to the end and this side to the end so I reckon oh doing it the wrong way need to do it that way because it's going to be closing up so you want to have it smooth this like right so it's a bit easier that way as well because now we can have it flat so okay so I've just turned the whole thing flipped it over have it flat here and then what you can do is make sure you can just spend some time I think grab my ruler here and it's about three on each side oh look at that it's three inches in on each side and then just push it until you get over that sticky and stick it down there we go it's a good way of doing it and then you can imagine now and that will fold down that's what's going to be and that's going to be the top of the back so now what we need to do is we need to put some more tape over the top of this bit here just so that it sticks and then again with these handles so where we've just scored all kind of burnish you want to do the same thing and just make sure that you're sticking that piece over there and then again same distance between them that piece there so now let's flip all that over and you can see now we've got the start of the backpack coming together it looks really nice I really like that oh and you start to get a bit excited when you see it all coming together okay so again let's put some tape over now what we can do is stick all of this so you want your back facing up so whatever pattern you've got facing up and that's going to stick like so over there so let's remove the rest of this and get this in the way let's just fold that out there we go so again spend some time hover it over make sure you've got point to point let's try this this way can't we see that's it that's better so I'm just kind of lifting up I'm just kind of putting down the very edge first so I'm happy that both are perfect make sure that's really stuck down nicely like so they should fold over kind of like so just help them along and then that will stay up so you can see now the back these are going to be going in somewhere around here when we get to that bit we'll go through that and then there's the front this is my front piece flip it over and basically you want to find your middle point so four inches okay then come down at four inches to two and a quarter and just mark across and that's where we're going to add another magnet I think I might add two here ideally I could do with bigger magnets this bigger piece I haven't got them so I'm going to pop two together and then stick them down with the card over the top again so they don't try and get into each other so I'm going to put them right next to each other so I'm going to put one like so see if this works and then grab another one like so it's probably going to want to stick let's put my thumb over that one I'm just going to put it right next to it oh no it's okay like so okay and again I'm going to grab a little bit of scrap okay and again just pop that over the top there to stop them moving now I'm not going to do the ones on the lid yet because just in case there's any kind of movement there shouldn't be when we put it all together obviously it might lift up slightly once the sides are in place so that's that's fine just keep them there for the minute okay so now we will do the two side pieces let's attach them to the front the back's going to be the last bit we do because we've got the little handles that we need to put into place as well so these are the two side pieces and they're going to stick under each one like so so I use this one first hover it over so it's lined up with the score line make sure your bottom is completely flush just come over a bit here it's completely right again just lie it down until the top meets like so okay that one and now when it bends so just help it along a bit you can see the side they're starting to come together and that will squash in like so okay so again let's remove this one here and again just starting at the bottom there and just fold that one over help it along a little okay so that's all starting to look quite good so now we need the base so let's flip the whole thing over you should have something like that take off one of your longer sides and again you want to stick it what I might do actually I'm going to flip it over and do it that way because I want to make sure it gets right down to the bottom and you want it to be in line with your front panel ignore your side pieces you want to make sure your front panel panel is sitting perfectly if you're slightly out with any of this I would say you go back and recut your card or something because you don't want to mine's all you know literally meeting perfectly and that's that's how you want it to be okay then now this is when it's going to start to come together now because this piece is going to come around and stick to that and it gives you that nice base so again just remove this piece here so this is a bit more easier now because you just want to just make sure the side bottom is lining up there with the bottom of that piece okay so you can see that's all come together there and again just go over to this side remove the tape again just bringing that down there you can see it all sits nicely this is really strong even though it's not quite reinforced it is really really quite strong okay hold over those so that is now what you should have so you've got this really large base these two bits will come in like so and you can start to see there the backpack all coming together okay so now what we want to do is this is basically going to go on the back but before we stick the sides down we need to decide where this is going to go in so what I'm going to do so it's all lined up is I'm going to on the bottom here where I put the red tape I'm going to remove the this one here from the base like so as we're done with the pockets just stick it all down make sure it's nice and straight like so and then I'm going to just start off just taking up a little bit and get this corner so I've just lifted up a little bit there and I want to get this one stuck down making sure that corner is perfect on the bottom don't worry about the other corner for the minute you just want to do it just a little bit and leave that red hanging out okay that's all stuck down there and then you can go here just again just kind of take out that red tape like so and again stick that down got two corners and you should have it hanging out here so all of this is still not stuck down now what you want to do is we're going to be I reckon there okay so this was 11 so it was the it's hard to really judge basically what you're better off saying to you is doing is either three or four inches it will work so if you're using a four paper like me I'm going to come I'm going to be sticking this in at three inches if you've got 11 inch then you can do four and it will still look good okay so basically now what I want to do let's just see how this is going to so maybe I should maybe I'll do four actually as well four yeah four inches I'm going to do actually I just think it gives you a nicer looking handle you know like side pieces so come up at four inches stick it in or just push it in like so and then you just want to I'm trying to burn is she like create a bend I need to bend it see what I'm doing there so I'm just bringing it over so I can pinch it just so I can create this here okay so that's what I want and I'm going to cut off some of the excess there so I've just got that much so that now can sit in like so okay so let's now take off so this is where it's going to get a bit fiddly actually what we can do is bend it over so this is because I didn't know how far down I was going to do it's what I would say is because you'll be watching this before is before you stick this down is from inside here come up four inches and then stick this here so I'm going to grab my wet glue and again just bring that over this is probably the most fiddliest bit and so decide where I want it I'm just going to grab some wet glue and just put a splodge in there okay so I've done that on both so like I said what I would say now is now that I know where it is I've ended up coming from the top of this piece here it's three and a quarter inches from the bottom so what you can now do is do stick that inside like I've done on both the sides here when we were doing this lid and doing all the top here as well you can do all of that together but I just wasn't sure so I've left it to the last minute okay now what you can do is lift this one up take all the red tape out and just make sure get the top lined up the tops in place everything else should be okay and turn it over in a minute and put more pressure on it again do the other side over carefully without squashing the handles and just run the finger I guess visually as well now when I'm looking inside I can see the two little brown bits if you didn't want them there you could obviously cut them trim them down a bit bit more but you can see inside there how big this is it's huge so now I want to play around with the inside until you get it you see what I mean like we cut that we scored this half inch piece here so that you have this kind of gap so it just gives it room you should just have all this kind of arched and curved like so and again on that side there and it should all meet up nicely like it does and there it is so now I can work out where I want my magnets to go so grab the other two you should just find two on the front there and again grab some more glue dots and again so bring that all up make sure before you stick that down that this front piece here is sitting in line with that score line here on the left like so okay so just kind of you can feel it with your finger and bring it down just enough to kind of grip it and then I just picked up one let me just lie that down again there we go so I've got my two and then I can just really squeeze them down like so now put it again you can feel it it closes up perfectly so all I need to do now is I don't think I'm going to put more veneers on there is I've now got my lovely little these tags and I've just been playing around I've just got some of the baker's twine here just to kind of keep it with that and keeping of having it as a kind of rustic looking I'm just doubling up my string and kind of looping it through like so these in terms of length you're looking at 14 inches but then it's folded up so it's seven inches length that was my good gun just falling on the floor like so so you can see them there bunch together they look quite fun and then if I lie this down the idea is to have them kind of just cascading there there I'm just looping it through the middle here of this top one and then decide kind of lengths that I want them so I'd like them to all be a little bit different I think I'm quite happy with how they're kind of hanging down like that maybe the huck come up a little bit and then I'm just going to tie it in a knot at the back like so I've just tied it in a knot there and then there they are just hanging down like so and play around with them you can put initials on them obviously put a little happy birthday tag anything you want but I am super super pleased with this I think it looks so lovely it is such a big gift bag as you can see inside obviously a lot of work's going into it so it is one for the it's a good one for back to school you can obviously make it for you know any occasion really but I think this is a nice travel gift you could put a lovely travel journal in this and give it to someone who's off exploring or moving away I think it's a lovely gift so there you have it you've got your two little side pockets as well and then your lovely backpack style on the back so there you have it I hope you like this one a little bit fiddly with that at the very end but that's purely because I've only made one of these so I didn't want to go too far ahead and then get it wrong but there you have it so there you go I hope you've enjoyed the tutorial today please hit the like button if you have and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye