 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how I've made this circular or fishbowl style gift bag. I actually made this maybe three weeks ago now during a Facebook live but because I've moved and just everything's been a bit crazy I have forgot to do this one so I'm surprised it's actually survived. It's still intact, it's not crushed or anything. It's a great size. Now today I am going to change it a little bit but what I'll do is I'll link the original Facebook live for this style below because what I'm not going to do on today's is do the flat sides. I'm just going to do a slightly flat base just so that the the bag can stand up and it's kind of landed although even that's a little bit no there we go that was fine it's the sides I don't know I just think I'm not going to do them but if you do want to have a look at that video then just check on that link open at the top inside you've got lots of room in there for lots of treats and it's just yeah just another nice fun style and something a little bit different so let me show you how to make it. Okay so for today's I've used my circle cutter I've had this for years it's just a great tool to have in your stash and I know lots of you do have it as always I'll link all the supplies below but this is the X-cut brand but there's lots of other ones out there so I'll keep that one although I've cut everything I'll show you what to do then for the flower I've got this gorgeous one here that I've made and that was using the sunflower band dyes from Bright Rosa but you could also use this one which is the flower band because I know again these I've had in my stash for a long time I always pull them out they're just great for toppers and things like that and I just use my X-cut corner punch there just to round off the edges for the lid so first of all um we do the scoring pieces while I've got the scoreboard here now cut loads of pieces I've just left a little bit left here to show you so just kind of ignore the kind of the sharp teeth um on these strips for the minute but you'll want two pieces that are four by 12 okay now I think in the facebook live I did actually do it shorter so if you've only got letter size which would be 11 inches or a four you can still do that so if you want to do two pieces of four by 11 or two pieces of four by three and three quarters then that's fine then you will need to score both pieces along the four inch side you'll want to score at half an inch and at three and a half okay I'm not going to score over mine again because I have already cut into that but you can see there half an inch all the way down and three and a half all the way down do that on both and then on one of them just along the 12 inch side just score at half you're not going to fold it or anything but it's just a guide to where we need to stick this one over the top okay just so that you get that exact half inch fold and burnish the score lines and you can see what I've started to do there but I will talk about that in a moment and then for the lid I've got a piece here which is six and a quarter by six and a half and it's along the six and a half inch side that you want to score at half an inch and at three and a half fold and burnish and then that's where I've just rounded the corners but that's completely optional if you want to have your pattern paper on the front I've got this pretty matte layer here and it's six by two and three quarters and again I just rounded the edges there and the gorgeous paper pad I've used is this one it's by craft sensations I picked it up from the range and it's the pastels one it was a while ago but they do tend to bring these out and repeat them so you may well be able to find this one still but it's absolutely gorgeous and you can see it has the foiling running through some of the papers as well right so that's all the scoring with the scoreboard so I'm going to get rid of that you want to cut two eight inch circles so if you've got one of these or you know you're thinking about buying one they're not very expensive I'm just popping the little die all there which you want the screw and then you can move along you can go up to 12 13 inches I think it is so I've just popped it on eight and it's got a blade just take off the little cap there and then you just pop that on your card stock push that down and cut around and it will cut this perfectly so you want two of those that are eight inch diameter then with one of them just with my trimmer I popped it in so that this lines up with seven inches so there's my seven inches you can see there the bottom of it and just cut that and then all I can do to make sure that they're spot on is I'm going to sit this one over the top line it up in my trimmer make sure that's all straight just about over there take that one away and trim that off okay so now those are perfect now also what you want to do you may be able to cut through both at the same time is pop it in and you just want to take a small piece not much at all just a very very small slither but you want to make sure that this stays completely straight so I'm actually going to all it like it sits perfectly with the edge of my scoreboard there that's the seven with this one here so just make sure it's straight and I'm just going to bring it in just a little bit not even one eighth of an inch I'm just cutting a little bit away that didn't work very well on that one let's just retrim that there we go that little bit there will help to allow the bag to stand up it will just land it what I might do is just take a little bit more off actually it's up to you you know at the end of the day how much you want to remove from the bottom but you need to make sure that both are the same and that this one is perfectly parallel with this one but my kind of flat piece here is just over one and three quarters all right so you can see there you've got that kind of fishbowl look now because we've got that slightly flat base okay and then for the pattern piece I've got the foil here so this is actually going to go on the front so just you want to move this down to seven and a half diameter and then because I don't want to use all this card so I'm going to try and make sure I just see where that's going to sit there we go so just hold it down in the middle and then you can just cut that one out okay now you see how this one would have been the same just over the top there what I did to just cut that bit there is just sit this over the top and pop it in there so that you've got a nice border ignore the bottom here just sit it in there and then with a pencil just come down so you've got that same border on each side and then I'm just going to pop this in my trimmer and just line up those pencil lines and now that one will sit perfectly in there with that little pink border so do that twice so I've got one for the front one for the back so I'm actually going to stick those ones down now and if you haven't stuck that one down you can do that one as well okay so we've got those three pieces ready so now on to these ones here now there is a tool that Fiskars do because it was actually quite funny during the live and everybody had to painfully watch me cut all of these teeth into the sides and it got everybody talking about wouldn't it be great if there was a punch or something now we've found out that there are there's also Fiskars do one but it's part of a system so you can buy the attachments and this design is the attachment is one of the attachments and I'm sure you know some of you may well have the punches as well that you can you know literally just go through really quickly to create these sides here but I didn't and I don't so all you do is we're cutting up within the within the half inch sections here so all I'm doing is about a quarter of an inch width here on each of those teeth just cut it doesn't take long I mean it took me maybe 10 minutes so but try not to go over that score line otherwise you're going to see it now when you get to the ends you want to make sure that you yeah you end with this bit flat because that's going to stick inside so don't worry if one's a little bit smaller it's really not going to make any difference but you don't want them to be too thick because when we go to curve it around you'll get kind of like a crease and you don't want that so that's what you want to do so you've got two that look like that now we want to stick them together so I'm putting glue within that half inch section where we scored just that one and then just make sure you put a little bit onto those teeth don't worry if the teeth don't line up it's again not going to matter just make sure the score lines line up so we've got one long piece okay so now that's dry what you will also want to do because it will just help is just for your bone folder just put a curve into this because this is the shape so be careful not to damage the teeth but that's the shape that it's going to obviously want to go so if you already kind of bend that card it's just going to make life a lot easier so now all of these are going to fold in so you should have already burnished the score lines but they're all going to go in and stick around each side so if I bring this one in for example and it's going to go in here now if you've got anything overhanging we're trim it off at the end so don't worry I just want to you know I'd rather you have too much and then you can decide how far you want it to go around so this is why I said it's fine for you to use letter paper size or whatever but what you want to do is I'm going to use a quick grab glue now you want to make sure that this score line sits within the middle of this you know as near as you can get it you don't worry if it's a little bit out but I'm just going to pop some glue actually what I did in the live is I found it easier to put the glue in here because then what I said you could always do if you didn't like the way it looked inside is you can cut some more cardstock so I'm going to put the glue there sit this one in the middle of that flat piece and you want to make sure that you've got it right up to the edge focus on that flat bit first because you want to make sure you keep it flat and then start to curve it as it curves around that circle once you get going it's easy to do it's just getting them just starting off so you can see there now if I turn it over you see how that started to stick around that corner so it's easier to add the glue onto this piece so just pull that in and then you can get in there and just put some more glue and try and use a quick grab glue because it will make life much much easier for you then all I'm doing is I'm just following around pushing with my fingers inside to the edge okay like so and then what we can do is we can trim across that in a moment and then again on this side here okay so now I'm just going to trim this I'm just going to cut down it's just two and one eighth so I'm just going to put on this side here just mark down two and one eighth and then I can just trim across I'm just going to very neatly cut straight across there okay and again just measure just you know don't just assume this one will be the same just uh just measure it but it is it's bang on two and one eighth so again I'm just going to pop it on this side see this was actually um plenty on the other sides that I done because that was slightly taller so you know do check that one out because many of you may prefer and want to make it a little bit taller and bigger now this one is just going to go on exactly the same way it will obviously be a little bit more fiddly because you've got to get your hand inside but again once you start it off it's easy to do so I'm just going to carry on in exactly the same way just make sure that you with this one I would start from the top actually because you want to make sure that you know it does line up with the top of the bag so I'm just going to pinch that one in place and then just work my way around now this one is going to go over here and you're just going to stick it onto the back and it gives it a really nice effect I think it just finishes it off and it's slightly larger I made sure that the opening width this was slightly bigger so I'm just going to pop some glue on yeah I'm going to use this glue just onto this piece you don't need to go right to the edges because there is a little bit of an overhang but this glue just rubs away anyway so I'm not too worried and then just make sure you've got an even amount hanging over each side you can just look in the side here and there's about half an inch on each side I think I worked it out so I'm just going to bring that down and then you can see in here just make sure you've got that even amount I can just rub away any glue there you want to have it exactly the same width as the opening you can but with that you can then see in it whereas this way it completely conceals any gift that you might have inside just stuck my Velcro dot on the lid there so that closes up nicely and then I've got this piece here which is one inch by 12 and in the scoreboard along the 12 inch side you want to score it one inch and 11 and I've cut this piece that's three quarters of an inch by 10 and it's going to sit right in there right up to the score lines if you want to bring it up a bit shorter you can now if you want to do little mat layers to go in the squares you can but I'm going to put an embellishment that's going to match the embellishment for the center of the flower there and I'm going to stick that one right there so I put a little curve into that but what I'm going to do is stick this on first and then as it's drying kind of you know curve it into that same shape because once this dries it dries nice and hard so it will stay in that nice curved shape so that will sit perfectly within the two score lines there and then I can just kind of just shake that just up to the score lines because the score lines are going to fold out like this and then they are going to go on here but I think this one I'm going to have them quite close together so you have that kind of look I think it looks really sweet so I'm going to stick that down I'm going to stick that down with some hot glue and I'm just going to find some nice embellishments to go in the center okay and then I've got these absolutely gorgeous embellishments which I'm going to add some hot glue to just because they're the first thing that always seems to fall off but these are faceted and they're iridescent so with the way they catch the light and they match anything so they match with that foiling there as well so let's grab this one here and then I'm going to do just again a little bit of hot glue and just either side of where the handle is there and again it just catches the light and because we've just cut that piece on the bottom of the bag to make it flat you can see there it stands up but it doesn't take away from the circular shape because you've cut away such a small amount you know it's still when people look at it the first thing they see is a circular bag okay so there is the finished gift bag I think it's adorable really do like this handle style I think it's so much fun and just all that foiling that you kind of you know see when it hits the light and that flower is just gorgeous so yeah I hope you've liked it as I said at the beginning if you want to see how I made the slightly larger one that's slightly different size just check and click on that Facebook link I will also link in here a circular gift bag that I made that split open that was really nice and I'm sure I've done another circular style so I'll link that as well if you click on my face here that will subscribe you to my channel and if you hit the notification bell you'll be notified every time I upload a new tutorial so thank you for watching and I'll be back again very soon bye