 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 this really nice gift bag which is made from acetate now I'm trying not to move it too much so that it catches the glare of my lights but you should be able to make it out there it's really really nice the idea is you would fill this with tissue paper or a present wrapped in a similar colour or designed to the papers that you have used and I just think it's really really fun also it's a really nice keepsake I think afterwards you know there's no reason why you can't keep that displayed or even if you're into making mini albums or any kind of more paper crafting gifts that would look really nice to keep it in here you imagine a mini album and that's actually where you keep it I think that would look really nice so lots of ideas for this one it's using the fairy towels collection by dovecraft and this here is the decoupage so I'll be showing you that in a moment but it's the decoupage paper pack really really nice and this one just says just for you I've used these in my own butterflies these are just the acetate 3d ones but I'll be showing some other ones with you as well and there's the back with the handles I've just put the little flatback pearls which are also part of the collection and you can see inside I've finished it off there as well with matching papers and yeah I really like it I think it's lovely so for this one so lots of plastic lots of glare in this tutorial sorry I'm going to use the blue butterflies this time and these are from the collection because I think these are going to match well with the papers I'm also using one of these bows they're the flatback pearls again all of this collection is on my amazon storefront which will be linked in my blog and I'll link it below as well these are the papers so that's the fairy tale paper pack and then this is the wonderful decoupage pad now I do love the decoupage pads that they do loads of gorgeous little layouts there that you put together and that's the one that I've used for that bag and then the one I'm using today is this one I've already made it up and it is where is she and it's this one here at the back really lovely one with the fairy there so that's what I've done this is the acetate I'm using this is the 12 by 12 acetate by do crafts you get a pack of 10 I got this for a bargain I think it was £4 and 9p from a place called trago mills which is near where I live in the southwest so I know that that's not going to be somewhere unless you live down here that you would be able to get it from but I know this is stocked online so I will look for as many people selling it as possible I'm just trying to see what the microns are or the weight of it but it doesn't say just as 12 by 12 acetate but it's really strong lovely lovely stuff so that's what I'm using today so like I said I've gone ahead and prepared my top a piece here this time I'm going to have this as a gift tag actually hanging from the bag whereas that one there I just stuck it onto the center so it's entirely up to you how you want to do it but I have already gone ahead and done that one I've got a template just because I'm working with acetate I can show you what I'm doing on this white piece here and then I've gone ahead and already prepared all of those pieces which I will talk you through along with the handles as we get to it so yeah you can see there's a great big glare but I've got here two pieces of acetate so imagine these are now my two pieces of acetate that is a different size there you want two pieces that are 9 by 12 okay so two pieces of 9 by 12 acetate and along the 9 inch side you're going to score it half an inch ignore this because this isn't quite the size of the acetate it's just so you can see but you're going to score along the nine inch side you're going to score at half an inch and at eight and a half inches okay so those will be the score lines which you can just about make out on this piece of acetate I move that there can you see there's my half inch and there's my eight and a half inch okay then you're going to rotate it along the 12 inch side so this is it on top here and you're going to score at four inches okay so I know that's different but it was purely just to see how your score line should look but you're going to score at four inches and again you can just make out that score line there okay so you want two pieces that are like that then you want to burnish all of the score lines so acetate's a little bit different you have to kind of really work it first of all so I'm just going along there and just carefully folding down like I said this is really thick stuff it's lovely it's really nice to work with and then I'm just going to do the other piece okay so those are my two pieces of folded and burnished acetate next we want to create these side pieces so these bits oh these ones here and all you need is two pieces of five by eight okay so these are from that paper pack so it's the full width because it's an eight by eight paper pack and then I've just cut it down there to five inches in width now on both of them you want to score along the five inch side you're going to score at half an inch and four and a half okay so half an inch and four and a half okay and that is now all the scoring so I'm going to get rid of the scoreboard and you just want to burnish those two sides and then you want to add some double sided tape now because we're working with acetate I find it best to use the red tape so I've got this roll here and I'm just going to run kind of making sure I stick to the outer as close to the outer edge as possible I'm just going to run one up there and again one down this side and do that on both pieces okay and as always just go over and you will see if there's any white underneath it will turn that darker red color and that means you've got all the air bubbles out okay so they're ready to stick down then we've got this piece here which is going to stick on the inside here and this piece measures this piece measures seven and seven eighths of an inch by three and seven eighths of an inch so it's just shy of the base size just so you've got a little bit of a border and it doesn't kind of buckle or catch on any other side so I'm just going to run again because you're sticking this to acetate I'm just going to run this red tape and also do two of this size so you've got one to do underneath just in case anybody does look underneath they're not going to see any just you know double sided sticky tape they'll see some nice paper you might just want to use plain white okay so I've actually just changed this up and realized I thought about this when I made the other bag up you actually want one piece of acetate which is going to be eight by 12 so one piece will be eight by 12 okay the other piece will be the normal size so nine by 12 all right with the eight by 12 along the 12 inch side you're just scoring at four inches that's all you need to do on this piece you can see they're folded in half that's all you will have so you'll have no side pieces or nothing okay then on the other piece it will look like this so this template so it will have those side pieces you will score along the nine inch side you'll score a half an inch and eight and a half just as I showed you at the beginning but instead you want to remove these two long ones and just keep the bottom small ones here so you can see I've still got mine on here I will put a little notification in at the beginning of the tutorial um because I've done it this way originally and then I changed it whilst making it and I just when I prepared I totally forgot that I had taken this out and decided to do it different way so I'm just removing and you'll do this anyway on this same piece so this bit hasn't changed you're just removing all of these longer tabs and you're just keeping the short ones at the bottom and the other one like I said will not have it at all and that would be a slightly different size so just bring the scoreboard in just so you can see so you've got this piece now it's just got those tabs on the bottom here okay you can just see them there and like I said the other one will be just like this but without these side pieces so sorry there for that bit of confusion but yeah one will be eight by twelve one will be nine by twelve with a nine by twelve you do the scoring just as I said okay then all you need to do with the acetate is on the one where you've got those tabs is you want to add some of your double sided tape you can see there I've just taken a little wedge off of the sides as well keep it nice and neat because you will slightly see these pieces and that's why I changed it up so that you wouldn't see hardly any acetate okay and again just make sure you get all the air bubbles out so what's going to happen is this one without any tabs on is going to stick right over the top of this bottom piece here okay so I put all the tape on that in a minute and then these tabs are going to come up on the side okay and then we're going to stick our paper around here so first of all so you can start to see this a bit better I'm going to add double sided tape just to the bottom base of that piece of acetate that has no tabs on it it's just that plain piece with that one score line so I'm just going to add my tape around the four sides and then some just through the middle and this is just a nice gift bag size anyway so even if you don't have acetate you can still make this gift bag you just imagine all these pieces here are just different coloured papers okay so now you can see that acetate better there's that half inch so that's that four inch score line that's the 12 inch side that's the four inch score line I've just folded it and on the underneath part I've added all that tape so now I'm going to just take off all of the backing okay and then bring in this piece with those side tabs and then very carefully make sure you've got no hair any dust any bits underneath this I mean it's going to be covered anyway but when you're working with acetate you want to make sure there's nothing that might get caught underneath especially if you don't want it to be seen and then just lie that down so should all marry up and then make sure you get all those air bubbles out okay so you should only be able to see it slightly there so now you'll see we've got the two front and back now two sides to our gift bag then grab this piece here your pattern paper and that's going to sit over the top inside and put your base on as well so I'm just going to stick that down and again just kind of hover it over because it's slightly smaller but it should all sit in there nicely and again make sure it's all stuck down then grab one of your patterned papers obviously make sure it's the right way up and just work with one side at a time so first of all I'm just going to take off this backing here and you're basically going to stick this so this score line where you've folded there you want the edge of your acetate to line to sit perfectly in that so try and sit it there first of all I'm going to bring that piece in so it doesn't obstruct it and I can kind of line that up this should run flush with the bottom of your you know your table so just run that along there and then you should be able to just slowly line up everything else now if it does come up a little bit higher you can trim that afterwards so there we go pop that on its side and just again and then take the backing off of your little side piece here bring this round and then stick it down so just fold that up pop it on its side and again make sure all the air bubbles are gone because this is the only one you're going to see but it should become quite translucent anyway and you won't really see it okay so that's that one then take the backing off of this side and again bring up this acetate make sure it lines up with the score line just fold that around put it on its side and do the same like so and there is one side of your gift bag so hopefully that's made sense so again with this one make sure you got your pattern up the right way start with one bit at a time it's so much easier to control fold that bottom one in on itself make sure the base is flush with your table and then just go in and then again with the front one there you have it kind of push in the sides like that just so you get that kind of bag effect at the front but that is the same as that one so you can see now how they come together so that's really really easy and now it's just down to decorating which is all the fun part so I've got two handles here which are three quarters of a by 12 I think or was it 11 might be an a4 length actually yeah it's 11 and just under 11 three quarters or 11 inches will be fine so whatever your kind of default a4 paper is and then I'm just going to run just kind of cover I guess an inch at each end with again the same red tape because if you're using wet glue it just it won't stick to this unless it's a special glue that will obviously adhere to plastic so I'm just going to stick on that one and again this end sorry I was out of shot there just a one inch from the bottom there or thereabouts again it doesn't matter too much you can see there what I've done just curve the card stock slightly and then you're going to stick it obviously that heart that one inch down just making sure it's nice and equal so I'm going to do one side first so that one's about there and I'm just going to measure so I've come in two inches so bring this one over two inches so I'm going to be sticking it just there okay and then I'm going to be sticking these over the front and then I've got plain ones to go on the inside there so it looks nice from both sides you can see on this one here and you can see it inside there where the plain one is these measure I think it's my one inch here my one inch punch so you need two four six eight of the one inch punches and then I've got half inch punches on the outer ones just inside here and you would need just four of those and then these are the flat back pearls which match the collection I put some tape on the back there and I'm going to go get that all stuck down okay so there you have just a really nice plain gift bag there you go without the glare isn't that cool so like I said you can stick this you can see how nice that will look in the middle but I'm going to just try this one just hanging so let's have a little look so I'm just going to okay so just about there I'm going to just snip off the top and then just have that hanging down like so and then you just got a really nice gift tag there and I think that looks lovely I've got red backing tape stuck to everything but there you can just about see it sorry it's been really hard for me this one because I just I hate that glare in the pictures and I know it can be quite off-putting when you're watching so yeah so that's the one with it just hanging down plain and then that's the one there with it stuck on the front and you've got the butterflies oh that was what I wanted to do was add my butterflies so these ones here so I'm just going to take off the top one I think I'm just going to have the one and I'm going to add a little bit of red tape because I've just removed it from its actual sticker so as you know or if you haven't seen I prefer them when they are on their own rather than with the holographic backing and then I'm going to stick this one kind of flying off at the top there so you've got that hanging down and then you've got that one flying off up there and they just again because they're acetate and plastic and on this it just looks really nice and it's quite a fun texture and it's something a bit different so you imagine that filled with a nice pink tissue paper with a lovely gift inside or like I said a little mini album or something like that I think that will look really nice so there you go two really fun gift bags they measure four by I think it was eight wasn't it four by eight so again really nice size as well and yeah just unusual using the acetate so I will share the links to that acetate and all the links to all the other papers and all the accessories as well that I've used along with the dimensions because I know I changed the acetate sizes through the tutorial but hopefully it made sense and I'll also put the templates up as well so there you have it hope you've enjoyed it please hit the thumbs up if you have and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye