 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. So I've received these two new products from Simplymade Crafts and this is the Doctor's Bag. So you've got dyes there to make. It's really nice that you have loved this one and this makes a suitcase. So what usually happens is I share the new product and I show you the samples that I've made and then they get sent off to CraftStash to use for the shows and the launches and so on. But I always get messages from you all asking how to make the actual, you know, samples that I've shared. So what I'm going to do today is I'm actually going to also show you how to make the Doctor's Bag. Now the suitcase is wonderful. I'll show you my sample in a moment, but it's very self-explanatory. The step-by-step instructions on the back are easy to follow and you will know how to do it when you die cut everything. You can see how it all goes together. Now I do have something similar to this that I made a couple of years ago. It's thinner and it was to put the travel journal in which so many people have enjoyed to make, but you can just make the box on its own and I will link that up here because I know a lot of people don't have access to get the dies or maybe you don't have die machines and you like to score and make, you know, your 3D projects and that's totally understandable which is why I like to give people the option. So just head over there and maybe you'll like the colors that I've done today's in and you can incorporate them into that tutorial. But this one here is something quite different because you're working with curves and that's quite hard to really show in a tutorial and to cut yourself because usually people would, you know, someone's curve might be slightly wider than the next person. So it's it can be a little bit more difficult to actually put into a tutorial. So this one to have in a die form was really, really nice and this is what I've made and I absolutely love it. I think it's just wonderful. You've got the zip detail on the back. These are all velcro fastening and then you open up and you have a really nice roomy gift bag. So I mean, you know, I have done this one with the, you know, the real kind of doctor's bag style in mind because that's just what I just thought to do. I love, you know, that you could have the person's name like inscribed on here. That's, you know, what I've kind of thought doing this. But I'm going to show today's using some really nice pattern papers just so you can see it in a different way. But look at all the detail. Now this back piece is an extra addition because I stuck it down and it wasn't in the center. So I ripped it up and it ripped up the cardstock. So I added this panel, which I think you would never know that there was a mistake under there because it's that kind of style. I even like these strips here. This is all part of the set. You know, even that piece that's behind the zip there, you get two different kind of zip pulley parts. You've got the lovely buckle detail there, the handle. And then you can see how it's all curved on the corners here. And I just think it looks really, really awesome. So that's that one. And then to show you the suitcase is this one here. And then there's the tag. So if I just bring that one up, I'll show you how the dies actually look as well. But you've got the big tag here as well. But you've also got this other kind of tag. And then I've just used silver on the other side there, but I've kind of split them apart. So you can write a message inside. And again, this one, you have your Velcro. And then you just open up. Got a bit of glue stuck there. There we go. And you have a really nice size gift bag. Again, so many, you know, wonderful ways to theme this project. You know, you could have it for a little boys or girls party. You could have it as a farewell gift, like I kind of done with a mini album for, well, it was a travel journal. And lots of people did actually message me and say that their daughter is going traveling or their grandchild or whatever. And they gave it to them as a gift for them to be able to document their traveling experiences. So I thought that was really nice. But I just think it's wonderful. It really is very, very sweet. And you get all these lovely corners, which I've done in the silver to just look like they're metal. And then again, with the kind of detail there with the straps and the buckles and stuff. So like I said, I'm not going to show you how to make that one because it is just two of the same size on each side. You've got a hinge that you put together, and then you just decorate with all the elements. So that one's very straightforward. Now, that is how that one also looks. You would need a larger die cutting machine for both of these. You can see there what you get and where the buckles are. And these are that's the corner piece there and so on and so forth. So that's that one. Okay, so this is the doctor's bag. Now my papers, I'm actually going to make this one for a baby shower. So I have this gorgeous paper pad, which is the Little Miracle by Dress My Craft. You would have seen me use this one for my die cutting plate storage. But today I'm going to pull out this beautiful vintage print for the sides and then for the front of the actual bag. I've got this one here, which just has lots of different sayings on the front. I'm not sure whether I'm going to do all the detail in craft card or white card. So I've die cut everything twice because whatever I don't use, I'll keep with the dies to use on another project. So that's the papers. I'm going to talk to you through what you need to die cut and how many of them you need. So we'll start from the main ones and we'll just kind of explain, you know, because you probably can't really see the score lines on this, but you will have this large one here. And it does have step-by-step on the back as well. But sometimes, you know, it's just quite handy just to watch a video. So you'll want to die cut two of the largest one and you'll see that there's a thicker section here at the top and then a thinner at the bottom here. The thinner end is where you're going to join each one together. So die cut two of them and then I can see here. Actually, I've just realized what I've done because, have I done it on both notes? See, that one I've done the right way because I want my paper. Actually, no, it's going to work out. No, it's going to be fine. So you will want to make sure that your papers, if it's directional like mine, make sure that you have the larger end at the top. Okay, so just pop that one in there. So I've got mine at the top there. I'm just going to actually re-score mine just so they're the same because it's only a score line. So you just want to fold and burnish, but you don't want to do the bottom end. There's no need to. I'm just going to quickly score the score lines where I need them to be on this one. So it's actually half an inch, so that's really good. Just make sure you do it the right way up. If not, you know, it's not the end of the world. Just do what I did there. So there's my half an inch at the top and then you'll have the quarter inch at the bottom, but you don't need to fold that one. So what will happen is you're going to stick one of them over the other, just covering that whole section there. So we'll stick that together in a moment and then you want to die cut two of the side pieces here. Okay, so like I said, I've got this really pretty patterned paper and I just moved the die around on the paper to find the kind of images that, you know, I thought would fit best in this. You'll see, I've made sure the baby's in there, the cat, the little children there, the guy in there, the guy, you know, the little baby in the bath and the writing there. So do two of those and then what you want to try and do is just burnish all around the sides and there's your little corner tabs and then you've got these score lines here, which are the triangular ones there. You just want to make them both valley folds. What you also find helps is, and just go around there, just fold them in quickly. You want this box, you want the sides to go like that. You want that rounded side, if I bring this one in again here, can you see it kind of rounds off? So just to help it kind of go into that kind of way, I've just found just curving, you know, the card a little bit. It will just then naturally go into that position. So you've got these in a valley fold and you can see they're the side coming together. So again with this one here, because I haven't done that, just curve it a little bit like so and then I can just, you know, burnish everything as normal as well. They are score lines so now you can see how you've got your sides coming together there. So get those all die cut first and then all of these bits we will add on shortly and I'll show you those bits from that in a moment. Okay so I've just ran some glue along the quarter inch section there and I'm just sticking this one over the top. Now Helen does recommend the, Helen designs the dies. She has recommended to use hot glue so you know have a look, see what works best for you and you know go from there. I'm going to stick with the liquid glue, I just feel you know comfortable using that. Make sure that's all dry and then what will happen is this is now going to become the base of the gift bag and these sides are going to come up and you will see that your directional paper will face the right way on both sides. Now what's going to happen is you want one of these and you basically want to make sure you're going to add glue to this bottom piece first of all. Okay this bottom tab. Don't worry about these bits for the moment just focus on this tab here. You want to add glue and you want to stick it so that it's overhanging this middle score line evenly. Okay so the best way to do it again I'm just going to use my liquid glue because it just does give me that little bit of wiggle time. Now if you would rather put a pencil mark where this you know the center is and so on I'm just going to eyeball it. I've made one already so you know I feel okay doing it this way but you can see here you can also use your grid so I'm just laying down that you know center there or maybe just put it a little bit over because it's that quarter inch so and then I can just make sure that the width of this overhangs so in my case it's one two it's about two and a quarter inch overhang and like I said I've got a little bit of time to just move it around but I can just see here one two and I've got a little bit of overhang and then one two yeah so about two and a half two and a half inches I'd say. Either way you want to get it as bang on as you can and then make sure that this one opposite is the same and what I would say here is well I'll show you now I'm going to measure this one and I will put a pencil mark on that one because you do want to make sure that both of these are exactly the same so I'm just going to measure so this side here is just over two and a quarter so from that same point just over two and a quarter I'm just going to put a pencil mark there that's all I need to do and now I know that when I add glue to the bottom of this one that this end I just need to line up with that two and a quarter and that then means that they will line up perfectly and then the rest of it will as well so you don't need to do both but I'm just going to add my glue again if I just flip this around and just lay that down and you want to make sure that you get it you know so it's coming right up to the edge of here those are now both stuck down and you'll see this is going to curve up it's going to stick to the tabs and then you'll have it's going to come up higher than this which is completely you know it's how it needs to be but you'll now start to see when that comes around how lovely this is all going to come together so this is the next step you want to add your glue I keep that folded back and I add my glue along here and you can see how high up that tab comes so I can just put my finger there just roughly up to here but I just prefer adding the glue onto this if you want to add it onto the tabs itself then you know you can do but I am going to just add my glue directly onto here and then I'm just going to roll it up and you're rolling it nice and tall around those tabs once you get the knack of it and once you've done one you kind of will see how it all you know comes together you just want to keep everything straight try not to get my head in shot so get it all lined up pushing inside that corner with my finger and this glue grabs pretty quick so it doesn't take too long now you'll see you've got your corner and it's all stuck and then you can lie it down this way and just you know really go in there make sure that's nice and secure you want to make sure that all of those tabs are joined so you may you know want to use hot glue for these detail pieces here and then go into liquid glue you may want to use red liner tape you know and run your tape along here what you know find what works best for you because we've all got different ways of doing things so again I'm going to just fold that back and then add my glue all the way up roughly to the same kind of end top there and then again sit this in make sure it's running nice and flush with the outside edge and kind of maybe just do the glue at the bottom first let the corners grab and then add glue and continue up to the top like I said I've made this already so I feel confident confident doing it this way but just take your time with it because it's so nice when it's done okay so now I can bring in the sides here and you've already got the bag coming together isn't it sweet it looks so lovely with these papers and I think once I start to add the straps and everything it's going to come along really nice so I'm now going to do the same with this side so you just want to kind of go under the tabs there find these last ones easier because the box has already now started to take its shape so it actually holds you know I think much better so you should have these two half inch tabs they will go inside the box like this okay so if I just bring it around you can see that shape so now it's the fun of part of adding all of this decoration so again I'll bring in the dies just so you can understand what all the pieces do this one here is your zip and this here is the the kind of frame for the zip okay and then these are two different kind of little pulleys you have for the zip so you'll see this one I've done the rounder one and then today I'm going to do the slightly more kind of um pointier one which is this one here you can see the two different styles so that one is just going to hang you know when I when I cut it which I have it's going to hang off like so I mean it's up to you how you have it but I'm going to have mine like that and then that will be framed around this piece here now I'm not sure like I said whether I'm going to use the craft card or white so I've die cut everything twice because I don't know I've got a feeling I don't know the why I'm going to play around so that's what you want to do there so die cut your zip these very thin ones which is this die here are to add like a hardware look along the very top so if you look at doctor's bags you'll see lots of them have this metal piece at the top that kind of snaps and keeps everything together so that's to go along there and again you'll see where I've added the gold along the top there so I've die cut two of those then the straps so you want four of these two along the front and two along the back again it's optional you might not want to do them again you'll see them then they've got a stitch detail now all of this if you want to distress it you need to distress it before you stick it down I'm not going to distress anything on this one so it's not really that style but again you'll see here I've got well that only looks like I've done three I've only done three of each one so I have to die cut both of the colors anyway but that's them there and actually no because I've done I want one for the handle so I'll die cut some more for that but then you have got the handle which is this one here which sits on the back but I've changed it slightly and I'm not using that one I've actually die cut another one of these and I'm going to stick it inside like that and that's what I done on the other one so again that's completely optional it's up to you how you want to do that then you've got these which are the ends of the straps so again I've done two of each because I'm not sure what color I'm doing but you'll just need two and they will attach kind of at the end of the strap from you know for example there the other sides you imagine it's come over and this would be it here it will go over the top like this okay so whatever color you're doing you want two of them and then you also want two of the buckles now the buckle you get this piece you go up underneath and then you go over and down like so and then have it like maybe about there and you'll see you get that instant little buckle detail so you want two of them so I've done them in the silver and then this here is the fastening over the middle so I'm going to put a velcro dot underneath and that's going to go over like so so I've done those ones and you'll see it there so you've got a fastening there and there I like that I like that you have all three but you don't have to and then this is just that kind of plaque or label so I've got the silver finish but I've also got brown I've done so many because I actually stacked them on top of each other to create some dimensions again I've had a doctor's bag style and it's quite a thick dimensional piece of leather that's there so you know that's what you can see there I've just dug up quite a few and stuck them together but again I'm not sure whether I'm going to have it with that or with the silver so that's what I've done but that's what they all are so this is yeah I've gone through all that like I said that's the handle and then oh this is the the I don't think I showed the die for the strap that's it there I popped it on the back so I didn't have room to get it completely stuck to the magnet sheets there and it doesn't go that way so yeah you'll want four or even five if you're going to do the handle like I have so that's all in place so I'm now going to start sticking it all down what I would say just to help you kind of to start off is to get that center one stuck down because it holds the box in place and then from there you can build everything but I'm just going to spend a minute just deciding whether I want to use white or craft card okay I think I'm going for white I'll spend too long but I think I want this to be quite fresh and clean you know it's a baby shower so I love this though I do love the thought of the brown but because I've got that brown one there I'm going to keep all this for another you know project okay so I am going to cut another one of those but that's it I've got everything so I'm going to start sticking it all down and yeah make this look really lovely but yeah stick this one down first I'll just show you this one actually so I just popped a bit of glue on the back again if you want to use a ruler so you know you've where you've got your center because I did stick mine down initially and um you know it wasn't quite there so just line that up so I've got what I've got there just over three and a quarter I don't know it needs to come this way a little bit so three and a half oh bang on so you should have three and a half each side so now I'm just going to fold that over let that glue just stick down just double check three and a half yeah it's bang on three and a half you want to have on each side and then that will be in the middle and then these are the dot and dab these are the 20 mil really really strong so I'm going to stick that underneath there again bring everything together and stick that one down you can just get your finger in there just to really make sure that's secure and then lift it off and just make sure again that you're happy but now that will help you get everything in place because these you can slide that under there and stick it down there as long as you haven't glued up too much on that side you'll be able to get that one in just there you can see mine goes through fine so maybe just stick that one down first if you're worried but um you'll see that that's all in place so I'm going to get them stuck and do everything else obviously it's up to you how you want to put this together but I have stuck for these straps so you know it's entirely up to you from this one here I think I've done the same yeah so have a play around you may want to have your straps you know right up here or you may not put the strap detail on the back and just have the zip detail it's up to you but I do like that it's on the front and the back so now I'm just going to add the handle and I'll show you what I'm going to do but I've also got my smaller velcro dots the fat and it was these ones that I used so these are my 16 mil um buckle pieces I'm going to come up a little bit higher just because there's a little bit more strength there do yeah I did it right on there so that's now all in place so I can just lift them off because you're going to put something you know with a bit of weight on this which is always nice but I've got one of these longer ones again I've died cut but you do have the smaller strap there if you would prefer and then I'm just going to I've just put a curl in it put your thumbs over the top like this and then bring it around to use your thumbs are still you know on top that's the easiest way that I always because some people like how did you just do that but it's just like so and just bring it towards you and then you want to add glue to the backs just about well yeah just over a quarter of an inch and then I'm going to stick it in on those that tab that hangs down inside the bag but now I can push that in there stick all of that down like so and there's your bag isn't that lovely right and then this one I'm going to have about there and I think I just set it off so nicely and I will personalize this as well but I'll keep it plain for the video but you can die cut some letters and pops the person's name in there maybe the name of the baby and this one will be sent off as a sample so let me just bring in that one as well and pop it that way aren't they lovely really really nice large you know gift bag ideas and like I said I'll just show you these ones again so this is the doctor's bag die set you get 13 dies and then you've also got the suitcase there as well so everything will be linked as always in the description below the video and also head over to Helen's youtube channel as well because she will have lots of inspiration using these as she always does she'll also be on craftstache live and no doubt this is also launching on Hachanda so keep an eye out for all of that because there'll be loads of inspiration and other ways to you know make these with different papers and themes and colours and all that kind of stuff and this one would look lovely which you'll see actually in the my video that I've linked but put actual travel stickers on this just really does finish it off quite nicely so yeah there you have it so I hope you've enjoyed this kind of product share and tutorial just to give you some inspiration and I'll be back very soon with my normal tutorials and until then take care and I'll see you later bye