 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed at Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got another kind of I guess mail inspired tutorial so this is part of my Father's Day series and this is an updated version of my multi-loop gift bag. I look back at what I called it and I thought multi-loop well I guess it was but I think this one I'm gonna I don't know have like a wooden wooden handle or something like that I don't know but it looks really really cool I love this more not simplified because there's still a little bit of technique required for it but it's certainly update from that other one so I will link that one up here for you because it's really nice and that was using the Let's Celebrate papers by Fest Edition and that was last year that I shared that one so this time I'm using the awesome Wallace and Gromit themed kind of these are the cutouts that come with a magazine and I'll share all that in the moment but it's a really nice size gift bag it all folds completely flat which I know a lot of you know are going to be going yes because you love them just as much as I do because it means we can make and make and it takes up hardly any room so these will now be stored away really nicely although these are going to be going off to a new home very soon but it's lovely this is just attached with a Velcro dot I do prefer using Velcro dots I've said many times by all means use magnets but I'd rather use them in something that's going to actually kind of keep forever like a mini album or something whereas gift bags well you know my view on it they go in the bin eventually so oh I forgot to stick inside I just noticed look this is sticking up so I need to stick that down but that's the inside loads of room in this one and then that just goes over like so and then sticks down and isn't it cute it's so adorable love the colors I'll share the paper pack in a moment but yeah let's crack on and make it okay so this is the magazine it's papercraft essentials issue 174 and it is the Wallace and Gromit is the freebie gift that comes with this exclusive kit and it's everything here I have shared this already last week in my what did I get video but these are just some of the things you get so these are the cutouts all the die cuts here you can see there's Gromit I think oh no I'm using that one today just for you they are brilliant they are such a lovely size so I do encourage you if you're well you don't even have to be in the UK because they do offer international shipping but do go and check the link out that I share below because yeah such a lovely set to have so that's the one I'm using I've got a few other like tools here because I am going to be using these wooden dowels which I told everybody to go out and get if you can from the works because I've got quite a few different tutorials planned this one being one of them but I have I've got three other other tutorials that I will be using these in as well so yes if you have a works nearby or you do have some wooden dowels hanging around I'll give you the measurements of those nearer the time but yeah they will get used so this is the paper back I'm using grand plans it is an old one I don't have many kind of masculine or even boy kind of papers so this one I've had a while now but it gets used a lot for when I do do them so this is yeah grand plans first edition and again I'll share any links that I can find okay so I've already done one and I've done one of the sides as well it's deconstructed even the base is put together slightly differently because I actually do have something specific to fit in this so yeah I have made it according to that but I also do like to make sure that every bag I kind of make is different from another one so although this is similar to the one I shared and made last year the measurements or the construction are slightly different so you'll need two pieces of 8 by 12 okay and you are going to score along the 12 inch side you want to score it two inches and 11 inches and on just one of them you want to also score it four okay or I just went to do it and I don't need to do it because I've already done that score line on this one here so I've already done the back of mine I should be able to cover that a little bit also if you do score a little tip so you want to do that twice I'll show you that little tip in a minute so I will do that then with one of the sides you will need two pieces of 5 by 11 okay along the 11 inch side you want to score it four okay and then along the five inch side you want to score it half an inch and at four and a half okay then because these pieces are actually going to be they're going to be a decorative feature the hinges whereas usually I stick them inside this time I'm going to stick them outside to actually make a feature because of that and because the bag folds flat if you fold these pieces up first and then pop it back in along the 11 inch side you also then want to score at six inches okay and you just want to score at six inches just in that section there because we don't want to have our score line going over these pieces here because you're actually going to see them so now you'll see that score line is just inside so you want to do that on both pieces so you know fold and burnish those up pop it in and score just that inside piece at six but it's just much easier to do it that way okay there's also another piece of cardstock here and this is going to be for the very bottom and this is four by nine okay so this piece here where I did go and score wrong if you just turn it over where the lump is so you've scored obviously that way so you've scored into the cardstock flip that over and it should be raised if you go over it with your bone folder just a few times and it will totally remove it so actually now on this side it should be really faint you just see it's ever so faint just there but it's completely smooth and on this side here it's very faintly there you just about make it out but compared to this one here which you can still really see so it's just a little tip there just turn it over and just go back over it with that these pieces here I will go through them when we get to it and again it is optional it's to decorate the ends of the dowels there okay just remember there's one more score line apologies along these pieces here along the eight inch side so where you've scored along the 12 inch at two and 11 rotate it so the 11 inches at the top and you want to score at two and a half just down to that first score line and at five and a half just down to that first score line okay and then rotate it back along the 12 inch side and I just used my stylus and you just want to pop a little notch at nine inches flip it and pop another little notch at nine inches okay they're all guides really just to help us when we come to cut it and everything just makes it a bit easier if you put them into place and it saves us having to measure later on okay so with this one well with both pieces now you want to fold and burnish all of the score lines so those ones and those ones and then you'll have that extra and then with these pieces here you want to fold and burnish obviously so I'll do that one and that one and then we're going to add oh and I've just done what you don't want to do so we went to all that effort to not fold because you don't want to create the fold on these pieces again it's I've done it but it obviously it isn't the end of the world I'm just going to try and remove them a little bit you probably cannot really see yeah I've done it there but you probably can't really tell let's not worry about it hey ho it really isn't the end of the world so what you want to do now is we need to create the kind of score lines to be able to have our card fold flat okay we also need to score our side pieces I forgot that other score lines so where we went and done that six inch one like so you want to then take it out pop it back into this position and you want to score it two and a half down to that first score line okay so now to make them fold flat at the bottom of that score line that you've just done you just want to bring your ruler in and you just want to score from corner from that score line down to the corner so there and here like so now when you fold and burnish everything try not to fold that score line there because you don't want to fold through there like I went and done but you kind of way you can just about see it there but I'm not too worried if you also ever do score something wrong make a feature of it so I could now in fact I'm going to I'm going to show you what you can do if you do something then you think you know I really didn't need that score line there I'm now going to make a feature of this so I'm going to score now at every single score line just up to that first score line okay so now I have that really cool effect so if you do ever score wrong if you can make it a feature so now I've only done them on the front ones I haven't done them on the back but you can if you want but yeah there you go it's a quick way to save something okay so where were we so we've scored these and I've just gone and done that so now we need to do a bit of cutting so what you want to do is with the triangle piece here facing upwards you are going to cut this one up to the first score line and this one here up to the first score line remove those pieces completely and then you actually want to take wedges off these as well okay so you can do all that at once but I like to do it all separate so that you know how it all looks okay and then you want to take a little wedge good job so just rip that a little bit I'm going to take a wedge off of that a wedge off of that and I've already done those two but now you can see what you've got there and then with your triangle pieces you just want to fold them up like so okay so those pieces now are all ready and then we will have these two pieces so where you scored that's your two inch score line at the bottom and you've got this one inch one at the top we scored down you want to cut down those score lines there's one there and one there and then you want to remove that piece okay like so and then where you've done those little notches at nine inches you just want to start your scissors that's why I love these long scissors and just cut all the way up if you want to draw a pencil with your ruler by all means but I'm just going to remove that little bit there and then again so that's why they were there just easy quick markers for you like so okay so again you'll have two pieces I'd already I've already gone and done that on there for the minute but the only difference should be is you'll have one that will have an extra score line and that's going to be the back piece so that will be your score line at two on both but remember I said to do one that's got a score line at four on the back okay and then have them both cut and you can see this bit here will end up curling over this piece of dowel so moving on to that now these heart these are from the works and these ones measure in particular if you do have any in your garage these are just under five mil so you want something around that they are that they say they're five mil okay because that's usually how these things are measured now you want to cut yours down to the width of your bag but just slightly shorter so mine end up being seven and three quarters because this is eight inches width okay so with my ruler I'm just going to lie that down there grab my pencil and just do a pencil mark just kind of around like so okay now there's a few ways that you can do this I did use a pair of scissors and it did kind of do it but I'm just worried I'm going to ruin my scissors these do need a good clean anyway but you can cut this with scissors but it is going to take a lot of strength so if you've got you know if you've got weakness in your hands then I wouldn't suggest doing that so I've found that it's best that what I do is I use my cutting knife to start it off and then I've got my little craft kind of tools here and inside this one here I have this piece and it cuts like butter it just finishes it off so all I'm doing here is starting it off just by literally just sawing all the way around I mean I could go all the way through with this but I also don't want to blunt my although I do have plenty spares I don't want to blunt this too much so I'm just going through until it gets a bit too hard to do because it obviously gets quite tight like so okay and then I can just use this now just to finish it off and I just line it up inside there you can hear it squeezing it that one and that side and it shoots off so there you have it okay so and I've got a little bit of sandpaper here I'm literally just going to tidy up the ends now you can obviously paint this as well if you want there we go but now I've got my wooden dowel already now these pieces here they don't have to be as long as they are but I've done them a quarter of an inch wide and that will just wrap around like so so they can actually be a quarter of an inch by one inch will be fine and I'm going to stick them around each end like so I just think it ties everything together okay so that's that piece already now we can bring over one of these so this is the last one for me because obviously I'd already done that other one but I just found it helped if you just very carefully curled over that top piece okay and then I'm just going to grab my glue and you want to pop your glue all in that section there you can use double sided tape if you want it should work especially a bread tape I can't imagine why that won't stick really well to the wood and then what I found easiest to do is line up your doweling along this piece first you've got an equal overhang and then try and keep it obviously straight but roll it up to this piece and that way I'm going to roll it all the way up to the edge just spread that glue out and then roll it back on itself and that way you know you've got it you know right in the middle add a bit more glue there actually and just roll it right down to the score line okay and then you should be able to fold it back on itself on that score line so it kind of folds towards you and now you should have a really nice neat you know handle okay now we just need to put everything together so as I said it's all deconstructed and then you'll also have and you may want two pieces of this this is the four by eight it's entirely up to you that's for the base so what I'm going to do first of all is my front so you want the piece that doesn't have the second score line on it and obviously I've already gone and decorated those pieces there so you want to add glue or double sided tape to the sides there and then I'm going to flip it all over and you want to line up the two inch score line with the bottom of here so don't worry that the bottoms are different to this piece obviously I made mine to fit something specific so it is a slightly different size to the other one but I think that's good it means you know if you are looking for something for something specific you can hunt through my tutorials and see what one will work best for you fold it back over and just go over just make sure that glue is spread out so I don't want to take away too many of my score lines there but I think that looks quite cool actually I like that so that's that one and then grab another side piece so my other one with the score lines that I made again pop my tape pop my glue all down there you can also stick it this way so you can fold all of that underneath there and then line up that two inch score line with the top of the tap here everything should line up nicely and fold that over and now we're going to do the back and just in and I've just done what I didn't want to do so I put the glue on the outer side and you don't you want to be gluing I'm so used to gluing my tabs on the outer side on these you want to be obviously gluing on the inside and I forgot but it again it's not the end of the world because I'm going to show you now you stick this one down it just means the back they're concealed but I didn't do these score lines on them anyway whereas the front obviously you can see it but you know no one's going to know that that wasn't what you were meant to do anyway so it doesn't matter so as you're consistent you don't have one sticking out and all the rest are sticking under then it'll be fine so then this one I'm going to have my glue on top but you want to be adding it underneath if you want to have them all exposed so again you can have it either or because some of you may not want to have that the tabs hanging out and then the last one this should just sit perfectly over the top okay so now you see how that's all coming together so that storyline needs to be worked a bit more there there we go like this so now the base obviously this piece is shorter when they're both together they kind of form the whole base area but what you want to do first of all is stick these in first we're going to stick each of them over the top and then just to kind of make that look neat I've got that piece to then completely go once it's all lined up over the bottom there like so so what I would say it might be worth you doing is just take some little wedges off of each of these ends because you might get a little bit just a little bit overhanging and I know a lot of you also like to add chipboard to the base just to kind of reinforce it especially if you've got something heavy so you can you know by all means you can do that so I'm going to add my glue to the bottom of this one and stick that one up so just make sure all your sides are all lined up and then I'm going to add glue to that one and just fold that one down and I'm actually going to add two pieces I'm going to stick one inside as well so I'm going to stick this one inside okay and then I've got this piece here which is a piece of scrap but I think I can just make it work I really don't want to have to cut yeah mine's a little bit I mean you do want it slightly shy of eight by four but I'm just my ends are all a bit crooked there we go that will do it's only going to go on the base okay and then it's entirely up to you how you want to have the piece that kind of comes over so you'll see I've got this bit here so the width of it depended on what I had stuck to the bottom so this one here is actually smaller so that is going to stick like that because it's actually a little bit off-center so I'm going to add some glue to this first I'm just going to show you how I do this because everybody's is going to be different I want to make sure obviously that is nice and straight and he's going to now be a little bit higher as well because he is slightly smaller so I'm going to wrap that around and kind of roughly you know hold it where I think it needs to be so yeah it's pretty self-explanatory everybody's is going to be a bit different just help it along a little bit there and then I'm just going to add glue to about half an inch and then just stick that and just make sure it's nice and centered like so so now when I flip it over wherever it's going to lie so if you open it up so my base is now super strong and obviously it looks nice in the inside if you bring that over and let it kind of sit naturally imagining there's something in it and then I've got my velcro dots these are the these are really large they're really nice ones and these are the dot and dab collection by trim craft and these ones measure usually I use 16 mil these are 20 20 mil okay so they are a bit bigger I'm just going to stick one one side just under there so that's the pair together and then just bring that one over and again just make sure it's all lining up kind of sitting where you want it so I'm going to do the handles differently and I'm using this rope and this is from craft it's that collection that range that's in the range and in the works and places like that it's just called crafting rope you get eight meters I paid 129 for this from a local shop near me actually it wasn't a craft store it was like a kind of a yeah homeware store kind of thing so what I plan to do is I'm going to use my hot glue and I'm just going to run a few kind of loops around each end so I want to hide the kind of start a bit and just kind of with a bit of hot glue just kind of wrap it a couple of times and hopefully that works let me just try one so I haven't done this yet okay so there you go I think that's worked well you can see I've just wrapped it around twice so I'm going to go and carry that on okay there you have it guys two really fun gift bags slight update of the one that I've done before the triple loop double loop multi loop that was it one that I've done and like I said I will share that one if I hadn't already it will be shared up here as well somewhere but yeah hope you liked it today if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye