 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to show you how to make this really sweet little kind of satchel bag or over-the-shoulder bag if you put a longer strap on it. It's really fun, there's lots of little techniques that I show you with this one, lots of detail, I've got the little brads and the D-rings there. This is all magnetic so this comes down, this comes up and then inside you've got this locking system so you just slide it apart and then you've got a really nice sized little gift bag inside. It's strong as well so this will definitely hold you know like a candle, something with a little bit more weight onto it because I have reinforced these pieces here by adding the brads. Lovely bow, little tassel there and yeah I really enjoy this. The papers I've used I usually show this in the next section but I forgot to mention it in the tutorial because I've already made this so I'm just doing my little intro for you all but it's using this paper pad here, Summer Dreams and this was from the Works and it's beautiful so I did do a quick flick through when I shared that video but just to give you an idea of some of the lovely prints this is one I'm going to use next and that's it doubled up, so you get two of each, that was so I've used two pieces for this one here and it's that gorgeous print isn't that lovely, so fun and fresh. The other one I really like is the polka dots so this one and that one that's what actually drew me into buying it so £3 I'll share the links below but yeah this is what we're going to make so let me show you. Okay so you're going to need some ribbon for your handle so I've got this lovely Gingham orange pattern there, I'm using a Posca pen this is just the 0.7mm bullet shaped and it's the white just for that faux stitching detail. I've got my D-rings here, these ones I'll go through the measurements for later on, everything will be linked below as well. This goes perfectly and this was what I had hanging off of my ruler but I thought you know what it's got the bronze metalwork there which goes with the D-ring and the turquoise goes perfectly with this so I'm using it on this so that's going to get used because it's just been hanging off my ruler for a while not really doing anything so you will need for the actual I guess well the main front and back the case keep them there because I'll go through those little fiddly bits in a moment. So you want two pieces that are seven by nine so I've already cut this one so I'll pop that to one side and you want to score along the short side so along the seven inch side you want to score it half an inch and at six and a half and then rotate and you're going to score at three. If you've got directional paper make sure this three inch score line is at the bottom so you want your pattern to be facing this way so that's that three inch score line for me because this is my base and those two score lines are going to be on the side okay so this is kind of not really directional so I guess that could be that way up so yeah just take that into account so two pieces and score like that then you want two pieces for the side and these measure three by twelve and along the twelve inch side you want to score at two and eight okay the two inch is going to be the base this score line here is what's going to go inside we're going to cut a little slot there let me just fold this one as well and burnish and that's going to be the closure now you don't have to have so that's going to be like that and they're going to just kind of sit over each other by an inch and lock in that's if you want to have that kind of closure on top if you don't want that all you will need is two pieces of three by eight and just score it two so ignore that piece there you may want the bag to just be completely open and you can just you know pop tissue in there or wrap the gift again separately so that's you can change that if you want to then for the lid you want a piece that's six by nine it may come up shorter I need to see but I think it will be that from what I've when I've been roughly putting it together along the nine inch side you just want to score at one inch okay so I'm going to fold and burnish that piece there then we want this piece to go on top but you don't want to I've got the default 12 inch length because this is from that paper pack which I'll show you in a moment but the width is five inches because it's going to sit from that score line on that lid piece so you've got this border but until we cut the kind of curve shape or circular depending on what you have I don't really want to cut that yet until I'm 100% sure so just have it at 12 for the moment and then I've got this piece here which is going to be for the the kind of closure the strap piece that comes up from the bottom and this is nine and a half by it was the scrap width so mine is coming in at one and three eighths but one and a half will be fine again that length will be cut down but I didn't want to cut it too short until I've actually started to put it together then I've just got these little ovals which are going to go on the top they're going to cover like that so we're going to have a magnet in between we're going to have a magnet here and that's going to cover the magnet you can put decorative paper on there as well and it's going to come up like that okay again it will make more sense when we do it but if you do want something similar then my largest ovals two inches and the smallest one was the next size down and that's one and a half then you want two pieces to connect your ribbon to the d-ring now depending on what size d-ring you have your width here may be different to mine this comes in at three quarters of an inch so I'm cutting my card to five eighths of an inch I don't want it exactly the same because it will just pucker it will buckle so now you can see when I put that through it sits nicely within that d-ring so look at the width of whatever your d-ring is and just bring it in slightly less than that so like I said that was three quarters of an inch so I've done five eighths of an inch in width and then the length is two inches so that will go through like so we're going to stick that together and then connect it onto the side of our bag and then the ribbon will go through that okay so that's all the scoring and everything explained so we'll go back to our front and back so you just want to fold and burnish your score lines okay and then we're just going to do a quick little bit of cutting so I've already done that one there so you've got that score line here which was the three inch score line and then you'll have those two half inch score lines along the bottom here you just want to cut up the two half inch ones on either side just to that first score line okay and then just cut that straight we may cut a little wedge off of it but for the minute I think I'm just going to keep them straight and then again cut up this one here try and remove the score line just to keep it all concealed when we go to stick the base down and then remove that one there okay so you'll do that on both pieces and then that's it everything now is about us putting it all together so grab your side pieces all right these oblong pieces so yours might be shorter if you decided not to do that extra piece that I mentioned earlier now the two inch piece at the bottom is the base okay so although they don't line up here that doesn't matter because you're not going to see it so what we're going to be doing is sticking this over this one so this side this half inch piece here will sit within that two inch score line up to that top score line or to the edge of your card if like I said if you don't have that piece so it's going to sit because I'm having the pattern paper so that you can see it if you don't want to have it seen then you're just going to stick it behind like that so now I do that I think do I actually want it hidden instead now I'm going to have it exposed it's entirely up to you I'll let you decide on that you may want to have it inside or out I always change them up all my gift bags are so different so yeah I might do this again another time and this and have it hidden instead I'm going to keep mine exposed so I'm going to pop my tape behind if you're going to have it stuck behind this orange piece then you want to put your tape from the front so it's entirely up to you I would also say if you are going to put it behind then you will want to just take little wedges off of the ends here because you don't want it to be seen so like I said because mine is staying exposed I don't want to miter the sides although it does look nice as decorative feature as well so again lots of ways for you to really make this your own I'm just giving you my suggestions and my way of doing it so I'm going to take the backing off of there make sure you've got the largest fold at the top and just line it up with that bottom score line and it should just marry up nicely with the top and just make sure that's all stuck down and then just go to fold it around and fold it again okay so that's going to be going inside that's our base that one's going to go over the top and then this will come in and we will cut that when we get to it but yeah no I think I like it that side I think because that hand because that's going to come down yeah it's nice to have that little bit poking through the sides okay so that's that one then you want to do the same with the other one and then we'll put them all together in a moment this is the second one so again I'm just going to flip it over and pop some red tape and on here you don't have to use red tape I've just it was just what I've got a hand you can use obviously your liquid glues double sided tape up to you again focusing on that two inch score line at the bottom cool next we want to stick it all together so now we're going to stick that one over that one so obviously I'm having mine all exposed but otherwise you will have yours that way if you are hiding it so again I'm going to pop some tape on this one and then that last one I'm just running again two more strips on here okay fold it all in half and it should line up perfectly with that score line you might have to manipulate it a little bit and then just fold that over like so and when it all comes up so the two short pieces will go in or I'll probably put now actually because we're going to have the buckle piece coming out so I'm going to have my front go down first which is unusual usually I don't then I'm going to have these pieces going in and then the last one will come up because we're going to be sticking this in because that's our bottom tab and that's going to come up like this our closure so what I might do actually which I should have said before but it's still easy to do now is just take wedges off of the bottom which I always do but I think because these are a slightly different shape I just forgot so I'm just taking quite a nice chunk off there because once you once it goes in you don't want to be able to see it so see now when I close that whereas if I leave that one in and put that over can you see you get the orange poking out whereas here it's completely concealed okay so again sometimes all you need to do is remove maybe a score line that you might see but I always like to take if I know it's completely being hidden I take a nice wedge off of it and that way yeah it's completely disappeared okay so now yeah that's all going to go in and then that's going to come up it's completely hidden and then before we stick it all down we're going to stick that in once we've decided on what length we want it and then we're going to have these and the magnet and it should all come together nicely so this is going to go in like this just to conceal what was in there because you maybe you didn't want it kind of falling around and stuff but what you want to do is sit it completely flat over the top and then I'm going to grab a pencil and just do a pencil line there we can rub this all out in a minute so we can lie down flat okay so you've got that pencil mark and then overlap it the other side and do a pencil mark again this will all get rubbed out in a moment okay and then halfway from here you want to do another mark at half an inch so if you want to go like that and and then at one inch not half an inch do a pencil mark and again do a pencil mark and just join that up do it lightly because again this will all get rubbed out like so and again on this one so we've already got that one so again just coming in with my ruler like so and then you're going to cut down one of them from this side to the middle and then this one we will cut from this end to the middle so all vice versa so I'm going to start with this one I'm just going to cut up and just go just up to the middle and slightly past a little bit okay it doesn't matter if you go too far it really isn't going to matter and then because that's going to lock into that one but we now we need to flip it around and cut up that next one you're not cutting anything on that first line that was just to help you line everything else up so again just come down like so and now you'll be able to lock it together and if they don't line up like that then I haven't cut down far enough so I just need to take it out and just cut further down again like so so now you have that sealed it looks quite nice almost looks like a little bow okay so again just take that off now I can flip it over and just carefully get about those pencil marks and if you want to add decorative paper over this as well you can there's no reason why you have to keep it plain so if you have made a mistake or you feel you've cut it too much or you're not happy with it you can cut it right off like I said you don't even have to have this piece on but I do like to show you ways to yeah add all those little extras on if you want so we're not sealing it together it might be you know easier to do that as well flat but I'm just trying to show you all the stages so that's what you should have and this will be open for the minute then we've got our lid and this is going to stick to the back it's going to come over like this but what now we need to decide is what how you're going to shape the bottom there if you've got nothing to shape it at all don't worry you don't have to do that you can keep it straight you could maybe just round off the corners maybe you've got a corner punch or your envelope punch board you can use that to always do something nice you might want to just get some more decorative paper and do a couple of little triangles or get some mirrored cardstock and decorate it that way so don't worry if you don't have that because that's going to sit like this and then this is obviously going to go over the top and come down as well so what I'm going to do is find my oval dies okay I'm going to use these because I think they've got quite a nice just subtle kind of slope there's no huge like you know it's not a circle that's probably the easiest way to say so basically if any of you are thinking what you're talking about Sam this is what we're going to do I want there to be just a slight shape so I'm going to use this just to draw around and then cut it and then I'll do the same with that one there so I mean I've got my X cut circle cutter you could position it and you could cut you'd have to come out a little bit further but that'll give you a more defined shape so let's just have a little look so that yeah so you could do the circle you have to line it up in the center like I kind of have there and then you can cut and you'll have more of a deeper shape but I want to go for just a subtle style so this is why I didn't want to cut anything yet because you may decide that you want to have your flap a lot shorter because if I stick that down obviously you're going to create an arch going over there but that comes quite far down but once I take probably about an inch off it's going to bring it up a bit so this is you know you kind of have to decide this bit yourself because I'm you know not everybody's going to have these dies and you know you're going to do it differently so I am going to line up this on here because I do want to keep things obviously nice and straight and then I'm going to line up this so it is I'm going to come up an inch so this is one inch here and I just want to make sure that this kind of overhangs here the same as it overhangs here so it's coming up a little bit more on that side so I'm just going to pull it over because it's an oval you do have to kind of play around a bit but I'm happy with that so I'm just going to grab my pencil now I could die cut this as well and just die cut a partial part by just putting your plates over the part you want to cut but I'm just going to do it this way because it's easy for everyone to follow so now I've got that so now I'm going to very carefully just cut along that cutting slightly above it so I'm just removing it obviously you can rub it out but I'm being lazy so now when I imagine that's stuck there and bring it over see it's coming up higher but that still looks really nice then I'm going to lay this over the top now it's only going to come down from the score line it's going to start there you can decorate the back piece again if you want you want to make sure again I'm using my mat here just to keep everything straight so mine is this is five inches and this is six so I want to make sure I've got half an inch on each side there and then I'm going to flip it all over and I'm going to trace around this side here like so and then cut that one so whatever shape you're doing you just want to do the same as what I'm doing here with that shape so the process is exactly the same you'll just be working with a slightly probably different measurement in shape than I am so so now again go back to the front and that should sit perfectly which it does now what I might also do is come up a little bit higher so I have a border I don't know whether to have that same half inch see if I bring it up now and just cut straight along there so I've got that same half inch border I quite like that actually kind of breaks it up I put it over the front there you can really see the lid rather than having it right down it kind of then disappears so if I bring it up I think it really defines the lid so I'm going to do that so again I'm just showing you the process how I work and you know alter things to yeah just so they work better I'm not happy with that there so I'm just going to trim that a little bit more it's better and it's going to get slightly covered by that clasp that's going to wrap around the front so I'm going to bring that up there and then I'm going to line my ruler up with that score line and then just draw your pencil line quickly trim that one so now yeah I really like that I think that looks cool now before I stick it down I want to stick my magnet down so you know when you lose magnets there we go I've got one we will stick the other one last when we add our clasp so I'm going to have it quite far down grab my glue dots okay these are really thick glue dots so they cover the whole bottom of the magnet which is what I like and whenever you're adding glue dots just rub over the backing until it goes white so I'm just scratching over it though with my nail you can use a ruler or anything and that means it's completely transferred and stuck onto whatever it is you're sticking it to comes off really easily so again what I might do is stick it onto this piece actually no yes like that there we go and then I can make sure then I'm going to get it all covered okay I wasn't happy with where I positioned it so I'm just getting rid of that and I'm going to do another one I want it a bit higher actually because I just put the little strap on and I think it's going to be better having it a little bit higher because I want the ovals to sit nicely on the lid so again just take that one off so I'm going to come up so I'm just imagining when that comes up and you're going to have those there covering it because that's going to have the other magnet concealed so yeah I'm going to use that flower there as my guide and stick it there so I have ended up coming up one and a half inches okay and just make sure you've got it in the middle which I think I have two and a bit two and a bit yeah maybe yeah I can live with that that's fine so then I'm going to stick another glue dot on the reverse side before I stick it down I do want to just curve this whole piece okay so I'm just going to use my bone folder and just kind of get a nice natural curve in it like so okay and again the same with this okay and that's just going to all sit much nicer and then I'm just going to stick that down I'm going to use my calau because this dries really really nice and stiff so it just strengthens your gift bag but I'm down to the last little bit I think my order should be coming today actually so I should get enough out okay so now I've got mine arched I just need to kind of work along with that make sure you get it nice and centered and then I'm going to squash it down a minute just to make sure this sticks nice and flat now these magnets are nice and flat as well so you don't get too much bulk just as that glues kind of setting I'm going to keep it in that arched kind of shape and now and that goes on there and comes around how cool is that that's why I don't again didn't want to cut anything because now we can decide and measure where we're going to have that piece so I'm going to stick this one down so then decide if you've got a front or back because we haven't stuck the base yet so you can still decide if you've got a print although a lot of it's going to be kind of covered I'm going to go for this one so you just want to line up that score line with the back of the bag if you lie it down open it all up there we go so now that will again close that lid feels really strong I love how it just drops down and I've got that nice nice look to it like that I think it looks really really cool I love how this is coming together so next I'm going to stick this in now so I'm going to just change that so this one is going to go down first these are then going to go in so we can get these pieces stuck down it's the very very last one that you don't want to so I'm just going to add really get in the last bit of this glue because it's brilliant okay so next I'm going to prepare the end of this piece so we want to grab our other magnet and what you want to make sure is that you've got it in the right order so it will find see it's just clipped into where it needed to go so you know it will find let the magnet there go it's really really strong find where it needs to go so I know that I need to stick down that way up so now yeah and then it will sandwich in between so just make sure you get the right order of your magnet because if you stick them back to front then obviously they won't attach to each other okay so I've just stuck my glue dot on the right side there and then I want to stick it in the center of this larger die and again they're so strong even with the glue dot between them and then that is going to stick just on top I don't want to squash it all around I want it to look like it's just raised on maybe like a foam adhesive so if I bring it up to you you can see so if you look to the side you would see the magnet but I'm really not bothered about that you could put a flower over the top to decorate it so I may well do that so I'm just putting another glue dot on that opposite side and then you just want to make sure that you get that lined up in the middle like that so yeah I can still decorate that with something again if I want to but now that sticks or attaches really well it's slightly ever so slightly off-center was that just me I think it's just a smidge that way but hey ho so now that is going to stick on the back so it will kind of take away a little bit of the strength of the magnet but it's still really strong so I'm going to again use the end of this glue which is gone all horrid now but it's still going to work I'm just going to spread out the last of that and stick that over the top and let that stick down and then pull it down as much as you can and just kind of fold along there I can then slip off that much and that's what's going to stick that's going to come up and it will now be wedged in between there like so I think I might put a decorative strip of pattern paper because I can hook it underneath there all the way down as well so just play around if you want to decorate that a little bit more there we go that's just perfect that's one inch so I'm going to I'm not going to get that glue out anymore now so I'm going to so hopefully this tutorial I've given you a lot more ideas because you know I kind of I've done this tutorial as I've made it from scratch so it just gives you an idea of how I kind of work things out and think things up so because I don't always need two of everything so so carefully stick that along there I like that I've got that pattern there right in the middle as well and then I'm just going to just follow that around the fold like so and then I'm going to add some glue all on the back of this this is the Tombow tacky glue which is another favorite of mine super sticky make sure you keep it on the magnet when you stick it down I'm going to manipulate it slightly over that way so at least this is in the center but that's like I said a little bit off but I still think it looks so cute and then you just want to add glue either all on the bottom there or all on this I'm going to add it onto this piece and I can just open that up and just go inside there make sure that's all stuck down okay so now we just need to attach our side pieces I mean you can have it like that if you want more of a gift box bag kind of style I think it looks lovely so next we need those tiny little pieces which are here in here and your d-rings so you want to first of all just put a little just curl them with your bone folder like so pop them through the d-ring and then you're going to stick them together okay so again I'm just going to grab some of my glue okay and now we're going to stick these onto the side so I like to stick it so that the d-ring almost falls inside there depending on how you've made the bag also if you don't have those pieces going in then you might want to stick this inside but I'm going to stick this I'm then going to punch a hole through with my polka tool and then I'm going to add a brad just for some extra strength okay so because if you are putting something a little bit heavier in this then you will want to obviously guarantee that that's not going to just fall apart so I'm just sitting that just so it's in the middle here because these are half an inch that's half well I know that's five eighths wasn't it but you want to make sure you just got a nice even border there that's about about right and then do this one here this one's just going to go on display in my craft room for a while anyway that's usually what happens and then if I need a gift bag I then use it and then yeah something else will then be replaced okay so that's like that I've got an array of brads here but I want something that's going to stick within that kind of bronzed copper colour I don't want to go away from that or I'm going to go colourful so I may well do ah that orange there we go that'll go perfect so I've got that one and there's another one okay and then just open it up and just very carefully obviously watch your fingers but I'm going to just poke through that and then go through with my bread like so and just split that inside that colour match is perfect and that will just guarantee strength with that there and you can always cover that if you want with a piece of pattern paper so again on this side here you know when you watch this and then decide to make it you might want to do all this you know when it's flat there's no reason why you can't put these on when they're flat so again you know it might be a bit easier if you want to put a little foam mat underneath and then you can use your poke tool to poke into that so and then those ones okay so that's that all in place close all that up and then I've got my ribbon so it's up to you how long you want to have it I'm going to pop it through like that I love the gingham against the flower print I think it looks really good and then I'm going to go through this one I'm going to kind of do it like my flap over lid one I think I've done so I'm going to do a bow kind of bring the two together so you can have it longer or shorter so you can have it with the double strap or you can have the strap across like that so it's entirely up to you so I'm going to do the two of them together and then I'm going to do a knot like so and then I'm going to put one through and then I can tie a bow okay so I finished my bow you can see there and I've just sealed the edges with a light edges so it doesn't fray anymore and I've got my tassel there as well all looks really really cute and then I'm just going to finish it off this is completely optional this is that pen I mentioned before and I'm going to do some faux stitching around probably maybe should have done this at the beginning let's just fold that back there you want to make sure test it first because these you do need to really shake and just make sure that you get a really nice opaque white coming through because if it looks a bit diluted or transparent let it dry for a minute if it disappears into the cardstock then you haven't you know you need to shake this more but that looks like that's going to be fine so I'm going to go around here and just very carefully do some stitching there you go there's my faux stitch and I really like it I think I still want to do something with this I did die cut a slightly bigger one and look if I put a larger one there do you not think that looks a bit better you'll see if I changed my mind in the photos anyway so yeah so that's what we've done I've got my Posca pen there make sure you shake it with the lid on because I took the lid off and shook it and it flicked out on my finger so but yeah really I do recommend these are great so there you have it guys I hope you've enjoyed my little satchel gift bag here I think it's really fun there's lots of little kind of techniques and tips along the way so I hope you've enjoyed it please 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