 Hi everybody it's Sam from Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today so I need to start making some gift bags for Christmas. I've already done the pop-up one with the pop-up piece on the front but I want some bigger gift bags so I do like to make these. So I've got this one here which is a slightly different size to what I've done on the channel before. I always try and make sure there's some kind of difference in the sizes but I have a whole playlist up here of gift bags and specifically flat pack ones which is what this one can be. So I've used my new papers which I'll show you in a moment and I've just already tied it together there with the bow around the handles but yeah just to show you really how it will come together but I'll show that when we do the make the next one but they're gorgeous papers. It's a really nice style, I like the handle with this one as well and yeah that's all there is to say so let's start making it. Okay so I just thought I'd show these stamps again because I shared these in my last what did I get these are bi-simply created which is part of craft label and they're only a pound they've got lots on their website so it's all linked below but that's what I've used I've got that one underneath the paper pad for the tag and these ones are slightly bigger ones and that's the one I used on the recent selection boxes I've made and these are only £1.25 now I do have a discount code as well so by the time you add that they're an absolute bargain so have a look check it out it's a great website there's loads of other really good things on there and they've actually got a big clearance section as well at the moment so I've got my ribbon that's the one I'm using today it's actually the droid to the world I used the piece on earth and then the droid to the world I'm using this one in bossing powder and it's the rose gold and then I've already got my handles because I need to die cut one more which I'll show you in a moment so I'll give you the measurements for those but these are the card making magic a5 oval dies really handy ones to have on your and then this is the paper pad so it's the winter sparkle and it's beautiful and I've chosen so I've got that paper on this bag you see the some of the stars got glitter on them for this one I'm using two sheets here so you do need 12 by 12 to make this bag but you could take the design of this bag and put it into the I don't know I think I've got about probably 30 plus gift bags you know so you can lots of people go on to the playlist take bits from the tutorial they've watched and then kind of mix them with other things so check that out but you'll see there I've already heat embossed the droid to the world and these tags so I've taken this one as well again this is what I shared it's also part of that collection and you get 12 printed tags and I just use those so everything matches so let's start scoring and then I can go through these bits with you in a moment so it's a deconstructed one which is what I like to do when I make bigger gift bags so here I have two pieces now that the slightly one side is slightly shorter than 12 so it's 12 inches wide so if you've got directional paper this is gorgeous this one just make sure it's the right way up at this point so that's your 12 inch width then when you pop it on its side mine's 11 and 5 8 now the reason I've done it at 11 and 5 8 is because I wanted to cut it so it finished with the top of these this strip of words here because it kind of had a bit of just some you know like a quarter it was like that on the top and I just think it didn't look so good so I've just trimmed that off so that's why mine's that height yours can be any height you want so if you want it to be the full 12 keep it at 12 but you will have to change the side pieces but you can come down as short as you want so you know you could do 9 8 so if you've got something specific to go in the bag this is when you can change the height I'm gonna score it 3 inches because that's my that's going to be the width of the bag so 3 inches is the base so when we fold this so you can get more of an understanding that's now the front of the bag that's the base that's what I mean this height you can reduce down or slightly increase it you might even have a 3 or you know bigger that's how you would do it so you want to do that on two pieces so again I've already scored this one three inches down the side there now if you do change the height of yours then you'd need to change it on these pieces as well but you want to keep the width the same so these are two pieces of 4 by 11 and 5 8 ok along the 4 inch side you want to score it half an inch and at 3 and a half and that's our tabs that we're going to be using to stick them to the main front and back so again half an inch and three and a half and then you're just scoring along the long side again at 3 but whatever height you've decided here you know yours might be obviously shorter so two pieces of that size two pieces of the 12 by 12 then for the handles I'm using these dies here I just give you the measurements so the this is to make the frame but also to cut my handle but once you see what I'm doing you can use it you can do any size you could also do square circular triangular if you wanted to it's in telepathy but the middle one is four and three quarters and then the outer one is five and three eight and the height is two and a half and then about three inches okay now I'll actually die cut them top one is in the rose gold and I die cut two more in white I'm starting to get these in the cloud loose that's a nice strong handle so that's what I'll do in a moment is I'll cut that one and then I'll cut two more in white cards starting to stick them together okay so that is all of the scoring and now you just want to burnish those score lines okay so with these two pieces here you just want to do a little bit of cutting so along the bottom here you want to cut up both the score lines and then remove it but take a little you know wedge off the next piece so you just cut in on an angle there like so you'll also want to take a wedge out of that so now I've shown you that one I can just come into this one slightly off there and just don't matter if they're even a bit wonky it all gets hidden but by taking a bit off the outer edge it just stops any of that hanging out the sides and then I'm also just going to take a little bit off of the top like so same as you know same way I do all my gift bags and then again I'm just going to do this one okay so we've got our two side pieces and then we've got our front and our back if you are going to put heavier things in I always say reinforce the bases with some heavier weight cardstock or even some like grey board just to really give it some strength now we just want to start putting it all together so I'm going to grab one of my side pieces here I'm going to use the calau so take a little bit slightly longer to dry just because I'm using this shiny surface card or this coated is probably a better word but I'm just going to pop it down there and then it does give me that wiggle room always line up your base score line when you're doing your gift bags because you can always trim if anything's a little bit off at the top you'll see there that lines up nicely and I'm just bringing it right up to the score line so that when I go to fold it this will all still look nice it's not going to bend or anything okay so that's that one there I'm going to just carefully flip mine over like so and then I'm just going to fold that bit back over if you do that while the glue is still a bit wet you can see that I've got a really nice side to the bag and that's obviously what everyone's going to see then I can move along to this one and again I'm just going to run my glue all down that tab and then again I'm going to focus on that base score line at the bottom of this side piece here I like doing deconstructed bags even if I'm making a smaller bag and I can fit the side and the front all on one piece of cardstock I still like to sometimes deconstruct it because I like to have the contrast of like the cardstock and then the pattern paper or maybe two patterns that kind of clash but still work well so yeah it's always a fun way to do it and you'll see all them on that playlist okay so now we want to do the handles because I have to rise off forget and I'll carry on so you can do this on these pieces before you attach them to this but it really doesn't matter either way but with the smaller of the oval shape here so actually I'm just going to I'm going to just die cut my two I'm going to die cut the handles quickly because then I can take this apart and I don't need to worry about matching it up perfectly again so I'm going to get these all die cut so one in mirrored card and then if you want to make it stronger to the white okay so I've just done that one then I can take that smaller off whatever size you're using you just want the smaller one and I'm just going to use this now to draw around so I'm just going to pencil and I want to pop it in the middle of this 12 inch width piece here so I'm just going to bring in my rude I think I write that it was roughly three and five eighths from each side so I'm just going to bring that one over a little bit that way three and three about there I'm kind of happy with that I think I'm okay so and then I want to make sure that I've got kind of halfway or half of the oval in this side here the other half out you could come up higher if you want totally you know I'm shooting normal so you come in a much much lower as well and then I'm just drawing around the inside there now you could come you know and do your handle quite far in so just have a little play around now I'm just going to cut this one you don't need to worry about the other one because you will use this as a template for that next piece so just then scissors and don't worry if you're not too neat you're gonna hide it it really yeah just don't worry yourself because I said it's all gonna get hidden so I'm just going to be carefully so and then I'm just going to get my other one just lay it underneath and just line it all up perfectly that didn't just sit it in that section there quite nicely and then just going to draw around it again but that way you know they're both gonna line up and then just cut that second one out okay so now we can carry on sticking it all together and then we can have the handles you have the handles now if you want once you see how I do it but I'm just gonna do it all together so I'm gonna add my glue now to this side again just line up that base score line just line up that and then all I'm gonna do is fold that piece over bring this one and add your glue by doing it this way you can ensure it's gonna lie flat as well because if you don't want them to be fold flat and you want them to stay as a you know a solid kind of gift bag but you maybe want to make a few and store them away as I say in a lot of my videos don't stick the bottom down when I go to do it and just leave it like this with the handles on and you can see how easy they would be to store away because you know you might want to start making bags for birthdays next year and things like that or you might be planning for with all the time that a lot of us have had now to be prepping all of your craft fair things for next year so there we go now I'm gonna add the handles and all you want to do because you've got the larger one on the handle to make the handle it will sit over the piece that you've cut perfectly that's what you want to do is just line it up I need to bring it up just remember do you want to cut on the the outside not the inside so you can see there where I've cut around the inside you actually wanted to do the outside so I'm just lining my back up and I'm just going to draw around outside now when we lie that down you see it will stick over like so I'm just going to trim a little bit away there but you want to be cutting on the outside and I'll put a little or draw around the outside so I'll put a little thing up when I get to that bit so just to keep mine tidy and it just shows you can still cut this bit away even when the bags together but I'm just going to just cut that piece out okay so just done that now I can grab my glue and I'm just going to put a bead of glue that's the width of your handle okay so just and then you can sit your handle and the inside will match perfectly with the curve of the inside which is what I should have done so it all makes sense if you want to flip it over you can see inside there it all lines up perfectly so you could have a thicker handle as well I mean you don't have to do it just by using the next size up you might want to go up a few so you've got a much thicker handle like I said I like the delicate look of the thinner ones and I'm not going to be kind of carrying this a long way it is more of a decorative feature rather than a practical feature but you can easily make it wider okay then I'm just going to do the other one on the back okay so that's that all done now if you wanted to you can cut another one which I may well do in white and then stick it on the inside here so it covers up that join and it will also just add a little bit more strength so I'm just to cover up so if you are you know worried that maybe yours is a little bit messy then that's a good way to disguise it all but that's all done so then you want to decide on the front and the back maybe I'll go for that one yeah we'll do this one is the front so I'm going to pull this up this one's going to be the back so this one's going to go down first and what I might do actually is just take I just fold that one inside so you can see what I'm doing I'm just going to take a little wedge off so whatever one you decide to be the back just take a piece off of either side there just so they all fold in I always like to put my side tabs in between the back and the front and then I'm just going to cover it now this glue as you all know if you use the Kalao clear or purpose it dries very very stiff so it becomes it just strengthens everything so although this is a paper by the time this has the glue it will feel like a card stock but this is a good time to reinforce it now by adding some grayboard in between these two pieces so I'm just going to stick that one down and that one so I'm just going to add a bit more glue like I said the good thing with this glue as well you do have time and you can reposition as well so there's some glues once you kind of you know they stick together that's it you're locked in it's not the case of the clouds it's a really nice glue and because it's a solvent base it doesn't warp your card stock either so you can cover large areas and then I'm just going to go inside there and just make sure that's all stuck down okay so I said paper is perfect if you're adding clothing lightweight things if you're going to start using maybe bottles you know small beer bottles things like that I would definitely recommend this to be more of a card stock but now to make it full flat I'm not scoring this I do have lots of full flat gift bags I've got a playlist just for fold flat where I do the scoring but because this is quite well it's still a card stock but it's not too too thick I'm just going to push the sides in and then I can just work my way down so like so pushing in keeping everything all lined up you can see it all lines up still on the front and you'll get to a point where you'll meet down here see the triangle and then you can just fold it away from you it's just a quick cheat way to make a full flat gift bag as long as everything lines up and you stuck everything down but that again that's completely optional you don't need to do that but if you do want to make them stick them down you can still store them away now you can see and then you can just go in and kind of burnish you know those kind of pieces if you pop your school bent folder inside there so you go on the top and burnish you might get marks on your nice card stock but if you go in there it will just help it to all kind of fold like so and then I'm just going to add my lovely ribbon here again I can't remember where this is from I always kind of pinch ribbons from other kind of packaging that people give me or it could be the end of a roll that I had but I'm just going to tie off a knot there and then with this one so I've got one in the gold or the rose gold of my double-sided tape and I'm just going to because I want to have them kind of overlapping each other but I want you to be able to see a little bit of each of the colors so I'm going to line up the hole there and then lift it slightly so you see a little bit of that gold there and then I've just cut this one using my oval dies and I'm going to have it so you can see it along the bottom there so that one I used a little bit of foam just to add a bit of dimension so I'm going to pop a bit of foam just on the top half there just line up the hole a little bit of showing on the bottom and you've got plenty of room there to be able to write something on the back and now I can just thread it through here so this is all ready for me to add my gift I will just wrap it in some probably try and see if I can get hold of some cream tissue paper and now I can just tie a nice big bow and then another little extra is I just cut this circle here if you want to get a similar size to me this is about two and a half and then I'm just going to eyeball this but because I've got the scallops I can kind of work it out I'm going to cut it in half and then I'm going to cut it in half again so I've got four kind of quarters there segments and then I'm going to stick them you can do it on the back as well but I'm just doing on the front on each of the corners so I'm going to stick one there one there one there and one there again completely optional but it does just add a little bit more of a luxurious feel to the gift bag okay there's the finished bag I need to kind of position that a bit more so it's kind of in the bag space rather than sticking out but it gives you an idea anyway and then if I just pop my bag in there I can just pop that back out you can see there it looks lovely really really yeah very good so check out the playlist I have loads of other gift bags on there and that you'll start to see a lot more kind of packaging ideas now because I need them so I only try to really share things I genuinely use myself and that I need I think that's also good for you guys because you know that they are going to work so hopefully you enjoy all the future ones if you haven't subscribed I'd really appreciate it if you did just click on my face that should come up here and along with some other tutorials I'll put the playlist for the fold flat in case you missed it so it'll probably be here just click on that one and then I'll put another nice bag of some kind there as well so thanks for watching and I'll see you all again very soon bye