 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorials today, I'm going to be showing you how to make this, it's I guess more of a satchel kind of a backpack look, I think if you were to put the backpack handles on that I've shared in my other tutorials I'll link the backpacks up here, then it would turn and look you know like a really good backpack but I'm going to, this is more the satchel kind of style and I absolutely adore it, it's got two pockets on the side here which will fit a gift card in, we can just pop some small you know treats in there, some jewelry things like that or just keep them as a decorative you know extra and then my favourite bit is this padlock, if you saw the unboxing, well it was just kind of a look through the new collection from Simply May Crafts and I made a treasure chest with this big padlock and I said then I think I'm going to use this on a lot of my gift bags, I've used the holographic card stock then I just think it looks really really good and then I've just used a Valkro dot there to close it, you can pop it through, you've got lots of room inside there so I haven't squeezed in any other sides on this one so that is all the room that you get in there, if you want to reinforce it with some greyboard and just cover that then you can do and obviously you can put a few more weighted items in it and also with the handle, this one's just glued on but again if you do want to reinforce it I would glue it and add a brad through there as well just to give it some extra strength and maybe double up on the paper or use some fabric you know ribbons and things like that instead but I love it, it's got a great size, this one measures four by seven and a half is the actual one here and that is how tall was that actually let me just double-check because eight so you're looking at four by seven and a half by eight so it's a great size so let me show you how to make it okay so I have already gone and done lots of the bits just as I always do just to keep the videos as short as I can this is the padlock here so it really is lovely and it's from the treat edition die set so this works with the treat box die set again I'll link in the kind of the collection that I shared just so you can have a look because this is an addition thing so you can't do yeah you can't treat box edition die set I don't think you can do anything with that without having this other piece here so have a little look anyway but I think great such a nice padlock so you'll be seeing that come out in more projects okay so I've got my Velcro dots I go through all the measurements of those so I've done one of the little kind of side boxes here I mean on its own that's actually a really cute little box as well so and that's four by four by three quarters of an inch some twine punch and then there's the padlock but I'm going to show you just a few little tips on putting it together and giving it more dimension and bits and pieces I also done a little bit of embossing on that front strip and you can see there these lovely hearts and that's using this big A4 one here you don't have to use this at all but I just wanted these you know this padded pillow effect and that's by crafts to again all of this will be linked below and then that's my papers and these are from the new first edition bloom and wonder beautiful beautiful paper pad and yeah it's just got some stunning colors so I've pulled out this one here that's got the peacock and on this one here you can see it's got all those flowers and like the hearts and things on there as well and that's the reverse of it so you know when you see inside there everything matches really nicely together and yeah just really like it so this one doesn't have a reverse but I have used this one here which pulls out the pattern of the peacocks feathers there so that's the one I've got so you want two pieces of 12 by 12 okay and I've already prepared that one so if you've got directional paper make sure it's the right way up and along the 12 inch side you want to score a seven and a half and eleven and a half and then rotate it and score it for okay so do that on both of the 12 by 12 pieces then for the lid you will want a piece of seven and a half so this is the width of the bag again if it's directional you want it facing up the right way at that seven and a half and that is by eight and a half okay again that's optional you might not want it to come down as far as me you might want it to come down longer so when you see it all come together you can decide and then for the boxes again completely optional but you want two pieces that are ten by six along the six inch side you want to score it three quarters of an inch four and three quarters and five and a half and then along the ten inch side you want to score it four four and three quarters eight and three quarters and nine and a half and do that on two pieces and then to decorate those boxes you want two pieces that are three and three quarters squared pattern paper and then also for the box piece so this is actually attached let me just show you it's attached to the little flap there okay and this is a piece of four by one and a half okay so get rid of the scoreboard and we do the box while I've got this one here so first of all you just want to fold and burnish the score lines okay so you want you've got a half inch tab and then you've got the three-quarter inch side there you want that on the left hand side you just have three-quarter inch tab on the bottom the two at the top that's the closure so along the bottom you just want to cut up all of these score lines just to that first score line and this is going to become the base of one of the boxes okay this very end piece here just remove completely okay and then if you just take little wedges off of each of these okay so you'll have something like that and then along this side here you want to cut down that score line so you freed up your tab and then just remove that section altogether so you've taken that bit off and then again just take a little wedge off of each of those ends and then work along the top and just cut down past the first score line down to the seconds that main score line and do that on all of those ones okay and then above these little tabs just cut away those top bits you just left with the squares and then this whole middle section here is my bigger scissors you want to remove that piece okay so you'll have that and then again just take some little wedges okay so that is turn out the right way that's what you should have so this is going to be the flap to close this will be the front in the end and these are your sides okay okay so now we can glue it together so I'm just going to run some glue just along the sides here a lot of people ask me why I change glues and the reason being is I find the cosmic shimmer and the art glitter glue are great for that instant grab so when you're working on tabs and just very small areas then that's great however when you start doing a larger surface area that's when I start to bring in my Kalao glue because that will add a stiffness and it would just really firm up your projects so that's why you know you often see me kind of chop and change between glues and I've just brought a new one of those and that's the cosmic shimmer okay but I do sometimes use a Kalao for tabs as well just it just takes that little bit longer to grab but once it does grab it's it's not going anywhere okay so then you will now have something like this you'll have this flap so you want this is going to fold in and that's going to fold over and we're going to attach that decorative piece there so this one here is the bottom and that's going to be the last one that you want to stick down so stick the back one down and I'm just going to pop a bit of glue on these here fold them in and then pop glue over all of that and then fold that one turn it upside down and just grab something to just go in there and just spread out that glue okay and now we've got our box and we might as well decorate all of that now because it's easier to do and before we stick it down so this one here so this is one of the three and three-quarter pieces that is just you know just nice just to decorate that box but again you can leave them plain you might want to do some you know use your embossing folders and add more of that quilted effect and do it maybe as a tone on tone so just that same colour green again just like I've done some of the designer bags I've made so you know there's loads of ways to decorate it I just love this paper against this mint green cardstock so that's that one and then this one here I'm just going to add glue just to that half inch tab and then you just want to stick that other piece this is that one and a half by four just on that tab so you're just extending the flap or the closure there so now when you fold that in bring this down and that's what I'm going to attach these pieces on to brings me nicely to that so I've just got some twine just going to cut a little bit off there got my hot glue gun on I'm going to put a blob of hot glue there also I did cut these are all doubled up so I cut eight of these in total because you have two on each box and then I've doubled them all up so again that's optional but it just strengthens them a little bit so I'm going to pop the glue on there and then I'm going to pop this on to the middle of this piece and then with this one here you just want to add some glue kind of load it up a bit but leave it just for a few kind of 30 seconds just so it starts to set but it keeps that dimension because this one you want that string to be able to go around sometimes I put brads on them I've done that before but this is just another way to do it as well so and then bring this down and you just want to have it just a little bit further down like so but if you look there mine is quite lifted so although it's stuck by the hot glue but it's got room now for that string to go around underneath but I'm not going to do anything more with that now leave that and I'm just going to trim that bit over there just tidy that end up there we have one of our little pockets okay so now and that's the other one there so that's what you will have like I said with that string I can just wrap around get that bit out there but yeah I wrap mine twice okay so you'll have two pieces of the 12 by 12 all scored so again just fold and burnish those score lines okay so you will have a half inch tab and then that four inch score line on the bottom very similar way to the box you want to cut up that score line there to the first score line and then cut this one again up to the first score line but then you can remove that piece completely okay and then if you just take a couple of wedges and then I'm just going to take some small wedges off of there okay so you'll do that on both pieces and then I've already got my other one there which I'd already prepared so now we want to stick these together so along one of the tabs just down that half inch and just stick them together and always work from the base line so this base score line get that lined up first because if you are slightly off at the top you can always just trim that you can't rectify the base once you stuck it together so yeah always focus on that one and your box listen you know it's always going to line up the base will always close and yeah and then just hold the whole thing over bring over this side with that half inch tab and just add glue all the way down there and then you can bring this one right over and it will lie down perfectly and everything will line up just make sure that's all secure okay so now you want to decide if you've got a pattern paper that's all different decide what you want to be on the front mine's worked out quite well actually that I've got this lovely image here that's going to be right in the middle so what you want to do now is bring up the back base and then I'm going to add and this is when you know if you do want to reinforce it with some you know grayboard or just like a very thick you know cardstock you might want to put a few more added layers then you want to be doing that so I'm just going to put glue all on that tab there and fold that one in and then again all on that one fold it in and then all along this one here and then just bring that one down and again just grab a ruler or something that you know allows you to get inside and just spread all that glue out okay so now I've got my two boxes and I'm going to add glue all on to the back and stick it down it's up to you if you want to have it so it's flushed with the bottom you might want to have it a little bit higher up so I'm going to keep mine as I've done the other one but if I just show you like here you could have them a little bit higher up if you wanted to so you know make it your own it's entirely up to you how you do this so just spend a minute just you know making sure they're all stuck down and nice and straight because if they are flush with the bottom it needs to be bang on so just you know stand up make sure you've not got it and you don't want it rocking or anything like that okay while that's drying I've got my lid so again make sure it's direct if it's directional you know it's facing the right way up and I'm just going to stick this trim along the bottom it was just a nice little bit of decoration but you know like a lot of things it is optional so you know don't think oh gosh I haven't gotten in bottom folder or you know I can't do that you know you might just want to put some mirrored card along there because that will look nice it will most be like a foam bit of hardware you know metal on your bag so just let that all dry and then I'm going to bring the padlock in so what I've gone and done is I die cut the padlock in the mirrored card stock twice then I also die cut it in some fun foam so just some white foam in my case you can use any color but I've done white and then I'm going to stick those two together but before I do that I've got this little bit of black card just to cover the inside because I just then I don't know just rather than you being able to look right through it you know when you look into a padlock it's quite dark you know because well this just is but I just thought by adding that I just think it's a nice little touch so again you don't have to do any of this you know I'm aware not everybody's going to even have like this padlock if you've got any of your digital machines I'm sure you can find a file or even create your own padlock but I do really like this one and then I'm just going to stick that one over the top and this becomes a really strong embellishment because there's four layers and each layer I've used the kalau in between you do need to give it you know a few minutes to completely dry and you might want to put something weighted on top of it just because it's sometimes the thumb foam has a tendency to curl when you've when you you know you apply glues and stuff to them so I'm just going to let that sit for a moment I'll just put my one of my pen pots on the top there okay so we can go back to the lid there and then I'm going to grab my glue and I'm going to stick this onto the back covering about half an inch okay so I'm trying to do it so that you can see but I'm just coming in there you want to make sure it's straight okay it's nothing worse than it's all being wonky so when you bring it over that's perfect so if you lie it down this way then you can go in and really push that down do make sure it's straight you know use your grid here so I can line up the bag and I can see the bag and everything it's all lined up okay then I'm going to grab my belt pro dots so these are I'm using the I think this is the 15 mil I use them so much but I always do forget well yeah I think it's under 16 though when I order it so again I will show the links it's always 10 16 and 20 they're the ones that I will always have and they're super sticky so I'm gonna my in shot there let's just bring this up a little bit higher so I'm just going to pop this one in the center there and then bring it over and it's up to you how far down you want to go I mean you might want to keep it quite high up you might have cement quite tall to go in I do it the right way up you can get a better idea of how it will look so you know you could have it there but I'm going to come down a little bit further and again keep everything lined up nice and straight and attack it in place my hand in there just to tackle a little bit and then you can and then just go in there and just really stick them down now try and line it up each time there we go there's your lid cute love it love love love and then I'm going to stick oh this is another bit from that same die set but again I just put some fun foam and then that holographic and I'm going to just use won't use hot glue for this bit because it might melt the foam I'm just going to use glue and do this it's easier to work with it this way and then again you just want to sit that in the center okay and then I've got some hot glue and I'm going to pop a little blob of it just on the top there and then just sit that just carefully in the center there okay well there's the padlock detail again that will kind of wait that down a little bit as well stick that back into place once you've got something in this it might be easier to also do it up because it's obviously against you know a hollow area right now but they go and then for the handle I've done my handle very basic it's just one inch by 12 well this is actually a 4 lens so it's about 11 and 3 quarters so you know it's that's entirely up to you and like I said some of you might be using thread and thread sorry rope or ribbon and things like that but I just stick them together so just put some glue about half an inch over the other one and I think I end up trimming this down just a little bit but you want to take this again it's up to you but I think I did I'm going to take a little bit off of that end and that end just so I keep the joint in the center and then I'm going to use my Kalao again just because it's super strong but if you do you know you've got more weighted things in there then add a brad through there as well and then I'm just going to stick it right up in the camera there just lay that down in the middle of the side there and then I'm going to finish it with one of these little decorative embellishments as well so just one there and then stick the other one on the other side because these are quite large I always say but I never trust the sticky pads that are already on them so I always like to just add a little bit of hot glue or just add it you know another liquid glue or something but it would just ensure that they won't fall off and just pop that one in the middle there these are gorgeous I've had these for quite a while now because I remember buying quite a lot I think I might have got them from the range but they're just gorgeous they remind me of the holographic cardstock I think that's why I'm always drawn to them so I just love the rainbow colors that they pick up there it is it'll finish I love it I just adore my padlock and yep you can carry it loads of room I like all these extra pockets you could even add one inside it just gives the person more things to explore and add a nice gift tag to it as well I just think it's absolutely gorgeous there we go I'm just about getting both in short you can see the different colors there but yep I think they're fantastic so I can't wait to give these ones out so I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial please give me a thumbs up if you have and consider subscribing so you get to see more thanks for watching