 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make these fold flat gift bags which are using eight by eight paper pads. So I've had quite a few people request for me to do eight by eight kind of size gift bags because of a lot of the paper craft or the paper boutique and the paper tree paper pads that they've been getting because they are all eight by eight. So I thought I would use one of the paper tree paper pads which I'll show you in a minute they're Christmas ones and this is I've just put bags within a bag so there are I think I've got about 10 they're all fold flat I've used this lovely fabric ribbon that I've had for so long now and I thought you know what it's going to go really well with this I know it's quite I guess more of a Scandinavian kind of detail and pattern there but I think it still works really really well so I've just pulled out the toppers from the pad and this is how one of the back the boxes look like now it is shorter but that's optional and I'll show you that in a moment because this is actually seven high so it's eight by three by seven but it can be eight by eight but I just wanted to do this detail and kind of conceal the ribbon underneath so all optional and I'll show you that when we get to it but if I just pull one of them out here you can see again how it all folds nice and flat so I thought this would make a really nice some well it would I think it'd be really nice to sell it at a craft fair it would also be nice as maybe a raffle prize obviously it's perfect for yourself as well to do you know to keep all your to put all your presents in for your friends and family near a Christmas time but I think it's just yeah it's quite a nice little gift in itself as well you can give this to a friend so yeah I've really liked them so like I said I think I'm going to be doing the 10th one and that's all using papers from one paper pad so let me show you how to make it okay so the one I'm using is the paper tree so the paper boutique and the paper tree are all the same company and there I think it's well yeah creative world of crafts so and they're very very similar I'm not entirely sure why the paper tree and why the paper boutique like why there are two different ones because they are so similar but anyway but yeah so some of you will have some of these and some of you will have the others but this is a Christmas tale it's really really lovely so I picked up the paper kit because I always say I repeat myself so much but I love the toppers that come with them so the kits are always good because you get the decorative papers and you also get the toppers so this one here had 32 die cut toppers and 20 tags and then you also get your papers and then this one here is just the paper pad so like I said it all came together so I had a lot of papers so what I've done is I've gone through pulled out basically I used all I've got left now is that so I've got one of each paper so that's perfect for cards so I'm going to make some nice cards with these using these toppers here and then these are just going to be nice to put on Christmas gifts and things like that these tags I will be putting on to these gift bags what I'll probably do is get some bakers twine and just tie them around the top of the handle when I come to actually give them so I'll probably pop a load of these out put them in a little plastic sleeve and put them with those bags until I decide what I'm going to do with them like I said I might it might get donated for a raffle prize it might go to charity shop or I might use it myself I've got a lot of projects going on at the moment so yeah it's it's nice that it's all done and then I can decide what I'm going to do with it later and you also get this here that you can buy which is the sentiment topper pad it's five by five you get 64 sheets and they're so cute really really lovely and I thought this would be nice in a mini album as well because that you know they're perfect for journaling on the back but they're great for big gift tags and just as toppers on Christmas cards so if you want to make really quick Christmas cards then these are going to be perfect so you do get that as well so this is my last kind of like I said one to make because I've pulled out so many of the papers so you need it's three and a half sheets of eight by eight for each bag but the other half can be used on another bag so there's no waste so the only half pieces that I do have left are literally a handful because a lot of them got used on the other bag if that makes sense so there I've only got three halves left but they'll be great and like I said they're going to get used in cards so that it's it's decent sized scraps that you have left but if you make two bags then you would need seven yeah seven pieces of eight by eight for two bags and there'd be no waste okay so hopefully that makes but makes sense you'll see when you go along you want two pieces of eight by eight and then you want three pieces of four by eight two of them are going to be for the side one for the base so if you do have odd bits of paper you know you one of them is going to be on the base you're not really going to see it anyway but the side ones obviously I wanted them to look the same so with your eight by eight pieces one of them now this is when it's optional so the to make them fold flat you need to score at one and a half okay at the bottom so if it's directional this needs to be the bottom here if you don't want them to fold flat then you don't need to do that score line at all and if you don't want the top to fold over then you don't need to do this pieces either so if you are just want them completely in their 3d form and not fold flat and don't have anything folded you'll just want this one piece of eight by eight with nothing on it at all and that'd be the same for the front you won't do any scoring on these pieces but if you do like I said you want to score it one and a half and then you want to score it seven and one eighth of an inch along here now you can do seven and fold it over but it might just give you it might I'm trying to explain like when we get to it it make more sense but it might put a bit of pressure on the corners and if you're slightly off with sticking it together because it's deconstructed having that one eighth of an inch will just kind of give you a little bit of just leeway really for any kind of slight errors or you know differences in sticking it all together again it should all make sense when it comes together it's very very easy then with the other piece of eight by eight you just want to score it seven and one eighth again if it's directional make sure because this is the top here seven and one eighth okay like I said you can do seven but you'll see when we get to it I think it's just good just have that little bit to play around with then for your base piece this is four by eight you want to score it half an inch and three and a half and that's along the four inch side okay and you can just fold and burnish those score lines okay then for your side pieces again two pieces of four by eight and first of all along the long side you're going to score now again if you yeah so you want to score it one okay and then if you want it to fold flat you want to score it two and a half okay then rotate it onto the short side and you're going to score it half an inch and three and a half and then you also if you want it to fold flat score it two down to the first score line now from there you also then if you want want to score from the bottom of that two inch that line to the bottom left and right of that rectangle that you will have I turn it over can you see that's much better so you come down here that's that two inch one you then can score down to here and down to here using your metal ruler and your stylus because this is a paper and it's very very easy I'm not bothering I haven't scored that I'm just going to fold it and it will naturally fall into that position so it's optional if you've got a heavyweight card stock I would advise that you do just score down there not down to this bit just within this rectangle here just from that's that middle score line okay do that on two pieces because that's your sides so hopefully I've broken that all down and explained what you need to do then if you want to do again the same handles as me you want two pieces of ribbon that are roughly this is 10 and a half inches and I've got again it's the last of that and I managed to literally use every bit up so it's been quite satisfying yeah it's nice when you can use up bits and pieces it's entirely up to you how you stick it together now if you are going to be having maybe lots of things in these gift bags and you want something that's going to be a bit more stronger than I would reinforce the base with some greyboard or some very thick card stock okay because this is only a 160 gsm so it's you know it is more of that board lined paper card but in these gift bags it's just nice for some chocolates or some you know pair of socks just those little nice little token presents so I'm not worried at all about you know reinforcing these so with the two pieces of eight by eight you will have one where you've scored seven and one eighth you want to fold that over okay that's going to be that decorative kind of piece at the top and the reason I've done it is because I'm concealing the ribbon ends underneath but it is optional you may be doing your ribbon and your handles very differently and in that case you won't fold that over but if you have you want to fold that one and again on the other one make sure you're folding the right end so this is again if your paper's directional then you will be but again it's that shorter piece at the top this one here you're going to fold back this way like so because that's going to be the fold flat piece so that's those two pieces there ready your base you would have already done that folding scored and burnished and then these side ones here again do the fold and burnish those the bottom one the one inch you want to fold up and then that next one you want to fold out okay again if you then scored in there then that's you know that's fine those will naturally fall into place when you go to fold it flat but you just want to pinch that middle score line down to the top of that one there it's all just going to help you when you come to fold it at the end so I'm just going to do that again on this one here okay but because again I'm working with a paper it's a bit softer it's a little bit more forgiving and it won't crack okay so now with the bottom of the side pieces so I've got that two inch score line down to here you've got that bottom one inch score line here okay excuse the light I've got some sun just coming through now but hopefully by the time I do this video it won't you know it's not going to come in too much onto my my mat there so I'm just cutting away the two little rectangles in either corner and then I've just taken a little wedge out while I've done it as well so I'll show you again on this one turn it over you've got these little rectangles here and here just cut up to the first score line like so and then just cut away on an angle both sides and again I'm just going to cut up and just take away any overhang that there might be that's all the cutting you're doing so that is the only I'd say waste for the bin that you're going to have any other waste might have been one half of say this piece because there's your one two three and then your half of the eight by eight so the other half of that will go into you know your scrap so now I'm going to use double sided tape for all of this it is a strong double sided tape it's my scotch tape but you can use liquid glue by all means so I'm just going to run because this is a half inch tab my half inch tape fits perfectly so I'm just going to run that along both sides there okay and then you want to pop it along the bottom of each of your tabs there and then along the side as well okay I'm going to do that again on this one here okay so that's that already then with these pieces here I'm going to run inside again this is only if you've done these just along the top there of that flap okay and again just along the top there so that when we peel that off it will fold over but we need to do our little holes on that first so what you want to do is I'm going to use my little punch here there's sunlight coming in there I might okay so just pulled the curtains now so hopefully the lighting's a bit better right so you've got your two pieces here flip them over so it's just easier for you to see and I got my ruler and you want to come in two and a half inches on each side again that's completely optional you just want to pop a little dot you might want to do it on the reverse side so you don't see the pencil but I will be removing it with this anyway so along that score line two and a half so I'm just putting a pencil right on the score line so I know I'm going to get rid of it and then one two two and a half so I popped a pencil mark there at two and a half and five and a half okay and then what you can do is pop it over the top of this other one make sure they are perfectly lined up because I'm going to punch through both at the same time and you want to just make sure that sits right over the score line so you've got half and half can you see there so now when we fold it in half you should have half the semi-circle showing on each side so now the ribbon will go in perfectly along the top okay if you go through both at the same time just saves you a bit you know just quicker but again you want to do this however many times you want to make these gift bags you'll need to be doing this that's amount of times so now I'm going to grab my base I'm going to do the handle at the end you can do it now if you want to but I'll just do it at the end so I'm going to take off the backing on one side and I'm just going to sit this right over the top like so if you fold it over you can check that you're all in line there and you've got everything where it should be and then grab the next one just very carefully make sure you get it right just above the score line again fold it over you can see that everything is in place and then I'm going to keep it that way so I find it easier to stick everything down I'm going to take the backing off of the base now if you're not having these pieces fold down yours will be the full eight inches height but because we've we needed to have some form of a tab to attach the sides your side pieces will be seven tall so you will have one inch but it looks nice I've made lots of gift bags with the sides slightly shorter so it is supposed to be like that if you've done it that way if you're doing it my way then it will be one eighth of an inch ish short but like I said I think it's best to have that then do it you know exactly two seven okay so just stuck that one down again you're just focusing on your score lines each time and then again just sliding that one under quite easy to line up because you're also making sure that this score line runs with this one and so on so everything will find its home and then flip it over and you just want to start on your side so I'm just going to take the backing off of this one first fold that in and just start from the bottom and just kind of tack it into place and again all the score lines should line up so this is what I mean with the top so when I fold that over there's that tiny bit where this is slightly higher but if you do the score line at the same I mean you can but you run the risk if you stuck this slightly off or you've started from the bottom a little bit higher than you should have that little one eighth of an inch will hide all of that so deconstructed boxes or gift bags it's quite handy to have that little bit of an overhang at the top if you've been making these a long time and you are always spot on with your sticking and everything then do that score line at seven rather than seven and one eighths okay so but I do think that this is a bit more foolproof so yeah if you do sometimes think oh I was slightly off with that this will just hide those little bits for you and crap the other one and you're just basically working along but it's quite good first of all just attack the bottom and then you can just slowly lay it down and it will just all find its home go inside each time just put some pressure on it you might find it easy with liquid glue just because you've got that wiggle room and that time obviously it's a lot more instant with the double sided tape so just use what works for you and then again just going to go from the side just kind of run your finger and your thumb along there as you work your way up to the top and that way you know everything will stay lined up and then the last one again just tacking the bottom in place and then the rest you can just slowly lay it down like so now depending on whether or not you scored within the box I didn't because I'm using the paper but you basically want to just push kind of at the bottom of that two inch score line like so that back score line there that you've done should line up perfectly and just push it kind of pinch the whole thing in together and it will just fall into place so again for speed you know you don't need to worry about doing that score line there if it's paper it will just fold but if it's a card stock then I would do because you don't want it to crack you can see now just how neatly everything is so next I just need to add my ribbon what I'm going to do yeah I would do that now so I've got my hot glue on because I just use that to tack it in place and I want to make sure I've got the pattern coming through again this is quite thick on a paper so do you kind of go well I don't think you're all going to have the same ribbon as me I can't remember where I actually got this from it was from a car fair I'm not sure so I'm just popping it in there and just with a bit of hot glue I'm just kind of tacking it in place because once we fold this piece over the top it will just conceal and secure all of that but I do like this look I've done it on a few gift bags I think it looks really nice and bring it right up close there to the top and let that sit there for a sec take off the backing on the very top piece and then because that glue's still a bit wet as well that will all help fold the whole thing over and you will have that nice finish okay obviously if you've got a gift tag then put that on before if you if you've whole punched it and stuff but I'm going to tie mine with twine I like to do little bows and dangles and stuff like that nearer the time that's if I end up using these for myself so um yeah I always I tend to always add my tags last again I'm just going to feed that through and do the same on this one okay and there we have already a really nice little fold flat gift bag which is just such a nice size you'll get lots of nice little treats in there so then it's just a decorate so I've already got this last of the toppers and then I've die cut this circle here just I thought it was nice just to frame the topper so this is four inches and then this is just a doily so I'm going to add some foam on this piece first just to give it a little bit of dimension obviously you don't have to add a topper to the front it's completely optional stick that on there and then I used hot glue for everything else pop that one there I just thought that doily was really nice to frame it and then put some more hot glue on there fold that flat again just a bit easier to stick this down and just pop that in the center you could put something else along here if you want maybe with some of those scraps I could cut a thinner strip but I quite like that white um overhang and by the time I've got a tag and things on it anyway I think that's all gonna finish it off nicely okay so there it is finished so actually I've just realized it's the same as the front and I didn't even plan that so then I'm just gonna feed it in here somewhere now I've got a ton of gift bags look at that and again it didn't take too long you just kind of have to do a bit of a convey about I went through and scored and burnished everything then I went through and cut the sides then I went through and put all the tape on and then I went and put them all together so all in all it probably took me about an hour and a half to do all of that I think it's a lovely little gift like I said it's perfect for a craft fair it's perfect to just donate for a raffle I think it's a really handy gift so yeah I love this I hope you've enjoyed it I hope you're inspired I hope it's helped those of you that asked about making gift bags with your eight by eight papers I have a whole playlist full of fold flat gift bags so they all vary in sizes in style so just go and check them out I will link it up there and if not I would have linked it at the beginning as well anyway please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today's tutorial and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye