 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I have a very large gift bag tutorial to show you today. It's so big I'm struggling to actually get it all in frame but this measures 12 by 4 by 12 so it's a really nice size. I have made this size before but I haven't made this kind of I guess design so on the side there can you see it just drops down slightly so this is different and the big pocket on the front is different, the flaps again I've done that kind of style and I will link up here all of the fold flap bags because the other larger 12 by 12 ones you can kind of take bits from that bag you might want to add it into this one so you can really kind of make it your own but follow this kind of process and I love it and it folds flat, love a fold flat so you can see there so it's easy to store away. This one is actually going to be I've just decided I'm going to give this one to my friend so yeah really nice long handles you don't have to have them that long but I wanted it to look like an actual handbag this goes over my arm it's that big so that's what I like to do and then here you've got Velcro closure and a nice little concertina pocket on the front you can put your card in there you can obviously decorate this however you want but the papers I'm using are by the paper tree it's absolutely gorgeous it was part of my craftstache kind of haul that I had and yeah I'm so pleased I got to choose that one and I would like to show you that in more detail but I think the thing that really works with this is just the little kind of pops of the mirrored cardstock so that's kind of like the metal if that makes sense so you've got them here at the bottom of all of the handles you've got them around the tassels I've done it with the doily and then I've done it with all of the circles here and also on the back there as well and I just think it really ties it together I love this kind of denim cardstock which is the Dovecraft cardstock and I just think it yeah it just all ties in really nicely so let me show you how to make this very large gift bag okay so this is the gorgeous paper pad I absolutely love this I'm so pleased that I chose this one because like I said it's just such a different palette of colors that I have so it's nice to have something quite different and very I just think quite soft and very feminine it's just beautiful so I'll just give you a quick flick through you can see just the kind of thing that you will get I love the stripe with the flowers there that one I'm using again the stripes is the main background for this bag I'm using that one for the sides and you can add peach obviously the blue like denim kind of color which is what I'm using with my cardstock and then it just rotates again back through the same so yeah really nice that and that one is the touch of romance and on the back we've got touch of romance paper kit you've got decorative papers that you can also get to go with it that's the pad which I have and then down here you have sentiment toppers so there are three of these pieces then you've also got more another paper pad which is like your basic backgrounds to go with it and then you have these as well and they will all complement that so they give you it's nice that they give you that overview of other things that you can add to this so yeah it's really good okay so you want two pieces that off by 12 however my base I needed I want a strong cardstock I want to put something heavy in the gift bag and I want this strong cardstock so this is 300 gsm however it's only an A4 length so the length of mine is 11 and 3 quarters so I've actually cut my card here which was 12 by 12 I've cut it to 12 by 11 and 3 quarters however if you have a strong cardstock and you have a 12 inch length then you want two pieces of 12 by 12 and then for your base you want a piece of 12 by 6 if you're like me and you've only got a 4 in your strong card then you want like I said two pieces of 12 by 11 and 3 quarters and then for your base it will be 11 and 3 quarters by 6 okay with your two pieces of 12 by 12 or 12 by 11 and 3 quarters on one of them which will be the back so this is it upright I'm gonna pop it now on its side and you just want to score it two inches okay and then just burnish that one in half well I'm not in half but just burnish and fold that one and that's all you need for those then with that face piece doesn't matter what your length is it'll be along the six inch side you want to score at one and at five okay and then just fold and burnish like so then for your handles you want two pieces that are one by 12 we're gonna stick them together and it will give us this by the time we stick these bits on these pieces here you want four pieces that are one by two anything you want really doesn't have to be mirrored cardstock but I'm using that because that's kind of my accent throughout the bag then you want two pieces for your sides that are six by nine and along the nine inch side you want to score at one inch and then along the six inch side you want to score at one and at five okay and then fold and burnish all of those sides like so pop it back in so it's along the nine inch side but with both these flaps up and you're gonna score within this section so you want to score it three inches just within that section okay then rotate it again still with these pieces facing up so it should come up to the four inch marker and you're gonna score it to just down to that score line that you just scored okay do that on both pieces and we'll score the triangle sections in a minute and then for the pocket on the front which is completely optional for the closure you want one piece of three and a half by eight and along the three and a half inch side you want to score at one inch okay and again just fold and burnish I've already gone and just rounded off the corners there with my corner punch and then for the actual pocket I just was checking that it was gonna work so I've already done my folds but you want to you want a piece that's nine and a half by six and along the nine and a half side you want to score at a quarter of an inch half an inch and three quarters of an inch and then you want to score at eight and three quarters nine and nine and a quarter and then rotate it along the six inch side you're gonna score at one inch so that's the and then I think I said you want four pieces of one by two and that's to decorate the handles and then you want these pieces here which are just purely decorative and I used my half inch circle punch which is an old hobby craft punch almost dropped it okay so that's all of the supplies needed so now we can start getting stuff cut so you want your two side pieces okay so I've already done this one so along the short side where you've got that one inch score line because you'll have your one inch on your two sides okay along the bottom I'm gonna remove both of those squares in the corner keep it nice and straight we're not going to be actually taking any wedges off of the side pieces because they're all going to be on show but you can take just a little wedge off of the bottom one so if you just want to just cut in just on an angle ever so slightly just stops anything hanging over the sides okay and then we just need to do a couple of score lines in the middle so if I flip it over it's easy for you to see I've already done my score lines but I've folded that one I haven't folded this one so I'll do it on here so you just want to with a metal ruler where we scored at two inches when it was up like this we scored at two down to that score line there from that there you're going to score from the bottom of that one down to that corner and then from that one down to that corner and that's going to allow us to be able to fold our bag flat okay now usually these tabs would go inside and I would say fold and burnish everything but because these are going to be displayed and I don't want you to cause I don't want you to create a crease here if you just carefully just fold that one up to that line and you can fold the triangular pieces okay like so but do not fold that line going across just leave it until the bag's actually all constructed because it's just going to cause like I said creases along here which you don't want okay so that's our sides then if you grab your base which you should have already scored obviously and folded and furnished and all that lot and we can get these bits stuck down because it's easier to do this now so we're going to stick these inside the ends this is four inches and this four inch tab is going to stick in there now you might want to put it underneath so you have a you know a neat inside but then you have that underneath but then you might want to cover the underneath and strengthen it even more you might want to put some greyboard under there it's entirely up to you whether you put this on the top or the bottom I'm going to put mine inside if I feel I need to decorate it later I can do but I'm not too worried because by the time I put presents in there and I usually put tissue paper and things like that and as I always say does anybody ever look inside a gift bag because I know I don't so I've just added my glue and you just want to make sure that your score line runs perfect with the end and if you kind of bring it up and you can wiggle it around a little bit and make sure everything's nice and straight and I'm happy with that okay and then do the same with this end here okay I'm really pleased with that next you're gonna stick it's up to you whether you want to do the front or the back I'm gonna start with the back piece so you're gonna now run glue all along this piece here and stick that over the top okay again just make sure that you get that lined up perfectly so now if I lift that up make sure that's all secure there okay and then do the same with the front okay so that you should now have something that's like that right next we're gonna now bring up all of our sides this time you're gonna stick them outside again you don't have to by all means if you don't want to have that showing then just stick it inside like so but I do just like to do things different I like that and I like the silver circles that I'm gonna put on it so again this is getting too big now for my camera kind of view so I'm just gonna again add glue to the either in or outside it's entirely up to you and just keep this one held up nice and straight and just work in the side into that score line once it's kind of tacked in place you just lie it down on the front and then go in so I'm just gonna go and do that now on all four corners okay so once that's all done you should then be able to if you go down to where that fold is on the back and start to just make sure the triangles kind of push inwards and it should just automatically find its place and fold nice and flat okay and that way now you can kind of focus on this front piece and get your pocket stuck down so I'm just gonna put that to one side so with the pocket with your side once here with you you'll have three score lines you've got the quarter of an inch half an inch and the three quarters of an inch the most inner ones the three quarters of an inch you want to fold down then the next one you want to fold up so you're creating a valley and then the last one you want to fold down and that will give you this little concertina fold so again most inner one you're gonna fold down first then a valley and then that fold mountain okay and before you do that you need to cut the bottom which I've got to do so you want to fold up the bottom one just bow and burnish that one and then you'll have the square kind of a square down here with the three like rectangles in it you just want to remove those completely like so and again okay so that is now what I might do is just take a little bit of just take some of that little kind of bulk off because you're gonna fold this inside but you've also got that concertina piece so that's gonna fold in we're gonna add glue to that side and stick that down and then we're gonna add glue to the outer mountain part of that fold there and it's all gonna fold in like so you've got a nice pocket space there okay so if I bring in the front of the gift bag it's up to you really where you want to put it I'm gonna probably go for around this it's probably about an inch and a half up from the bottom and you just want to make sure that you've got equal you know gap here so I mean I've got the stripes so I can kind of use them as then that is gonna stick like so so I'm going to add glue all along that bottom section and you don't need to go too mad I'm only gonna put like a little card in here really and then you want to put glue onto that one there okay and then very carefully I'm gonna stick the whole thing down because I've got my wet glue I've got time to wiggle and get it all in place okay if you want to use red tape there double-sided tape instead it's entirely up to you so I'm just gonna burnish that all down there like so and then you want to bring in your lid so you would have folded that over and that should sit just inside the concertina fold so the very back piece there you see where it's sitting it should sit in there perfectly and when you bring it down you'll see there okay so again I'm just gonna add some glue onto the back of this just bring this up very carefully okay and then what I forgot to do is I wanted to have that folded in just so I had that curve that's gonna go there but what I'll do is I'll just snip that now because I'd already folded it over so ideally I mean it's entirely up to you how you decorate this but I was just gonna fold this piece right over I think I'm gonna cut this using my trimmer just so I can get a really nice clean yeah it's doing a lot nice and then I will just take that bit off there and I'm gonna stick that right in the center there just saying that really finishes it off nicely I'm gonna just add glue to the middle bit so again I've got a little bit of glue that's smudged there but I'm gonna leave that now I'm not gonna touch it until it's completely dry okay so that's that all done so next you want your handles this is this adding this blue and all the tassels is kind of what brings it all together and before I forget that's the die yeah x-cut vintage doily die you could probably still get it so I'll look out for links for you okay so with these two pieces for one of the handles so this would be my one for the back I'm just gonna cover glue about one inch area there and then just stick the other one over the top hey and then I'm just gonna use my bone folder and just curl the other two and just kind of mould that bit there as well so it's a bit curved rather than square like so and then I've got these pieces here and again I think I covered oh no half an inch that was it so on the ends of each of these I'm just gonna use my scoreboard and you just want a lightly not a heavily scored but just lightly just do a half inch score line on the ends of each one so and this is just really a guide and then I'm just gonna cut a little wedge up to the score line just off of each side so you're just creating that shape it just again stops you getting anything kind of overhanging and then just add some glue and then just stick that one over the top okay and then do the same on the other side okay so I've just done that but now this is dry I'm just gonna go over and just buff off any glue like so a little bit there it will come straight off and then I've got some on here it just brings it up really nice okay so you should have two of those and then you want to get those stuck down so again it's entirely up to you if you hold it like this with your thumbs on top and then bring it around keeping your thumbs on top you'll have that shape and that's how I like to stick mine down and it's entirely up to you how close in she might want them like that I'm probably gonna have mine maybe just coming in slightly from now I'm gonna follow this line here and then on this side we're gonna follow that line there that looks about yeah I think that's about right I might come in maybe one more it's around two and a half inches from each side I guess I do need to be spot on but I was gonna try and line mine up with the lines mind you if I do two and a half then that's there I'm gonna do two and a half I'm gonna stick this one down first so you just want to add glue all in that two inch by one inch area so that whole silver tab in my case like so and then I'm just gonna sit that down on top so it's quite good using this stripy paper because I can line everything up straight so you got some glue see tougher okay so that's that one and then it's just double check I have got that right yeah two and a half so I'm thinking okay so if I bring that around now you can see it's so big how that looks I think it looks really nice once the tassels and everything are hanging and yeah no I really like how this is coming together so now just flip it over and you just want to stick them down the easy bit now is you can just line them up with the handles underneath okay so that's my handles done really like them it looks like such a cool shopper bag and then it's just down to finishing off now so I'm gonna add a Velcro dot onto here these are just the 20 mil I think it's from the dot and dab collection by trim craft so I'm just popping a pair together there and then I'm just gonna stick that right in the middle there and then flip that one you don't have to it does sit quite nicely on its own but again I just think it finishes it all off nicely and then I've got my tassels and I've got my gift tag so the tassels I will link up here a tutorial on how to make them they're very very easy but I do recommend that you get some vegetable cutting scissors because they make life much quicker you can also use the dies I know lots companies have made tassel dies so I have one there so I'm just gonna you see how I've looped that through and I just finished it off with some mirrored cardstock and I just bent them out slightly just to kind of yeah I do have actual tassels but I do like making paper ones I just think they look cool and then I'm just gonna feed that one through and then this one is a little bit shorter so they kind of cascade down like so and then I've got my gift tag which I think I'm gonna have all on the other side as well and this one is from this set here but these were both given to me they were either given to me or bought one brought them from a like a d-snash Facebook group so I don't know where they are from so if anybody knows let me know but yeah I've got those so I'm gonna just tie this one around here with a nice little bow so and I can just trim off some of that excess there so I just put some of the pattern paper inside and then I've just put a white piece of cardstock on the back so I can obviously write my little message and then I'm gonna stick all these down so again it's completely optional but I think because it's such a big bag it just ties it all together quite nicely so I don't know how many I'm gonna use yet I've got the front and the back to do so I'm just gonna kind of lay them out first okay so I'm gonna have five on each side so you're gonna need 20 but like I said I used that punch so it was just done in seconds so I'm gonna stick them all down okay and there is the finished gift bag it's huge I don't even know how I'm gonna take a photo of this but I love how it's come together so if I bring that up you can see there love the little tassels and everything love all of the circles there I'm trying to get it all in so you can see the front there we go love it I love that it's kind of dropped down there on the side just to give it a little bit more interest like I always say I try to make every gift bag different in some way so I will link in all of my full flat gift bags because I have done other ones with the whole kind of 12 by 12 front and you might want to mix and match and add things from that bag to this bag you know there's so many different ways to change it but I'm so pleased with this and I just love a fold flat bag because we can make and make and make and as I always say they don't take up a lot of room but these do get used a lot I go through a lot of my bags so yeah I'm really pleased with that guys so I hope you like it I hope you give it a go you know there's no no dies needed really for this no there isn't you don't need that tag die that's the only die I've actually used because and the doily but again you don't need to have that you could put another nice piece of decorative paper over that you don't need to have that die there everything else yeah even the circles you could use your whole punch there they are a bit bigger but yeah I always say get your basic punches because they're so handy but yeah that's it I'm not gonna talk any more because I'm done so I hope you enjoy it if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching