 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 little gift bags. They're perfect for putting in the stock in, nice under the tree, table favours, all that kind of thing. They're just a great size so it's not just for Christmas, you can use this for birthdays, all kinds of occasions. But I've used these sweet little images which I got from the, let me bring it in here. I've already got that ready to go. So this is from issue 196 of Papercraft Inspirations. I did share it in one of my what did I get videos and yeah I've been wanting to use it for a while. So I've already gone ahead and done these ones here. Now you can make these, you don't have to draw onto or you know or colour onto the cardstock. You can decorate these however you want. That's how it would look. Okay so it's just blank you know unless you're going to use patterned paper then you know I know many of you will do it very differently but I just want to show you two ways of fastening it as well. So one I've got here is just a couple of hole punches, hole punched holes and then just closed with a ribbon there and then this one here I've just used one of these nice kind of ball dog clips. It does leave an impression on there but again I'm not too worried about that. I always say with these things eventually they're just going the bin anyways. So yeah it's just really sweet so it's just a really nice way to fasten it and just to give you some more ideas. I've got everything I need here, very very few supplies. So it's just a piece of cardstock. Let me grab my scoreboard. So this card here is a piece of 10 and a quarter by 8 and a quarter and along the 10 and a quarter side you want to score it 2 and 7 eighths of an inch, 4 and 7 eighths of an inch, 7 and 3 quarters and 9 and 3 quarters. Okay and then rotate it and you want to score along the 8 and a quarter side at 2 inches and that's all the scoring you need to do. Okay so now I'm going to bring in the stamp set. If you aren't going to do any colouring or stamping on your cardstock and yours is maybe using pattern paper then just fast forward now to the construction part. Okay so it's entirely up to you what panel you want to colour it in. So you've got this main panel here or you've got this main panel here, this one and this one other sides. You can do this one if you would like to have stuff kind of over hanging onto the sides you can stamp over. You'll see mine here I don't, I've got a tiny bit there but generally it's all within that panel so I'm sticking with this one here so I'm not going to do anything in them. Now if you're worried that you may stamp or you might get ink onto anything like this then just cover up that section. Okay so you're just working on that panel but I haven't you know done so I found it okay to um do it like this and then with this stamp set so I'm actually going to do this set up a little bit differently so I've already gone ahead and done these little gloves and the hot chocolate and you'll see that here. So you've got the hot chocolate, you've got the little gloves or the mittens there and then I've also stamped the ears and I've coloured those and then these sentiments are what you get in the little kit that came with it. You also got cards I just they weren't really for me I prefer using it this way or you know to make the shape of the little kind of you know critter then I you know I'd rather do that myself but you also get so it was Christmas wishes and then happy holidays okay so you'll see I've used the Christmas on the top there just broken them down a bit and then I just stamped it you know um yeah the mug and then for those I stamped just presents just multiple present stamps and just cut them out and just sort of look really cute. To get the little arms you don't have to have this stamp set again you know see you might have something where you've got eyes and you could just draw some eyes in you know just have a little look at what you've got but on the back they do give you these templates so just with some vellum I just drew around that one there and then just cut it out and then I will draw around that on you know whatever cardstock I decide to use it's probably going to be white and I'm going to colour it again but you also get the collar here so you can have a little elf collar you've got hair if you do want to add hair in but I'm just keeping them as they are you've also got the little envelope there that you can have with the mittens but I thought I'm going to have the little mittens like that and then the mug kind of you know wrapped around like so in fact I might not even need to cut the hands out but you can see how I've done it there so you'll see how that's just one of those and it's just stuck a little bit around the back there actually it's that way like so all right it's really easy to use those glasses also came with the kit you only got one but you can stamp glasses which I'm going to do and then I've also added some glossy accents on the glasses and then the ears there just and on the ends of the nose I just thought there were nice little details to add so I want to position this bit here roughly about there because I'm just thinking the scarf's going to be just above and then the face and everything so you just need to start positioning it where you are so I know a couple of you have emailed me to say that you've got this stamp set um you know and you know you've already made the cards that were in the kit but you wanted to see what I was going to do with it so I think I'm going to come down because I still want to add the scarf as well so let's get that one in first so I think I'm going to end up bringing this down a little bit lower the scarf will sit yeah so I just lay the scarf down there take that away so quite like where that's positioned so the scarf's going to go there and then the face will be there maybe a little bit further again about there and the reason I've done this size gift box is because I worked around this stamp set you'll see the width of this fits perfectly within that panel but now that will go over the scarf I'll do the scarf the same colors and that should all work quite nicely so if you'd rather use a stamping platform for this then obviously do so I'm just going to do it freehand but I'm also going to use the little pom-pom to go on the top of the hat the ears I've already done separately the mug I've done you've also got the drinks like little thing there what's that called why is it gone from my head cup and you've got a little bell that you could pop on the edge oh I want to do the glasses as well okay so let's pop all that to one so I'm just going to grab my ink okay so because I'm going to color in color pencil I'm just using my VersaFine I'm not too worried if you're going to use alcohol markers just make sure you select the right ink so I'm going to first of all do the face so just get that one inked up there we go I'm happy with that remove that one and then I'll do the scarf there we go because I don't mind if that goes off just a little bit that's okay and then I'm going to do the glasses and then finish with the pom-pom fact I use the smaller okay so now it doesn't really look much of them in it but once we start to shape it and bring in the color it should all start to come together nicely okay so I've just got a selection of my colored pencils so I'm going to start playing around and seeing what kind of color I want to do my bear I think it might go more of a gray I'm saying bear that's kind of what it reminds me of but I think I'm going to do a gray one this time so I'm going to pop the video on high speed just relax sit back watch my quick coloring and then I'll be back to show you how to construct it all okay so I've done all the coloring I'm really happy with the shading and everything and then I've just popped some foam tabs behind the gloves here I've actually just curved them a little bit so they've got a bit of 3d shape and I've just glued them on the ends there and then I've put some foam underneath the little mug there as well I've stuck the ears down and I've just highlighted a few areas with my white Posca pen and then once I put it all together I will put some of the glossy accents just on the glasses and things like that it's best to do that when it's all done you can do it before but then you just got to wait a bit longer but now I can start putting it together it's really really quick so and like I said unless you're you know doing the coloring then obviously that takes some time but otherwise it's really really fast so just fold and burnish those score lines and then we're just going to do a little bit of cutting so I've colored a bit there but you're not going to see that but you just want to cut up along the bottom here to that first score line so you've got that little tab on the right hand side and I'm just going to cut up this one and then rotate and just snip that off on a little angle there and I'm just going to snip off a little wedge at the top of that one so now you will have this okay next you want to add some glue along there so I'm just using some of my cosmic shimmer glue all the way down the side and then bring all this around if you just fold that one down and fold this whole piece over it will line up perfectly okay so just spend a minute make sure that's all stuck down okay so now you have something like this and then on the bottom so the one on the front here is going to be the last one I stick down so I'm going to stick the back down first I'm just going to pop some glue on the sides of these two here so pop one in pop the other one and then pop some glue and then close that one up turn it over and just with a ruler just going to go in there and just make sure that's all stuck down okay so that's all done and then you just want to push in the sides if you would rather score you can but you know the idea of these is that it's just something you can put together quite quickly you'll see there you start to get this really nice shape just make sure you keep everything lined up then I've just got some clips here so I've got some more of those ones but because I've gone more gray and black with my coloring I think I'm going to use one of these big black ball dog clips on the top hmm maybe not see maybe a red one I've got more I've got loads of these okay I haven't got the largest sizes that I thought so maybe I'll do a little gold one well you get the idea you might see me play around with this as a silver one there actually oh maybe that one's nicer once I put some because with this one because I've gone higher my holidays is not going to stick there so I may well stick it onto the clip put some ribbon just dress it up it's you know once I put a little gift tag on this I may change it up a bit different but um otherwise I'm really pleased that that's just how they look so just wanted to give you some quick ideas obviously you can use the ribbon actually maybe the ribbon would be better for that one I'm just thinking because I've got the room to put the whole punched holes and then I could have a big red bow let's just do it okay so this is a piece of two and seven eighths of an inch by one inch along the one inch side you just want to score at half an inch okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to make so just fold and burnish and I'm going to make this little piece that will go over the top like that and then put the ribbon through and I'm thinking I might pull out the blue that's just down there that could look quite nice actually so first of all you want to add your hole punches so you want to punch through this piece first so I'm going to do one there and then one about there okay so I've come in about five eighths of an inch yeah just about and then if you sit that piece over the front fold it over on the back as well because that will obviously slightly alter its positioning and then I'm just going to mark pencil mark there in there and then again I can just go in here now you just want to punch through okay like so and then you just want to add some glue onto the back piece oh I just realized I'll you be careful I've just caught the other hole punch at the other end but it's fine this is going to cover it up I just wondered then what that mark was then I've got this lovely piece of ribbon so I'm going to go inside the gift box festival and that one okay and then you want to go through the holes on the tab and then as you close it just pull them a bit more and then just fold it over each time just pulling them it's a really nice way to close up gift bags and things like so and then just while I'm closing it I'm just going to use that peg just so I can kind of get myself going okay so there you go popped a little blue bow at the top which matches the blue in the strip there on the teacup so I think that looks really yeah I like that now okay so there they all are I think they look great I really do love these I'm so pleased with how they've come together so they're just a very straightforward you know bag there's nothing you know too difficult at all about these it's a it's a real common style to make but by adding your stamps and coloring directly onto them I think completely transforms them and gives them a really really lovely look so very pleased with these I already have the bits and pieces that I need to to put inside these and then they will be on their way some some will be given by hand as well but to some friends so I'm really yeah really pleased with these also just with the glossy accents for anybody that's thinking she's not added it because I haven't yet but all you do is you want to make sure just test it on you know make sure that it's coming out and there's no like air bubbles or anything because there we go so it's starting to come out and it will come out very cloudy so but once you've popped it onto the surface don't lift it because then you're going to get air bubbles so you'll notice I'm not lifting it off at all I'm just and I'm not really squeezing it anymore I'm just moving around what's already on there to create and it's very you know easy to kind of move but it just creates a really nice effect and it gives it a slight three you know raised area so can you see that one there so again with this one once you lay it down keep it down to avoid any air bubbles just follow that all the way around like I said you can just move it to fill in all the gaps and you'll see you'll know when you filled it all and I'm going to pop a little dot just on the nose and then I'm going to fill the ears I don't know why but I just quite liked filling in the ears and then leave it flat it doesn't take long to dry as long as you've not gone too heavy with it but can you see now so we've got that lovely texture in the glasses I've used some of the Nouveau white blizzard on the top there to look like some glittery kind of cream on the top of the hot chocolate and you've got that shine there as well in the the ears and on the nose so once it's clear it will look like that so you can just see really nice love that effect I use it loads especially when I'm doing any kind of underwater things you would have seen it used a lot so I will link it below you can buy a smaller one as well that I think now I think this is the medium I'm sure there's a larger size again but um yeah anyway I'll try and find those links I'll try and find the magazine as well it's a it's about I'd say maybe I think it's only there's only one more um issue that's come out since but then since this going out there may well be two but I'll have a look anyway as always I will try and link as much below but I'm just trying to keep this one straight so I don't want to lay it down but thank you for watching I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial if you have please consider subscribing so you get to see more and hit that like button as it's very much appreciated thanks for watching bye