 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got this really lovely suitcase gift box to share. This is just made using one piece of 12 by 12 cardstock, and then I have decorated it with these lovely metal corner protectors, which are usually used for books, but you can use them in your paper craft. And then I've decorated with these kind of craft card meant to look like leather straps and the handle there, and then it's held together with a magnetic closure, but you can use Velcro and I'll show you how you can make your corners as well without using the metal. So don't worry if you don't have all these pieces. And then it opens up and you've got this really nice box inside to fill with goodies. Now this was originally starting off to be a prototype. I was just playing around with just why I've got this pinky colour. The one I'm going to show you today will be using the same brown here because that will look much nicer. But it still is a lovely box. And then the sides here, once it's closed, it looks really nice. And you can just hold it. I love it and bring it up close as well. I've distressed these stickers and stuck them on the front to make them look like travel stickers that you get on the old suitcases. I've put some hot glue to just make sure that key sticks down. And then I've got the string just hanging loose there. And I've got this key hole here as well. Now these pieces and these hardwares were from the works. It was a pack and I'll show you some of the bits as well. And then these are just little circle die cuts here with a brad through the middle purely for decoration because that's the magnetic closure there that you can here and see. And just show you the corners a bit better there as well. You can just make them out in the detail there. Really nice. It just protects it and just gives it that really nice special look. OK, so let's bring in everything you're going to need here. So I have distressed everything. Now I've done all of that before the video. You don't need to see me doing that. But if you do want to distress, I've used the vintage photo distress oxide ink by Ranger. OK, so that's that one. These are my magnets, which are the 16 I did write them in my blog for when I use them. Oh, that was the last thing I used. I can't think now, but they are 16 or 15 15 by one mil. OK, so you need four of those. Otherwise, you'll need two sets of Velcro dots. OK, so either way, it doesn't matter. And then these are the corners here and these ones again, I'll share all the links. These are 25 mil. OK, that's all the measurement would be for them. So they're 25 mil and you need. Oh, you actually need eight. Somebody took out four because you need four on the front and four on the back. So it does use a lot. But again, it's a really special box there. So and by adding these because it's only a single piece of card, once you add these on and this, it becomes really, really strong. It gives it that metal edges because there's they're stuck with heat glue and heat glue, hot glue. It really makes it strong. OK, so that's those pieces. I'll grab the other ones shortly and go through those measurements in a minute. And then I've just pre-dicut two circles there and then two others because these are going to be what my magnets are concealed under and then the brads. And if you've got those ones, they are three quarters of an inch diameter circles. But once you see how I'm doing it, if they're slightly smaller, slightly bigger, it will probably still work anyway. There is my key detail there and my keyhole. So they're what I'm going to be sticking down. These actually have brads on the back so you can pierce through and put the brads through. But I've just used hot glue because it's purely decorative, but you could go right through this, but I just didn't want that shown on the other side. So I'm just sticking them straight down to make your own. I've already got some here and I'll talk you through that when we get to it. I've got some glue dots and then all of the card. So, like I said, the main main case itself is 12 by 12 piece of card stock. So first of all, just score those bits will all make sense afterwards. Really simple scoring this one, it's really actually very, very easy to make. It's just more the decoration that kind of brings it together. So you need to score along any of the 12 inch sides. If you're using pattern paper, then you want this to be in the right direction. OK, the score lines that we're doing at the minute. So you want to score it one and 11. OK, then rotate it. And this is going to be your front. So again, if you've got directional paper, make sure it's facing this way because this bit here is your front. So that was where we just scored the sides at one and 11. Now rotate and you're going to score at one, five, six, seven and 11. OK, so that's all the scoring done there. Then you are going to need one piece that is 11 and a half by one and a half. And this is going to be that pink piece. That you saw inside. OK, so this piece here, because when we put this box together, it's just two separate sides. By adding that pink piece in the middle, in this case, it will be this brown. It makes the box close really nice, gives it a nice closure. So that was one and a half by 11 and a half. And you want to score along the 11 and a half inch side. You want to score it three quarters of an inch and 10 and three quarters. So you've got a three quarter of an inch tab on each side. Burnish, I've rounded off the corners there. OK, and then I've distressed it. You want to distress everything before you pop it all together and we stick it all down. If you don't want to distress it, that's fine. You don't need to. But because it was a suitcase look and I wanted it to look more of an antique look, that's why I've done it. So that was one piece. Then you need two pieces of one and a half by four. Again, I've distressed them. They're going to also go inside. All right, so you've got three pieces for the inside. That's your sides. And then you're from then you need one piece for your handle. So this is eight by one. OK, again, I've distressed it. And when you distress it, burnish it first and then distress any side so you get that nice, warm look there. OK, don't don't just do it when it's not burnished. Burnish all of your corners first. Because if you imagine if that was really old and antique, that is the piece that would get mostly worn. So that's why you get that nice, kind of darker brown when you go over it. OK, that was the handle. Then you need all the right ones. Yeah, so then for your big strap, which is going to be the one with the magnets and that's going to be kind of the bit that folds down at the front. You want two pieces that are seven, seven, yes, seven by one. And you want to score these ones at one inch and five inch. OK, so two pieces again, I've folded them and then I've gone and distressed them all. And then two pieces, which are your under straps, so the straps that go underneath. And these are six by one. OK, and again, you want to score at one and five. Get them all distressed. OK, so that is everything done there. Get rid of my scoreboard and then we can get our box put together. So first of all, you just want to go along and burnish all of your score lines. OK, so that's all the score lines burnished. Then what we want to do is we're going to work all the way along the side here. So just to recap, so you've got your long, your all your long score lines, OK, and your directional papers should be facing this way now. OK, so then you're going to turn it on its side. So now they're all this way. And that's where we're going to be cutting, OK? So you want to cut up every one of these score lines. Be nice and neat with them because you are going to see a lot of this is all exposed because it's not reinforced. So and then rotate the whole thing. So now the ones you cut are at the top. And again, go along and just cut all of those. I'm just cutting up to that first score line. Then what we're going to do is we're going to just take little wedges off of all of the little squares that we've now made. So you'll have these little one by one squares. There's one there and this one down here. Again, I'm just taking little wedges and this will just stop you having any overhang. And it'll give you a much flusher finish. And then that very top one. So you should have along one side and then rotate the whole thing and do the same along this side here. So all of those little squares, you're just taking off little wedges just so you get a nice overall finish. OK, so that is now what you should have. OK, so we've got all this nicely cut out. So this is the back of the box. So when I bring that around, this is going to be the front. This is the back. So this will open up and that back line will go out like that as well. OK, so you'll lift it up your suitcase like so. Next, we need to start gluing down all of our sides. I've just got some of my wet glue. You can use tape if you do, just a little bit more fiddly. So what I'm going to do is first we'll start from the outer side. So I'm just going to put my glue just all the glue is just going on every one of these one by one squares. OK, don't need to pop it anywhere else and then bring it around and just spend some time making sure you get a really nice, neat right angle there, a nice corner, because this is all what's going to be exposed, although we are covering it with the corners. Again, if you don't you don't have to do that. You might have this really plain and use it for something else. But just get it. It's more about getting the perfect right angle so that then whatever it is that you're going to then use as your corner protectors, they have that perfect right angle to sit on. OK, this right angle is not quite right, then they won't kind of sit that great either. OK, so that's that one done there. You can just see it looks nice and neat. So then I'm going to go around to the other front one and again. Just pop some of the glue and just like I said, keep making sure that you get it nice and lined up. You're always lining it up with the other side, not with the piece that you've taken the wedge out of. If you try and line up with that, then you'll be all crooked. So you're always just lining up with the next corner. So that's there already now. We've got our front kind of coming together or our top, depending on how you're going to kind of present this and display it. Then I'm going to go across and do the other outer side. So again, just do exactly what I just did then on the other end. OK, so now we've got our two sides like this. Next, we want to pop those in. So just flip it over again. That one, bring it down and it's going to go under. Again, always making sure you've got a nice right angle. And just do that on those last three pieces. OK, so that's that piece done. And this is what we have. So it will open up like so. Kind of trade. But right now, look, it just doesn't do anything. You need to have that kind of reinforced piece inside. So that bit we're actually going to do after we do our straps because we need to add the magnets before we put that inside piece in. But we need to do the straps before we add the magnets. So the two pieces that I rounded off the edges, so the longer pieces, which were seven by one, those two are going on the top like this. OK, and then the two smaller ones, which were six by one, will be going underneath. So I'm actually going to stick the ones underneath first. Now, it's entirely up to you how to flip it over. Decide what is going to be your top and bottom. So at this point, it doesn't matter. And I'm not too fast either, really. I'm just going to stick it, stick how it is. OK, so you can either have them closer together like this, which looks more like a trunk. You could have three. You could add more if you want to. You can have them further out. I'm going to go for them the same as what I had here before. So this one is coming in. Let me just grab my ruler. So two inches. Yeah, so you want to come in and I'm going to grab my pencil there as well and just put a little pencil mark just lightly. There, two and two. And then again, flip it over. And you want to add the glue all the way over the back. And so. And make sure the back is nice and straight and then just fold over the edges. Now, it's going to be nice and snug, which is fine, which is what you want. And don't worry that it doesn't quite meet the top there. I done it that measurement, so it was just easy for you guys. Otherwise, we start going into the, you know, one sixteenths of an inch and all that kind of stuff. And I know a lot of people just it kind of freaks them out a little bit. So I've just kept it like this because you're not going to see that once that piece is over. OK, if you are really fussy, then, you know, you can just make it a bit longer. And then the back there as well, which is where you don't want it to go right onto that scoreline anyway, because when it opens, if it was too close, it would pucker, so it's the perfect measurement. Flip it over and just with my bone folder, just from the inside, just make sure that it's nice and stuck down. So OK, so that's one strap on the bottom and you just want to do exactly the same. Stick it down, lining up with that two inch pencil mark on that other one. OK, and then again on the front here, I'm just going to mark two inches on both sides again. And you'll also use these front ones to line it up anyway. So although I've put the pencil marker to when I stick it down and just kind of hold it like so, make sure that they completely sit nicely over the top there. You don't want it like that, for example, or like that. It's got to be bang on in the middle. OK, so you're just going to stick these down. But what you don't want to do is stick this piece here. You're only sticking this piece and all the way up to that scoreline. So the longest end, don't glue, OK? Because we're going to be adding our what you call it, magnet there. OK, so you just put in glue, I'll just quickly show you because then I've got to do it anyway, just on this piece. OK, and again, I'm just going to hover that over there. And I've got that little bit of wiggle room. OK, so that's that one there again. Just hold it up like so. And you can see that sits nicely over the top and just do the same again with the other one. OK. So that is all ready to go. I'm just pinching the sides a little bit there. Now that is what you should have next. We can go and do the middle bit. So you want your base, which is the piece with the short pieces. So this is the base here. Just bring your box over like so. OK. And then this piece here is going to go inside with a little overhang, a half inch overhang there. OK, now, before we stick that down, we need to put magnets in behind here. Now, if you've got Velcro, you'll be sticking yours on the front here. And what I would say is color the Velcro in brown just so it's slightly disguised. You might have brown Velcro dots. I've never seen them, only seen white and black, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. So I have got two of my magnets here. I've got my glue dots. And I'm just going to. And these glue dots are really big. They fit perfectly over the back. So I know that that needs to go as kind of central as it can be, like so. Now, don't worry which way around they are at the moment because you can just make sure when we stick these ones down that they obviously stick to the magnet and they don't push away from it. So, yeah, you can just stick this one down anyway. It doesn't matter. So, OK, so they are just both stuck in there right behind these. So just use your thumb if you want to measure because you know it's two inches, although the magnet will be slightly more. So my magnet is sitting at two and a half inches in, OK? Then this now can stick over the top. So that's why we want to do it in those stages because it means the inside becomes so nice now because you don't see those magnets. It all gets concealed. So we know that this is one inch deep. So if you just put a little pencil mark just up to one inch, that's where you want to glue below. OK, so just use it as a little guide really just so that you don't go over and then you have a load of kind of mess and this will just help not only reinforce it, but close, give it a nice closure. Now, because these are only one mil magnets, this will won't have much bulk at all. So the card will stick nicely as well over that. So just get that all stuck down, spend a few minutes making sure that it is completely over those magnets. OK, so that's now all done. So now when you bring your box over, it will close. I might have to just help it a little bit, but it will close nicely. OK, so now it stays in that position, but you still have this little bit here. Now, that's why I added those side pieces. Now, if yours isn't kind of bowing out like that, maybe you don't want to do this next piece. But these two pieces that are four by one and a half are to then go inside the sides there and they will sit nicely behind that one. Now, if you want to round off that one, which I think I did do, actually, no, I forgot to do it and then I wanted to do. So I'm just going to round off. So it'd be because I've already distressed this. So it'd be the top right on this side and then this one will be the top left. And then that was going to go in there. And again, just by putting that curved end, it would just help the side pieces here glide in. OK, so again, just up to one inch. I'm going to add my glue and get that all stuck down. OK, so now we've got a really nice kind of right angle and nice straight base to our box. Let's do the corners. So I've got these ones here. I need to get another four out in a minute. So if you don't have these, what you want to do is die cut for eight circles. Now, I thought these were going to be bigger. They may you may want this size, but if I show you how it will look like so, I think you could go bigger. If you want to stick with this size, then these ones here are one and one eighth of an inch diameter. And basically what you do is you cut your circle out. OK, die cut it like I've got here. Fold it in half. OK, now I'm using the craft card, which is 300 GSM, so it's very, very thick. Fold it in half again, lining up the two lines or the line that you just done. Line that up because that means it will give you four equal segments. OK, so now we've got this folded circle. Then if you go in and cut one of those quarters out, so totally remove it. Obviously, just stress this if you are the same way that you would have been doing it all before. And then you just add glue to the three sides, bring it together so they meet. It almost looks a little bit like a Chinese fortune cookie. OK, and then you will attach it to your corner. And if I just hold that there and bring that up, that's how it look. And because I've used my stitch frame that's that stitch detail. Looks really nice as well. It gives it that, you know, looks like it's that leathery look. So I think you could go up as big as a let's have a little look here. So that's three quarters. I reckon you could do a one and a half easily. So a one and a half diameter will you basically don't want to have a two inch one. Don't do it two inches because you don't want your circle to come right up to the edge. I mean, I've got it here where these are almost joining. But I think it looks a bit different with these. But if you go all the way up because this is obviously one inch one here. Yeah, have a play around. But I think it'd be nice to just have a little bit of a gap. But that's how you will make your corners if you don't have these metal pieces. Obviously, I've got them here. So all I'm doing with these ones here, they do have little holes because they're actually meant, like I said, for books and they go through very, very thick chipboard and they come with little screws. But you don't need that because on one side it's all decorative with no circle at all. So if you can see there, they've got little circles here and here on the top one, they don't. So I just played around and I done it so that I had that. Piece with no dots in it on the top and the bottom of my little suitcase here, like so. So all I'm going to do now, these do conduct heat. As soon as you put the glue on this, these become very, very hot, almost unbearable. So do take care. Now I'm kind of prepared for it. I know what to do, but I held my finger right in the corner and it was just so, so hot. Just put a new glue gun in. There we go. Already I can feel it and just take your time. Well, I see not too much time because it's obviously the hot glue and you just want to push it right in to that gap, to the gap, to the corner. That's why I was saying, make sure you've got a really nice right angle and this will start to reinforce. So already our base is reinforced with that. But by adding these metal corners now, it's going to make our lid really, really nice and straight and even. If I bring that up now and just see how nice that looks. So I'm going to go and do that on all of my eight corners. So four on the top and four on the bottom. OK, so there is all of my edges. It looks so nice and it's become, like I said, a really solid, nice box. So next we need to add our handle. So the handle is going to sit. So you've got your piece here and you want to fold it out. Like so. And then just with your bone folder, just curl the piece underneath so you get that shape like that. OK, then what you're going to do, you're going to stick it underneath. But so you've got half of it kind of hanging off. We're going to stick it all underneath these pieces here. But you want it going halfway over this blue one. So it sits halfway over this one. So let me grab because I need the magnets as well. Just close it up. Mine is very, very snug. I think I went too tight on that corner anyway. So you're going to pop that under like so. And that one. But you see what I mean? You want to have it so your handle's in the middle. So it will actually be going over this, but it's sticking to the underside of this. OK, so. When you bring it down. So if I pop some glue, it's hard to explain. It's probably not. But I'm some reason finding this hard to explain to you. Pop the glue all over it like so. Sit it on here. So this score line here lines up with this here. OK, and then you want it so it's half on this piece of blue and half on this piece of blue. OK, and then bring it over. And again, just lie that down. Just make sure you've got even blue here and here. OK, but we're sticking it all to this piece here. And just turn it over. Now, you can put your magnet underneath it, but the magnet actually does come down slightly past it. It's more down there. So that's why I'm going to be using these little ones here. OK. And then again with this one. So just make sure it's all nice and straight. Just looking up in my camera there, that looks about right. And just pull that over. And you can see they're nice and lined up with each other there as well. So just get them all stuck down for a minute. OK, then grab your magnets and just pop them whatever way they decide to fall. OK, so that's where I want to go again. You'll now put your Velcro dots on here and then bring this down, put both layers. So keep them as their pair. Take the backing off of one, stick it down, take the backing off the top and then push that down on top. And that way you know you've got it perfect. Then I'm just going to grab my glue dots and just sit them over the top. And that way you know you've got everything up the right way and it all marries up nicely. And then you can just bring that over and they should line up. See, I'm a little bit off there, but I think that's because my box is a little bit too snug. So I think one of my right angles I've gone in too tight, but it's fine. It's not the end of the world. And now you can see, you get a really nice snap to it. That just needs to be moved a bit there. There we go. And then I've got these pieces that are going to go on the front here. So that'll take away. And they actually, the brads are magnetic to the, they magnetize, is that a word? To the magnets underneath, but I can move them around because that's where I want those to go. That's entirely up to you, whether you want to do that or not. I'm just going to pop some glue that's probably way too much. It's okay. Just don't push it down like so. And then, so I just bring them both up. And then I'm going to pop some glue dots just on the backside of these and then just pop them over the magnets and it will just cover it up. Just makes it look a bit nice. So you don't have to do that. It's just me being a bit fussy. And they will still snap down nicely and give you a closure. What I'm going to just do is mine. I'm going to open it up. Just going to bow this out a little bit just so it closes a bit better. I'll bring that one over. It just means then. So it has a snug fit but that also adds to the strength of the box. There we go. That's better. It doesn't stick out so much now. There we go. Really, really lovely. So now it's in decoration. Now I'm not going to decorate with all of this with you guys, okay? I'm going to do the key and the keyhole because I don't have many of them left. I just want to show you. I'll pop it in my blog. Basically, this is what they are. Okay, this is the stickers but they come in all these different ones. You get these stamps as well. And I purchased these in a little craft shop in a place called Sujo. But they are made in Japan and the website is www.madori-japan.co.jp. Now I'm sure these will be available on Amazon or eBay so I will have a look for you but they are really nice. And what I've done with these is I screwed them up in my hand and then I used the same distress ink. Distressed it all. Pilled the sticker off and stuck them down and I think they look really nice. That one's gone over onto the back there and I just love them. Anyway, so that was that. So now I need my, make sure I've got this all the right way. Yeah, so this is the front. So I've got my keyhole here. So again, these were purchased from the Works but you can get a lot of this hardware from eBay. Just literally punch in metal decorative key and keyhole and it will come up. So just make sure that's nice and centered. And then I just colored the inside black. You can see there. I think it again, just that little detail just kind of added to the overall finish. And then I've already got the key here that I've put some of my string on. I'm not gonna tie the string yet. I'm just gonna pop the key roughly where I had the other one. So I'm gonna pop a tiny piece of glue there and then a bigger bit there and just have that hanging like so. And then, because I wanted it to kind of look like it's dangling down, but obviously I don't want too much of this string. And then I just need to tie that off like so. So I've got a little bit of it hanging down there. But there you have it. So that is it. I'm not gonna decorate with the stickers because I don't have many left. But yeah, I hope you like it. That's my little, sorry, just clearing up. That's my little suitcase. So I absolutely love this. It's gonna fit so many treats in it. You could put anything obviously travel related. If you've got someone that you know is going away or on holiday, moving, anything like that. I think it will look great. If not, it's just a lovely gift box for many, many things. So there, hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial. Please give me a thumbs up if you have and subscribe to my channel to see more. Thanks for watching. Okay, are you still there? Aha. So you stuck it out to the end. So this is actually part of another project. So this is a two-part project and this has something to go with it. So that's why I've not finished it off. Now, I've got a little competition. If you can guess what I'm gonna be making to go in this, which will be revealed on Friday's tutorial, you need to write in the comments below what you think is gonna be inside this gift box. So basically what Friday's tutorial is going to be. Now you've got 24 hours from now, which is 6 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time. It's a British time. So you'll have 24 hours you've got until Thursday, because this is obviously Wednesday. So you've got until Thursday, 6 a.m. to pop your comments on what you think this will be. I will then pull out all the correct answers and those correct answers will then be drawn and I will announce the winner at the beginning of Friday's tutorial and I will be posting this and the extra piece to that lucky winner. So hope you like it. And yeah, thanks for watching to the end. See, it's worth it sometimes. And I'll be back again on Friday and I will be announcing the winner. Thanks for watching. Bye.