 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 this unusual gift bag or box just depends whether you want to have the handle or not. This is just a different size to the pumpkin one that I've done so on my Halloween series 2018 I made a smaller version and it's a it's more narrower I guess. I will link it up here because it might be a size that you would like to make but I was just looking back at old videos and I just thought I want to redo that again in a bigger size. Now it doesn't look like you'd actually fit much in here but it's quite deceiving you can fit a lot of sweets all in the bottom here because it does you know it comes up in the center there so it's just like a big triangle shape but then you have all the space in amongst these sections as well so like I said it's quite deceiving you can fit a lot inside this. Really really easy to open I've just reinforced these little tabs here and you just pull each one through the ribbon there you may want to use magnets velcro and I've shown other ways to do these as well this style and this closure I have featured in quite a few videos and again I will link that playlist up here but you can see now when you open it up all of that space inside and glitter from the ribbon here and then I've just put this really lovely topper on the top there a little something for just for you and I will show you all of that as well so this is very quick and easy to make so let me show you how. Okay so for the sentiment I use this one here which is the woodware one liners and I use the a little something for you and I'm probably going to do that again for today's just because I like that sentiment then I have used this one here which is the bright rose sunflower band dies and that's how I've created that lovely I'll show you again here this sunflower effect there and you can see the sentiment through the center and then this is the bright rose sprigs and twigs and it was this one here that I've used and I just die cut it in some different greens and yeah that's what we will be using to make that so for this version and size you are going to need two pieces of 10 and a half by 12 inch card stock now ignore that I've cut the flower out of this one I hadn't any more well I did have some more of this card stock but it was another sheet of 12 by 12 and I just wanted that sunflower and I didn't want to cut in so it's just a good way if you are ever in need of the same kind of card stock just use one of the bases I mean it's going to weaken obviously slightly there but by the time we add that over there and then these as well you're not going to see any of that so that was just what I done there I thought I would leave it in there and show you so I've already prepared this one side here and this is what we need to do with this one you're also going to need a oval shape so I'm using you could use a die as well I'll give you the rough measurements of this one in a minute it's from my X cut cutting system and yeah we will show you I'll show you that in a moment so along the 10 and a half inch side you want to score at 5 and 10 okay 5 and 10 and then along the 12 inch side you want to score at 5 and 10 and a half and then you want to go back along the 10 and a half and score at one and three quarters and three and a quarter but just down to the first score line and then at six and three quarters and eight and a quarter again just down to that first score line okay so you want to do that on both pieces get rid of the scoreboard and then with a metal stylus and your oval shape what we're going to be doing is we're going to draw our oval score line from the bottom left ignore all of your base okay ignore all of that section you're not doing nothing within there you're working within this piece here and you don't want to do any scoring within that top section there it's just within these two big areas so you want to lay your stylus down in the corner here pop your oval shape and you want it to sit so that it will hit this section here this crossover okay so again if I sit that down and bring it just move it until that sits there so I can see when my stylus goes to that point there it's going to be joining nicely so I'm going to start from there actually and come down and around you want to go over a couple of times so you get a nice score line now if I bring that up can you just see there we go you see I've joined it right up to the bottom corner of that square there and then all the way down to the corner there so the key to get this you know looking good is make sure you get them right down into that corner and it joins perfectly there so then I'm going to do this side so I'm going to flip it and now I'm going to start from the bottom of that square sit that down and again just move this oval until it sits within this crossover section here so you know just find what works best so I can see now they're going to join and just take your time with it because it is easy to do it's just you know making sure that you get that you know spot on as you can so now you can see I've got that shape in the center there it's a bit like a vase that kind of neck that goes through the center also the size of this one because I'm working on the outer side of it so it's six inches by seven inches okay then I'm coming now into this next section so you'll see there all of that has been within this square here or rectangle now we're working within this one here but you don't want to go over into your tab there okay so ignore all that again you're just working within that center piece so I'm just going to pop my stylus down there once you've done these I went through a phase of doing lots of these kind of style boxes again they are all on the channel and I should you know hopefully I'll put them in that playlist for you to look at you kind of get into the swing of it and you know what you're doing you know yeah it's quite quick so just take your time to start with and then once you're comfortable you know with all the scoring and stuff it's quite easy to do so now you see I've done it again just catch the light there we go you can see both of those score lines are coming down from that square okay so that's it you want to do that on both of those pieces okay so we can get rid of all of this so I would just say now finish burnishing the rest of the score lines because it's best to do that first scoring before you do all this so that the card lays flat but I was just showing you you know the areas that you need to work in so now you want to cut up so make sure you've got this section at the top you're going to cut up that bottom score line all the way up to the first score line so you'll be now just in there joining those bottoms of those curved score pieces there and then this one here you just want to remove completely okay and now along this tab come up to the next score line remove that okay or just cut away there because then what you're actually going to do is cut all the way along to the start of that square piece so these these score lines here actually just cut lines so now I can just cut down that one like so again back on this just where we're here just trim a little wedge off of the ends like so I'm going to just change my scissors because I prefer I prefer these ones when I'm cutting smaller bits and then cut down that one so now along those square pieces and then that one and you'll have this section now you want to remove that completely again lots of you will be familiar with this kind of style and then you can just again I'm coming in I'll chop between two pairs of scissors when I do a lot of my boxes and bags and stuff because these are great for like longer part like areas that I need to cut because I can get a nice straight cut there we go all right so you see now we've freed up that square and then this one here I can just come down and remove that end there completely so just remove that and also keep these pieces it's what I used on the other one to make these smaller squares to reinforce these squares so again I'll tell you that in a moment okay so now you'll have something like that now you want to take a wedge off of the bottom of three of these ones here it doesn't really matter which ones so I'm going to take another wedge off of this one here on the second piece and then the last one is the one that's going to be stuck down last okay so this you know one that is still in that square shape will be the last one we stick down it will just cover all of these pieces so next we need to just join it all together so I've got this piece with the tab here and then this one with the straight piece you're going to stick those together so it becomes one long piece of cardstocks just adding my glue all down that tab and then just lay this over there and just make sure you get that base score line lined up with the one next to it you can always trim along here if it's a little bit out and then if you flip it over bring in one side I'm going to show you how to cut this in a moment bring up this one add glue again and then just lay that one down you can pop that one over the top and again everything should lay nice and flat so next we want to cut here okay and you'll see what I've done and we need to do that on every single corner when we fold it flat and all this does it just removes that bit of bulk that will it just forms all around the top of this and it it doesn't allow you to close it very well and by taking that off it will just take the pressure off of these kind of sections here and it just makes the whole thing close much nicely and you can see there how it looks it just gives it a nice finish by having that shape there so I'm just going to check with this one how far down I came I think it was one and a half inches yeah it is one and a half so fold you know I've already done one so I'm folding mine onto the next half here just grab a pencil and just mark one and a half inches down there and then all you want to do is cut from that pencil mark up to the corner there okay and then fold it in half again and just mark one and a half down there and again rub out any pencil that may still be there but you can just just cut that one away and then I've just got to do my last one there okay so that's what you should now have apart from you well you might have a section like that as well but you won't have that one there now I would do this as well before we stick it all together it's just a bit easier so I cut these from all the bits that we just cut away but I've just trimmed them down ever so slightly to one and a quarter squared and I'm just sticking them on each of those squares you could do different color paper if you want to but I just thought use up the scraps that you know have come out of this project and I'm just sticking it over there because we're going to put a hole punch through these I just found it just reinforced it a little bit more and you could also put a little um eyelet on there or grommet if you wanted to as well yeah and once this glue sets it just makes them very strong so again if you were putting something maybe with a little bit of weight in this then this would just help reinforce that so yeah just four of those one and a quarter squares and just cover those on the tops okay and then you want to add your hole punches and again it's just best to do this when everything is flat so what I would suggest you do is you could do these two at the same time if you want to actually mark with a pencil the center then you can but I'm just going to eyeball this like so and then I'm just going to bring it over to this side here and you could just well I might as well punch right through again you I would just maybe put a pencil there if you didn't want to do that in case you're worried you won't line it up but I'm just going to sit that over there and then put that one over like so okay so we've prepared all of that now so next we need to stick down the base so what I would do first of all for me anyways I'm going to pop in one of the sides remember the one that you've left completely square that's the last one you're sticking down so I'm going to do this one and then I'm going to actually just put my glue all around here and then just stick that one over the top like that and then again I'm just going to add my glue bring that one up there and then now I'm left with that square like so and I can just go in there just make sure that's all nice and secure now what you want to do is you want to very carefully just start to kind of push in against the curve there you see it will go on its own eventually just kind of just push in next to it and again there just push in that one because these school lines here are actually going to be going inside and you want this to stick on the outside you see there and again like so you need to do it a little bit because once it knows to go that way it will just kind of do it so then all of a sudden it will just kind of go into that shape and then when we sit those down all those hole punches should line up when we add the ribbon through and there you have a really cool shape I love this so I'm just going to get some ribbon now to put through the top there okay I've got that same ribbon and what I actually done is I'm going to feed it through one of them and I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue lie the side there and just open up the ribbon and just attach it rather than a knot if you want to tie a knot you can but I'm just going to do it that way and then just trim off the excess there and now I've got my handle so then what I do is go across the opposite one feed that one through and that will bring those two together and then grab one of the other ones it doesn't matter which one that one will sit perfectly over there and then the last one and this will help bring everything together and square it all off and then all that's left to do is your decoration so I have these here so I'm just going to put a little bit of shape into these I'm just going to use my finger and my thumb there just to kind of bring up the petals it always looks nice just to bring in a little bit of dimension like so and again with this one here just kind of lifting up all of those petals and then that one there as well this is all cut from that die set along with this little piece here so then I'll bring in this glue here just pop a blob there sit that one so it offsets against the other one so you see the white underneath like so and then this one just a little bit there and again I'm going to sit these so they lay over the white petals like so and then this one here I'm actually going to use some hot glue and then that will go over there and just kind of hold everything in place and then I'm just going to put my sentiment through the middle of that which I'll do last so now it's just adding these leaves so you want to decide you know where the front is so I'm going to go with this one which is the last one that I stuck down so that's going to go on the front there I mean that looks beautiful you know just as it is but I do like the thought of all these leaves on there as well so I'm just going to bring in my other one here just so I can actually see you know remember what it was I done so I think I ended up trimming some of this off and I'm going to use my hot glue just for speed really for the video and just kind of pop them behind like so and then I've got different colors it's just nice to have you know those different shades of green so I'm going to pop this one on the top here and you're not going to see any of this you hide it all in here because then that's going to be stuck onto there so nobody sees any of this and just kind of hover it over the front just so you get to see you know how it's all going to come together we're so next you can just add your glue get another glue stick and then I'm going to sit that one just there that looks so pretty okay and then I've just stamped my sentiment there a little bit of glue in the middle and that is going to go right in through the center of the flower there okay and there you have it I think it looks really really cool can't wait to fill these up with some sweet treats and give them to some friends and family I think they're adorable so yeah check out the playlist because there are different obviously styles there sizes and things like that but I've already got some more ideas on you know using this kind of curved shape and this closure and stuff so um yeah look out for those but yeah that's it for today thank you for watching as always I will link everything below um if you haven't subscribed please do so you get to see more fun videos and I'll be back very soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye