 Hi everybody it's Simon from Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got these really big gift bags to show you but before I get into that I just wanted to say something about the rings I wear. I've received so many messages, sorry I'm just moving on my seat there, loads of messages and people saying oh show us them in more detail, we love your rings you wear, your rings are really big and my mum laughs actually because this has kind of been a statement thing for me for years. My closest friends and I had 17 long years working in retail fashion and I've just accumulated a lot of jewellery and I used to make my own jewellery so I used to make quite big rings as well and a lot of those pretty much all of them are up in the loft in my mum and dad's house and I do keep thinking I need to go up there but I always forget so next time I'm back I'll try and someone remind me when I say I'm next going back home remind me to go up in the loft and have a look for my jewellery but yeah so this is just a particular favourite this one here as you can see yeah the bigger the better I've got some really wacky ones and I just love them I just think it's really fun so this my right hand has always got some kind of funky jewellery on it so there you go but yeah I will show some of the other rings off when I do get them hopefully okay so back to the project I have these big gift bags now I have made some other big gift bags before and I'll put a little link up here somewhere I just tried to make if I'm going to do another big gift bag I'll make it slightly different just so that they're all slightly different dimensions so I can have a nice kind of variety in the playlist so this one here measures 3 by not no 9 10 lemon dot yeah 3 by 12 I've done another one which is 4 by 8 and I've got another one again but I can't remember the size for that one so this is using three pieces of 12 by 12 paper I have used for this one beyond the shore by trim craft this one is tropacana by simply creative sorry that's first edition they're all trim craft but this is first edition beyond the shore this is tropacana simply creative and I'm going to be using dovecraft nature's grace they've got like a lady's kind of briefcase style to them so you undo the bow and they open and they all fold flat as well now this is optional and I'll talk you through that bit but you just push in the sides and the whole thing's fold flat now I really like folded flat gift bags because a lot of the things I make obviously I live in China so I make them and then I bring them back to the UK and I prepare all my birthday presents or other gifts for that next part of the year for family and friends so mine do all get used I'm just very organised so you can see now how great they are when they fold flat and I absolutely adore these think they're lovely so you are going to need just pop that to one side also another thing I've had quite a few people messaging me asking what colour paper I use and I have this here and it's the solid card stock assorted colossal colours by do crafts paper mania you get 75 sheets 216 gsm it's perfect for gift boxes gift bags any 3d craft and also for normal you know greeting cards card craft for matting and layering things like that it's 1999 and I get it from hobby craft but again I'll look for some other links see if there's any other suppliers that sell it as well but it's a really good one especially if you're starting off especially if you don't have a lot of room in your craft room because I keep it in this kind of thing it's got a perforated edge you pull this all down and then you can literally flick through there's no same colour there's only one of each colour but they do a whole rainbow so there's about 10 in yellow 10 greens and so on and so forth so yeah it's a really really good one I love this and they also do it in 8 by 8 and 6 by 6 okay so let's just bring this over so this is the ones I'm going to use today so this is using the um like I said the dovecraft natures grace um and I just yeah I love this print I thought it would look really nice for a bag so three pieces of 12 by 12 two of the pieces need to be your pattern paper so your actual main your front and your back of your gift bag and then the side pieces here I've just picked out a colour that matched well with this and these are going to be the sides and the handle and the closure that flaps over the top so first of all with your 12 by 12 pieces now if it's directional paper you want to turn it so that the the top this is where um this is this piece here this is where my little flap is going to come over with the ribbon so this is the top of my gift bag this is the bottom so if it's directional paper make sure your print is going off in this direction here and you just want to score at three inches okay so I've got that one there and just grab this one again three inches okay then with your other piece of 12 by 12 so I've got two side panels my lid and my handle and this all comes to 12 inches so I've done it deliberately so that you are getting every single piece of that 12 inch piece of cardstock okay so you need two pieces from that that measure four by 12 one piece that measures three by 12 and then you will have a one inch piece left and that's your handle that's your strips are one by 12 okay with the two pieces of four by 12 along the four inch side you want to score at half an inch and at three and a half inches then rotate it and you want to score at three now if you want it to fold flat you want to also score at four and a half if you just want to keep it upright in its solid form don't worry about that score line then rotate it back along the four inch side and again if you don't want it to lie flat you don't need to do any of this but if you do you want to score at two inches all the way down to that four and a half inch score line that we just scored there okay then with your three by 12 piece you just want to score along the shortest side the three inch side at one inch all the way down okay then get rid of your scoreboard again if you are wanting yours to fold flat then you just want to grab your ruler and there's that two inch score line that we scored all the way down to that four and a half inch score line here from that we're now going to just score two score lines from there down to there and there down to there again this is if you want it to fold flat if not you can just fast forward you don't need to watch this piece so I'm just going to go over mine again just so that they're nice and burnish and nice and scored we'll burnish it in a minute like so I'll just bring that up you can see there where I've just scored so it's from the bottom of that two inch score line down to the corners there okay then when you've done that we can burnish all of our score lines get rid of that out of the way like that so and just do that bottom one for the minute then I'm just going to grab some scissors and the bottom part okay so this is all facing this is the side this is your base this bottom piece here you just want to cut up the score lines so and then just cut those pieces completely out and to make sure that nothing overhangs so we don't get anything sticking out the bottom of our gift bag I'm just going to take off some chunks there from both the sides that will just eliminate that from happening and then also take a little bit off the bottom there and then again from the tops by doing all of that it just stops anything overhanging okay then with this middle score line just push it down like so and all the way up to there and it was these will all kind of come together as well you can just kind of pinch them like that okay so that's now what you should have and you want to repeat that so you have two okay so that's my two side panels with your lid just burnish that one inch score line and then just with my corner punch I've just cornered off my edges there but that's completely optional okay so now we can start putting it all together so grab one of your pieces here if you've got different pieces um you know make sure you've got this is going to be my back and then just burnish that one as well and that will be my front okay so there's a you know it's a deconstructed gift bag so we're doing every single piece so starting with the back first grab one of your side pieces and I'm just going to grab some of my glue here and you want to put it on the top okay make sure you're getting it right up to your edges there and then this score line here it's got a line up with the edge here okay so again it's good to use your wet glue here because you've got that little bit of wiggle room bring it up and you want to make sure that none of the base is overhanging okay so you've got the score lines perfectly joined there stick that all down then move across to the other side so get your other edge your other side piece like so then with your front or it could be the back it really doesn't matter I'm going to then run you could use double sided tape if you haven't got enough glue for this area you just want to splotch your glue all on that these are great gift bags for putting like a small piece of clothing in it would it would easily fit a lightweight dress t-shirt a little jersey so it's good to make these slightly larger ones for those kind of gifts and then this one this score line here I'm lining up with the other side and it will all sit in nicely and always lift this up and just make sure before it all sets like so that this score line here the base isn't overhanging so okay so that is now what you should have you've got your your both your sides here your front and your back sorry and then your two side pieces here then what you want to do so I'll start with this one here first bring it up fold this piece in okay and you're going to put glue all the way down this tab and making sure you've got it obviously right up to the edges there just going to spread that out in my finger and then bring this one up and make sure it gets right to the top first so you focus on joining the top because all of the rest of it will all then line up and then you can just squash that all down like so so now I've got a really nice join at the top there and I've got a perfect join all the way along the side and then I'm going to go to the other side here and again on the front there and then bring that under go right to the top first make sure that's all lined up and then the rest will just all sit down nicely turn it completely over and then with your ruler you can just go along this and just make sure it's really nicely secured to your paper and that is one side done you can see already now we've got a really lovely roomy bag so now you want to repeat that with the same process on this side so just put glue along here along here and stick this down okay so now I have this really nice size gift bag now if you want to you could just go and put for example this handle here you could put one on each side and just have a normal gift bag obviously we're not doing that today we want to do something different so I'm just going to put that to one side now if you don't have this here I love this and I've used this quite a lot and it's the X cut pump punch and it just does a single hole punch but it means you can do it over any surface area and it's just really really handy so if you don't have one of these what you'll want to do now so what I can do decide where's the front and the back I'm going to do this bit the front because it's got that card that can continuously goes around so all you want to do is just squeeze in the sides okay and then the back kind of pinch down and it would just all fold flat it's hard to really explain but you can see what happens there when it's all folded down what you will find best to do is because I'm going to use my punch but if you don't have it you want to bring in how far in did I do the hole punching here so it's four inches in and I believe it was one inch yeah because it's a two inch piece here so it was one inch down so what you would want to do now is come in at four and one inch down and put a pencil mark okay and then with your um it's just one of these kind of hole punches you might not be able to come down a whole inch let me just see yeah you probably could and then just punch through this and then you would have to then again on this piece here not on that piece because it's the back but on this front piece come in at four and come down at one and punch again or lie it over do this one first hole punch this first then lie it over the top as if it was together like so draw a pencil mark through the one that you've already punched on here and then punch them okay now I'm going to punch the whole thing together when it's all been stuck together with this because it will punch right the way through everything and it just makes it a bit easier you don't run the risk of slightly being off with your um holes that you may have punched so what we can do now is just on the back of this I'm just going to put some more glue okay and then just sitting it like so bring this piece over and the end of the back piece here has got a line up with that inside score line there so just come and sit the whole thing over again you've got a little bit of wiggle room before it dries I'm just going to get rid of some of that glue that's just seeped over the edge and now that piece will fold over giving you that effect there okay so now this is when I can just punch through everything so all I need to do is just with a little pencil mark um so I'm going to come in I know I'm roughly about an inch down there so four inches and then it'll be at eight because that's four inches in from this side so I can see there I've just got a little pencil mark I've just done there and there okay and then with this punch you get three different sizes I think I've got the medium one in for this one and you just lie it over and then punch it a few times or pump it a few times and it's just cut right the way through all three of those layers okay so again this one okay so yeah highly recommend this um $9.99 and I got it from eBay but they are available in the range UK and on Amazon and other sellers on eBay as well so again I've shared links I've shared links before um so have a look out for that okay so now I can put my ribbon through I'm going to do the ribbon before I put the hand along and then you kind of know where you want to put your handle so this is quite a thick ribbon so I'm just going to twist the ends there and come through first and then once I've made my bow look nice I'm just going to seal the ends so I thought I'd use this quite quite dramatic with the black I was thinking about bringing out the purple but I think the black against it gives it a really kind of luxurious um feel against that mustard kind of yellow I just thought the colors worked really well together so again just tie this in a nice bow and then I can just tidy up my edges and then yeah it's got a cheapy lighter here and I'm just going to carefully just seal off both those sides okay so that's now all prepped that's not going to fray anymore but how lovely does that look so you want to keep it just like that you can do I'm not going to even flip it over and then grab my tape um tape my handle and you want to come up about an inch and just cover that in glue okay like so and then I go right to the very end of where I put the ribbon in line with the bottom of that one inch piece here just so it's all nice and neat and that's a good way then for you to know that you're getting both your sides perfectly even okay and then with my thumb and my finger on the top keeping your thumb facing the front the whole way around you want to bring your hand around like that again pop your glue about one inch and then flip it over and again just line that line the handle up just hold that one in place it dries and there you have it a gorgeous gift bag I absolutely love them again you know what I like I'm so appreciative of paper and print and I just think they look gorgeous there's that one there's that one and there's that one so I think I've got a really nice variety you know for different personalities different um occasions and uh and so on so there you go so I hope you've enjoyed um today's tutorial please as always give me a thumbs up comment send me messages I 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