 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 fold flat gift bag and then I've actually put the shaker window there as well. So I made this one during my Facebook live and I'll show you how it all folds flat. So these are perfect for making now and storing away and you can decorate these for any occasion. So whether you want to start getting organised and make some for Christmas then you know now's a good time to start and you can you know store these away quite easily. So yeah this is what we're going to make. This is a different size as well. I'll give you the sizes in a moment and I'll list that in the title as well and I've got a whole playlist dedicated to fold flat gift bags in all different sizes. So if you are looking for something or you've brought a gift and you need that specific size just head to that playlist and you'll see all the sizes that I've got listed so hopefully you'll find something that would fit what you need. But yeah let's get into the tutorial and I'll show you how to make it. Okay so this one the final measurement is 8 by 5 and a half by two and a half in width there. Okay so it's a nice size we were talking in the live scene you can fit like perfume bottles and even some small bits of clothing in there as well which would be really nice. So that's all of the dyes and stuff that I'm going to be using. We're going to get straight into the scoring of the gift bag. So I'm using the craft card here. You'll want two pieces and these are 11 by 8. Okay so everyone will be able to do this one you don't need to have your 12 by 12 cardstock either. So what you want to do is along the 11 inch side you want to score both pieces at 8 and 10 and a half. Okay and then both pieces along the 8 inch side you want to score at 2 and a half. Now if you want it to fold flat on one of the pieces only along the 8 inch side you want to also score at 3 and 3 quarters all the way down. Okay all these extra score lines I'm giving you now or if you want it to fold flat. Okay and then on the other one all you've got is that one score line at two and a half which is what you would have done but because you've got the side piece here what you want to do with this one so you've got it here there's your two and a half. If you just flip this one over and then score at 3 and 3 quarters pass the first score line down to the second and then flip it over you'll have this score line here and it's just going to help you fold flat, fold it flat and then I'm just popping it back in here and just line it up with a track there and just score because what you want you'll see this one here where we've scored it all the way down it's in this big rectangle here so this is the back and that's what's going to form this score line here. You don't want that on the front you want that all nice and that's why on this one we missed that whole big section but we do need that score line still on the end there. Okay if you want you can pop it in normally where you've done the two and a half and then you could hover your stylus all the way down it's just a bit easier to just flip it and do the score line that way. Then pop them both back in along the 11 inch side and you want to score at nine and a quarter down to that first score line because you would have done that one there and then again with this one nine and a quarter just down to the first score line there. Okay so that's all the scoring with the scoreboard now we just want to do a little bit more scoring so I've just got my metal ruler and you want to score within this rectangle here. Don't go right over into your kind of half inch tap here just within that rectangle there and you're going to score from the bottom of this score line down to the bottom right and bottom left corners. I'll bring it back up again so you can see. If you'd like to watch the live of this as well then you can follow that it's on my Facebook channel but I will link it below and you'll be able to see that as well. So now there we go you can see so there's that score line that nine and a quarter down to that line and then I've just carried on a score line from that point down to the bottom left and right corners of this rectangle. Okay again you can really see it there so I'm just going to do it on the other one. Okay so that's all that scoring done now you want to fold and burnish all the score lines. Okay with the half inch tab on the right hand side you want to cut up these two score lines just to that first score line here so that one and then that one and just remove that piece completely and then if you take a nice wedge off of each side and you won't see any of that when we fold it in and then just take a chunk off of the corners there as well because that's our tab we want that to all be hidden. So do the same again on this piece. Okay so you've got the one there where you've got that nice big area with no extra score line this one here you've got the extra score line that one you want to fold into a valley so you've got your mountain fold to the bottom and then a valley for that one. Now you also want to start folding these it's easier to do it now before we stick it all together. Where you've got this score line here you want to pinch it to the top of the triangle part just there this side will start to come over and just let that kind of lift it over like that so it kind of folds over on itself and you want every single one of those score lines to be a valley so the triangle and that one as long as they're all valleys then you know you've done it right. So again I'll show you on this one so just pinch it to the top of the triangle and as you get there this side will lift up let it come all the way over and just kind of push that and that is how it's all going to fold flat. Okay next we need to attach these together so I'm going to put glue on this half inch tab and I'm going to stick this one over the top and then flip it all over bring this side and again pop some glue on here and then bring this whole side over it should all lie nice and flat. Once you got your base score lines all lined up everything else will you know kind of fall into place. Okay so again you've got your one with the extra score line on the back there and then this is the front so you want to fold the back one down first then the sides and then the front one so what I'm going to do is just add some glue onto these tabs here kind of let them just tack in place there for a minute like that one down that one down and then I can pop glue on all of this piece here and then just fold that over you can go in there now really push down on that glue and by folding in the back one first you get a nice base you don't see any of the tabs so that's why I always like to sandwich the tabs between the base and the top pieces. Okay so that's now all dry so all you want to do to make it fold flat is just pushing your finger on the top so the triangles there with your other fingers just push on that score line and it will kind of pop into place and then just let the whole thing lie down flat. There you have it so you could just go batch make a load of these now punch some holes feed your ribbon through and you've got some quick bags so you know they're really they are quite fast to do so next I am going to do my shaker piece on the front you don't have to do this but when I was doing again this in the live it's a really nice size shaker piece you could just then put it onto a 5x7 card so you know you don't have to put it onto this these are for the handles we're going to do those after I've done this piece here so I've gone and done all of my cutting of the flowers I've even done my little bow there and that was using these ones here again I did show you how to put those flowers together during the lives if you want to see that kind of detail then do check out that video but it's the bright rose flower border really beautiful you can see you get like the two kind of layers to them and then I've used this one here from the firm border again that's bright Rosa as well I'll try and then call these things below and then I've got my carbon key magic rectangles here so I used the I think I said it was the fifth or the sixth from the the largest ones let's just take this one out here because I think this is the one that I used yeah it was it's one two three four five yeah the sixth largest so if you've got them if not the rough size of this one or the exact I can give you this five and seven eights by three and a half okay so I did first of all I've got this white piece here which I'm going to cut my frame into and this is six and a half by four and a half so I'm just going to pop my die in the middle here and I'm going to get that die cut okay so that one's done then I've got this piece here which I'm going to cut my sentiment into so I'm using the happy birthday which was the same as what I done on the live and it's from the bright Rosa birthday words it just so happened that it turned out that I used everything bright Rosa on that particular live but you get these two here if you don't use the frame and just use the detail it will cut into this and it just gives you a really nice effect so I'm going to have it slightly higher because once all of the sequins kind of settle and you'll still see your sentiments so I've got my frame to think about as well but I think about there make sure I've got it the right way up but I think that looks good okay so that's all in place so I'm going to just run that one through okay so that's just fallen out of the die which is great you can see your happy birthday so then I've got this piece of white which is just slightly smaller which I'm going to stick behind and it just really you know makes that sentiment pop now one thing I didn't do on the live is I I just added the glue just around the outside and I wished I glued everything because you can see some of the sequins I've gone behind the actual sentiment it's not the end of the world but I am going to make sure on this one that I'm going to stick every bit of it down so I'm actually they're quite you know they're nice and thick actually so I'm just going to stick this onto that white piece okay so that's that piece then I can go back to the frame and I'm going to just grab some of my red tape and I'm just going to run some tape around the four sides of this frame and then I've just cut a piece of acetate which is slightly smaller than this piece here so I think it was four in a quarter by six and a quarter yeah you just want it slightly smaller I'm just going to take the backing off lay that down I don't know if it's still a little bit of stickiness coming through because you're going to attach this onto that eventually anyway but now we've got our window there and then I'm going to add some of my foam tape here this is the dot and dab this is the silicon foam tape it's really good stuff but make sure you keep it between these because I dropped mine on some paper and you can see it's stuck to the sides I'm hoping yeah this one's still okay and I'm going to run this now along the four sides now whenever you're using any kind of foam and you're using it for shaker cards just make sure that when you stick the next one down you butt them right up to each other so none of the sequins will get through any gaps okay and then whenever you do shaker cards you usually always get some static so I like to just pop will get my anti-static buddy and just rub it all along the sides of the foam and it will remove any static and it will remove all the stickiness so that your shaker pieces will be able to move more freely and not kind of get caught up because sometimes that they will stick now you might get still get the odd one but this will really stop a lot of it sticking where you don't want it to and like I said it just does get rid of that static as well and then just with a little bit of paper towel just going to spray a little bit of rubbing alcohol surgical spirit and then you can just take away all of the powder and also it will make your window sheet or your acetate sheet nice and shiny again you can rub the front of it once you put it all together okay so that's now ready for us to stick over this but first of all I want to lay down my sequins you can if you want put them into there and then stick that on top I rather do it this way so I'm going to put quite a few in there and then just spread them around I've got a mixture here of iridescent ones white ones and clear ones they're just kind of down to the ends of the mortar I think I just mix them together but you can get a few more in there maybe should we just dump it all in probably get away with all of that don't go right to the edges because you want to be able to stick the foam frame onto that that's about okay there and then I'm just going to take the backing off of this and then just very carefully lay that one down on the top like so you've got a really nice shaker a whack they now they all have settled to the bottom so it does work by just going along the the sides of your foam but now that's ready for me to stick onto the front of my bag or you can stick that onto the front of a card depending on you know what size your card is and your theme and stuff but these are great for wedding card shakers as well so you could have that on your wedding day inside and then all the colors of their wedding or something on the sequins you know so I'm just popping my glue all on the back there okay so whilst that's drying I'm going to make the handles so I've got these two pieces here which are 1 inch by 7 and 7 eighths and they are going to go just inside of each of the side pieces it will strengthen it but also hide the bottom of the handle but if you're just using ribbon and then you won't need to worry about that so this is just a piece of copy paper that I cut in half so cut it at about four and one eighth that's for a four size if yours is eight and a half then you'll cut it at eight and four and a quarter for example but just cut it in half and then you just want to curl one of the so I'm doing the bottom right hand corner just curling it up towards me there okay now if you want to use a knitted needle or you can use during the live I use this one here and I actually just do it myself so if you if you struggle to start it off to curl it then grab something thin and start wrapping it around and you know and then you can just slide it off but I just between my finger and my thumb just roll it over because I like this really really small so if you wrap it around something you're gonna have a bigger handle if you do it like this then you'll get a nice thinner handle so now once I've started it off you want to make sure you're rolling it more towards this angle towards the top rather than off that way because you want to get a nice long handle you want to aim for about 12 inches get nice and taught don't let the end get bigger than the the bit that you started with okay and then you'll end up with your end other end like this I'm just popping a little bit of glue and just roll that around to seal it up just grab your ruler there and that bang on so just roughly around 12 and then that's that one done there so I'm just going to do the same with this one okay and then I can see they're pretty much the same length but what you want to do now is hold them together I've got to do this during the live and just snip them just so they're both the same like so and then if you just squash them very slightly and as you squash it starts to put kind of a curve into it so you want to start bending it around okay so both my handles are done you just want to kind of bend them so that you've got it facing towards you like so so you can stick it inside there so I'm going to actually stick it with my hot glue just because I've got it here to use for the flowers and it would just be a bit quicker for me so I'm just going to pop just cover about three quarters of an inch because that's one inch so you don't want to go any shorter I wouldn't say if you're not used to using hot glue then I wouldn't use it I'm just going to stick them just and then like so otherwise just use your normal liquid glues you just have to hold it there a little bit longer that's all there we go that's my handles done so if you don't want to see the handles inside like so that's when these pieces will come in handy so I'm just going to grab my other glue here just pop it inside you just want it to cover the bottoms of the handles there okay so you can see that just tidies it up a little bit more and it strengthens that as well so next is just for me to decorate it so I'm just going to pop some glue on my bow there and that can go just there and then I'm going to pretty much follow this one here because I really like it so I'm going to go and stick this all down okay so there is the finished gift bag I love it I think it's so pretty and I love the the shaker part on the front there as well all fold flat so I can now just pop them away until I need them they you know they they store easily and I've got a couple of like plastic tubs that I put lots of things in and I've got my gift bags in there so yeah they're ready to go and they're really enjoyed making them so I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial like I said check out that playlist it's got so many different sized fold flat and I've also got another playlist for gift bags that I like handbag style gift bags as well there's just so many on there so hopefully lots of inspiration for you and you give it a go so thanks for watching and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial bye