 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 adorable little mini backpack. Now this is using some dies which I'm going to show you in a moment but if you don't have the dies this is the Helen Griffin backpack then I will share my backpack tutorial that I made a couple of years ago which many of you enjoy and if you go to that one there you will be able to use maybe the design of this and the colors that I've used and turn that into a Christmas you know backpack or maybe you've not even seen it before anyway. I always try to in my tutorials give people alternatives if you don't have dies so this one here I was sent the dies I've got a couple of the Helen Griffin ones actually so you'll see a few more in the coming weeks but they're kind of like bonus videos so they're not replacing my normal tutorials but I just thought they're quite fun and I wanted to share them so this is how it looks here and you've got the little straps there I've kind of distressed them and bent them and you know just I want it to look a little bit rustic this is for a man so I've got the bar humbug because I know exactly who I'm giving this to and then the lovely thing about this is actually that the closure is these pieces here so they and they really do hold it in place you could also add a magnetic you know piece there if you wanted to but inside here you'll see you've got loads and loads of space you know to put some nice little gifts perfect for some aftershave it's a great size for that so yeah it's very straightforward to do so let me just pop that back in there there we go and it all slides down and then I've just added a few little of my kind of berries there and I've just die cut a little kind of piece of foliage there from one of my dies and then the bar humbug is from the woodware stamps and I'll show you that one in a moment so yeah let's crack on with the tutorial okay so today I'm going for this really lovely what's the color of it actually I'll show you that one because it's the paper mill direct cardstock this is the stamp set so it's just it is called bar humbug and it's by woodware again I will link as much of this product as possible this is the die set so I will go through that in a moment let me just get the paper so I'm using for today I'm using the black 240 gsm from paper mill direct along with that was it buff it's such a nice and it's really smooth so it's if you're not a fan of craft card but you like to maybe use or you maybe the better way is if you like craft card but you don't like the grain this is lovely because it is it's almost that same kind of color but it's completely smooth really nice I love the name buff and again that's 240 gsm and then for that one there I use the navy blue again 240 gsm and I distress that one I did add lots of brown to the corners it's just kind of picking it up there you can see so it's just a nice way again just to add a little bit of character okay so I have die cut everything but I'm going to tell you what you need so those of you that have this die set then you can obviously you know go ahead and cut these pieces but like I said if you don't check out that tutorial because it's very very similar mine's a little bit bigger actually but the concept is the same and I put it together very similar to the way this is done so this is your side and front so I'm just going to burnish it and then I'll tell you what you need to to cut in terms of the die so it's a little straightforward to do the score lines are all there you can see it's very easy to follow and then you've got this score line that goes just kind of about it's just over three quarters of the way down and that's the one that you want to fold in because that's going to form one side and you can see there once we fold it up now we get that and that is using this large one here now you do need a larger die cutter machine so you will need one that will hold a A4 you know your A4 plates and you want to run that through twice so you have two of these and then you want to die cut so I'm just going to fold and burnish that one okay then you want this one here which will make the flap so this is your lid so what I've done here is on the flip side I've got the lid die so you want to die cut one of those all right you'll see the shape it gives me but when you run it through you also can have it plain or you can choose two of these decorative panels so I went for this one here which is quite um what's the word geometric and you just sit that inside the plate that kind of area just make sure you've got an even border get rid of that one there there we go you just want an even border all right and then run that through and you will have that then what I've done is I've die cut it again but this time I've just done the end with the the rounded edges okay and you'll see very faintly can you see that score line I'm actually now going to cut that and then it will fit perfectly behind this piece here so I'm just going to cut along that line because whenever I get dies that make something up for you I always end up changing little bits to it so I've adapted certain little bits to this most of it's how it should be done but I do like to change it a little bit with this one here you've got two score lines you've got a score line here and you've got one just slightly above that one there just be a little bit careful when you've bend it up but it will go into place so and now that one will fit perfectly in there might need to trim another little bit off but you'll see and it's just a great way to show off that detail and then the other score line you just want to fold and burnish and that will give you the kind of the depth of the opening so you see on the side there that's it gives you more room okay so yeah now the back is quite long I end up trimming this I guess it may be there just to give you more of a reinforcement but I got rid of it but once we get to it I will show you that in more detail and we'll stick that behind that in a moment then you've got all your detail pieces so again just going to flip this over so I have die cut two of these pieces here okay and these are this one all right it's got all that stitch detail around it and this will give you these ones here so I've got two of them then I've die cut two of these pieces here okay and that's this one again it's got stitch detail around it the black doesn't show up as well but you can see that stitch detail all around these ones here and that is to do these ones okay and there's the other one under there now what I also added is I used my hole punch and some silver card stock and just take I need a couple more anyway for the back one two three four because I need to use them in a bit and then I just stuck them and they just look like little you know fastening little rivets poppers something like that I think they look really cool especially when they catch the light so that's how I just kind of finish those off and I'll keep those as well in a minute I'll pop them up there so don't lose them then I die cut two of these pieces which is this little die here and they give you these straps where it tucks in and then I die cut two of the buckle so I've got one there and that one there and there's your buckle okay and this is great if you want to turn this into a Father Christmas looking one so the Father Christmas bags that I shared oh gosh it must be a week ago now you could make this red with maybe bits of white in it and have it looking like it's Father Christmas and the belt buckle and things like that there's there's great ways to really you know make it even more Christmassy and then I have these pieces here which I've already started started to prep and that's this die and I die cut three because I've done one of them I've made into a handle on the top so that is the same as what's on here and then these are the back ones okay so yeah three of them and then the one on the top I've already gone and again punched a few more and stuck them on there and then I'm going to add more into these but we'll go through that in more detail so that is everything you need you also get a passport a pocket you've got the little flap there to go over the pocket so it looks like a proper like shirt pocket you've got lots of sentiments which are kind of themed around travel and wishing someone good luck so if they're moving away or going literally traveling it's great for that and that was kind of the theme of mine it was a travel one and then I made a journal to go inside of it so again if you're new to the channel do check that one out if you don't have these dies you know and you can't get hold of it then you can still make something very similar and then on this side yeah there's all the sentiments so they're great to use on cards anyway the big adventure there and so on explores another nice one so that's everything there so first of all we want to stick this all together and it sticks down the same way as you would any gift bag when I make the gift bags from two pieces of cardstock this is how you know a lot of you would be familiar with this and some of you will even be able to go and do this all you know yourself and just use this video purely for inspiration so I'm just going to add some glue now this is the cosmic shimmer glue it's another one that I do like when I done my glue review I did you know recommend this one as well and I've got about three of them so I need to get them used so I'm just going to lie that down there and just sit this one over the top okay she should have a side piece the front side piece and then the back for example so I'm just going to spend a minute just to make sure that grips down there nicely okay and then if you turn it over and fold one of these main pieces over and then on the net the other one the other tab again you just want to run some glue if you lie it down flat this one should line up perfectly with that one if it's a little bit off just kind of move it a bit you want to make sure the bottom score lines are all lined up perfectly okay I'm happy with that so that's where we are at the minute next we want to seal the bottom so decide which is going to be the front or back I don't really think there's any you know I'll keep this as my front so that I'm going to stick down that one last I'm going to stick the back down first okay and then I'm just going to pop glue all on here okay and stick one side and then another side and then again just going to run some glue and then stick that one down and just turn it over and you can just go in there and just make sure that all your sides are stuck I've just got my mat here usually I would use some double sided tape or the back of my hand but I'm going to do it this way I'm just getting so this is like just a tacky pva glue put some on there it looks a lot more than it actually is and just spread it out with my finger I mean if you want to add double sided tape to the back of that you can I'm just going to lie that over just to get the glue all on it yep I'm happy with that when that dries you can just peel up straight off because it's on that mat and then with this piece let's get that off my hands there you're just going to pop inside here and it will all dry clear so I'm not too worried about any glue there it dries clear and dry but now we've got that lovely effect on the front okay so that's that all done I'm just going to check it does fold fine it's okay okay now this is when I'm going to trim this piece down because yeah I don't need it to be that long so I am going to put it in this way and that's score line there do you got a score line here score line there that one I'm just going to line up with one inch and just trim all that off now it's entirely up to you whether you want to have it on the outside or inside I am having it on the inside and then I stick the straps in with this as well so yeah when you see how I put it together then you can you know decide if you want to do it that way or not but these pieces here so you they would die cut like this and they've got score lines all down here the kind of there's two score lines but they're very faint but the one that's most you know the furthest in I'm just going to fold one out and at the other end one under sorry like that so one out and one under the ones that are under are going to attach like that inside and then that bit will cover that when that gets stuck over the top so it's all concealed and just sort of look quite nice that way so again which was the yeah so this is the back so I'm just going to grab again some of my glue and just stick them in coming in about one inch there and I'm going to grab I've got these little pegs which I've been using on another project just to kind of hold things in place and then I'm going to pop another piece some more glue there and again stick that one making sure it's about the same distance in and again I'm just going to pop a peg down there all right just while those dry okay so now I've got those stuck then I'm going to pop glues all on the back of this one here it will fit in there you get a nice snug fit I'm just going to lie it down on the back and I can just go in there and just make sure that's all stuck down for a minute okay so now when you bring in the sides here this piece will come down you'll see there how it all comes together once we stick these down add all the decoration add the handle on the top it yeah it looks super super cute so next I'm going to stick these down here let's get them stuck down so I'm going to pop some glue on the back of that one there and kind of let it go where it wants so it feels like it wants to go there so that's fine so I use that one there and then pop some glue again on the back of this one next we are going to stick this one on like that okay you can see now where it's all starting to again come together so I'm going to pop a bit of glue I'll do both actually and then I can use the pegs to hold them in place so I'm going to line them up with the yeah so I'm lining it up with this here the edge of this strap is where I'm lining that one up and then this one the edge of that strap I'm lining up there okay then we want to add the straps to the front so I'm going to stick them there okay again it's kind of up to you really where you want to put them but I want to get these down because then you can close the lid so because this is where you may want to put a velcro dot under that piece but I do like how they are just fastened with that bit there so it's quite easy for whoever you're giving it to to open so I'm going to add my glue there and then I'm going to stick that one down like so come up a little bit higher actually because you don't want it coming off the edge there so I think that's about right so it's in line I've got them now in line with that piece there keep everything very very straight because it's going to be sliding into those other pieces you want to make sure that this is all lined okay see now that's all again coming together next I am going to stick down the buckles because you want to get these on really before well yeah it doesn't really matter but I'm going to put them on now now you want the piece the top I would say is that bit there with the little piece that will go over the top and that one will go under so you're just linking it in like that and then if you kind of stick it so it's in line with the bottom of this it really does look like a real buckle so what I would say is you want to pop a little bit of glue because I'm working with mirrored cardstock I don't want to smudge anyone popping a thin bit of glue on the back there and then a little bit on the front there so that when this then goes like that the glue will stick to the top and then to the bottom again just keep it nice and straight with that piece there okay we'll do the same with the other one okay so now you've got your buckles next you want to stick these ones down here and also these pieces here so in fact we'll do these ones so these are easy you just want to pop glue on the back and it's kind of up to you really how high you want them I'm going to try and go same as what I've done before so stick that one there okay and now we're finished with these pieces so you want to keep it all together what I might do is just pop pegs on the corners there we go and then it keeps it where I need it so these bits here will go across and you just want to glue under the peat the bits that overhang you don't want to glue anywhere else because we want this to obviously slide in and out quite freely like so so again it's up to you really how high you want them but I'm going to pop a tiny bit of glue just on that end and then on that end there there's not a lot of pressure on it because once once they're in there you know they're not yeah they're only light bits of paper but I'm going to do it come up a bit higher and just stick them there I'm going to take those off okay we'll hold in place isn't it cute it is so so sweet it's got such an adorable look about it okay that's it that is the the box done now I just want to bring in this one here so I'd already stamped the bar humbug I've die cut a couple of them and I've got some of my berries and I've got where is my twine apple I've got a Christmas twine here by Simply Creative and I'm going to use the red again so that's why I deliberately kept the colors very non-Christmasy very plain because I want the Christmas element to just be on the gift tag so it's a good way of maybe you've made a lot of gift bags throughout the year that aren't particularly Christmasy this might be a nice way to yeah to turn them a bit more festive so I'm going to just pop this one in because I want to get this all trimmed so I can have my gift tag I'm just going to stick it on this piece of scrap mirrored cards it's the same mirrored cardstock that I've used you know for the buckles so again everything ties together and then I'm just going to punch a hole there and just grab some of this twine just feed that through there and then I'm going to tie mine off of the handle on the top and then I'm cutting off the wire on these I've just got some hot glue and I'm just going to pop some glue on the ends of the green kind of little leaves there and just stick it over like the whole punch but I don't want it to cover the writing too much so I have that one kind of lifted up there I'm not too worried about the glue and how it looks right now because the berries are going to cover that but you can see there and I can lift that leaf up a bit I want it kind of coming off like that there we go and then I'm just going to pop some glue on the kind of where I've cut them away and just stick them over where you've just joined up the two there I'm going to just build up another one and just bring that up there and you can see the little berries I think it just finishes off really well okay now you have it two very cute little Christmas backpacks lots of fun to make very easy the dies do it all for you the hardest parts really choosing your papers and the layout that you want to go for and as I said if you can't get a hold of these dies it's not something you want to get that's fine check out the tutorial that I have shared there because you'll get lots of inspiration and I'm sure you can take parts from this video and put it into that video and as always I'll share all the links to everything that I've used below but yeah I think they're really cute can't wait to put the little gifts in them because I know like I said exactly who these are for and what I'm putting inside them so they're going to look very cute under the tree so thank you for watching hope you've enjoyed the tutorial I hope it's inspired you in some way if you have then please give me a thumbs up I always appreciate it and consider subscribing to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye