 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm back with project number three for this year's Mother's Day series and as you can see it's this very large beautiful tote bag or bucket bag it's gorgeous and I've absolutely enjoyed making this. So I've got this little chain here with a little envelope so you can pop a little message in there and this can be your you know little gift tag and then I've got this gorgeous bow and just with some belt pro you open it up and inside you have a really large gift bag to stick that bit down there but yeah you've got a really large space so this fits loads in it's 12 inches high and it is let's just double check seven I think yes seven wide and just see there and it's beautiful look at those papers and I'll show you the paper pack in a moment that great big bow there it's just beautiful and you know it I think it'd be perfect for Mother's Day you can feel there's just so much stuff and obviously it would work for many occasions anyway it's just a lovely gift bag also the straps here are two lots of 12 by 12 length cardstock so this whole kind of strap here is you know around 24 inches so it actually does fit over your shoulders as well so it just shows how large this is it's absolutely beautiful so because I can't really hold it in frame there too much let me bring in what you need okay so these are the two paper packs now unfortunately the tops have been taken off because my mum wanted some stronger cards so she used it for another project so they are from the works in the UK and they were purchased about three weeks ago and we're now into the first week of March so around mid-February they should be in there I've looked online I can't see these exact ones but if I just flick through here this is one of them and if I just bring up the prints there you can see just how soft beautiful colours really lovely flower designs you get two of each design 12 by 12 and they're three pound a pack so I do hope that you can get these because they are absolutely beautiful look at that one there with a striped background so this pad here is what I've got this one from so if you kind of really look at that print there that's the one you want to look out for and also it comes with those polka dots because I've used them this polka dot paper and this stripe almost reminds me of like ice cream kind of what was that called you know the ice cream men they used to wear those jackets anyway that's the one you want to go for for that one so yeah apologies I think it was by craft sensations and there's another one there on the back so another print that one there like the wild flowers there's that polka dot okay so again if I hold them there you can kind of maybe screenshot or something if you're on your phones and then you can take it into the shop and see which one and there's that stripe which one matches up but that one is gorgeous and then the one for this one which I just adore the one I'm going to be making today I'm going to use this print here and isn't that beautiful again if I just bring that up there these are all the um what flower is this a peony I think it is a peony and again this is the paper pad I think the easiest one that you will recognize is this one isn't that beautiful so if you see the paper pad with this one then you know that that's the other one I had again 12 by 12 was three pound and again I'll just flick through there's that one there which is slightly yeah different it's got more green in it this one here absolutely beautiful that one there with all the clouds you've got the poppies there that's the polka dot that I've used I'm sure that is there not so keen on the cups I don't think that goes at all but anyway but look at that background as well that's really nice so yeah so they're the two that I've used so look for the one that's got pansies in it and that really large little the big red roses that one there I think that's just a really really stands out to me that flower um so yeah have a little look but they are from the works okay so to make it you need two pieces of 12 by 12 so I've got these two here okay then you need for your base is separate and this is a piece of six by six by nine okay so you want that then you'll need this is optional you may you might decide that you want to do your straps differently but there's one that I've already made okay so that's what we're going to be making and that's two pieces of 12 by 12 to make one strap so you'll need four pieces of one and a half by 12 okay so four pieces of that then for the closure you need a piece that's six by five and to make the little bit here again optional you'll need a piece that's six by four and a half the closure for that is one and three quarters by three and a half and then you will need four pieces or four circles that are three inches in diameter roughly I wouldn't go any smaller I did try um I think it was a two and a half or two and it just looked a bit lost but if you've got three or or higher bigger then that will work and you want four circles and we're going to make these corners here that are going to go on the four corners of your bag okay then I've got a bow I've got some oval um a white oval die cut and a polka dot one and that's going to again go on the lid here to close it to give us this effect here okay so we're going to create that then I've just got some chain this is just from I used to make jewellery so I've got some broken chains that I've just put back together and then I've got these brads here which are pretty much in every pound shop I have been in so yeah they're really really nice got the pearl there and you can see there you got your split pin on the back so I'm going to be using five of them one for the pocket and then for the handles I've got velcro dots as well for the closure so yeah so that's everything you need so we'll do some scoring so for the base you want to score along the six inch side or any side to be honest you're just going to score it one inch on all four sides so one inch one inch one inch and one inch okay fold and burnish all of those score lines okay then that's your closure so that's the five by six piece along the five inch side you want to score at one inch and again fold and burnish and then what I've gone and done is on the corners here is I've just rounded them off there with my corner punch okay also our little pocket is a piece of four and a half by six along the four and a half inch side you want to score it half an inch and four and then along the six inch side you want to score it three okay and then these ones here you don't need to score we're going to fold them free hand and then this is the little closure for your pocket so along the one and three quarter side you want to score it half an inch and again just fold and burnish okay that's all the scoring done for the moment we will be scoring those little circles here but I'll do that when we get to it okay so with our base piece we just need to cut a few bits so along the short inch side here you just want to cut up both of those score lines okay I've got what I wanted to say there just like so rotate it and do the same on the opposite end okay and then you just want to take little wedges off of the corners of the squares in each corner like so put a little die there something I'm going to work on later and then again okay so that's now what we should have so we're just taking little wedges off to make little tabs of these ones here now we're going to stick them down so I'm just grabbing some glue you just want to pop thin layer make sure you get as close to the score line as you can because that's the corner of your box bring it up and around and stick that down okay so I'll do it again on this one here remove that bit again this is the 300 gsm paper mill direct cardstock it's just so strong and I'm using it in pretty much all my crafting at the moment I think you know when you find that cardstock you love it's just so strong and it's perfect for stamping this is the smooth you can get the just normal cardstock so if you don't tend to do stamping then maybe you don't need to get the smooth but I've got the smooth so it works for both then okay so that's one end there so you just need to do that again on the opposite end okay so now you've got this base which is just like a tray next we want to pop some double sided tape on this because we're going to be sticking the 12 by 12 paper to the outer sides of this so I'm just gonna because this is an inch high this is half inch tape I can just go around and put two strips along here and know that I've covered all of it if you don't have tape then you can use wet glue it would just take you a little bit longer to obviously you have to hold it all there while it's drying whereas this tape that's obviously in place straight away so again just going around the top part now and I've covered that whole one inch surface on all the four sides just about there we go and if you flip it over just with your bone folder you can just go over just make sure that tape's really stuck down it will slide around a little bit um you just want to make sure you've got all the air bubbles out because this is obviously really important that the sides stick because this is what's going to hold your bag together okay like so next you want to bring in one of your 12 by 12 pieces okay and what you want to do is you want to add double sided tape so again this is the half inch tape and you're going to add it across an inch in so I'm going to do two strips so that one if you don't have this tape or you've got tape that is slightly larger than this but not quite an inch just measure in I'll just show you in a second also I tell you what this one is it's the ultra tape I always get it in hobby craft I think it's a pound I love it it's brilliant stuff um I always go over make sure you really stick it down get all the air bubbles out yeah if you don't have a tape that's wide enough you need to make sure that you draw a pencil little pencil mark here at one inch and here at one inch and then put the tape from that one inch down to this one inch so don't worry if it maybe doesn't meet here you could just put wet tape wet glue sorry on those pieces when I go to put it all together it will make sense and you'll be able to see what's going to work so I'm just obviously ahead of myself in my mind of the steps that we're doing next because this is going to stick around the front here and along the sides and then when we put that back piece on it needs to stick down to this okay next what you want to do is take your say that we take the backing off in a moment you want to sit this down now this is seven inches wide so along here you want to come in at two and a half inches on both sides so there's two and a half there one two two and a half there so two and a half and nine and a half and you should have then a seven inch gap from this one to this one so we've got one two three four five six seven this will help you stick this down because you want to stick this side here between these pencil marks it means then that you've got equal amounts that you're folding around to each side so take your backing off of here or if you're using wet glue add wet glue to just one side of this tray okay I'm just going to help it along here because that wasn't coming off so like I said this project will work with wet glue it just will take you a little bit longer because you have to wait for it to dry each time okay so with your tray you want to make sure that you get it the bottom of your tray lines up with the bottom of your cardstock okay so put one side down and then the other I was going to put wet glue over that but I forgot but I'll do it on the other side so do you think it just helps give it a little bit more strength use your bone folder again to go in there and make sure that all the air bubbles out and then I'm just going to come around this side and I'm going to add some wet glue over the top this gives you extra strength but it also gives you that little bit of wiggle room if you need to you know move it around so now grab this piece and pull it around and stick it down you don't need to score anything here don't score anything because you don't want there's no score lines going up the side of the bag you see it just all curves around and that's part of the the look so we don't want to add score lines to this again with my bone folder I'm just going to get right into the corner there of that tray don't worry if it's starting to kind of like I guess bow a little bit so I start to curve it's fine once all the cardstocks joined it will you know go back to its kind of square shape or rectangle shape okay so that's what you should have right now and then you want to do the same on this side here so again I'm just going to add a little bit of double side wet glue and then bring this one up and around do the same in this side here just get right into the corner there of the tray like so so this is what you should now have it's kind of shaped and you've got your double sided tape there on both sides because what's going to happen now is this is going to stick down and this will then become the front of your bag because these two sides here are going to go over this piece okay so again flip it over mark with your ruler first if you've got directional paper make sure you're doing this at the bottom so again you want to come in at two and a half one two two and a half all that is it's just I think a useful gauge for you to make sure you're getting it in the right place and then it's going to be a bit harder for me filming now because you can't see so much but I'm just doing exactly what we did at the beginning is lining that up like so if you want to do hole punches if you want to do handles and stuff like that you would have to be doing it really before you stick it down even at this early stage so because once the you know bags all together it's quite hard to hole punch it but again watch the video and see what you want to do again I didn't add wet glue to totally forgot but we'll do it on the side piece again so like so and then we're going to take off our backing on these two pieces here now hi I have made similar to this I made one I think two years ago I think it was impact I think it was a gift bag week that they're done I'll link that up here for you anyway and you can check it out so bring this over don't worry so much about the top for the minute get this all pulled round now it's actually just shy of an inch so I've got a little bit of sticky show in there so maybe just cover one and three quarters I thought it was an inch but anyway as I pull it up it's not going to matter too much because I can sort that out you just want to keep this nice and straight so the tops completely marry up if you are off then you know that this isn't the straight line that is your gauge if that's completely nice and you know you know straight then you know you're okay flip it over and just go in there and make sure that's really stuck down losing my little die there like so okay and that's how it should look inside so it's really really neat inside and it's really neat on the outside as well and again we'll do the same on this side in fact the sticky's gone now there's a little bit which I can get rid of so yeah so just cover this area come in don't come in by the inch that I said come in by three quarters of an inch okay again take the backing off of here pop a bit of glue this is quite a decorative project as well so I think if you make stuff just because you enjoy making this is just going to look so pretty on your shelf in your craft space so yeah I think it's just really really nice to make and to look at so that's that one and then again come to the end here let it kind of fan out like that see I'm kind of pushing down because then wherever it naturally lines up that's where you want to stick okay so then pinch it flip it over and it will all lie really flat and you won't get any buckling or anything if you stick from the bottom up the chances are that this this top part isn't going to be right whereas if you go from the top and kind of like I said squeeze it like that that shape then it'd be fine now when we go to squash it out this way you'll see you've got that kind of bit there just fold it in half pinch it like that again here just pinch it just the top and now you get that really cool very large gift bag and that print is just absolutely gorgeous beautiful beautiful and inside you've got a really nice neat gift bag so I'm just going to go in there because I can see the glue is lifting just a little bit on the tray you want to make sure that the tray is stuck to all the sides and you'd be able to see now it's all stuck down so just check all that before you go on to the next stages okay so that's that done then we can add our corners so these now it's all these bits that I I enjoy doing they kind of bring it all together but look just by adding them on how cool does that look so like I said you want four of those which were three three and a half I'm going to swap that on the floor for a minute so much going on on my desk um three and a half diameter oh no three sorry three inch diameter and then I'm going to grab my little scoreboard and this one here and you just want to score it halfway so because it's a circle pop it in whatever you've got whatever your circle is you want to score it half so mine's three so I'm scoring at one and a half all right right through the middle so if you've got a four inch um circle then you'd score it two then rotate it and you want this line to be as straight as possible so that's about right I'm using my guide down here I've got one and a half there and it lines perfectly with that and score again at one and a half or whatever your half point is so you'll have your crosses or crossed you'll have your cross through the centre fold and burnish and then you want to cut up one of them just taking a little wedge out so you can see there what I've just done okay and then you're going to bring that down and that one over creating that little corner and this works for many things I've done this in little trinket boxes that I've done to make decorative corners it looks great if you're using like a mirrored card stock especially if you've got like a silver or something because obviously it looks a little bit like it's more of a metal and then just bring it around and stick that down and again always make sure you spread your glue out or whatever the adhesive is that you're using and you need to do that four times so you have these four corners okay then we can stick them down so I add glue to both areas really so on the bag I add glue right into the corner all this bit here okay and then on this I add glue on the outer parts okay and obviously get in a little bit further there as well but I'll just spread it with the side of my nozzle there like so and with the join so my join is here at the back I'm going to pop that towards the back okay and then stick that down all right and just bring it up see what I'm doing there kind of joining with the curve of the bag so you get a really nice join so you don't want to pinch it and continue this kind of fold here you just want it to kind of more go into the actual curve of the bag you see now where that's just all stuck down perfectly just why it's good to put that glue on this piece and then also on the very corner there because you know it's all stuck down perfectly how lovely does that look now it's a nice contrast and obviously all those reds all the colors go because they're from the same pack so you just want to do that on all four corners okay so there's the bottom how lovely does that look again when we fold that out you can see how that's all going to look next we can do our closure so you want that piece of what was it six by check we've got the right piece six by five yeah and we've already scored and folded and I've already rounded off my corners there and this is what again just really starts to transform it look at that by instantly adding it just looks really nice so I am going to add some red double-sided tape and a little bit of wet glue onto this so you just want to cover the inside of that tab the only thing like I said I'm a bit annoyed about with this one is all the other insides match perfectly like that complements this perfectly that one works but then you've got this random coffee cup and coffee beans with the polka dot and it's there's got there's no red in this whatsoever um so it doesn't you know when you open this bag it is a bit of random so that's me being picky but I'm sure whoever gets this one the other one I know who's having but this one usually my friends buy them from me so um yeah it will still look lovely okay so again I'm just going to pop a little bit of wet glue through that bit where I didn't quite cover it and then I pop it inside here and then make sure that you're getting it nice and centered actually it doesn't really help you guys watching you just want to line this up see it does help me doing it inside you want to line it up I'm going to do this end instead fold this down so it's in half you want to make sure that this is in the middle like so so this is going to be so what's that what two and three quarters two and a half so it needs to go a little bit this way and then I think we're there that'll do side over I can just spread that out so you saw how I done it just copy that but that again looks so nice then I've got this piece here which is going to go on top like that again this is entirely up to you you might just want to put some velcro underneath that you might want to do the big bow like I've done on other the woven gift bag when I done the bow coming through here but I'm going to stick that one down over the top so I'm just going to cover about half of this like so and just open it up I'm trying to make sure I get you get this all in so about there just make sure that is straight so the measurements of this these are the tonic studios oval dyes the largest white one is four and three quarters by three and three quarters and then the one on top is the next size down which is four and a half by three and a half okay so now I'm going to bring that all down look at that gorgeous okay let me just clear up a little bit okay so I've just got some velcro dots here and I'm just going to grab a pair these are by the brand velcro these are a little bit bigger to what I usually use these ones are because I know they're all done in mil these are 18 mil I usually use 16 mil but I had these ones so I'm using them plus this is a big gift bag so pop your dot on that piece there I think I'm going to cover that I'm going to cover that with the polka dot here I've got another bit I'm going to pop because that will bug me anyway lie this down bring it over and just make sure that sits perfectly which it does very carefully split them up I've got the sticky bit there it's always a pain when you make a bag just go back over that there we go because you need to be able to obviously really stick it down but you can't until you open it again so now then we can make the handles so you will have four pieces and this is optional you may not choose to do this at all but you want to cover the one of the ends an inch in so this is gingham stripes so I can see I just need to go up to that red stripe there because we need to join them together to make the long handles now you you may want to use ribbon that's you know totally fine and that will look just as lovely but I wanted to make these really long handles and I like that it can go over your shoulder it's just quite fun and then I'm going to sit that over the top just give that a few minutes to really stick together okay while that's just drying I'm going to go on and do this piece here so we've already scored this is the piece for the purse or the little pocket and you just want to burnish fold and burnish all of those lines and then you've got your two score lines this was your one and what did I say it was one and four inch score line you want to cut down the bottom ones like so just up to that centre score line I know it's hard to see it on this gingham print but you just want to cut them away up to that middle score line okay so you've got now that shape okay and then just take little wedges off of the sides here like so and again pop some tape take off the backing fold it over fold in these sides bring up that one and that will give you your pocket and this one is the little closure so it's going to go over the top like so but I just want to round my edges off and that's the x-cut corner punch and that's size l so it's got an l there you get a small medium or large and again pop some red tape on your tab or sorry yeah on the tab part so the back bit okay and again just line the back of this up the top there fold that all over and you've got a really nice little envelope now to pop a little message in and again you just want to get a velcro dot I've got these smaller ones again by the brand velcro these are even tinier these are 10 mil just grab a pair exactly the same way just stick that in there like so and then I've got these brads and what I'm going to do is the metal brad part or the split pin even off of the back and then I'm going to turn my hot glue gun on and I'm going to stick that down in the center so it matches the other brads that I'll be using later but I'll do that shortly now we can go back to the straps okay so now what you want to do is fold it in half start from the middle fold it perfectly in half so you should have two three-quarter inch sides use your bone folder just to keep that in place and then just follow it along so just fold that in half because you don't want to score because we're not actually folding all the way to the end so you're going to fold and leave tell you in a second it's entirely up to you there's no exact it's just roughly you want to fold up to about two inches okay so leave two inches where you don't fold to the end okay so fold it up to there and you can see there it's about two inches from the end because that's what's going to form this design here and again on this side just go all the way down making sure perfectly in half because you will see both sides of the handle so you don't want to see some of the inside print or design that you might have if you're using a double-sided so again you do want to make sure whatever it is yeah you've got the same at both ends and then just go along and really make sure that's burnished well and also where you folded it and stuck it over because you've got a lot of card on the join there just make sure you kind of really fold it and break down all the fibers there like so okay and open it back up again and you want to pop glue just on one side all the way down to where you stopped folding and then fold that in half and just kind of hold it in place for a second and then again with your bone folder just go over and really make sure that all that glue is spread out okay and again just kind of work it into the shape that you want it to be will become really strong you can see now the handles so now we want to make it more like that at the ends so what you want to do is pinch this together here and push this down okay and push that so you can see how I've created that so kind of you start to get this like little triangle piece you want that to be completely flat with the bottom of this so you can lie your hand you can see now how that's going to stick down so again with this one pinch it and then push down you want them to be the same so if they're slightly out then just trim it but I think I can get away we might take a little bit off of that one just tiny again because I'm using lines here it's quite easy yeah there we go like so and then you should have two like this okay then we need to stick them down so again choose you might have one that you prefer more for the front I'm going to use the one I made originally add glue to the back and do one at a time you can use double sided tape as well but because this is big and it can hold heavier gifts I would use either a good strong wet glue which this is or use both or if you've got a red tape or just a very very strong tape then that will be fine as well but yeah you just make sure it's something strong unless you're keeping it purely for decoration then it won't really matter and you just want to make sure you pop it in the middle from where this is to the end here so then the triangle part wants to line up with the top here so look I can fold it over see like so and then that is like a hinge just hold that there for a minute and you want to do this on all of your handles with your back ones when you stick it down make sure they line up with the one in front okay okay next we want to add our brads this is optional it's purely decorative but it will also hold your straps in place so I'm just going to open this up and just pop with my pokey tool just to hold through the center and then with those same brads pop them through split them open and it just gives it a nice little bit of decoration so I'm going to do that on all of those I'll just bring them up you can see there just how nice they look okay then we just need to finish this one here okay so the last bits to do now are just to attach our little pocket or little purse part here so I've got this which is half an inch by two inches folded it in half I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue in between like so just let that dry I've got my big bow that I'd already prepared earlier and I'm going to stick this one right in the middle like so and again that just finishes the bag it looks absolutely gorgeous and bring it up a bit better there for you to see and now that that's all dry pop a little bit of glue on the bottom about a quarter of an inch and then I'm popping it just in the corner top left and it just acts as a little tab for you to be able to attach your brad or your eyelet any or just hole punch hole you don't have to use the eyelets on it if you don't want to but I just thought it was nice doing it this way rather than actually putting a hole in anywhere on this actual pocket so again entirely up to you whether you even add this at all but I just thought it was a nice little extra so now I'm just going to pop a hole punch right in the center grab this one here and squeeze that one okay and then I've got that brad that I cut earlier just pop some hot glue stick that in the middle again it just ties everything together makes everything match and then this is the chain that I've just got and I'm going to I just remembered I have to take this end off in order to feed it through there first so I'll just have to squeeze this back together okay and then this one I'm just popping around the front one it's just a little lobster clip and clasp on the end there it just hangs down like so but how beautiful is that just around that way there we go it's hard to really get this in shop but it's just so big but it's just absolutely beautiful so there's that one if I like there and then pop that in there and this one oh I will pop there there we go we can just get those bits in but they just look beautiful and I think perfect for Mother's Day so I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial a little bit longer than usual but there's quite a lot to it it's a lovely project to do though so when you've got a nice you know afternoon free definitely give it a go and yeah I hope you enjoy it thanks for watching and I'll be back again tomorrow bye