 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 really cute little handbag gift bag purse and you can make it in any size that you want. So once you get used to the process and how I do it you'll be able to create any size that you want really. So it's really really fun. This one doesn't fold flat. I did say that I was going to be trying to make all my gift bags fold flat but this one you just don't want to ruin the the design of this and it just doesn't really work as a fold flat. I'm going to be using this to put a bottle of perfume in and I'm going to have the tissue just kind of sticking out the top so I like it like this one anyway and you can see it's all one piece of 12 by 12 and then I finished it off. I've got these here which I picked up from the range and they're plastic or resin covered and I they've been sat here for ages and I just sort of don't know what to do with them so I just popped them on here with my hot glue and I just think they look really fun. I cut this sentiment three times stacked it up on top of each other and yeah it's a really fun little gift bag. So these papers that I've been using and the card that I use is that stripey one yeah is this one here from the razzle dazzle by Simply Creative and the one I'm using today is going to be this polka dot here and this is the tropacana by the same company and then the cardstock is this one here which is the one I rave about it's a really great cardstock and again all of this will be listed in my blog below. So let me just pull in everything I've got here so I'm going to be using this cutting shapes again the x-cut ones which I used in other tutorials I really do like this so but you can make this without this and this here you'll just have to cut it by hand but I'll talk through that it's my die for later okay so if you don't want to mat on top of it so if you don't want to do this here then just have your main 12 by 12 pieces patterned paper or cardstock okay and then you won't have to worry about faffing about about cutting out this other shape to stick on top so it's entirely up to you so if you're just going to use 12 by 12 patterned paper that's all you will need and then you will need your handles now mine are this odd length which is about nine and three quarters nine and seven eighths of an inch because that was what was in my scrap and I just didn't want to cut anything but I do think you could probably go a little bit longer so I would say if you can then use 12 if you're going to use this length then I wouldn't do it at one inch wide which is what I've got I would go down to three quarters of an inch and then I'd do the layer on top at half an inch okay so yeah it's entirely up to you with the handles longer shorter you know you might not want to put them on you might want to keep it as like a clutch bag style and you may want to put a little closure in the middle instead rather than handle so again once you see what I'm doing it's very easy to adapt and change then you just need pattern paper to obviously layer on top if this is patterned then you won't need this piece but I'll talk you through that when we get to it so first of all with your scoreboard two very easy score lines if I can find where my stylus has gone seem to always leave it somewhere just before I'm about to do a video okay so along one of 12 inch sides you want to score it five inches and at seven inches okay that's it so get rid of that now this is when you get to decide what size you want to do it to be fair you can decide on this as well so um I've got this at two inches wide so it will create a two inch base which is what this one is here if you want to do larger you could do a three inch you can any any kind of width really that you want it just means that your sides will become shorter so I think that this is quite a good size I would go up to maybe three three and a half maybe four but I wouldn't really go any wider than that then you need to decide how kind of wide you want your base okay so this is what you're playing around with it's this piece here so I came in at three inches to make that size that I've got there uh like so so I've done a little um you can do a pencil mark or just put a little marker with your stylus at three inches on this line this line this line and this line three inches okay and that will give you this size here now I want to do a slightly different one just because I want to see for my myself so with this one I'm going to come in at four so I'm just going to change it just slightly and do a little marker at four okay so I've just got four little marks at four inches and then you want to do those same four inch marks on the outer part so again a tiny little notch like I said if you want to use pencil you can do one there and then again at this opposite end here you don't need to do them on the left or the right it's just the top and the bottom so again four okay so I've got these one two three four five six seven eight okay these tiny little markers then what you want to do is grab whatever it is you want a circle object um and you are now so if you don't have this what I have here all you will do is line up the side of whatever it is that you're using to both of those four inch marks and do a pencil mark and then cut around that pencil mark now the good thing about this is I can line up this now it does cut slightly larger than the circle so I'm not I haven't butted it right up to the the little marks that I've left I've left a baby like a couple of millimeters and then I can grab this I'm going to start from the score line side so I can just see there and then I'm just going to cut straight up and it will already cut that for me now like I said if you don't have this it's fine just draw a pencil and then just cut that yourself but you want to do this on all four of these sections so again sit that one in place start from the score line because it's easier to see and get going that way and you can always just use your snips to just get in if you need to but I seem to be doing a good job there so now you will see these two bits cut and I just rotate it and again do the same on this side so now what you can do is pop it back into your scoreboard and we just want to create some little tabs so this time we're working along this side so here's the pieces that we cut out now we want to work along this one here and all we're going to do is score it half so first of all we're going to score it four and a half down to that cut piece okay then it'll be seven and a half again down to that cut piece and rotate the whole thing around and do that again so four and a half and seven and a half okay so that's what you should now have it looking so I can already see the style that this is going to create it looks quite fun so right now we need to go a bit cutting so I'm just going to remove that one and grab my scissors and you want to cut up those score lines that we just created and that will give us our tab just be careful when you get to the end because you don't want to catch and snip your front or your back of your bag and keep these pieces because these are the pieces that I use to die cut my sentiment or if you want to make your little matching closure then these are the pieces that you will use die cutting flowers any of your kind of em you know embellishments and decorations okay so that is now what you will have so you'll have something similar to this you may have more of an oval shape yours may be quite big like almost up here if you go if you come if you don't go too far in it means that your sides will be quite low so if I imagine if I only came in because that's the three inches that I showed originally I've come in at four so mine's going to come up to here if you do two you can see you're going to have a shorter side and again one and a half and one but I mean these still will work nicely for just you know um something that I'm trying to think about something that would work with that but play around use some scrap card it's just really really fun to create different kind of shapes so now that we've got this we need to burnish our all those little tabs and then lift up that main piece just that way you prevent ripping it so again those ones and then lift up this one here okay so now when I bring this up so fold I didn't do those score lines they were the other ones I needed to tell you to do but you don't want to put this in your scoreboard it's easy to just use your ruler you just want to score from point to point and this will create your sides and your base and then I can just lift them up now like so to layer work out your layer size so the easiest way I find to do this is um find your something stuck on there go find your so I'm just going to line this up with my grid there we go you want to find your center point of this section here so it's one two three four five six seven eight nine ten so it's five one two three four five okay so along that line there because I'm covering mine I'm just going to put a little mark there and then what you want to do is bring in your pattern paper line it up with that line and pull it over to this side and just decide how much of a board do you want so here I'm having about a quarter of an inch yeah okay so then I want to again sticking along that line and using my grid come in at a quarter here and just put a little pencil mark okay so I know that that's where I want to cut this piece and then again from the top so again I can see now I can just one two three as four inches so I know there's my middle point so again I'm going to line this up again coming down so I've got about a quarter of an inch border here and then again I want to do that from this score line up and again put a little pencil mark there this has got a grid on it this paper actually and it lines perfectly with that one so that's telling me now that I know that I need a piece that's a kind of a rectangle shape of this side and I size and I need two of them so I'm just going to grab my trimmer and I'll be able to get two pieces of these from this one side so I can cut straight down rid of that piece and then I can see what this actual measurement is so there's that pencil mark so I'm just going to line it up and this is coming in at four and I'm going to just pull it up a little bit there so it's four and five eighths of an inch rub that pencil out in a second and that was the other piece wasn't I was just going to get rid of it yep so four and five eighths and four and five eighths and I'll tell you what the width is as well so you are going to need because I've just extended it slightly so I'd say six by four and five eighths you need two pieces all right that's if you're following my one exactly here and now you can see if you sit that in you've got nice border here here here and here okay and again down this one bring this up a bit and just check that you're happy again with that one there I can see that that's all going to have a nice border all the way around so now what you want to do is with the same thing that you used now I'm not going to cut this I'm just going to use my pencil but you want to kind of but this piece of whatever it is that you're drawing around right up to the edge there of your paper and just draw around it and again on the other side and just draw around okay I've just rubbed that side out what you want to do is when you've done the first one just measure and it's coming in at one and one eighth and one and one eighth so just make sure one and one eighth I'm just doing a little pencil mark and one and one eighth so some people might find this quite fiddly this is why I said you know if you're using pattern paper then you don't have to do any of this and then just make sure that the sides of this again line up with those pencil marks and it will give you a nice even shape so you can see the shape that I've created there so now I'm going to cut this one out and then I'm just going to use this to trace around so I don't have to do all that again twice so just neatly go and cut this out okay so that's that one and then I'm going to flip this over and trace it on this side here and you will do this for whatever size you have so just follow just put a little pencil mark in the middle of that longest side and then you'll be able to you know do that same process with any size that you have okay and then again just cut this one out okay so they're all done and then just grab your paper and just sit it on top and you should have two nice mats there now it's thicker on that side because it's a curved shape so what you can do I'm quite happy with that actually I'm not going to change it at all I was just going to go a little bit shorter I might just trim my length just because I've got a line there on this I've got that grid paper kind of pattern I'm just going to trim a little bit off not much and then just sit it over this one here and it's working along that same line so again once you've got the initial shape you can then just kind of go into a little bit yeah there you go I think that's just gives it a little bit more of an even border all the way around okay so that's what you will have so now get those stuck down I'm going to use my double-sided tape and a little bit of wet glue okay so that's now all stuck down so now we can actually put the the bag together so start with one side and do all of your glue along your tab like so and then just bring it in and you want to try and keep it to as much of a right angle as possible okay so just hold it up there and you just want to make sure that you've got a nice straight line working along there don't worry if it's a little bit crooked it goes out more or goes in slightly but if you've got a grid like I've got here I can just see this line here and just make sure it runs all the way up just lift that there so I'm just that line is just continuing there and then just with my bone folder just make sure that's all stuck down with any of that glue which are dry clear and then work on the opposite one but on the same side it's easier to do it this way so you can get into it like so and again bring that in and again if you've got a grid just line it up with that and again just spread that out oh and then you lost it okay so you can see that what I've done and then you just want to glue one at a time and do the same on this side just stick it to that one okay so that's now all stuck down got a little bit of glue they're still dry but that's all how it should look so I have already done my little sentiment which is going to go like so and then I've got my handles so they are going to go like this it's going to look so cute and I've also got these that I'm going to put on as well so I'm going to use exactly the same stuff it's going to be quite clustered together but I think it's still going to look super super cool so first of all you want to stick down these so I am going to use I'm going to go straight in and stick these with my hot glue just so I don't have to oh which is not on okay so there you have it how cute is that bag I absolutely love it and there's the back as well so that's that size which was coming in at four inches then you can just see the difference with this one that comes in at three inches so it really does transform it and like I said if you do a wider base yeah they can they're really really fun to do so I'd like to see it even smaller actually you could do exactly the same principle on a sheet of eight by eight sheet of six by six as I say 10 by 10 seven by seven anything you want so I love them I think they're really really fun and they're really strong and again perfect for parties they'd be lovely little party bags a little girl's party anyway I'm done so if you enjoyed today please give me a thumbs up as always and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye