 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 pretty shaker gift bag so you can see there all the lovely sequins that move around in the window now the idea is it you know whatever's in there would be wrapped or have some tissue around it that would complement the gift bag so obviously it doesn't give away the gift but I just thought what a fun way to just you know change up a normal gift bag really this one also folds flat so I need to start building up my stash of gift bags again I tend to do this I kind of do like a run of gift bag tutorials just to build up my own personal stash and try and bring new you know kind of ideas for you guys so yeah this one I haven't done a shaker gift bag before and I think even this fold flat size I haven't done before either so this can be added to the playlist of all the other fold flat gift bags so if you do like this concept here I've been able to store them away which I know many of you do then I will share up the playlist here somewhere and it will have all the other ones that I have that do this fold flat because it's perfect if you like to create like I do but maybe a little bit limited on space then these are perfect because you can store them away easily okay so today I'm going to be using a paper pack by the craft consortium this is the herbarium which I have used before for the pop-up box card I think it was so this is the paper pack here it's beautiful like I said it's called the herbarium you've got just absolutely gorgeous papers here lots of you know lovely things to fussy cut I bought this as a bundle from craft stash I'll share the links to that below because you can get the stamps two stamp sets and the beautiful little bronze embellishments as well to use with it they're like a little trowel a little spade scissors I think it might have been actually but anyway all that will be in the links below but that's the one I'm using today so I've gone ahead and done loads of parts to it I'm going to talk you through everything step-by-step as I always do but things like making flowers and you know preparing my sentiments and things like that I've done off-camera because you know everybody's going to kind of has something something different anyway so the papers I'm choosing today is this gorgeous one here with all these teacups and if you can see that all the teacups have got a like a gloss coating over the top of them so again I just thought that was really nice to use for a gift bag and it'd be lovely to maybe give some really special tea or a nice teacup itself would fit inside this this gift bag so you're going to need two pieces of the same size so these measure nine and a half by 12 okay so two pieces that size you're going to score all the same apart from one extra score lines okay so first of all you're going to score at six and nine then rotate your card stock and score again at three you're going to do that on both pieces okay so I've already done that then on one of the pieces where you've scored at three use the one that I've done it on so where you've scored at three you want to also score at four and a half all the way down then rotate it back again and you're going to score at seven and a half down to that four and a half inch score line that you just done okay and then on the other one so you would have scored at six and at nine and then you would have scored at three flip it over and you want to score it four and a half go past the first score line that you will have and go down to the second okay because it folds flat the folded lines the one where we've just done that that first one we scored right the way across that's this fold line here by not scoring all the way across on the second one will mean you won't get a score line through your front piece you don't want this score line that would be roughly around about there okay so you just want to score at four and a half pass the first score line just to the second so that your side can fold okay it will all make sense when it comes together then flip it back over again and pop it back in so it's in that nine and a half length at the top and you're again going to score at seven and a half down to that first score line okay so what you should really have now is with your two pieces as you will have one where it's got a whole big area here you can just make out my score lines just coming down here but this is all completely free whereas on this one that same large area will have this score line running here and also your score line running along here as well like I said when we come to fold it all it will all make sense and for those of you that have made these fold flat bags you know you will know exactly what you've got to do okay next you need to do another couple of score lines so where you scored at seven and a half down to the first score line this is your side what I'm going to do is actually burnish it all because that way I think it's going to help you see it a lot easier so this one here so this is the one where I just got that large area I've got my base score line here and I've got my sides there where you scored at seven and a half which I would just roughly bring in here as well so you can see all the score lines coming together that's that nine inch score line this is the seven and a half and this is the six that's seven and a half will meet up with the this score line here whether it's the one that goes right the way across or the one that just goes partly across one side you basically from the bottom of that seven and a half inch score line you want to score across from the score line down to the bottom left and bottom right of that rectangle shape that it would have formed so again let me just fold that all in and then I'm also going to cut into this I'm doing all this just so it's easier for you to see and I take some wedges off of that and I'm going to remove that again I'm going to talk you through all this on the next one when we cut that because you cut them exactly the same I just want you to be able to see so this is what you will have this is your base that's the large base this is our tab that's going to come around like so here you will have this rectangle piece where that score line at four and a half we just done to that that one we didn't go all the way across on this particular piece and there's that seven and a half inch score line that comes down to meet it where it meets it I've scored down to there and then down to there all within that little rectangle and basically what that means is once that's all attached you can see how that folds and that gives you your fold flat kind of mechanism I guess okay so that's all that is there that's what that that triangle does so yeah just within the rectangle that is above that tab here you'll have that rectangle part so I'm going to do it again on this one here and we can get that again all scored so I'm going to burnish first of all so this one here I've got the two score lines so this one here I've got my base score line and then I've got that four and a half score line that went right the way across so this one you're doing those two rather than just that little one that we had on the other and then where I've got my seven and a half score line it comes down to me and you'll see there's that three inch score line and then I'm going to fold this one back that way and that's that four and a half inch score line which goes all the way across there's the seven and a half which comes down there again this is the side so within that rectangle here this small rectangle that you have again come down where that seven and a half inch meets it and you're just going to score across and then this one here do reverse in my other tutorials I do share some templates in those ones once you've done these the the actual kind of the scoring is the same for anyone you do obviously the measurements will be different but the process is exactly the same for any fold flat bag so once you've mastered it is very very straightforward but I do appreciate this is quite a busy paper that I'm using for this one today but do look at the other ones because I do I'll put the one specifically now which has a template and then you'll be able to understand a bit more what I'm doing but now you can see I've got my triangle feature there again so that is the bottom of this seven and a half score line and then I just go across within that rectangle okay so then what you want to do because I quickly done the cutting on the other one but you're going to cut up that one so that's your base this is our tab and then you'll have another score line here you're going to cut up that one so it just meets that again and then just remove that and just cut it on an angle so you're creating a little wedge there and then on this larger tab I'm going to take a couple of wedges off of each side like so okay so now you've got this large tab here I'm going to take a little bit off the top of that as well so this is your back you will have your half inch tab and a mountain fold then you'll have your seven and a half inch score line and that will be a valley fold and then you will have that six inch score line and that will be again a mountain fold and then along this bit here you will have that score line and then your base score line okay and again if I bring that all around you will see once it all folds down it will go that way and it will all fold flat okay so with your one where you haven't got that score line going all the way through there to your front your nice plain piece this is the one that we're going to start to create the shaker element now you don't have to do the shaker at all and if you want to you may not want to do your shaker completely see-through so you may back yours so if you look my one there's got the acetate goes right though through you can see the inside and because I'm using double sided paper it's really nice you can see the lovely pattern it's like little amherb jars that are inside there as well so it all ties in really nicely but if you wanted to you can just put another nice paper behind the second piece of acetate you don't have to have it on both okay so I have gone for a four and a half inch circle now I am using my trusty x-cut circle cutter if you don't have this you can use a die you can use a dinner plate anything like that you can obviously draw a pencil you know circle and then cut it out but I just love this for this reason it's just so easy to cut also a square window would be easy as well because you can just put your die down a square die draw around it with pencil and then cut that with your cutting knife and that'd be a really easy shape to cut so have a play around but I'm gonna now cut my circle so I've already got my little marker here and I've just moved it so it's at the four and a half marker okay so those of you that have this you just want to pop it so where it's got the number four because it's not I guess it's a little bit different to what you usually I think I would prefer it if they did mark every inch so you got four but then they go straight to six be nice if they mark the five there so I'm in between where that five would be I've just popped my little doodah just there okay so I've left to quite an area free here because once I cut my circles out this kind of piece hanging down is actually the center of this circle and I thought I rather than wasting it I'm going to use it to decorate my gift bag so my circle I actually start from the top at about three and a quarter inches so I'm just going to pop my ruler down here and with a pencil I'm just going to roughly just mark there because it's plastic I can't really do my pencil mark there because I can rub that out that's three and a quarter inch three and a quarter inches so my circle is going to roughly take my back off here so I'm going to roughly be there and then I need to make sure that this sits in the middle of where the folded so ignore the side you're working within this area okay so ignore all of this folded piece so I'm going to bring line that up roughly so I want this to be in the middle of this section so I know I need to come across a bit here and then just to make sure I've got it pretty central so I've got one and a half there and then I've got I'll move that note so I need to come across so now I'm looking at one of five eighths and one of five so I'm happy with that I think I'm roughly by that pencil mark there so then I can go in now and cut my circle I will share links to this I think the guy or I say guy but the the store that I've been linking to I think he might well have sold out so I need to find some other stores but I also know that there's another company that has a very similar one so again I will link that one in but it's brilliant you have to have it in your craft room so handy right there is my window now one thing I will also stress is you need to make sure because what will happen is this second piece eventually is going to be stuck down here you want to make sure that whatever size circle you have you can't see that tab coming through so that half an inch this area here is more than half an inch so just make sure that you give yourself space there to be able to stick this over that piece there's nothing worse you go to stick it down then you get this bit poking through here okay so that's my piece done there then what you want to do is with the yeah with yours still keep this at the same size and you want to go and cut two more circles so basically the inside one here is four and a half then I move my dial to five and a quarter so pop it down with the four and a half cut your circle leave it down I don't move it undo this and move it up to five and a quarter and then cut again and that will give you this ring okay and you'll need two of them which will give you two of these center pieces which are going to be folded in half and create that detail on top you might not want to use these it's not you know essential but I just thought rather than waste them but then you will have these rings so whatever it is you're using whether it's a side plate or anything like that cut it and then you need to do another circle slightly bigger around it to give you your two rings here now I've already gone ahead and I've popped some red tape on the back of mine and you also want to go and cut two pieces of acetate that are the same size as the larger size that you cut so the five and a quarter these are I think I ended up cutting them just slightly shy just so they don't hang over the edge but that's what you want to be working towards so you'll see now what's going to happen is is that it's going to stick over there like so so basically it's framing our acetate and it means it can sit over this perfectly like so so I've prepped everything so I've put my double-sided tape on these also you may only need one piece of acetate if you don't want to back so whatever sizes of this you'll have one an acetate and one in pattern paper or plain paper for example so it's entirely up to you how you want to do this first of all with one piece of acetate flip this over I've already gone over and made sure that this is really stuck down well and you're going to stick this so it covers that there okay and I'm just going to go around and just really stick that down you can see all the air bubbles come out of it and it goes quite darker which means it's all stuck down nicely so now the reason I said to cut two of these is because you can stick that over the inside and just looks a bit neat so you don't have to if you want to leave it like that no one really is going to see it but that's why I've also done the two so you know at the beginning when I say to cut two once you've seen this bit now you might think well actually I don't I'm not bothered about the inside and then this one here focus on the inner circle of the ring and then that will sit nicely around like so okay so that's all the inside kind of prepped now I can flip this back over and what we're going to do is pop them to one side I don't need those quite yet I'm going to stick this ring onto this piece of acetate so the top side of the acetate so you just want to make sure that you get the outer part because it's the acetate slightly shorter so again just spend some time just don't rush it just make sure that's all covered and I've put red tape on this side but just realize I actually don't need to because what we're going to do is we're going to put our foam on this piece the foam adhesive to give it the dimension to allow us to pop the sequins inside so I have got some strips that I've already prepared again anybody new to my channel this is wax paper or grease proof paper and this is your foam here like so and I basically just stick it on like so and then I can cut my own strips for my shaker cards so this works out a lot cheaper for me to do you know I like to make shaker cards a lot I don't make them obviously every day but I really like this little way and you can cut them to any size you want as well but because it's grease proof it now allows you to peel off the back there but it means it's a lot easier to manage so I'm just going to trim that piece off these all go in my little drawer I just keep them all together so now even though I've got sticky already on there I need to stick this on top but you're going to get your foam like so and just stick it on there and start working it around like so don't worry if the you know the the backing paper on top starts to buckle it's because you're kind of you know working it around this circular shape once you take that backing paper off it will you know flatten so don't worry it's not going to cause any lumps or anything on your project now that is going to go over there and obviously you then you've got that little bit of height to be able to fill this with our sequins and things like that which is what we're going to do next I am going to go for those real emerald yeah that emerald green colour here so I'm going to tip these or I need to do that one you tip them all on to that area there it's all within the acetate and just kind of spread them out a little bit you want to make sure they're going to be able to move around like so and then take your backing off of this piece here like so and then if you've got any kind of pattern I guess on that make sure it's right way make sure there's no bits in there and then carefully stick that down making sure the inner frame lines up with the inner frame of the one below like so hold your breath and stick it down okay so now there's your shaker and it's obviously nice and neat on both sides and you can see there and I actually like it when they kind of stick and grip on because you look at this one here it's all kind of gripped all around the top there but I like it I think it just frames it really nicely so you can add the embossing buddy powder or cornstarch into that if you don't want anything to stick but I actually do want mine to kind of you know catch into places because I like it so there already you can see now it's starting to find little sticky bits on the side and sticking to it so next we can start putting it all together I have got some red tape so on the back piece this is the piece where you've got your four and a half score line that goes all the way across as well as that three inch score line I'm gonna run some red tape along there and just again make sure it's all nice and stuck down take the backing off what I might do I think this is gonna catch ever so slightly with my frame underneath I'm just gonna cut because I've got a little bit there where I haven't covered it with tape anyway so I can just cut that off I wouldn't go any less than quarter of an inch make sure you've got at least a quarter of an inch tab but now I can stick this without catching with that frame underneath so I'm gonna stick that you want to make sure you get your score lines here so these are my base score lines make sure they're lined up so it all folds nicely like so and then just run it all the way up there we go flip it over just caught a little bit there but what I can do is grab my pokey tool I just need to lift it up there we go okay so now that looks really neat from the inside as well as the outside like I said you don't have to put that frame on there so don't worry okay so that's all of that piece then you want to put it over and you're gonna put some tape along this tab here again just take off your backing and then fold that one over right the way over and it should line up perfectly again make sure your base is stuck down first because you can always kind of trim the top but get your bottom part lined up first and then move that over this side so it doesn't damage my shaker part and just make sure that's all nice and stuck there we have it so already now you can see the gift bag coming together and then you want to stick everything down so what I like to do first is pop my back piece down then pop in my sides and then stick that down so when you look inside you've got a really nice base without the tabs showing okay so I'm going to add some glue to these here on each side and stick them in and then I'm going to add glue to this one here and then flip it all over and then you can go in with your ruler and just kind of you know run it over the top there just to make sure that glue is stuck down okay so now you have your gift bag so it's really nice at the minute just kind of a paper bag style in terms of you know how it closes so you could peg on there if you wanted to you know it's up to you how you want to do your fasting but I have done something a little bit different so with the two circles that you would have had from in the inside of your frames that you cut these ones here I'm just going to fold in half I'm going to do it that way so I get the pattern so that one's going to be one that way and then I can have and I don't want to do these ones I'll do this this way so just fold them in half okay like so so I'm going to have one of them is going to go inside like that okay and then the other one is going to go over that there so at the minute they are kind of more decorative but I do think it kind of pulls everything together once we've added you can see there once the bows on there and everything so what you want to do is the front one we're just going to stick down normally so I'm just going to add some glue along this one and then just pop that in and just make sure that you get it nice and lined up before I completely stick it down so that's just under three quarters just under three quarters so again I'm happy with that and then stick it down okay so that's the front one and then with the back one so you folded it in half open it up you then want to cut a slit in the center so I'm going to mark the middle which is two and a quarter okay so that's there and then I have got this piece here which measures 11 by one and a half so I need to make this slit one and a half inches long because this is going to slide inside there so you can see here that's actually concealed inside I didn't open that up at the beginning but you'll see in a minute again this is all optional once you see how I do it but I do like to really kind of show you lots of different ways to do your bags so from the center there because it's one and a half I want to come out each side at three quarters of an inch so I'm just going to line up my three quarters of an inch there with the pencil mark that I've just drawn and then do a pencil mark at the end there and then I just go to one and a half there okay so now I've got a one and a half area there and that's what I want to cut so I've got my cutting knife and I'm just going to cut from that one and I'm actually going to remove the score line so I'm going to remove that bulk so then I'm going to come across on the other side of that score line so and then just cut across and that will remove it okay so you can now see I've cut that one and a half inch section there okay and basically what that now means is I can get this piece so I've just gone and used my ruler or pair of scissors anything and just curled it like so you want to pop the two together about half an inch okay so I'm just going to pop my glue there about half an inch and just stick them together quarter an inch anything like that but don't do anything more than that because I think it gives you a nice handle size and you're going to pop it in there and you want to have half an inch coming in like so okay so again choose a side I'm just going to pop some glue there and just stick that down make sure it's nice and straight but I've got about half an inch in there okay get rid of that glue on the front like so so now that is going to stick over the backside but look it's all nice and covered and concealed so next you want to add glue over to so next I'm just going to cover all of this now with glue both sides like so and make sure I've got the right side facing out and then I'm going to pop it in the back okay again and then if you just close it up and make sure the front one here lines up with the back which it does so you can stick that all down so now you have this piece but it's all really neat and then it's going to be like so now you're obviously probably thinking but sound the handles on the back how that's all really open now there's a few ways you can do this you can add a velcro dot in there if you want and seal it up you could put that handle that side onto here and have one side on there so it's kind of an arched handle that you just open and then you've got kind of tissue hanging out what I've done is I'm going to hole punch there and I fed the ribbon through both pieces okay so I've got my got my cropper dial here and I'm just coming in on the back and I'm eyeballing this but you can kind of see there where I've just done my hole punches I'm punching both holes within this one and a half inch section so again I'm going to come in here and I think about there there we go okay so they're both within this section and then if you fold it up and then you can do a pencil mark on the other side and that way you know you're going to get them lined up so I can see my pencil marks there and then I'm just going to come in this side here okay so there's my two holes here and my two holes on the back next I've got some pretty ribbon here and starting from the back you want to come in there and then go right through to the front and then with the other end I'm going to go across and pop it in that one and go right through to the front one there and then it will close it up and then it's easy to get into once you obviously under your bow because it would be like so and it just closes up I think really nicely it's just unusual and that's what I like to make that's my thing so there are many ways to make it if you don't want to do it that way but I do think it looks quite cool so and I've done that similar way with my I think I called it like the the Mary Poppins bag or something like that I had done so I'll share that link up here as well which you may want to check that out because that's cool okay and then I'm going to tie my bow okay and then I'm going to trim these pieces off and I'm actually going to trim them so it's completely flat and this is optional like so and then what I've gone and done you'll see here is I added little pieces on the ends because you know you sometimes get those lovely decorative metal ribbon ends well I've just done these in the matching cardstock so cut them straight and then I've just cut so whatever width your ribbon is and then I've done it by half an inch and then I'm just going to fold that in half so I've got a quarter of an inch on each side like so and then because I'm sticking to fabric I'm going to use the red tape so I've got the very tiny thin one here which is the I think it's about it's just over one eighth of an inch okay now one thing I will say if you're going to do these is make sure first of all that when you undo your bow and pull the ribbon almost so it doesn't come through the holes that you've got room to put whatever you're putting inside because once you add these onto the end you can't that ribbon won't go back through those holes okay so once I pop this on I will show you what I mean so just stick one down first on one side and then just fold over the other half so you're sandwiching the ribbon in between but I think that gives a really nice little finish and ties everything together so now when I undo that bow like so I can open up my gift bag really far like so but still get the gift inside but see they won't go back through those holes now so do bear that in mind whatever you cut your ribbon length to make sure it's going to give you the room to be able to you know open and close the gift bag okay and now it's just down to decorating so I'm just going to leave my bag there so you can see so I've already gone ahead and cut these flowers now I did use this stamping up punch here I don't know what one it was from but anyway I've got that one so I've gone and cut them and just kind of you know screwed them up a bit and everything stuck two together and popped a little gem inside and I'm going to stick the three of them like something like that very similar to what I've done and then I've already gone ahead and cut matching little leaves from the same cardstock and those are just going to be all nestled in amongst it so I get something like that and I'm also going to stick the happy birthday on top as well okay so there is my gift bag finished I realized that my happy birthday was actually really dark and I'd actually done on this one here it was the same color as the flowers so I just changed it so I've got the same color there now but try not to get the glaring but you can see there how nice that all falls you can see the inside paper of the bag because I've used double sided so it's got a nice obviously everything all matches I've added all my leaves there and the flowers and then you've seen how the bag opens but also just make sure it all folds flat so in order to do that if it's the first time you just basically you're going to be pushing against that four and a half inch score line that you scored you push in that and if you've scored and burnished all of these triangle ones perfectly it will all fold nice and flat okay but they do store away much much easier so they have it guys a little bit unusual in terms of the fastening and just having the shaker element but I always like to try and bring you other ways to just yeah take your gift bags to that next level I think they look great I'm really really pleased with these love the papers love that little detail on the ribbons and of course the shaker element is just really fun I think so yeah I hope you've liked it I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial if you have please give me a thumbs up I really do appreciate it and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye