 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 designer inspired gift bag. I absolutely adore this. These are lovely, it all folds flat. So these are wonderful if you want to start making them now for Christmas for example because these will look lovely under the Christmas tree. So I've got all this decoration, I've used an embossing folder on the front. Underneath here we have a real key, you don't have to, but and again those of you that are familiar with a Birkin bag, this is where the inspirations come but you can see here this slides up to reveal the key. I have this padlock which I've just snipped to the side there and then if you undo that one there this all opens so it's a proper working you know designer bag in that sense. So again anybody that is familiar with this kind of bag style will you know know what to do with this and then you've got a Velcro dot underneath there, you've got all this detail here. Now I am going to make one change and these pieces here actually on a real this kind of bag that I was looking at they actually cut well it's all done through leather but it comes through this part here but what I'm going to do is I'm going to pop it through the sides and I did suggest that right you know kind of through the process of making this one in the live or you can do it the way I've got it here because it still does work and then inside you have your gift bag, nice size as well it's a really roomy gift bag and then again that all just comes down you know looks like it's you know challenge to open it isn't that all closes that pulls back on and then you can put the padlock on or you can just leave it all hanging down there as well it looks really really nice. So let's get into the tutorial and I will show you how to make this really sweet gift bag. Okay so a few things that I've also suggested during the live and things that you might find helpful to use during this video some circle nesting dies to make that detail at the bottom here okay but if you do have the Simply Made Crafts suitcase die set you can use the actual corner that they have here and that's what I use and I just cut it down so you know there's two options there so use that bit if you have that and then when you come to do this piece here I've used a square stitched die so you'll need some of those or just cut it yourself or if you have the Simply Made Crafts hexagon clutch bag they actually have this piece here and here and it will give you that effect so rather than having a square you'll have this shape here and then this piece is what comes through the the center here but I'm going to show you how to make that it's very very easy to do if you've got a key perfect and if you would like to do you know that padlock effect I do show you in the live how to make a padlock kind of style from square dies but if you have oh I've already used it here it is this is another one this is a Simply Made Crafts treat box edition set so it does go with the treat box so this is an add-on but there's the padlock you would have seen me use that on the treasure chest and on other projects and I've already made that there and it's it's fab all I'm going to do is just snip across this piece here to you know make it so that it kind of works okay so that's just some of the dies that I have used but you can make this and many people have shared their amazing versions of this already over on mixed up crafters and some of them have used no dies at all and they look amazing okay so but I just like to show you those bits that you can use if you do have them so this is the die that I used and it was um sorry the embossing folder and I forgot who it was by and then a few of the people looked and it was by creative from craft stash so I don't know if it's still available as always everything will be linked below but any kind of you know animal print effects or you could just have you know polka dots all sorts and it's a great way to show you how I use a small embossing folder to cover a larger area because the join is actually underneath this piece here which looks like it's part of the faux leather effect that we're trying to get there okay so it looks like you need every bit here but you don't because I have changed a few things along the way and that's that die there you can see as well so I also had some key dies I thought I'd show those so other ideas and just layer them up put a few layers together on the padlock there there's about three or four layers of cardstock in between all foam foam just to give it a little bit of dimension and actually you put a piece of black card behind that top layer because it's obviously quite dark when you look inside a padlock so what we do is we get rid of all of these pieces here okay so first of all to make the gift bag which is a really nice size gift bag on its own but you'll want two pieces of cardstock that are eight and a quarter by 11 okay mine's coming just under there but it should be eight and a quarter by 11 let's just check that that one is there as well yeah okay and along the eight and a quarter side you want to score at seven and three quarters okay all the way down okay all the way down there and then along the 11 inch side you want to score at four inches I'm just going to move that up so I think I've cut that slightly short but anyway along that 11 inch side you want to score at four you want to do that on both pieces but if you want it to fold flat you'll see on this one here again along that 11 inch side I've scored at four but you also want to score at six but just on one of them okay and this is going to be the piece that is going to be the for the back and that it's that basically that we've just made that score line there okay so that's those two pieces if you want to now go ahead fold and burnish and you'll see there you're just removing you'll have this rectangle here just remove that little bottom right hand corner and then just take a little wedge off of the tops and the bottoms there of that tab and that would just allow us to just pop it all together nicely and we won't have anything overhanging then these are the side pieces I've already gone ahead and cut this one to how we want it but this is how you will start off so you want a piece of four and a half by 11 okay and along the 11 inch side you want to score at four and again if you want it to fold flat you want to score at six as well and then along the four and a half side you want to score at two inches just down to that first score line and then at four yeah at four all the way down okay I'm going to get rid of the scoreboard for a moment and then what we want to do is again those of you familiar with your fold flat you want to work within this rectangle here ignore this piece it's just within this rectangle and you're going to do a score line from the bottom here down to the this score line corner and then down there and you can see that's what you want to do it's all within that rectangle so I'm just going to grab my metal ruler and my stylus make sure you've got a soft surface and you're just going to score all within that section there okay and then again fold and burnish all of your score lines I'm using the tonic studio cardstock this is there 12 by 12 and this is 216 gsm I think it is so it's a nice weight and you can obviously you know by the time we add those embossed bits to the front and stick it all together it ends up becoming quite a strong little gift bag or a display bag as this one's going to be well not this one now because this one will be for somebody and eventually I do I mean I keep them on display I enjoy them for a while and then you know I end up then giving it to somebody when I find the right gift I tend to find gifts to match the size of the gift bags rather than the other way around okay so you will have two pieces now that look like that and you'll see you want to create a valley fold with that center score line and these triangle score lines will all be valley folds as well that's a mountain fold mountain fold and you can just you know fold it each way you'll see how that's all going to fold flat okay so get all of that ready okay so next we're going to start putting it together now you may want a lot of you will just watch this video first of all anyway but these pieces here you'll see I've got them attached onto this piece but what I'm going to do is I'm going to attach them behind the embossing folder because you'll see the embossing folder stuck on top here but you can also attach it into the join of the gift bag so once I give the measurements of how far down I'm sticking this and everything you may want to stick that piece in here before you stick it to this side so you'll have that strap if I just use this for example coming out of here and wrapping around the front but I'm going to do it on the embossed folder so that section sorry so but even if you're using pattern paper you could pop it behind the pattern paper okay which I think most people will probably do but I just want to throw that in there now in case some of you do think oh actually I'd rather put it behind this piece so this is the front because it hasn't got that score line you can start with the back if you want but I'm just going to add my glue I'm using the Kalau for pretty much all of this because it's nice and strong and then I'm going to just lay that down mine might poke oh no it's perfect I thought one of my measurements of the card was a bit off but you're just going to stick that down and again as always make sure that base score line there stays nice and lined up everything else you can always trim the top so I'm just going to stick that one there and then you want to get your next back piece here and I'm going to add some more glue along here while the other side is drying it's just all the way down and then just lay that one down on there yeah see this one's come up a bit higher although now when I bring it down it seems to be okay I don't know there we go it is okay look different on my scoreboard anyway so now that's that one and then you can flip the whole thing over fold that one and then we're going to add glue to this tab here and then fold that one over and then pop your glue on this one and then just fold that one right over and it should all join up perfectly and fold flat just burnish anything if you feel it needs to be reworked at all do you feel that glue and now you can start to see how we've got our gift bag coming together so I'm going to turn it upside down and I'm going to stick the back one down first so that's where we've got that score line that extra one there so that's going to go in first of all and then if you want to reinforce it nails the time so if you are thinking of putting something a bit heavier in there so you would have seen now I just added the glue to both the side to the back first then the side and then you finish with that front so you get that nice flow of the cardstock wrapping around there right that's what you want and then you can also test the fold flat so if you push in here put your fingers above the triangles on each side and just push in and as you do push that back score line I think I forgot to burnish it but it's fine but there you can see so you know check that all now because you don't want to get all that done and then realize that the bag doesn't fold flat but you'll see there sees again perfect for storing away so I'm going to keep it flat because it's a bit easier to work so now I'm just going to check all these pieces so I think I did change a few of the sizes along the way so again you know change them if you feel you need to but basically I've gone ahead and just embossed again using that embossing folder I showed you before two pieces of the same color cardstock I just liked that whole tone on tone effect and then just used the gold mirrored card or the silver mirrored card but these are three and three quarters by six and a half and you want two of them and then I have got a strip which I think I need to trim or I know I hadn't done it yet sorry so I'm going to just trim up yeah I've got some scrap here so let's just see I done a quarter of an inch it's entirely up to you so I'm just going to move that down quarter of an inch and I layered up a few on top of each other so I'm going to do three just so you've got that kind of you know thick faux leather kind of trim okay so next we're going to stick that down on here and this is going to go through the middle okay let's see like so now if you want to trim this so it's the same height as the embossed pieces you can but I'm keeping mine to the full height of the actual bag itself so I don't think I gave the length so they were a quarter of an inch by seven but again there's lots of parts of this that you can just change along the way if you haven't joined the mixed up crafters facebook page head over there because there's lots and lots of you know great inspiration on ways that people have changed these up a little so next I want to create this bit this is where I'm changing it slightly now on this video so you see I've got these strips here so I need to extend these strips by so you want to do these to five and a half but we can trim these even when they are stuck on there so I'm going to do five and a half by three quarters of an inch so that one and you just want to score each one at half an inch along the long side there again if you want to make these thicker you can do but I think that's quite a nice width to have them so what we want to do now is and this is where you'll have to make sure that you stick these or they are the same measurement as mine if not you're going to have to change them up a bit but I'm bringing it so that it has a equal so if I put them together okay you're going to butt both pieces up together and you want to bring it down they have you know it's very very thin border you know there isn't kind of much there really but I've got it so that I have at the top there it's like one centimeter three eighths of an inch okay so that's where I'm going to be sticking it so then these pieces you want to stick behind that can you see there and for these here you want to stick it so that the top is one and a quarter from the top so the top of this strip is one and a quarter so I can come down even more from the top there we go that's where I'm going to be sticking that one there so I'm going to keep that pinched on there open up this back piece and just pop a little bit of glue on the back there and fold that one over and then I'm going to add glue to all of this I'm going to get this one stuck down now because then I can you know line up that other piece against it okay so just bring that down here and again I'm just going to check that that whole bit there is one and a quarter yep I'm happy with that make sure it's nice and straight as well so it runs parallel with the top there okay and then this side you just need to match it up really you don't need to worry about measuring with your ruler you just want to line it up so I'm going to stick it with this one here and I've got wiggle room with this callow I'm just going to pretend to stick the whole piece down so butt it up to that other bit and then I can just lay this down flat and I can just move that piece until it lays nice and flat with that one there I'm just going to double check yep that's bang on like so so again I can flip this over now and just go over and stick all of that down I've got all kind of levels I guess of gift behegs I've got really really simple ones I've got ones that are a little bit more complex with lots of elements a bit like this one here so you can take bits from all of them because I know lots of people like to you know look through the playlist and kind of take something from one and use it with the other one and change it up again these are just all ideas but I think it's a great design a bag style really really fun because it's you know still practical in the sense that you just have that nice space inside but on the outside you've got all this detail now we have those pieces attached there and I just think it's going to help keep this piece a bit flatter because you see these kind of bounce up a bit when that's all in there it's not so bad but I just think by doing it that way yeah anyway now with this piece here I'm going to add my glue all along that trim and just laying this down right through the center there and make sure it's nice and straight okay next we want to stick the handles down because we actually do this last because everybody you know you might put your handles just slightly differently to you know where I position them yours might come down slightly you know more than mine so by sticking your handles down first we can then kind of work this piece around how you've done your handle so I've got one done here and I've done this using a piece I'm just going to check because again my measurement when I done the live was a slightly different so this is a piece of one inch okay by 12 inches you can have it shorter if you want so don't worry you know use the longest length cardstock that you have and you want to come down one and a half inches first so you know along the one inch side you're going to score a half an inch but you're going to start scoring at one and a half inches down you see there that score line doesn't start from the top start at one and a half all the way down so that you finish with one and a half left at that end so it depends on what length you use so for me I started from one and a half and so here I started from one and a half and scored to ten and a half okay and then I'm going to grab my corner punch and I'm just going to punch the corners at each end there just you know just for a bit of interest really you don't have to do it but you'll see there I've got that curved effect and then you just want to burnish the score line and pinch from the very end all the way along until the other end of the score line and when you get to the end of the score line pinch it and you'll start to see you get like a triangle effect follow that and just push that against your finger so you get that effect you see there what we've got so again I'll show you this end here so just pinch it right up to the end of the score line and then just push that against you know back against your fingers and then just pinch the sides and there again you'll have that effect okay so you can glue them through the middle I actually didn't um I find that once you just kind of curve this part here it will stay in that shape and when you stuck the front pieces down that handle is not going to come apart so if you would rather glue it you can but I don't think you really need to okay so that's what you should have two handles all right now we need to stick those down so I'm going to stick this one here and this one here like so now let's just see how far down I came so you'll see there the bottom of the handle is at one and a half inches okay so that's what you want to kind of do and I came in two inches bang on so I'm going to grab my ruler I'm going to see where two inches is so there so that's where that piece needs to be and then I want the bottom to be at one and a half so I can just pull that down a little bit more one and a half there go that's bang on there so I'm just going to grab a pencil and I'm going to put a very light pencil mark just a little bit above there and then I know now I can just add my glue to this you can't go all the way up in there just cover most of that and then I'm just going to sit that back down just covering that pencil now like so and then with this one here again I just want to come in two inches so I'm going to pop a pencil there this time I just need to lay it down so it's next to that one so I'm just going to pop a bit of glue on the back lines up with the one next to it and just hold those two in place for a minute okay and then you want to do the same with the back and this time you can just pop your glue and you can also put the embossing folders and everything on the back as well I haven't and then you just want to sit this so if you pop it inside that one and then you can just kind of lay down the handles okay so I'm really pleased with that that looks great okay so next we need to make the flap so this is a piece of seven and three quarters by three and a half along the three and a half side you just want to score at half an inch okay so get rid of the scoreboard and then if you just fold and burnish like so okay now this is where everybody's may vary ever so slightly okay but you can see here what we want to achieve so there is that piece coming over I think I've done this one slightly longer for the minute because again we can always trim this before we stick it down but you'll see there how this looks now what you want to do is you want to create two circles so this is where I said your circle dies will come in handy and I actually took the smallest circle here okay and this one measures from cut to cut you're looking at three quarters of an inch okay so you want to do your circle you want to measure from the the point of this triangle here okay so to the outer part here so it's two two and a half will be okay for me two and a half in okay and you're looking at well mine's a little bit higher on this one but I can still do half an inch down okay so I'm going to lay my ruler down on here along that score line okay and just with a pencil I'm going to come in two and a half inches I'm quite again I think my camera let's just move there we go so two and a half just going to put a light pencil mark there and then just work just bring my ruler along to any point there but just so I can see so one two two and a half little pencil mark there and then from that pencil mark I'm going to come down half an inch so just about there and again just about just about there okay and that is now where I want to do my circle okay now I in the live I said you want to make sure that you have that dot in the centre of your circle but I'm going to have I'm going to be coming too close to that score line so I'm going to bring my down a little bit it's still going to work so I'm going to bring it down the pencil mark I just hold this up it's just kind of there can you see there's that two and a half inch pencil mark just there so I'm bringing mine down just a little bit more because I don't want that um yeah probably maybe could have brought them down a little bit more I mean it is about the same actually no I think it will be fine because it is the same measurements but anyway I'm going to just bring that down just a little bit like so and I'm just going to run that through my die machine okay so just done those two get rid of that just rubbing out those two pencil marks that you can still kind of see next we want to do some cutting now if you want to do you know line this up so you get a perfectly straight line you're going to cut straight up like this okay and again there and then you want to take a little bit more off each side so can you see here where we've removed about a quarter of an inch but you don't just want to take quarter of an inch from say the left you've got to do a little bit from each side so I'm going to take you know like one eighth of an inch that side and then one eighth of an inch that side so now I've got that quarter inch so again once you've laid this on top if you want to then bring this up a bit like I said we can still trim that right you know before so now we've got that next we want to create this kind of section here and I think I just came in one inch is it one inch no maybe three quarters three quarters of an inch so I'm going to come down here and I'm just going to put a pencil mark at three quarters of an inch and another one there at three quarters of an inch and I came up one and a half but this is half an inch longer so you want to come up two inches so on the side two inches and on this side two inches and then again I've done this at freehand so I'm just going to cut up to that pencil mark like so and then I'm just going to cut across like that so again I'm just cutting up to that pencil mark and then just cut across like so just straighten that one off a bit but again if you want to use a ruler and everything then you can do like that okay now you can bring it over onto your bag and you should be able to just pop this behind there because you've only put your glue on these bits here and then feed all this through like so and you'll see now how that all closes so if you're happy with the length you know of how far down this comes then you can keep it as it is because I actually quite like that as it is so I'm going to keep mine at the three and a half but if you want to trim this bring it up a bit more you can I'm also going to just take corner off of that one there and that one there and now we can get this one stuck down so I'm just going to bring in this glue because this has just got a quick grab and I'm just going to pop that all along the back here and then I'm just going to lay that one down back here just line up that score line with the top of the bag and that will all come over and it's supposed to be like curved and everything that is the look okay so again they see it's all got that kind of bounce to it so don't you know don't think you're doing it wrong because it's again it's all how to make it look like that designer handbag you see there how it all comes together now we just want to add the hardware effect so this is where I've used the square dies and I've used this one here and this one measures it's about one and one eighth squared and I'm just going to use up a bit of my scrap here and then I'm going to cut a hole in the center again if you want to measure it properly you can but I'm just going to as I do with most things just eyeball it there we go that I do and then again using some more scrap here I'm going to cut let's see what bit I can use I can use this bit down here just trim this out because I'm going to cut it a little bit thinner basically I want to cut this thin enough so it's going to come through that hole there now if you want to make that hole a bit bigger if you've got another die something that you know will work then you know do do that but I'm going to trim this so it's about just over maybe one eighth of an inch that's quite a thin piece and the length of this is just for a minute you're going to cut it down it's about two and a half just curl it like so I mean actually you end up kind of really folding it so don't worry but just fold it in half see now mine's not fitting through so I need to trim that even more so I'm going to keep it folded in half use these ones now and this is where that piece from that simply made crafts they have it already done for you but I'm just showing you how you can make it as well and then now that fits through there perfectly you see now I'm going to just snip some off like so and then I'm going to use this glue just pop a blob on each side and then just like a brad or a split pin I'm just going to split open the sides making sure that you've got enough sticking out this side here now if I just open that up you've got that piece just rub off any glue there see how you get that effect it's really cool and now we can stick that one into the center of this piece here so again I'm just going to use this glue here it's nice and strong and you want to stick this just in the center I guess about half an inch up from the bottom you want to make sure that when this lays down it's this these strips are going to sit through the center of that piece there okay so you might need to move yours up a bit more but I can see there that's going to fall through so it hits on that piece because we're going to put holes in this in a minute okay then I've got these two pieces here which are three quarters of an inch by one and three quarters and they're going to stick on the ends here but again you might want to trim these pieces this is why there's a lot of like changes so let me just pop that one on there yeah see because I want that to sit so it sits equally over each sides of that silver square underneath so I'm going to just trim mine up like so and then this one underneath I think I can just trim up a little bit there I've taken about a quarter of an inch off of each end okay and then I'm going to grab my glue here I'm going to hold punch through both pieces it's a bit easier that way then I'm going to just pop that one on the end there we're going to add those other little bits on in a minute but we can do them right at the end so now we'll see they sit over the top perfectly okay again if you want to go longer you can now I'm going to look underneath here it's half you to see but if you look underneath you can see where that hole punch is you just want to kind of you know mirror that through that piece there but it is bang on it's in the center so again I'm looking at um well that's one and three quarters or seven eighths it's as near on as you can get but again you know just follow what I'm doing but just adapt it to to yours so I'm just going to punch that one okay and then I'm going to lay it on this one here and just put a pencil mark in the middle just a little mark on the mirror card there and just do that one and now what will happen is you'll be able to slide that piece just kind of fold it off like so through that one and then through that one and you get that lock and you see so there's a process to get to it but it looks amazing when you've done it um so now let me grab my padlock and I can just snip right along the bottom there like so and now that padlock will sit perfectly just open up that piece like so doesn't that look good and we need to put a velcro dock if you want to use magnets you can I always say it though I don't tend to use them in gift bags I don't really think you need to so I'm just going to take a pair off here very very sticky and I'm just going to sit it I mean open it all up if you'd rather but I'm just going to sit it behind that square like so and then I can just push that right down like so okay like this now we just want to add all the other little kind of details really so you want to do your circles there so I'll just show you how this one looks if you would rather okay so you just die cut it and then I just cut it in half but it's got to cut through it already for you to actually fold on a more of a 3d project but because this is a fold flag it wouldn't really work and then also going to cut these thin strips here okay there again they're about 1 eighth just over by the three quarters of an inch there and I'm just going to put one there and there and then I'm going to do this piece and I'll show you how to do that in a minute with your key underneath it um with the ribbon and then you're you're done okay so I've done all of those extras there but I need to find a scrap piece of silver mirror cardstock to do this one here I don't want to cut into a whole piece just for that so now we just want to finish off with that key piece so what I have here is two circles the same one that I used for the circles up here and then this larger one is three and a quarter and you want to sit that right in the center try and get it as centered as possible you don't end up using all of this so you can use it if you're making quite a few of these bags so like so and then I'm just going to join it there just so they stay kind of together so I'm just going to run that through my machine okay so just take all that apart that's what you will have but then you just want to it's an age just want to cut kind of a a segment so I'd say maybe quarter you I don't even think you need all that so I'm just going to cut like that much away there so I guess if I measure it from point to point it's two and a half okay what I've cut away there and I'm just going to again just curl it because it just helps and then I'm just going to grab my glue pop a bit along there and just wrap it until it kind of joins you don't want to make that hole too small because you will put ribbon through it or some twine whatever's going to work but like so you see that you make a little I said like a little skirt wasn't it like a for like stick people or a little dress or something but you can now when you've folded it in heart when you've stuck it you can actually fold it flat and you know make creases in it you see there I've just wrapped it around and now you should have that kind of hole at the top there we'll be able to put our ribbon through see that that one's actually a bit wider so maybe cut a bit bigger if you want to play around I mean you've got enough now there you could cut this one a bit bigger again kind of put that shape into it and bring that one around you see there you've got a bigger hole so it's entirely up to you and that one there is three inches okay so just play around then you've got a smaller one there again as well so I've just got to look through my keys and I don't have any that silver because I've got a lot of old keys the only silver one I've got is this dinky one but I think it's a bit too small because it's going to go in here so that one actually sticks out the bottom so maybe I will have to go for that it's purely decorative I'm not you know too worried but you can see there or I could use that die cut one if I wanted to but then I think that's going to be a bit too big as well I'm actually tempted to use that three inch one that I shared let's just do this one it's that way I can actually get in a bigger key yeah and then I could put that one inside there because you're not really going to see it but then it is in there you know so I think I'm going to go for that one so have a look at the keys that you've got like I said it's not the the best colors and then I've gone for this silver gray ribbon I went for the same color there but I don't have anything this teal color but again if I really wanted to I could change this up again but I'm going to thread that through and then I'm going to trim the top there and then I'm going to thread this through here and then the whole key should disappear inside like so okay so you have something like that and then I just with some hot glue stuck it behind I need to trim it a bit more because I don't want it all hanging down like that out there so I'm just going to stick these two together I've just put my hot glue on and that will go just behind the lid there flap there like so and then if you want you can put some more ribbon around that piece there as well and I just attach that so in fact I could just probably put that bit there you might not want to put anything on the padlock and then just I attach that piece inside there and just put a bit of glue behind the padlock piece as well like so it would be something like that so it's entirely up to you what you want to do with that piece there and there's the finished bag I just need to add them there but it just shows you don't have to have them there either you know it does look nice without it will all open up but I do think I like the way that this is all kind of held under the straps there rather than just slightly lifted there but that still does look nice as well so it's entirely up to you how you decide to make the gift bag hopefully I've given you lots of inspiration along the way and ideas you know just different ways that you can kind of change yours up I love the way that it does really close with that padlock and that whoever has this has to physically open all of those elements to get into the bag or just rip it apart but I don't really want them to do that with this one I'm usually pretty fine with that kind of thing just like go for it get into your gift but this one no I'd like them to keep it a little bit longer but anyway they have it really fun as always I'll share all the links and the measurements will be over on my blog and I'll be back very soon with another fun tutorial see you then bye