 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Ground, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got a really nice large gift bag to share in the shape of a Christmas tree so I've done a contemporary style so just this nice triangle here and then I've sloped off the sides of the top of the bag and then the star is the fastening so there's a Velcro dot underneath there and it opens up to a very roomy gift bag. So this one measures 12 by 4 and it also folds completely flat and then what I've done to decorate is this paper is from the Jolly Holidays First Edition Paper to pack really nice with the candy canes there and I've just made that matching gift tag all ready to go and then I've just cut with my one inch square punch, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 squares and then just made little strips and stuck them on in the same color to make a little present so it's got a real simple contemporary feel about it but I still think it looks really fun and once your gift's inside you've got tissue paper or whatever I just think that's going to look so nice underneath the tree and I'm always a traditional red, green, silver, red, green and gold kind of kind of girl so that is what we're going to make very straightforward I use my recycled handles although I've got some nice silver ones for the next one so let me just bring all this over here okay so yeah look at these I am brought my Christmas Yankee candle and this was the handles on the Yankee candle paper bag so when the guy put it in the bag over the counter I was more excited about these and it was the candle in the end because I just thought they're going to look so nice and they do I think they're going to look lovely with that silver and everything anyway so that's what I do try and recycle them where I can okay so that's all the decoration bits which we talked through at the end and then these are your main pieces so you know choose whatever colors you want and I've got these two really nice red 12 by 12 sheets of cardstock so you need two and then you'll also need two pieces of 5 by 10 okay so first of all with our large 12 by 12 cardstock here really easy scoring so if you're using patterned cardstock just need to make sure which way I scored this so if you're using yeah if you're using anything with a pattern that's got a direction on it have it up this way and then rotate it that way okay so what we're going to score now is our baseline so what you want to do is score at 4 okay now if you want it to fold flat what you then want to do is flip it and score at 6 okay if you don't want it to fold flat you don't need to do that score line that's it there and then on your other one again this is the all your just drop something anyway if this is the way you're the direction of your paper is then turn it that way and then again score at 4 because that's your baseline and this will be your front because you don't need to do that extra line that that line on that other piece is just to fold it flat okay so that's just the main scoring with the scoreboard for those two there's a little bit more scoring you have to do in a minute then on the two pieces here that you've got of your 5x10 along the 5 inch side you want to score at half an inch and four and a half then rotate it and score at 4 okay now if you want it to fold flat you know it again you want to score at 6 that's only if you want it to score flat and fold flat do that on both pieces even that six inch one okay again if it's folding flat if it's not folding flat you're just scoring both these people pieces of four okay then rotate it back again and you're then going to score at two and a half just down to that first score line okay so again those of you that have done this loads of times because it's just how I make my my gift bag so you'll be very familiar with the process so you need to do that on both pieces okay that's all the scoring get rid of the scoreboard and then grab your metal ruler keep your stylus and whilst I've got these pieces here we will work with them so I've already cut this one down and you can see there I've scored these triangle score lines okay and that is what we're going to be scoring okay so you'll have your base your larger square here that if I burnish there's burnish the score lines because it doesn't make any difference to the bit that we've got to do next and then you'll be able to see what I'm doing a bit more I'm just gonna pinch in that one there again you only need to do this bit if you're folding flat if it's not folding flat just fast forward so what we're going to be doing now is there's our base okay that that larger four by four piece on the bottom then you'll have this rectangle and then you'll have that score line that we scored just down to that first one it's that rectangle there that you want to score from there and then there which is creating that there again I will have a template on my blog because I think a lot of you do like that so you can just reverse that just so you know exactly where you are but you're just scoring within that rectangle so from the bottom of that middle score line down to the left and right of the rectangle don't go off into your half inch tabs so now if I just kind of work them over you can see now what I've done so there's the base and there's those triangles just to the corners there so I've not gone into this but again just look at the templates alright then we can do a little bit of cuttings I'm just gonna grab my scissors and so the base the four by four you're not cutting in any of this here not yet and you just want to cut up to that first score line and again so and then just snip them both away like that and then just take a little wedge off of that one and then also all of these four corners so and hopefully now you can see a bit more what we've just done there so where those triangles where that triangle shape is is just within that rectangle there and then you'll have that score line through the middle and these two your tabs so when you fold that in that's the side that's gonna be hidden in the base that is the side of the gift bag okay so you want to do that on both pieces you'll have two like this then we just need to do some scoring actually no it's not scoring we just need to do a pencil mark so let me get rid of that and grab a pencil and then with your main cardstock here so you're gonna do this on both pieces so I'm just gonna keep this piece here so you've got that score line that we done that's the four inch score line we done on the bottom so keep it facing you your paper should be in the right direction now if it's got any pattern on it and what we're gonna do now is we're gonna do these lines here see I did score them but they're actually gonna be cut lines we're gonna create this which is gonna give us that shape just where I've cut down here okay so I think it was two inches let me just check yeah so there's my score line at the bottom I'm now just gonna turn it on the side and with my ruler I'm just gonna pop a pencil mark at two inches okay just there and then I'm gonna go to the top here and again just put a little pencil mark at two inches so from the score line that should be six inches so six inches up if I just burnish my score line yeah because that's the base we're gonna come up six inches and put a pencil mark or come down two inches okay then along the top so again I've got my score line everything facing me now you want to come in at five inches and put a pencil mark and again five inches pencil mark then you just want to join up those now if you want you can just do this on one piece and then just trace this piece on your other piece okay so that's that there which is what I think I'll do a fold back right over and then just very carefully I'm actually just gonna cut slightly under so I don't have to rub any of that pencil out okay like so and then with my other piece so I'm just gonna bring that in like so and I'm just gonna cut straight along actually no because it is gonna move so I'm just gonna grab my pencil and just trace like so and just cut this one again okay so you want to have two pieces like this one will have but they both have the four-inch score line but one should have the six inch as well if you're having them to fold flat and then you'll have these two pieces here as well okay so with the front piece I have cut this triangle here just a big Christmas tree that's what the effect I wanted and this is the paper pat the jolly holidays and it's this lovely candy cane one here okay I've just cut a piece of 558 copy paper there just to show you all you need to do to create your triangles along the top of the pattern it's just mark at half way so it's five you're gonna mark at two and a half and then you just want to do a pencil line from that middle down to each corner like so okay and then just cut that out cut those two lines and it will give you that triangle alright but again you know you can decorate anywhere you want but I just I like this style so whilst this is flat I'm gonna stick this piece down so it needs to be nice and flush with that score line even then this is all your base this is all gonna be hidden so I'm just gonna get that stuck down okay then I have already done all of these so I've just got three and three I've got a spare you can have as many as you want but basically I've just got a little you know kind of cluster of boxes Christmas presents just by the side of the tree there so I'm just gonna stick them down okay like so and then we can start putting our sides on so I'm going to do these two first I've already gone and put some red tape along the taps there keeping the tape closest to the score line and then this one's gonna go on this side first and you're basically lining up that four inch score line here at the bottom we'll line up with the four inch score line on here so just gonna sit that one in and then the top will also line up okay and then I'm gonna go along and do this side here so again start from the bottom and just work your way up like so okay so that's what you should have and your face all at the bottom flip the whole thing over and then I'm gonna have to just move come along here take your tape off of that side bring in your other piece here and I haven't burnished it so let's just quickly do that one and then the other score line will burnish the other way because that's gonna fold that's why we flipped it remember so you'll fold one under and then one back because that's the way it will fold flat and then you're gonna stick it so actually let's just back over it's easier I find it easier to do it this way up and then stick it down this way so again start from the bottom and all your sky skylines all your score lines should marry up like so and then the last one we can flip the whole thing over fold that one and fold that one and then just take the backing off the last piece again it should yeah perfectly line up okay then what you want to do so this is the front as always my back one goes down first then the two sides so you don't see them inside and then that one that gives you a really nice base and a really nice inside okay so what I would recommend is you pop glue on the inside of these two tabs fold that in and then pop glue all on this piece here and then just fold that up like so okay so you can see inside now I've got a really nice inside then just it should already start to want to fold because of the way we've done our scoring and everything but just push at the top of the triangles like I always say and then against that back on there and you see it just pops down and it's perfectly nice and flat really really good okay and then the last thing is now to fasten it so I've got this piece of cardstock and this measures two by five and a half then I've also got my star which is lovely just some mirrored cardstock and I've just used two of my star dies there basically you want something that will sit and cover right where did I have it just make sure I've done it yeah just right through the middle like so because it's gonna fold that way okay so this back piece is gonna stick to the back so what you want to do first is just grab some again I'm gonna use my red tape it's gonna run a strip just along there and on the bottom and then I'm just gonna stick it just so it's hidden and the star is straight about there okay so you can just see that's on the back you can put another star now if you wanted to you know cover that a bit more I might do that off camera and then it's going to stick grab this one so can't remember how far down I had it one and a half flip it over and on the bottom just come up one and a half keep it in my pencil down where it is one and a half and again on that other side one and a half just do a little pencil mark so I know that that's where I need to put my glue okay and because we've got that straight bit along the top which is one and a half this is two so it will cover it and you just want to come down see I'm gonna use that pencil mark as my guide and just stick it down so you can't see the pencil mark but now that's going to come over and it's going to be curved you don't want to bend it and then you just need to add your Velcro all your magnets entirely up to you but I just stuck the pair together there and bring it over and I just want to have it so the tree the star sits perfectly above the tree there we go that's done then you need to hold punches so it's entirely up to you where you want to do it I'm gonna sandwich it together and just have a little look at this one yeah it's about there so I'm gonna come in out there do that one terrible I always eyeball stuff gonna go there I go done it grab your ribbon or your little twisted handles and feed it through that one first I do like the silver and I did share links somebody asked me where you can buy these because you can buy them separately and you can buy them on Ali express so yeah I will share the link again now look at that isn't that gorgeous I love it and then just opens up see you have everything in it there you get so much space I just think that looks really really cute and I can't wait to fill them with presents so yeah nice and easy just obviously and it's good because it's using up card stocks I know at Christmas time I like to get my card stock used so that I can then buy another fun Christmas pat the following year so I think now I'm gonna change this I don't like the white although the white goes that just looks so special and luxurious and yeah I think I'm gonna end up changing that but yeah there you have it so I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial if you have as always please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching