 Hi everybody it's Sam here thank you for watching today so for this week's handbag gift bag I'm going to be making this one here or one like it I love the way it kind of folds in and then it's all closed with that smaller section at the top and then you've got that little kind of handle it just says it's a contest from 1990 it says this is all in the introduction to the book so I just was flicking through whilst having a cup of tea and I thought yeah I like that one a lot so let's give it a go. So the paper pad I'm using today is this one that I picked up from the works a while ago it was £3 it's there making create range and this one's called moments some really lovely background papers there so I've gone for this pink it does have the script on the back but I just love that pink colour and then I'm using this yellow with the pink speckles which is this one up here we've got some lovely floors as well you might still be able to get hold of this pad so you want two pieces of 12 by 10 yeah 12 by 10 and along the 10 inch side you want to score it half an inch all the way down and then rotate it so that that score line is now along the top and you want to score it four and eight just down to that score line so you just put these little markers in and then flip it all the way around so you're now working on the opposite end to where you just scored you want to put a little notch at one and a half and at 10 and a half and then you want to score it six inches down to six inches like so then using your stylus and a ruler you want to score from those little notches down to the bottom of that six inch score line so I'm just going to sit my stylus down and then line the ruler up and then just score like so and then again from that side like so you want to do that on both pieces next you want to fold and burnish that score line and then you just want to cut up those two score lines like so and then you want to just fold those long score lines so they're mounting folds either side and then that six inch one will go in and then you can just pinch that inside now hold it together like this and then you just want to snip away you want to leave about half an inch this is going to remove all this bulk so it means you can get more presence inside but you want to leave a little bit there so that when you bring it together it will still hide your gift now just burnish the fold just so that's nice and crisp like so and again so that's now going to come in you can see we've already got the side there coming together next grab your glue and you're just going to pop a little bit next to where you've cut it you're going to bring this one around and then just sit that and you want to make sure this has got a perfect right angle because this is one of the corners of the base so just hold that there don't worry if any glue comes out you can wipe that way in a minute but just keep it there until it's grabbed okay if you then once it's grabbed if you put your finger in and push down on your table you can hold it there a bit longer just to make sure because it's such a small amount holding the kind of pressure of that corner because we haven't added any score lines to it it's kind of you know stretching itself around so just really make sure that's stuck down first you can pop a peg there as well okay then you're going to go to the other side and again add some glue and then just bring that under and then around again making sure got a perfect right angle what you could do is I haven't given the measurements for these pieces but these are for the base these are four by seven and a half so to make sure you have got a right angle if you lay that in there you could use that then to make sure you know it's correct because if you were coming out a bit say like that you would know you can bring that in but we're going to stick these in later on but you want two pieces of four by seven and a half next you want to punch two two inch circles all around that size you can score down the middle if you want but I don't want any score line on this I'm just going to cut roughly through the middle and then you just want to fold it in half like so so you'll have one circle will be for one half of this and then the other circle for the other half of the bag again just fold it in half so it all lines up like so and then what you're going to do is you're going to stick this around the corner now if you just stick it like that you see you've got a gap so the idea is you need to roll the bag around this piece so it all sticks you want it to follow the curve of the bag so trick is first of all line up the bottom of this piece so it lines up with the the fold of the bag there make sure it doesn't go over otherwise it won't stand up properly but get that right in there like so and you see I've got my gap there but now if I roll it and just push with my finger all the way around and keep doing this until that glue is completely dry and now what you'll have is it's completely stuck and it's followed the curve of this piece because we've got no score line going up here now I have come down a little bit further there can you see it's overhanging so if you just take your scissors and just snip that away because like I said otherwise it's going to affect the bag standing up and again now you get that really cool faux hardware look there so you want to repeat that on the other side okay so you should now have two pieces that look like this we're next going to stick these so they're overlapping by half an inch but the easiest way to line that up is if you stick one half of this down so you're going to have two of these pieces which are four by seven and a half so I'm going to have this one in here and then we're going to stick this one we'll conceal under here also I'll just point out originally I cut a whole circle and then just cut up into the center and then wrapped around kind of wrapped it around half of it a quarter of it sorry so you can form these corners but it was causing too much bulk on the bottom so I'll cut that away and then I just thought you know you might as well just cut half a semi circle and then just do what I've done there so if you know how to do those I've featured this feature before but I've not bothered doing the whole one today I think it works just as well just doing half circle so yeah so this one is going to go in here like so so it's going to stick down now may have to just trim that one a little bit if you need to trim away at all then you can it's not going to cause too much problem so that's going to fit in there so I'm going to use the quick grab glue just to get this in place and then I'll use the collow when I stick the other piece on the very bottom so just popping my glue all around the tabs here and then just lay that one down inside and then this one is going to go in here and you'll see it will overhang by about half an inch see the oh or overlap sorry but at least half an inch so I'm thinking the easiest way to do this you kind of need to do it kind of all at the same time so I'm going to this glue will give me a little bit of wiggle time I'm going to add the glue onto here actually now I'm going to use the collow because this really will give me plenty of time so I'm just going to go over that glue so I'm just adding my collow glue all the way around here like so and then decide which half you want to go over so I'm going to pop my glue just on half you know we're just under probably covering about a quarter of an inch because the glue is going to spread out I'm going to do it on that side and also on this side like so and I'm going to sit this piece in here you want to make sure that base piece gets right in first of all to get that base piece in that's why the collow glue is kind of good for this because it's just going to give you that time to kind of get that in place and then you can start bringing in these bits here now what I would suggest is measuring the top here so it's two and a half so you want to make sure that both sides are two and a half inches yeah spot on and then you can kind of go in and spread out the glue and again on this side okay so I'm pleased with that so I'm a little bit out the top like I said we're going to hide all that now so I really wouldn't worry but it's all secure it looks nice inside it's actually a really good size gift bag there then with this piece I'm going to add collow glue all over the bottom there and then I'm just going to stick that piece so it covers it all next I've got two strips of 12 by two and a half so you want them to be the width of the top here okay because it needs to see cover all of that so I'm going to stick this one down first so you're going to have two inches overhanging so I'm actually going to add my glue onto here first and lay this one over the top just make sure it lines up the top there and it runs flush with the bottom and then again repeat on the other side and just make sure they both join up at the top okay what I've decided to do next because I want to I'm trying to work out how to do this closure so I'm going to fold this piece in half back on itself hold it up in a second right so you see there where I've just folded that back on itself so it lines up with the top here if you see any of it like that I can see a little bit on the side cut that away and then I'm just going to do the same on this piece so this is going to reinforce the top and then you want to glue those closed again going to use the collow it's just going to really strengthen it then I had these two pieces here which are one by 12 but I don't need them that long now but I'm going to stick that and then just trim off the top this was using this embossing folder here which was an older cross two it's a big A4 one I forgot I had it because it's not with all my other embossing folders so I just thought that was a nice effect so I'm just going to stick that one down on both sides okay now I've had another idea so I'm going to add silver across the whole of that top piece which for me is one and about one and a quarter so from where you the this cardstock where the point of it is there that's what I want to cover with the silver so I'm going to cut it to the two and a half wide and then I'm just going to stick it on then trim off whatever's left okay so that's stuck down so now I'm going to obviously I want to make this work as a gift bag so I'm going to punch two holes right the way through so I'm going to come down about three quarters of an inch and I'm going to come in three quarters of an inch on each side so that's where I'm going to do my holes there and there so keep them pinched together perfectly lined up like so a little bit wonky but you won't you won't notice it once the bow's on and then I've got this pretty ribbon I've got some hair straighteners here because this is really creased these are inexpensive ones off of amazon they're not great for your hair in my opinion but they're perfect for ribbon and in your craft room so I'm just going to take the creases out of this piece here and I want to leave a handle again that's about enough and then the rest of this I can tie my bow so there's the finished gift bag I think it looks absolutely gorgeous I'm really pleased with this style I'll probably pop some tissue paper it might even look nice coming out the side actually when I get around to using it but I think it looks really nice love the the detail that you got the faux hardware there and then that little bit of silver on the top really pleased with that one so let me bring in the inspiration again so you can just see there's that side there oh we've got this detail I mean you may want to leave all of the card you know I cut away I guess maybe thinking about it you could have left more in it depends on the gift if you've got something that's a bit bigger then that's going to obviously get in the way having that excess in there it's just it's down to you you know cut it away or leave it I don't think it makes too much of a difference if you keep it in you just you're not going to see this detail but you know once the gift's in there and who's really going to notice that I don't think anybody will add a gift tag and it's ready to go so I'll probably keep some of this scrap inside the bag so then I can you know make a little matching gift tag when I know who I'm giving it to so as always thank you for watching today check 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