 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Grail thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how I've made this really fun very festive penguin wine bottle holder or gift bag so you can see there it is an empty bottle but it's very strong it will hold a full bottle but I'll just use this one just so you can see kind of the height and everything how it all kind of you know fits inside there it's um it's really really fun now this is using a cut file so this is actually using my digital cutting machine because I know many of you have your Cricut and your Brother Scan and Cut and your Silhouette machines so I have the USB from Trimcraft and it is the first edition buildable Christmas and I will share the links to this one below it's really really fun to make I'll give you the measurements of what I increased it to and I'm going to show you just how I've put it all together but of course if you don't have something like this then you can you know look at other things that you might have and obviously other files that you also might have but if you don't have any you know cutting machines you can make the piece that I'm going to show you inside and build up something else on the outside so you know think think outside the box think of other things that you might already have in your stash that you can use this you might already have maybe some kind of decorative piece of paper or some shape or something that you could stick onto it I don't know but you know there are other ways around it but he's very very sweet I've used some of the iridescent artificial snow there on the hat just so it's it's got a bit of texture I put some glitter on the bow there and I just think it looks lovely I've also reinforced the sides there with some with well a couple of eyelets and it's it is it's super strong the back is just the same I have added the feet but I've kept it blank but it's the same silhouette kind of effect there and yeah love it really really good so I'm going to make another one now and show you how to put it together okay so these are all the elements that I've cut on my machine I've also got some ribbon there for later on so once you obviously upload your file you want to increase it if you do have this one because I know some of you do to 11 inches okay and once you increase this you know this piece everything else will increase with it so you know you know that you're going to have all your proportions correct so I have gone ahead and done this one first so that's the the main detail then I went and so I've done that on black card then I went and cut just the outline on white and that's going to stick over the top of this one here and they will all line up perfectly like so then I went ahead and I cut another two of the white and I've stuck them together using my calau so this is a very strong piece now because obviously we are putting something heavy in it you don't have to put the wine bottle in there could be any bottle it might be a nice bottle of olive oil or something like that so many things can be popped inside so those will be stuck together then I went ahead and cut the hat and I've cut two I've done two of pretty much everything just to add a bit of strength so I've done two of those and stuck them on top of each other there's your little snow pom pom and snow pom pom that's your little pom pom and I've again die cut two I've die cut just one of that one because I'm going to be adding the snow over to it and that's mainly going to be stuck on the top of his head but you can see there how that's going I mean I guess you could have it down like that so it looks like the thing but I done a bit of a bobble hat I think I thought it looked quite cute then I've got the candy cane here so I've done the white for the background and then the detail in the red then I've done two of the little bow tie in the blue just one little nose there which will perfectly piece back into what's already been cut out so once I've stuck that onto the white oh got it upside down had it right the first way it does fit in there perfectly and then I've done four feet two on the front and two on the back again because it is actually holding itself up on the feet so you know with that weight of that bottle but it does it works really really well but you can bring the feet up higher if you wanted to so you could have them up like that so it's resting more on the body but I brought mine right down like so so that's everything I need so I'm going to stick it all together and then I'll talk you through how to do the inside box piece okay so I'm just about to stick down the other foot so stick the front one down you would have seen just however you want it then I've put the back piece just lying over the top and to make sure you get everything level and then and just stick the feet on the back there that way when I stand this up once it's all together it's not going to rock or anything like that it's all going to be nice and even okay so for the inside box you want two pieces that are four and this is the default A4 length so it's 11 and three quarters 12 inches will be fine or 11 will be fine if it's 11 it just means it's just going to be slightly shorter and on this side you can get away with that extra quarter of an inch so you can use 12 it will still work okay that's obviously you know I know not everybody's going to be doing the penguin but whatever you're doing that's the same kind of height as mine because actually I didn't I've done the height of obviously the penguin but then you have the hat attached as well so you do end up getting an extra let's just have a little look what we're on here it's actually about 12 and a half tall so it is taller than in fact a wine bottle is exactly 12 and a half so yeah it's going to work okay so with these two pieces here you want to score along the short side you want to score it half an inch and three and a half so it's going to have a three by three base that is just exactly what the bottom of a standard wine bottle is so if you do want it to be thicker then you will have to have this I guess maybe go to four and a half by the same length but then score at a quarter of an inch on both sides but it'll just give you that slightly wider side okay and then this along the long side you want to score it three but if you want it slightly bigger then score it three and a half okay but to have that three by three base which fits that wine in nicely you don't want it shaking around too much and adding pressure and stuff and then that's a good size so those two pieces score both the same and then just fold and burnish all of the score lines also all of the cardstock I've used is 300gsm or it's the little cardstock which is very very thick as well so it's a really like I said strong piece once that glues on there as well it's um yeah we'll definitely hold and if you are worried maybe for using a lighter cardstock reinforce the base here that's the most important part so it doesn't dip put a couple of layers of you know extra cardstock on the bottom there so all you want to do here is just cut up these two score lines just like so just to free it up and just take a little wedge off of the top piece like so don't need to worry about it with the other one so it's just something kind of like that again just do this one here okay and what's going to happen is this is going to fold up we're going to stick the sides like so so we've got a nice right angle we're going to do the same with that side but first of all in fact you can remove one on one of these remove these pieces here just on one although if you do want to add even more strength I guess you can keep two in but it might just be a little bit bulky I'm just going to remove that one there okay so the one that we've just removed the pieces from will sit on top of that one so first of all I'm just going to add some glue onto the base of this one okay so you'll have this long piece because it's going to come up like that and then the wine bottle will fit inside that piece and also when we go to stick it down it's very similar to how I've done a few of my other boxes but you can have that more you know it's like a vase kind of shape so again that's another way to widen it but still keep that base because sometimes bottles might have some decorative kind of shape to them so although the base is that that size it might then go out thicker you know you can expand this if you want to as long as it all stays behind whatever it is that you're sticking it to but you would have noticed me use that if you follow a lot of my gift bags I've done that style before and it's quite a nice way to be able to make them fit your you know your needs and whatever it is you're wrapping so all I'm going to do here is just add a little bit of glue to the bottom because I want mine to just go you know nice and straight so I'm just going to stick my glue and then just pop those pieces down there just so we've got it you know as best you know as the right angles you can once you stick all this bit down then you can shape it even more I'm just going to hold that in place for a second and then flip it over and just repeat and do the same okay so now we've got something like this so I'm just going to pop that to one side and I'm just going to decorate the top here of the hat before I kind of you know put it all together because it's a bit easier to control all of the the snowflakes that I'm going to add to it so I'm just using some Tombow because it's a tacky glue it will stick to you know everything anything that kind of hits it is going to grab so and it will stay nice and tacky so just try not to go over the edge because it will squash down a bit once I kind of push everything onto it the glue will kind of spread out and do its thing I'm just going to add it all there and also on the little pom pom here and then I've got my trusty bag of flakes this just never seems to go down I've used it on so much but I'm going to go in here a bit bit lazy this time and just push it all down I've got myself well I didn't get myself into a mess but there was just flakes everywhere when I made the Christmas village so just push all that down I can just shake away any excess I'll brush off some of those pieces once it dries but it does look really really fun there we go I've just brushed some of it off his face and once it's completely dry I just added more there I didn't clean your brush very well okay so that's that all covered and then I will also while it's nice and flat I'm just going to add some sparkle onto his little bow tie there and it always goes on a bit darker but once that dries it will go back to that lighter turquoise colour and then you can always top it up again as well but once it starts to dry you should pick up a sparkle there looks really nice like you could put something you know bling in the middle as well but we'll keep it like that so while that's just kind of drying I'm going to work with the back first so I'm going to run some just thinking what glue I think I'm going to stick with no I'm going to go for because this grabs nice and quick I'm going to go for the cosmic shimmer I have got another one but I want to get I need to keep this in my thing upside down I'm just going to run the glue all the way along this side the other side and the base and just do one at a time just make sure you cover all of that again if you want to add another panel of cardstock on here and then put glue on that and attach it to this you can but because of the glues I'm using I know they're strong and I've already done one I know it holds the wine so what you want to do then is with the bottom bring it down so it sits nice and even with the bottom of in my case the bottom of his body there and then just make sure it stays as straight as you can really but this is where I mean you could expand it out so it comes up to the sides here but I don't need to I'm just going to go in there's my bone folder there you've got a little bit of positioning time repositioning time even with this glue but like I said it does bond pretty quick and the clouds good as well if you kind of let it sit for a minute then pull it apart and it goes all stringy and then instantly kind of push it back together again and it just bonds really strong it's like a super glue kind of thing so now we've got that one side there already and then the front's pretty easy to do because you've got this to obviously push it against but now I'm just going to cover all this in glue as well and with this one I'm just going to kind of sit it over the top I can see that bit there I'm just going to stand up and I'm just going to look down I can use my monitor there you just want to make sure that you get it kind of as lined up as possible really well it's a bit out there there we go okay so now I've just got some of my brownies these blue stars actually because I think they look really nice and I've just got my punch here and I'm going to pop it on its side and I'm just going to come in as far down as it will let me in the center there and just punch you have to worry if they're not exact on each side it's not you know you're not going to notice that at all and then again punch that one and then I'm going to feed these through I'm not going to put any backs on them I don't think I've got them off of these ones actually they'd be like a silver but I'm not too worried again pop them on there and then I'm just going to squeeze these ones down okay so there's my reinforced little holes there and then I'm going to thread through my ribbon and then I'm just tying three strong knots all on top of each other just to stop that coming through and again on this one pull that all through and now you've got your very strong handle and I can pop this back in and there we have a really fun gift bag you could pop a little kind of necklace around him with your gift tag hanging I'm probably just going to have my gift tag hanging down the side here and I just I love it it's so strong I promise you this is very very strong as long as you've got the good wake hard stocks to start with use good glues I always say this is like cement in a bottle it's brilliant especially when you want to you know those heavier gifts so yeah really pleased with this one and like I said I don't do lots of cutting file tutorials just because not everybody has the machines but then more and more people are getting the machines now and they are becoming very very popular and I do love them and they do make these really fun very unique gifts because you can alter the sizes so no nobody's will ever really be the same so I think these are really fun and I've noticed that my candy canes are different I don't know which is the right one left or right is it that way or is it that way something's making me think that one but then that one looks okay as well I don't know is there a right or wrong you tell me anyway thank you for watching today I hope you've enjoyed them I hope you think they're quite sweet because I do and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye