 everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. Now this one here you may recognize if you've been following my channel for a while back in June last year I made a really lovely Oriental gift bag and I want to do this year every month a favorite kind of revisited again so this is the one for January so I'm revisiting the Oriental gift bag and I've made it a mini style and this is cuteness overload because these are just adorable. I've made three different styles in terms of fastenings and handles just to give you some more ideas. My favorite is this one I just absolutely adore it I just imagine a little girl just carrying it now I haven't stuck the bottoms down because I want to actually keep these flat packed because I've got plans for them when I go back to the UK again so I need them to be able to go in my case but again if you want to make now and then just store them away they are perfect for that because then all you have to do is glue the base down when you come to use them so that's another good thing as well about it so when we get to that part I will tell you how to stick it still if you want to keep it just like I have then do so. So that one's there with the handles on both sides we've got this one here which was by accident really that this one this style came into play because the papers I'm using are these wonderful papers from Thestidition storyteller they've got a real Asian feel about them very luxurious really deep vibrant colors but some of the papers are shiny so these ones here this one here that I use it's got a real shiny to it shiny to it really shiny finish to it so when you put them in the middle here they rub against each other and they didn't actually really kind of sit in place so much so I decided to stick this ribbon all the way around and tie it on the top and it actually worked out really really nice so they do kind of sit there now but you can kind of see already that one's starting to move and you just didn't get this flush kind of self-close finish as well as you did on the others but again just opens up and this one's stuck down it reveals a really nice size little gift bag or box there so that's that one and then this one here I've done again I haven't stuck the bottom down and this one's just a more like a shoulder bag style with the one handle there and again these papers here that I've used these two in particular are really rough because they've got this embossing on the outside so I think that's helped with the closure on the top here because it kind of the two sides rub against each other and probably grip each other because that's really snug it's got such a nice closure to it and they have it they're just so so cute I was literally talking to myself making these going oh my god look how cute it is so yeah really like these ones so there's three so I'm going to show you another one the one I'm going to show you is going to be this finish because it's my favorite I really just love this style but these are the papers here as I said by first edition and they're just lovely and you get all kinds you get really thick card at the beginning and then it goes into these like shiny ones and you've got the heat embossing and then you've got double-sided at the back so I'm using one of the double-sided ones for the next one okay I'll share all the links in my blog post below so this is what I'm going to be using today so this is the paper pattern that I've got I've got some ribbon here you need two pieces of 10 inches so I've got about 20 here so that's okay numerous hole punches there so I'm going to talk you through these ones in a moment when we get to it this tag was actually going to be for this one but I was undecided whether to use it so I'm still going to keep it with it and then when it comes to it I can decide whether or not because these ones have obviously got them stuck on there okay so you need two pieces of six by six what do you prep to one there you need four brads if that's what you're going to use but again I'll show you all that when we get to it so you can decide what way you want to do it so grab your six by six piece of card now I'm going to turn it over because you can see the score lines much better on this plain side here so what you want to do is first we'll pick a six inch side bear in mind you might have print decide which way you want the print to go I mean I've got this going along this way instead so I mean if you want it this is going to be the top basically okay so six inches so you're going to first of all score it two inches and then a five and three quarters of an inch okay then rotate it like so pop it back up there and you're going to score at one inch and at four inches then rotate sorry keep it there you're also going to score a half an inch but you're going to pass that first score line and down to the second score line then rotate it and then you're going to do a score line at half an inch just down to the first score line and at one and a half inches again just down to the first score line so I just bring this up here you can see what you want to have scored there so I've got this one some reason it's not really coming up there we go and that one there because I don't know on the other side so what doubles there we get better that's what you want to have okay so you can freeze frame there if you just want to make sure that you've got them all in the right place so do that again on your second piece and get rid of your scoreboard but keep your stylus and grab a ruler and what you want to do is just flip it on this side and along this edge here you want to just put a little marker so you're going to hold your ruler up at this score line here okay just pop your ruler up there and you just want to mark it three quarters of an inch down okay so you can see where I've marked it three quarters of an inch I've got that score line just meeting there so I just come down here so you're going to mark there just put a little notch or a little pencil mark at three quarters of an inch down and again go up to this score line with your ruler again along that score line there and just mark it three quarters of an inch down okay okay and then what you're going to do is just with your stylus you're going to join the bottom of this score line down to that little marker that you just made and again on this side just from that bottom of that score line again down to there so I just bring that up you can see now I've just done okay so from here for doing this side so from here down to here is three quarters of an inch again here down to here is three quarters of an inch that's where you want to mark there and then join that and that together again there in there okay repeat that on the second piece okay so now we just need to burnish all of our score lines so grab my bone tool there be careful if you're using any of the foiled papers or anything with the embossing on because you don't want to scratch any of that off so you might find just using your fingers to burnish or just lightly very slowly put your bone folder across you won't be able to score all the score lines just don't worry about burnishing these ones sorry and this one here because we need to do some cutting before we do so okay so grab some scissors and what you want to do with your tab on your right hand side here you're just going to cut up this bottom one and just kind of cut out that score line like so it's just a tiny little piece alright just gives you a nice finish when we close it and again this end here just cut up and cut that one out and then I'll just also just notch off the corner there of that tab this one here you just want to cut out okay and again just notch off that corner there and rotate it again so we've got all this at the top and you're going to cut down just to that first score line here and then cut down this one just to the first score line and this one here again just down to the first score line okay and then we're going to cut these pieces out completely so just very neatly because this bit will be shown you'll see on the sides you just want to make sure you've got a nice straight line cut there that's the way I want to do it I want to make sure you can get my scissors right in there like so there we go okay so that is what you'll have so now you can burnish this one here so you just want to fold that one down a little bit crooked there come on done that bring my back up a bit there we go okay and then with these ones here that we've scored like this with the side that's going to be facing out outside of your box you just want to fold them up and then this one here just kind of bend see what I'm doing there just kind of pinching it because obviously you don't want to use your bone tool at all because you don't want to score any further down past there but you just want to have them both like so with this piece here fold it down and then you just want to cut with your scissors in the middle you want to cut down maybe about three quarters of the way see how far I've kind of cut down there and then just very slightly you want to take another little light kind of notch out of it so I'm just taking it like a slither and it's just so that there's enough room for both sides of the card to kind of sit in there so you can see there what I've kind of removed so now that is what you should have just hold that one there okay so I'm going to turn that one over and now we need to put some of my red tape on the tab here so facing up and you just want to run your tape along here again if you're using any kind of foiled papers and stuff like that your red tape is really good sometimes some of the score tape and double-sided tape things like that they might not stick for long so make sure you use a super straw so now we should have two pieces like so so now we need to start putting them together so what we'd do actually before we stick it would do our whole punches and you need to decide now how you want your box to close so if you want to do this style then you don't need to worry about this piece and then you'll just stick down your ribbon around it once we put it all together if you want to do this one here you need to put a hole punch on these two sides okay which is where this tool comes in handy because this one allows you to hole punch anywhere on a surface area so if your hole punch for example cannot reach in I mean this one could but if it couldn't then the other option is to use your pokey tool and a foam mat underneath and just push that through okay so there are a few options there but otherwise I would highly recommend this one here by X cuts I'll share all the links in my blog because it's just brilliant I really like this one now I'm going to be doing this finish here so what I want to do is with my ruler is I'm going to flip it over because I just want to mark a little pencil mark so how far down did I come there one and a quarter so I'm just going to grab a pencil and just roughly put one and a quarter there and then I'm going to come in by three quarters of an inch on both sides so then I'm just going to mark with a cross one there line that up and again turn this one over so again just come down one and a quarter a little marker there line my ruler up and again come in three quarters so on there and three quarters just there okay then whenever you use this make sure you've got a good mat on the bottom like a self-healing mat you don't want to do it directly with your wooden table underneath because it will leave an impression and don't do it on glass because you can run the risk of breaking the glass so you just hold it over the mark push it down and it will punch your holes for you like so and again it does spin there we go you need to put a little bit of force into it so bear that in mind if you maybe struggle you know pushing down on things it might not be the best tool because there is you do have to put some you know bit of force there but it's really good so there you go I've got my two holes now so now I'm going to grab my ribbon so I said two two pieces of 10 inch I'm just going to cut this one again make sure that's the same that was a little bit long gradually so cut that one down there we go so now I'm going to be using these little brads to attach it and what I do is I've got this hole punch here is about 1 eighth of an inch hole so I'm just going to punch a hole through the bottom of my ribbon like so just roughly don't know if it's a little bit off pop the brad through that hole and then what I want to do is with my pokey tool once I put this on I'm going to be pushing this so it's all kind of hidden underneath that brad so I'm going to slide it through this one here just lie it down you can see there anything that's overhanging sticking out as you're pushing the brad down just kind of push it all underneath that brad so it's all hidden and then split the brad the brad and there you will get a really nice finish on your bag so then bring that one round again just going to put a little hole punch like so grab my other brad feed that one through pop it into place and then you can then again grab your pokey tool and just feed any of those kind of stragglers you don't want any of that hanging out and as you push down it will kind of hold it all there in place like so again just split that open underneath and there you've got a really nice so just repeat that again on this second piece okay so there's my two pieces now ready and now it's just a matter of putting it together so just take off one of these red pieces here and you just want to line up the edge here with the top of the tab and this bottom score line here you want to line up with the score line here so just line it all up together like so okay flip it over to the brad so actually I'll rub out that little pencil mark there now as well not that anyone's really going to look inside like so but you never know fold this one over bring all this over and again you should just naturally all line up but just hover this piece over just in case but again as long as your bottom score line hooks up in place and the tops there all together all right so like so I'm not going to stick the bottom but if you are going to stick it all down because you're going to be using it now put one of these down first have a preference to your front of your back so this is going to be the back for example so I put that one down first put a load of glue on there put both of these down because we've cut off those little bits you don't get no overhang put a load of glue along there and then stick that one down okay so I'm going to leave that flip it all over and then all you need to do is fold these two pieces down and then kind of start pinching in where you pinch those you know you didn't really burnish them you just pinch those score lines it'll be easier once you've stuck yours down as well when you come to put it together so I obviously haven't okay so bring it all down so it all sits in like so okay you see now it all sits on the side and put your hand underneath and make sure you push out on the side here so you get a nice curved there and here because that's what will obviously help it all stay together and then again push that one down it's just cute absolutely love these like I said I'm going to keep mine up like that because I haven't done I got this one here so again like I said just make sure you do the top and then push so you've got nice curved sides on all of it there again fold that one down that one's already and then there's that one there so there you have it there's my four lovely little gift bags hope you like this one like I said every month I'm going to revisit a project from last year so it will be my favorites and kind of the the best sellers that say the most watched ones so I've got some really ideas in the pipeline so I hope you like the projects today and please hit the like button if you did and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye