 everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm gonna be showing you how to make this really sweet curved top gift bag like all my gift bags it also folds flat so you can see they're on the side this one measures seven and a half by four so it's a really really good size I'm gonna go through and show you how to make this little tag here which I've heat embossed which is really really sweet and then it just opens up take all of that off and you can see inside there you've got a really spacious gift bag so I mean the height of this piece here on the side is five inches so it would fit a nice candle small clothing you know little t-shirts baby clothes things like that would go in there quite easily as well lots and lots of things it's just another style and another size gift bag to show you so I'm gonna pop all that to one side the papers that I'm using are the V&A collection by Trimcraft I absolutely adore these prints they're really lovely so I'm gonna be using today bring this one in okay so this is the other prints or one of the other prints from the pack so again I'm sticking with the blue and the red ones just because I was using scrap of those colors for the gift tag so I've got some left over so I wanted to make another one got some ribbon here as well which I've got which is approximately 20 inches okay so nice matching ribbon okay so what I'm gonna do is all the normal scoring if you want it to be a solid gift bag and not fold flat and then I'll do the scoring to fold it flat after so it's separate it's just a bit easier to follow that way so this is using two pieces of 12 by 12 cardstock or paper this paper the Trimcraft V&A I think is 160 GSM or maybe 200 I'll check and share the links or if I remember and look up a little pop up here just to clarify that but any strong paper and cardstock would be perfect so what you want to do is first of all along the 12 inch side is score at half an inch okay and then you want to score at eight inches then rotate and you want to score at four inches okay repeat that on the second piece and that's all you need to do if you want it to not fold flat you just want a solid gift bag now if you want it to fold flat what you now need to do is flip this over okay and score this is for the front score at six inches just down to that first score line here okay so that's the four inch I'm sorry the that's the eight inch score line that you scored when it was that way okay so it's this score line here so you scored at half an inch and at eight inches then we rotated it and scored at four then we're gonna flip it so that's that four inch base and you're just scoring at six just to that first score line then flip it and rotate it so you've got the half inch tab on your left hand side and you want to score at ten inches down to that score line that you just made at six inches okay so if I flip it over so your tab will be on your now that half inch tab will be on your right hand side you can see the score lines ignore that pencil mark for the minute but you can see here that's your eight inch score line that's your four inch base score line that's your ten inch one down to that little six inch one that you don't okay then grab your other piece and this will be the back again if you're having it fold flat and again you want to score at half an inch at eight inches rotate it score at four inches and then score at six but this time score all the way down because it's the back then rotate it so the half inch tab again is on the left hand side and score at ten inches down to that six inch score line that you just scored all the way through again I'll flip it over and you can see the difference now that you will have two of these running across your page whereas on the front you've only got it going to there again ignore that pencil I'm going to talk through that in a minute okay so keep the stylus just get rid of my scoreboard so first of all starting with the the back piece what you want to do again a lot of you now will know exactly what to do if you've been following these a lot but from where we've scored that ten inch score line here down to this six inch score line we're then going to score within this like rectangle piece here this is our side we're just going to score within that smaller rectangle I'm going to bring this up and show you a bit closer you can see there I'm just scoring from the bottom of that score line so there you can see okay so you're just scoring like a triangle within that so this is the back piece there's that strip here it's within that and within that rectangle there okay and this is basically if I burnish this now again just to make it a bit more easier to understand that is going to be once we cut up here that's our side that's why you want that scoreline which is the ten inch one running through the middle and then that little triangle is all going to help it all fold flat and this is the back so this scoreline here will help also fold that all down okay so again with the front you just want to do exactly the same so from the bottom of that ten inch score line and just create a triangle within that smaller rectangle so it's exactly the same as the back piece okay but we don't have this continual line here because we just don't want it to ruin the front of the gift bag so this time you just work in within this what you're working within the same on each piece but that's the difference that you will have between the back and the front is that you just won't have that line there okay so again I'm just going to burnish this one here and then we just need to do a couple of pencil marks so what you need is because we are cutting down now because we're going to create this this curve top so what you want to do is on the side where you have the side of your gift bag so where we've just done all of this scoring this is our base this larger piece from that score line there you want to come up five and a quarter inches okay so there's five and a quarter on my ruler make sure it's right perfectly lined up with that score line okay and then with a pencil just do a pencil mark a little dot just at the top there okay then go up to this score line and again following this same one here five and a quarter and again put a marker there now with those two markers you just want to join that up and you're going to cut along this line so it needs to be perfectly straight and then again go across to this tab piece now and you want to do exactly the same five and a quarter a little marker and on the very end there and then just do a little pencil mark then what you want to do with your second piece is line it lay it on top exactly in the same orientation okay so we've got our base here in these score lines you can see they're all matched up and just make sure your paper or your card is completely matched up with the piece underneath and with that tab piece you can just follow that pencil mark and again draw another pencil line and then at the bottom here because when we put this together we need to make sure that those pieces are going to join and if you do your measurement on this one separate and then do it on this one separate you may be slightly out by a millimeter or something and that will you will see that when you come to join your bag together whereas if you lay it over the top I've got the top and the bottom here completely perfectly set on top of each other I can then put a little pencil mark there and then I have to use my ruler for this bit here because obviously it's inside five and a quarter and then again just do a pencil mark across okay so now that we've done that we need to do the curve effect so I've got my back piece here now I've just picked up just I've got a place you want something that is going to be wider than seven and a half inches because this is seven and a half between this tab here and this piece here this is our front of our bag basically you want to bring the plate or whatever it is you're using just just up to the top but you want room to be able to do a pencil mark so don't go right to the top okay and you want to make sure that the plate is joining with the five and a half which mine is which is why I've done and sorry five and a quarter this distance that we done with the ruler just now it just comes up to that points that's why I decided on five and a quarter and then you just want to grab your pencil making sure that those points join perfectly and just go from point to point creating that arch okay so again wrap this piece here pop my plate down again don't want to go right to the top so I need to be able to do my pencil mark join them up okay so that is our arch done now you've got to do your best cutting you can do because this is all done now by cutting it ourselves and not using the trimmer or anything like that so starting along this piece here you want to very neatly cut all the way along that pencil mark okay and then I just find it easy to start from the top of the curve and try and do it in as little cuts as possible so as I'm going around bit like fussy cutting I'm moving it with my left hand and then you should get a nice neat cut okay and then from this side you just want to do that little cut on the top of that tab we'll take a little notch off of that in a minute as well just so you don't see that when we put it together and then very neatly you want to come up and again as little cuts as possible go around it should nicely snip off there we go all right so if you've got any pencil mark just grab your ruler and your ruler your rubber and just go over the ends there the edges and just make sure that you've removed all of that okay so that is now what you want to have so I'm going to repeat that and do that on this piece okay so that is now both of those pieces already so I'm just going to burnish I forgot to do my little tabs here on the side now before you go and stick it together just make sure that when we stick this tab over this that it matches up so actually just take off I said we take off the little just take a little wedge off the bottom and the top okay so you can see that I've just taken a little notch out of both of the tops there I'm sorry it's just so that it doesn't stick out okay what you want to do is just line this top of this up with the very bottom of that curve and make sure the top and the bottom I bring mine up there you can see that it lines up so I'd say the most important bit is making sure the bottom is lined up then if you're slightly off at the top you've still got time now to be able to rectify it and make it nice and straight and if you know the arch is finishing maybe higher up you can just cut down the arch a little bit further or if this is sticking up more you can trim this so just check both of your sides before you stick it together and it will just mean then that you don't have any moments where you then end up throwing it across the floor we don't want that to happen okay so now I'm going to grab some of my wet glue and you can use it's entirely to you wet glue or double-sided tape wet glue you just got a bit of wiggle room so you can you know move it around so I'm just gonna go along the sides here don't need too much I'm using Tombow so it's pretty strong so I need to do it on this side so I'm just gonna bring it down actually I'm gonna flip it over and lay it down that way so you just want to make sure you just meet it up to the score line and then make sure your bottom is all nicely lined up like so okay flip it over and then you want to put some glue honestly I scare myself sometimes because I just find myself staring at something and I'm really struggling to remember what it is or what it's called how bad is that I think it's because I'm concentrating so much on doing this that I I don't know it's does anybody else do that please make me feel but I'm not the only one because it does worry me sometimes okay so now this one should just lay completely flat which it is and it's just fitting in there perfectly okay now what I have realized I've not done is cut up the base but it doesn't matter because you can do it this way and I know actually my my mum sometimes prefers sticking the whole thing together and then cutting up because again it kind of eliminates you know if you've cut it how am I trying to explain it if you'd already cut the base and maybe gone too high or not you know high enough you can still change it if you do it this way whereas if you've cut it and it's you've done it before and you get to this point and it's not lining up and stuff like that then there's not much you can do about it so now you can see you've just got this big piece like this and now what we need to do is cut up every one of our corners up to that first school line which is our base so I'm just going to cut up like so okay just cutting up to that first school line there then go around to the next one like so so you see what I mean I know now that that's all perfectly all my bases all lined up nicely so you know many different ways of putting together a gift bag or a box and again and then the last one now we've got this will be the base so the piece with the line going through the back is the back so you put that one down first then your sides and then the front one and basically that means that we've got a nice plain base inside the box rather than looking at those two side panels and then what we want to do is just go around and just take a wedge out of the smaller side pieces not your big front pieces just these so I'm just taking a nice big wedge off of each one and this just stops any overhang again it's all these little bits like they always say in all of my tutorials that just make the finished product look you know really neat so you can see the wedge that I've taken out from each of those okay so now what you can do is on the side pieces because we want to I'm in a hole punch now here before we put the base together so what we want to do is we want to fold it flat so just pretend that you put it all together okay like so and then bring in the sides and they shouldn't actually want to fold with those score lines and then with the with your fingers on the back just come down to where that back score line is here so this is the other one we done and it will just all start just kind of help it in the corners and the initial fold is always the harder one I say because once it's now got those creases it will always know to fall back into place okay because now what we want to do is make sure now this is when you should you know both the curves should meet up perfectly which might do okay so that's what you want and then we are gonna hole punch so where's my trusty punch this is my screw punch I rave about all the time you have to buy one I've had quite a few people message me now saying oh my god I love it I've just brought mine so yeah highly recommend it and you need to come down let me grab my other bags I can't remember I think it was a one and a half yeah so find your center point so seven and a half so we said it was three and three quarters so there's the middle I'm just gonna put my finger there and then come so go across three and three quarters just put my thumb there bring the ruler down and come up to the top here okay so it's eight inches which is right then come down one and a half and with a pencil so one and a half I'm just gonna put a light cross there because I'll rub a set in a minute and then from that I've done another one and a half each side it's just make sure you got a nice straight line and you want to do one and a half so I do another cross there and one and a half so another cross there okay did I do three looks like that one shorter I know that's two and a quarter I'm wondering whether that's gonna be too wide okay in that case then I'm gonna do one I'm gonna change it so if you want to do one and a half you can it's just I want mine to match for what I'm using these for I want them to both match so I'm gonna come out from that center cross I just done one and a quarter one and a quarter okay then over over the cross that one and a quarter cross that I've just done grab the punch and just punch down and then the other one like so and then I can just rub out those pencil marks okay and now we can put the base together so I mean I guess you can do it with the base stuck down but I prefer doing it that way just because I've still got some wiggle room if I need to so now on this side here on one of the tabs you just want to pop some glue on the other one and just bring that one over and then the base again if you want to use double-sided tape you can do okay and then just bring that whole piece over and you shouldn't have anything sticking out you can see nothing sticking out this side but nothing sticking out here and then with your ruler as always just go in there and just spread out that glue and just make sure that it's nice and stuck and it's a really strong I mean tombo dries quite hard you've got three yeah three layers of card on your base and you could also reinforce that base with excuse me even stronger so you could layer up two pieces of 300 gsm cardstock on the bottom and then this would work perfectly to hold a heavy candle or anything of that's got more of a weight to it so yeah so that's other ways to reinforce gift bags because if you think about it the gift bags you buy pre-made in the shops they always have a separate card base so you can well not all of them actually the cheap ones don't but any good quality one they tend to have a separate piece of card on the bottom so okay so that's all done and then we just need to add our ribbons so that's the front oh and the gift tag actually that's what I need to do best okay so I've got my pieces here for my gift tag so I've just cut using a similar red and blue and then I've taken a piece of the scrap which was from when I cut this piece off and I've just made a nice bit there to go in between just to kind of tie it all together so with this piece here I'm just going to do a quick little bit of heating bossing just to show you you know ways to get nice effects with your stamps so I'm just going to cover that with my anti-static powder and then you need your stamps so I've got two here so I've got a happy birthday again keeping it with the same I've got butterfly attached there okay and just make that nice and centered the good thing with this is when you're using a darker cardstock you can see your watermark inks so I can see perfectly there next I'm going to add some flourishes so I've just got this little stamp here and I'm just going to go around all of the edges so I'm going to come over the edge there again I can perfectly see how this looks and I just thought these matched the kind of flourishes in the papers that I'm using and you can see how lovely that looks I'm just going to grab some scrap paper and I've got my silver embossing powder this is the paper mania and I'm just going to cover that over find an area where it's not covered pick that up okay if I just bring that up you can see now whether it's all nicely covered then I'm just going to pop that to one side get rid of all of this okay and then with my heat gun I'm just going to hold my tweezers in place there just so I don't burn myself get the heat gun nice and hot first just give that a couple of seconds just to cool down okay and then why it's still a little bit warm you can kind of reshape it but I'm going to be putting some foam onto the back of this okay so now if I just bring that up that gorgeous tag that lovely so I'm going to stick the bottom piece of my glue and then with this piece here I'm just going to pop a few of my home squares and then again just line this all up so it's all nicely even and in the center like so basically just bring that up now that gorgeous tag absolutely love that and then again with my screw punch I'm just going to punch at the top of that middle one it does twist so that's that all done now I'm going to prepare my ribbons I'm just going to actually know I cut it yeah I cut it on an angle just to feed it through and then I'll tidy it up in a minute okay so the back will have the score line so start from the back thread through the ribbon that side and that side actually you've got kind of even ribbon on each side and then go through the front like so again make sure all the arches in there the curved bit should all match up and then with my tag that's going to go on one side this ribbon phrase terribly which is what I need why I need to seal it like so and then tie it in a nice bow okay so there you go I've just sealed off the edges of that bow and you can see I just think it looks absolutely gorgeous now one thing I'm going to add which I've just decided to do so I'm going to add some handles because I've got this scrap and when I pop it in I think it looks so cute if I just bring that in there how sweet is that absolutely love it so I have just cut two strips of half an inch by whatever length card it is so as always I say 12 inches a for length or the 11 inches if you're using the letter paper and I've just got two of them and I just curved them slightly so this again is completely optional you know it's so easy to add this on at the end if that's what you want to do so I am going to I don't even need to undo the bag so I'm going to grab my glue and I'm going to put a little bit on the end there about half an inch and I'm going to come off by about one inch from the edge of the bow there where we done that hole punch so I'm going to come across about one inch and just sit that inside like so keep it nice and straight just following the grid line there on my mat just stick that one down and then bring this piece round so put your thumb over the top of the edge so it's completely the same way up so it's all nice and straight and then bring it round keeping your thumb facing the same way put another little bit of glue on the bottom and again coming across about what I say it was a inch yeah it's about right and again I'm just going to line it up it's nice and straight with the grid behind that nice and stuck down and then what I can do is flip it over with the other piece here this is just easy now because you're just lying like you will lie it down so it's exactly same as the handle that you've just done so just sit that one on top like so okay and again make it straight put your thumb there bring it around and it will sit nicely under the other handle when you do it like that and again pop that one so it's lined up with the one underneath everything's all perfectly lined with each other actually no we just flip that one around there you go and we'll sit nicely under that one okay and there you have it how sweet is that I think that's adorable it's got such a cool look about it so there you have it so there's one with a handle and then there's the one that I've done without so I think they both look lovely that's got like a little purse kind of clutch look about it now when I put it next to that one with the bag so yeah so they have it so you can choose I think I'm gonna add handles to that one actually now as well again if you've got something heavy like a candle I think it's gonna make it much much easier to hold like that but I think they're stunning and I just love that they all fold flat even better so there you go as always please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today's tutorial and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye