 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this really sweet gift bag and it's basically just a larger version of a gift bag I made about 18 months maybe even two years ago now and I'd done this faceted side so I thought I would do it on a bigger gift bag and this is what I've come up with. So I've got this hardware on the corners here which I really like I'll show you that in a moment. I've used the Bright Rosa big butterfly there in the center it's got just one of these these are just recycled handles that I use from carry bags when I've gone shopping and you can see the back there and then you just I've got a little like charms but I'll charms they're just those little um die cuts from the same paper pad which I'll show you in a second and then I've just got Velcro dots there and then inside you've got a nice roomy bag so it's three inches wide and 10 sorry three inches in depth and then 10 inches wide so it's a really nice size and then that just all folds down like so I really really like it so let me show you how to make it. Okay so I've prepared a lot of stuff so I've already done the butterfly there and this is the Bright Rosa die set I need to do my labels I haven't got around to it yet but that's the the die set I've used this a few times now it's really nice and I just used oh there's the detail as well hold on that one there I just need to take all the bits out of it but that's the the detail of the butterfly and then you get the frame and then you get the big band as well and then all the other bits and pieces to it so yeah it's really nice I've already gone and made that one up then I've got two of my metal corners here these are just book protectors book corner protectors and I'll link these ones if I can find the exact ones but I've used quite a few now and yeah there's loads that you can choose from I've already gone ahead and made my little kind of dangle there and I just fussy cut some other pieces from the retro days paper pack so it's this one here with the sentiments on I don't know if I've got any of that one left today now now I'm down to the last few pieces because I've used it quite a lot so yeah that's the one I'm going to be using today again I will link this below it's a really nice one I like this one a lot so I've already gone and prepared everything oh there's the handle as well for this one okay and then you want so you want two pieces that are 12 by 10 and this would be your front and back of your gift bag along the 12 inch side you want to score it three inches I've already scored mine but you want to score it three all the way down there I've put this decorative band along here just add something and this is the same width so 10 inches by one inch so if you do want to add something to it I thought I didn't do it on the other one but I thought I would do it on this one but yeah score both pieces along the 12 inch side at three okay if you've got a directional paper which this kind of is obviously make sure that it's up the right way then you want two pieces that are four by 12 now I know mine are only 10 this is because these were scrap pieces and I really wanted this darker orange to go with this bag so what you will want to do is along the 12 inch side is score at nine but you will have three inches here yours will be up to the 12 inch marker here mine's slightly shorter and you'll see what I do it doesn't make that much of a difference so if you do have shorter paper you can use it it just means we've only got that one inch piece that's going to be folded inside the bag but when we get to that again it should make more sense so you ideally want two pieces that are 12 by four and along the 12 inch side you want to score at nine so just ignore mine at the minute I've already prepared one and then along the four inch side you want to score at half an inch and three and a half okay another bit of scoring on that in a moment and then for the actual lid or the closure you want a piece that's six and a half by 10 now this is entirely up to you the six and a half because two inches is at the back of the bag and then the other four and a half is at the front you may not want that amount hanging over I've done that amount so I wanted it to fit this butterfly on so again when you see it you could do just a four inch piece you might only just want two inches overhanging okay but along that six and a half you just want to score at two and fold that in half okay so I'm going to hammer my corners on that in a moment but while we've got these pieces here with a ruler you want to if you fold and burnish those score lines first okay so you want it like this and then you'll have your three inch section down the bottom here mind just that one inch but you would have three you're going to score from the top left of this bit not the not the very outer part of the paper the folded part there you're going to score from that point all the way down to this point here where it crosses over so we're basically scoring within this large rectangle and then we're going to score from that point to the opposite so pop my ruler in here again you don't have to do this but it is a nice feature to have that faceted side sticking out on the bag okay so put across right through that middle rectangle and then if you go along the top so you just want to pop a marker between the two score lines so it should be three inches okay so ignore the half inch either side I'm going to just put a little mark in my cardstock there at that halfway point and that should line up perfectly with the cross section of those score lines and you're just going to follow that down into the center okay so you can just make out my score line there that just goes down to the crossover here okay so then we just want to fold those if you fold across one like so it doesn't matter if you fold the card right off it's all going to get stuck and then the opposite like so and then this one you want to fold inside so if you just kind of help it along like so almost looks like a paper plane like when you catch it inside there you want to make sure you get that really nice point okay and that's the side now that's going to stick out and this bottom piece here yours will be three inches it's going to stick that will be the base okay so then we just need to do a little bit of cutting you can cut it before if you want to but you're where you would have folded over that piece there you're actually now going to remove those bottom pieces now yours will be longer because remember you'll be cutting up from three inches you just want to cut those two sections out either side okay like that but like I said yours will come down probably here so you'll just be removing that whole section and then if you just take a little wedge off of the ends there just to stop any buckling that you might get and I also take a wedge off of this as well okay and then at the top here just take a little wedge off of them all right so you want to do that on both pieces you'll see I've got my two ready there so I'm going to pop that to one side and then I've got this piece with these here and I have my little craft hammer which is just here this is a dove craft one it came in a dove craft little kind of toolkit which I've had for a long time so this is the front okay and there's my fold going over I'm going to flip it over and I want so there's the front and then I'm going to have the nice side facing out if I flip it over that's the side I want to hammer on now if you want to put like maybe some tissue or something over there then you can do so but I'm going to hammer straight onto it so I'm just going to you might want to turn the volume down or I'll probably mute this out actually have a really nice corner and it's nice and strong because it's obviously stuck to the card so I'm just going to quickly do the other one okay so there's both my corners done again it's completely optional and you can also have that kind of effect with the gold mirrored cardstock so if you cut just a nice little decorative piece you could do a triangle right across there so just cut a one by one mirrored gold mirrored square and then cut it on the diagonal and put one corner there and one corner there and that will still give you a nice that kind of shine that hardware look so you don't worry if you don't actually have those pieces you can still create something just as nice okay and whilst it's nice and flat I'm going to pop my butterfly down so just want to obviously make sure whatever it is you're sticking down you get in the center I'm happy with that and then you want to create your holes to pop your ribbon through or you may if you don't have because I'm going to be punching quite far in so I'm using my screw punch if you don't have this then you may want to make paper handles and just stick them on okay or you can use a poke at all so you know there's lots of ways to do this and I'm going to make a couple of circles these are one inch circles take the bottoms off I never like the bottoms on these punches actually I've taken them off most of them that one I seem to have forgotten so I've got those two there and then I'm just going to punch a hole in the center like so or roughly not too worry because it gets folded over the top now this is handy to do if you because obviously you can do that with a normal hole punch like this so if you don't have one of these I'm going to now punch holes here you can just use your poke tool for that bit and then stick this over which will have the nice hole and it will cover maybe a messier hole underneath and you'll still get a nice effect so again another way to do this look without having you know the exact tools let me move that a little bit crooked there we go so I came in I think it was two and a half inches yeah two and a from each side again that's completely optional you don't have to come in the two and a half that was just where I thought it worked best for me so I'm just going to pop a little pencil mark there and again so I'm coming along that score line another two and a half there and again with my punch you want to go right on the score line okay so when you fold it in half you kind of want half the hole to go over this side which you can see there and half on the front and then these pieces are going to go perfectly over the top and then once the glue is dry that will fold over with it so it is this is purely decorative but I do think that if you don't have this and you've just gone through like I said before those holes with the poke tool this will just tidy that up so I'm going to just stick both of those down okay so that's already so I'm just going to leave that to dry for a moment and now we can just start sticking the gift bag together so these are the pattern pieces and you would have scored along the 12 inch side at three so you just want to burnish those two okay and then you're going to bring in your side pieces do one at a time do this one first you're going to stick this onto the side here and it should line up perfectly with the top of the bag to that three inch score line here now remember obviously mine is coming up shorter but yours should come all the way down to here so I'm going to run some glue I'm going to use this glue here just because I have a little bit more time with this and just line it all up make sure you get your top matched up nicely like I said it should all marry up and what I like to do is as soon as it's kind of stuck in place is bend it around and then what you can do because I'm coming over a little bit more than I'd like I can then wiggle that over and just make sure I get it all nicely lined up okay like so because you don't want to see you just want it to be a nice side there nice corner you don't want to see any of the card overhanging okay so then just make sure it's all stuck down nicely so do that again on the other one okay so you should now have two pieces like this and now we're going to attach them all together so I'm going to run some glue down this one here and then again line this one up and do the same thing once I've folded it down I'm going to fold it over just so I can make sure it all sits nicely okay and then you fold that one over and this one should all line up nicely which it does so again I'm just going to put some glue on here okay so now you should already be able to pinch the top and the sides will come out like that if they don't you just need to make sure that that school line that we've done down to the center here is a valley fold so it's going inside the box or the gift bag okay and that will let that point come out so next you want to decide what's the front and the back of your gift bag so I'm going to pop this one down first which is the back and then the sides so you can see it still does work if you've got a shorter piece it just means they don't come in this far here but because this is then sticking over the top it's already pretty strong and if you want to reinforce it even more if you're going to put like a heavy bottle in there you can put some deck you know cover some uh chipboard grayboard and line it in the bottom there which would be three by ten I do it slightly shorter than that just so it sits in perfectly so yeah there's there is plenty of ways to do this even with cardstock that may be slightly shorter so I'm just going to run some glue just there just attack them down and again that one there and then cover the whole of this with glue okay make sure everything is nice and square and then you can just turn it over and go in there with your hand and just line that all down so now it's up to you I mean you could just put a nice big peg on the top there you might have just a piece of cardstock that comes over like this you might want to put your handles directly onto this piece and have it open you don't have to have all of this here either but now I'm just going to carefully refold that because I've got that circle on there now but that will sit perfectly over the top so and it just brings it all together really nicely I love this so I'm going to add this on first it just fits through that hole and these ones just worked really well these are old I mean I keep all these like I said I keep them for well as soon as I've come home with my shopping I empty the clothes and then I take apart the bags so I always keep these so now that's how that will look and it looks really cool and then you want to stick it all down so I'm going to add my callow because this glue dries very very hard and stiff that maybe I'll take those handles out just because I've got that metal they're quite bulky these handles so I'll put them in after before or after it's entirely up to you and I'm just going to crop that back out again I'm just going to line it up on the front and then bring the back in keeping everything in place you just want to make sure that they line up perfectly with your score lines here okay and I'm just going to open it up I can go inside there and just make sure that's all stuck down okay and then I've got some velcro dots I think these are the 16 mil I know I've used the dot on dab the 20 mil for a while but I did find these ones and 15 yes 16 mil again I'll link these I think I've still got the original links from other tutorials so I'm just going to take two of these off you don't need two you might just want to have one again it's entirely up to you and I'm going to pop one around about there so kind of coming in the same distance about two and a half that I did with the hole punch there I just want to make sure I get the hook or the loop get in in the same yeah so that way like so okay these are so so sticky and they're really good value for money see mine's just popped in so you just want to pop it out like that so just lay that down and you can't really push right down on this obviously just squash the bags you just need to make sure it just makes yeah make sure it's stuck down okay and then very carefully because you want to make sure they separate oh like that one didn't now it has I can go in and really stick them down once you've been able to put pressure on them separately they do stay you know separate when you open it and now I can put my handles back on okay how cute is that oh I love it and it's the it is the size of an actual handbag I think that's why I love doing these so much because it's almost like I want it to be you know in leather or um just a really nice plastic so I can actually use it and then I've just got this just to finish it off so I'm just gonna have them one slightly higher than the other and then just loop that around kind of move them a bit once they're on like so love it love this hardware here I just love I would add in that kind of detail to my gift bags I just think it really does make them stand out from the rest but those are my faceted gift bags and I adore them I think they look so cute now I just need to find something to put in them and to give them to somebody but usually I keep one and that goes on display and then the other one will be given to somebody so yeah I have to decide which one but I hope you've enjoyed today I've really liked doing this one um if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye