 Hey 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 designer handbag gift bag. I'm calling it a designer one because I was actually looking online at gift handbags myself and I saw this one which I really like it's a mulberry handbag it's in leather and I just really loved this pocket detail that they had on the outside and that's my interpretation of it and I think it's turned out really well. I had loads of these key ring rings I did share them quite a while ago and I just thought they'd worked perfectly for this one obviously that's gold and they've got the poppers and things here in its leather but I don't know I think it works really well and then with my one here I just show you it's got velcro and then you've got your pocket just there. I probably will put a little thumb um what you call it bit there just so you can get into it or even maybe cut more of a semi-circle over that bit there but for me I probably won't use the pocket it's purely just decorative but it is there you know to put a gift card in or whatever you want it's a great size you can see inside there just puts some tissue on top and this one measures eight and a half by three by seven I believe it is let me just double check for you this one is oh six and a half so it's a great size and uh yeah I really enjoyed making this one so let me show you how okay so the papers I've used are from the new first edition bloom and wonder so you'll see there it's just that nice water color kind of effect and I'm using that again on this one but I'm changing the background color so just pop all my bits there that I'm going to need the stamp set I've used as well I really love that touch actually having it on your bag so just as wishing you a day of happiness I've done that in heat embossing I'm doing the same but this time I'm doing it in white so I've already gone ahead and embossed the same sentiment there and this is from the very well used and this is the dovecraft this is the essentials one and there's also the occasions and it's really nice let me just take it out of the packaging just so you can see it a bit better but you just got yeah just really nice sentiments again always linked below so I've done one of my handles you see there and I've already put the little um eyelets there on the bottom there's my little key rings and everything we need and I've got my black velcro dots there and it's the brand velcro again I'll put the sizes down they look about 16 mil to me so right I'm using two sheets of 12 by 9 and a half now the reason it's 9 and a half is because that's the width of the little cardstock that I'm using I've just brought it into 12 but if you want to do 12 by 12 you can do yours are just going to be much taller so you want to score both pieces along the 12 inch side first of all you want to score eight and a half and eleven and a half then rotate and score at three so if yours is now 12 that's how tall yours is going to be because this three inch line will become our base okay then rotate it back again along that 12 inch side and now you want to score at 10 in fact you could have done that before but it's a bit easier having this three inch line as a bit of a guide but score at 10 about one inch up from that three inch score line it's just going to help you just fold the sides that's all okay so just roughly come down I'm guess I've got my five inch marker here if you want to exact that's where I've just scored next to it but there you go okay and again I've done that on that one there I haven't cut that one like I usually do so it's fine I'll do that in a moment then for the handles you want two pieces of one by 12 and along the one inch side you want to start scoring from one inch so I've got my one inch marker here just score all the way down to 11 inches just down through the middle and it will just allow us to fold but not have the fold right the way down the front there so my fold there say that's the one inch goes all the way around and finishes at 11 just so you keep the fronts there free from any score lines so do that then you will need a piece of six by one and a half this is optional but what I've gone ahead and done is I've just come up a quarter of an inch on both ends here and then draw on a pencil line because that's where we're going to add our glue and stick it behind our pocket and then I've come in one inch on each side making sure it's halfway and just put a pencil mark and that's where we're going to do our hole punches but if you put all these pencil marks in place now and then heat emboss or stamp your sentiment it's better to do that before we attach it to the pocket because this may warp slightly you can see mine's just got a slight bit of warping but once I now stick that to the pocket and then we stick all of that to the bag it will flatten again you don't want to be heat embossing this once you've stuck it onto the bag because you're probably just going to you know end up warping the bag itself so just do that first and then for the pocket itself then you know you might not want to do yours as big but I quite liked having all that pattern on the front but this is a piece of 12 by 6 so it's just one sheet I'm just using the other half of that pattern paper okay and then you just want to score along the 12 inch side you want to score it five and ten and then just burnish until you have a pocket we're going to run some tape down there and seal it all together and then these are just decorative pieces that I'm going to stick at either end here and then I've got this one that's going to go along the bottom there again it's entirely up to you how you do this but if you do want to do the same I've got a piece of six by or it's three-eighths of an inch and then these two pieces here are half by five which is the height of the pocket okay so let me just remove the scoreboard okay so first of all we'll work on the bag and get that done so you just want to grab my bone folder just fold and burnish all of your score lines then we're going to do a bit of cutting so you'll have your half inch tab here on the right hand side along the bottom here you want to cut up both of these score lines so and then this one here just up to that first one this end piece here you just want to remove completely and then I just fold that one up and just cut a wedge off of both of those and then again remove that one and remove that one okay and do that again on the other piece we need to glue this one onto here so I'm just going to grab my glue and I'm just going to add all the way down the side and then just sit this one over the top making sure you line up your base score line here get that all straight everything else should line up but if it is a little bit off at the top least you can trim that so just give that a minute to stick flip the whole thing over fold in this side here and again add your glue bring this side over and it should all lay down and line up with everything perfectly again just make sure that's all secure now you'll start to have this shape and then just decide if you've got preference to the front or back and then you want to stick the back one down first add some glue onto the side here again I'm just going to do it on this one before I stick it all down so just on both of your side pieces fold those both in and then you just want to add glue on the front and just bring that over make sure everything's nice and square then you can just go in there and just spread out all of that glue and then now you've got those score lines you should just be able to push out the sides and just squeeze down just so it starts to form that shape add the extra score lines there which I do sometimes when I do a folding flat a folding flat a fold flat gift bag you can do but I don't think you really need to with this one the idea is this is an open style so it's got more of a bucket bag kind of style to it and you just put tissue paper in it okay so now that's what we have so next we can work on the pocket because all of this now gets stuck onto the bag so open this one up and you just want to add some tape I find tape better because if you use a liquid glue it may spread out further than you think inside and if you have intended to put a card in here or a gift card it may not fit I mean a gift card should be fine because they're obviously considerably smaller but if it is a card then you know if the glue's kind of oozed out here for example you wouldn't be able to slide some again so just pop some tape down there just on the two sides of this middle bit and then you can just fold that one up okay and then I'm just going to run a thin bead of glue down here and here and then I'm going to bring in these purely decorative no other need for them other than the fact that I just think it breaks up the pattern against the gray that I'm using there also another reason why I've chosen these colors is I've actually had these for a while they're those kind of colors that I don't really go to I'm very bright and very colorful and that's what you see you know with most of my cards and you know the 3d projects that I make so I have a lot of grays I have a lot of browns and blacks and I just thought you know I need to start using these and these kind of handbags more chic designer style actually work really well with those kind of colors so yeah that's what I'm going to do so I'm just going to trim off anything overhanging there and then I've got this one which is just going to go along and I'm just going to grab my velcro dots you don't have to add two but because it was six inches long I thought it could hold two of the velcro dots I'm just going to put one there and one there just bring those over okay and then again this is purely optional but I've put eyelets down here just decorative you see there just done three on each side so all I've done is just grabbed a pencil I'm eyeballing all of this but you just want to find the halfway between where the you know your flap comes down here so I'm going to do one there then halfway again there and halfway here so that's where I'm going to do those three and then again halfway halfway halfway okay and I'm just going to use my cropper dial here but any hole punch will do but this has the eyelet squasher squeeze pliers I don't know actually what you call the process but I'm just going to remove all of those all of my eyelets here and I'm just going to find the white ones this is now when I realize I don't have enough but I'm pretty sure I do so lesson to myself make sure I count how many of my eyelets I have before I use them I honestly thought I'd have loads but I only have seven white left and I need eight because I've already done two on that one so I need to have another two on the handle because I don't really want to change it up too much but I thought I might do white silver white and like that just to break it up but now I'm thinking maybe I have two actually I'm going to have two silver on the back handle because you're not really going to notice that I really want these to all be white because I think it works really well and then I'll have my white handle on the front and then the silver on the back look I've got one there I cannot I've literally hunted and I can't see any other white one so never mind I need to order some more so I'm going to keep them to one side so just I've already got this all set I've put them all in because they kind of sit in there and it just makes it a little bit quicker so I'm just going to pop them in there and just squeeze those all now all done and then I've got my piece here and I'm just going to run some glue I mean if you want to rub the pencil mark out you can but the idea is you stick it just slightly above the pencil line but this will now run perfectly with that oh I've just realised I need white on here as well oh no maybe I change it up with a different colour all together okay I'm going for these kind of golden ones instead so let's get those because I've got plenty of them there we go so we're going to have gold there and then white this still all works at least it's kind of all uniform so I haven't got any odd ones randomly okay so that's now stuck and then again I just want a hole punch this here just check that is you know it is all right I'm going to come up just a little bit above those I'm going to do that one there and then I'm going to grab these golden ones and again just squash those okay now grab your bag sit this over the top so it looks so good against the bag I love this style and you want to make sure you get it in the middle so just again use your ruler to make sure that you so it should be one and a quarter from the score line yeah you want to make sure you got one and a quarter and then just draw with a pencil through the eyelet so you know where you're going to be doing the next ones because all needs to line up and then you can squeeze the bag together and punch through both or if you if you would rather do the top ones and then line it up actually I think I'm going to do it that way let's have a little check no that's okay just really pinch it together make sure it all lines up okay and then I'm just going to add some glue realize what I've done is those eyelets have thrown me but you don't want to don't seal you know put these eyelets on yet until you've stuck this on then you put the eyelet on and then it will go through you know both pieces so my bad it's still going to work but yeah ideally because now I've got to try and add my glue with the kind of you know the dimension that the eyelets have now given because obviously they're slightly raised like I said it's still all going to work but don't put those on just yet um just wait and then put them on but it will still stick fine and I like it I keep all this lifted okay so it kind of flaps but just spend a minute sticking that all down and then now add your um your eyelets so I'll put a little thing up just to say don't do it just yet just in case any of you follow literally step by step but now you will have this it looks really cool so I'm just going to clear this away because I'm running out of space okay so now I want to seal the back one so I'm just going to pop these on here and I'm going to need another two for my hand so I'll list exactly the amount of eyelets you need so again I'm just going to seal those ones so now you can grab your key rings and you just want to open them slightly and just as you slide it onto this just bend it ever so slightly you don't want to cause any kind of markings on your card and then just slide it all the way around until it hooks on okay so just do the other one again so again I'm just opening it slightly bringing it down and then just bend it so you can go back under and then just try and keep it as flat as possible and it will just work its way around okay I'm just going to do that with the back okay so now we've got those and then with the handle I'm going to show you how to do actually I'll do that first because I can put them all on so where you've scored just burnish that score line up to where you can and then if you just kind of pinch it right at the end of the score line but then bring it back on itself you'll create that kind of shape okay a bit like an arrowhead there so again I'll just show you on this end so just pinch right up to the end of the score line and then push it back on itself and you'll get that look okay now also I'm sure you said before you do that you want to get something that's circular optional you don't have to do this and just draw around it on the ends there and I just thought it looked quite nice with the like a curved end rather than a kind of square and then you can just cut around it and then if you just fold them over each other or don't actually fold it but just so it can lie down on the end of it there and just do the same again so now there'll be like that shape and again there now I didn't glue it you can if you want but I find that once you've got it in that shape it won't be able to come out of that shape so you know do what works for you but I don't think you actually need to and then you're going to have the oh you're going to have the fold facing you and it's going to be like that but if you carefully start to curve it you won't get any buckles and just go back again from that end back to the other because you're basically just stretching that cardstock but now you once it's shaped you've got your handle and then again just grab your hole punch you might have to open it up a little bit just so it can be a bit flatter to go in there and just get your circles within those sections there and then add your eyelets again so now I need to find another couple of gold ones so I'm going to have the white ones on the front so again you just want to prise one open very carefully and then slide that in and again just kind of work on a slight angle you don't want to bend the card and just slide it through like so I'm just going to work my way around and do all of those okay so there are my finished bags I'll just bring this one up just so you can see it a bit better I really love it shame that all the eyelets aren't white because that is what I intended but it's a minor thing I doubt you know whoever gets this is really going to notice but it's got such a nice look about it and really do you know really like these ones and yeah I hope you do too so if you have as always please give me a thumbs up consider subscribing so you get to see more and I'll be back again soon with another fun tutorial thanks for watching bye