 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixup Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make these gift bags. They're a really nice size, they're five and three quarters by five and three quarters in width and then they're six and a quarter high. So as I've said before I'm just trying to build up a playlist of lots of different size gift bags because you know we all buy different things and yeah you can't always find the right gift bag for them. So when I open this one up you can see just how big this is. Now the base is reinforced four times because each side is folded in. So with the collow glue in between each layer this is now become very very strong. So these will easily hold a nice heavy candle, preserve so like your jams and your chutneys things like that they will definitely you know be fine in this and I've also reinforced the ribbon with some hot glue just at the tops and then there's double-sided tape all the way down. But I like that style with the ribbon I think it looks really nice. You can just pinch them at the top if you want to just close them up like so and then if you do want to store them flat you know they obviously they do fold down flat. But I've also scored them on both sides just because it made it easy for the ribbon to be folded but I actually quite like it. I don't mind the score line on the front it's actually how a lot of your shop brought kind of paper bags come if you you know some shops that you'll see they're folded on both sides so it just yeah just another different thing to show you. So I've got the happy Christmas on those ones and I've got the wooden lovely beautiful sparkly snowflake on a few of them but I've now run out of all of those the one I'm going to make today I haven't got one of these to stick on so I'll come up with something else but so far I've got two four six eight nine and then I'm going to do the tenth one today so let me show you how to make them. Okay so I've used the paper addicts sleigh ride I've used this for the bookmarks I made a bookmark using one of the papers and then I think just this project I think that's all I've done and that's all I've got left oh and that sheet there actually but one more here this one here so that is all I've got left from the pad so probably I will do something with that again those that follow me I like to use stuff I like to get it used because next year there's going to be more wonderful papers out there and yeah that's what it's all about so you need two pieces of 12 by 12 I've got some ribbon there which I'll give you the measurements for in a moment so both pieces you will score exactly the same unless you don't want to have the score line on the front so both pieces if you want to do them exactly like I have okay so if the paper's directional and you've got a pattern make sure it's the right way up you're going to score it five and three quarters then you're going to score at 11 and a half okay then you want to rotate and you want to score at five and three quarters and then you want to score at eight and five eighths okay and it's that eight and five eighths line that we've scored all the way down which you want to do on both pieces if you want it to fold both ways just as I've made it if you don't and you just want it to fold on one side so you don't have the fold on the front you still want to do these score lines on this piece but just on one piece and then rotate it back again and score at eight and five eighths just down to that first score line which would have been the eighth and five eighth score line that you just done this way here okay so that's everything there and you'll want to repeat that again on the other piece if you're doing it like me if you're not I'll say then you want to bring the other piece in and you're going to again score at five and three quarters and then 11 and a half then rotate and you're going to score at five and three quarters all the way down but then because you don't want to have that fold on the front if you want to do it the other way flip the card stock and do far and eight and five eighths of an inch pass the first score line and down to the second okay then flip it back over again and then pop it back in it's the position where you would have scored your original five and three quarters and 11 and a half and you're then going to score eight and five eighths down to the first score line okay so the only difference that you'll have with this one to that one is you won't have a score line through this section here you'll just have your base score line and where you can feel that score line there it will stop and it won't continue whereas on this one it continues across and I've done that on both of my pieces and I'm going to do that again on this one so I'm just going to pop it back in and I want to score that far eight and five eighths I'm going to score all the way down okay so there's two ways to do it I've got a whole playlist of fold flat gift bags again I will share that one up here have a look at that just to get your head around you know maybe the style that you want but I'm going to fold it both ways so that's everything you need there okay then you want to fold and burnish all of those score lines okay then we want to do a bit of cutting so with that half inch tab on the right hand side you just want to cut up that middle score line up to the first score line so just like so okay and then you'll have this tab piece here you want to cut all the way up that one again to that same first score line okay and then just cut on an angle so you're creating a little kind of wedge on it just you want to form a tab there because that's what we're going to use to stick it all together and take a bit off the top okay then fold that one under and this one here you just want to take some nice wedges off just so it doesn't overhang when we stick down the base like so and repeat that on the other one okay now before we stick it together you've got a couple more score lines so you will have if I just fold this one is going to end up folding up like this that other score line same with that one if you haven't scored across both of them you won't be able to do that on one of them don't do it on both you're only do it on one of them if the score line obviously doesn't go through that one don't fold it so you will have I fold that one under you'll have this rectangle here you see this rectangle piece all right you've got your tab there there'll be a score line here I'm just doing it like this just so you can see if I flip it over I know that doesn't help it's a busy paper I know but there is a rectangle here and then there'll be that score line that 8 and 5 8 score line that will come down in the centre you want to score from that score line to the corner here from that score line to the corner there I'm going to open this back out so I don't want to print through onto that but I'm just going to score again tons and tons of tutorials you'll see this and some of them will probably be a bit clearer because I'll be using a playing card stock but it's very straightforward but I've just done a triangle I've just fold that all in just within this rectangle section here and there is a score line just going down to there and another one just going down to there okay so do that on both pieces okay and then just with those score lines just kind of push them towards you and just pinch that one there okay it's basically that's going to fold it in like so form the side and then you can see now it will fold flat just by the way that we fold it in but it will make sense when I put it together in a moment anyway but mine's going to go both ways so that's that one and then again this one here just kind of push them up it will just help it all when you go to put it all together or when I didn't cut my wedges off of here like so okay next we want to stick them together okay so we're going to put glue on this tab and we're going to stick this one over the top like so so I'm just going to bring in my glue and then I'm just going to lay that down stick that one over the top and just make sure your base score line lines up that's the most important one you can always trim the top if it's a little bit out but mine's all okay and then flip it over fold in one side here with the other tab piece and add some glue and then bring the other one over and it should all line up properly the whole thing will be nice and flat okay so if you haven't done your score line all the way through on both of them like I did you'll have one of these you'll have your panels with the triangles on on the side and then you'll have one on the front which maybe won't have a score line going through it if you haven't done if you've done it that way now would probably be a good time to add your ribbon and I'll show you I'll do one with it flat and then I'll put it together the other side I'll do when it's um you know put it all together so all I've done is I came in about an inch just pop some double-sided tape nice and straight all the way up there and then again come in the other side just about an inch and if you want to use red tape you can I'm just this is fine like so and then I'm just going to peel the backing off and then make sure your ribbon's got a nice straight end and then you just want to sit it at the bottom just run it all the way up make sure it's all stuck down you'd be surprised how well it stays and then I'm just going to bring it around and just line up the other one at the bottom my double-sided tape is about three eighths of an inch thick this ribbon is about half an inch and then stick that one down and then what I did is I just peeled it back ever so slightly if you don't want to peel it back again then don't do it you know just leave it from the top but just put a thin bead of glue like so and then just lay it back down and you won't see it at all I mean this is a very textured ribbon I imagine maybe if you're using like a satin ribbon you may well see it but what you could do if that's the case is put something decorative over the top you know maybe punch some circles or some nice leaves or flowers and then stick it over the top so you've then got still got the reinforced glue under there but then you've put something decorative over the top so there's ways around it but that is how I would say to do it if you aren't going to have it fold on both sides like I have okay then what you want to do so if this is the front then I would leave that one till last and I would bring the base up first and then I'm going to add some glue to this side here stick that one in there for a minute I'll turn it upside down in a second and then put some glue on that one and then finally put some glue on the last one which should be the one that's on the front just always gives you a nicer finish and then fold that one down and then flip the whole thing over and you can just go in there she's got so much space and just spread all that glue out and make sure that's stuck really nicely okay and then what you should be able to do is if you just push in the sides I always put my finger above the triangle there and just pinch it and where you've done those other score lines it will just all fold down okay but because I've done the folds on both sides you should be able to fold that piece over okay and then if you are then sticking your ribbons out now for the first time all you do again the same thing but I'm going to use this one to line up so but if you're just starting off it doesn't matter just make sure they're both the same on each side and then that one and remove the backing and then with that other piece which I didn't give them measurement for I think it was 22 yeah 22 inches these are that's if you want that length obviously you can do any one and you don't have to do it this way you could put paper handles you could put some hole punch through and you know put the ribbon through that way I just thought it was something a little bit different and because it's Christmas and this is all sparkly I just thought it worked really nicely again just stick that around and I'm just going to tidy that up a little bit there I'll just peel that back a little bit so there's the finished gift bag so you can you know put a little thing on there like I have gift tags I've got some gift tags that I'll be using on these anyway they're just plain like silver discs so I'll just be adding them to this but yeah I really like it and it's nice obviously because paper's double sided so it looks yeah just looks really great so I'm going to pop all those in there the last one that I've done like this I actually donated to a raffle and someone picked that one up so someone else is enjoying that one but this one I will be using because I've actually or the most a lot of the gifts I've brought are perfect for this size bag so yeah they're going to come in very handy and they store nicely like that for the minute anyway but yeah they have it so I hope you've enjoyed it I will put the size in the title just so it's easy for you to find it if you you know look at them at later dates this could be used obviously for any occasion so thank you for watching as always please hit the like button if you have enjoyed today and hit the subscribe as well if you would like to see more tutorials see you soon bye