 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. So following on from yesterday's tutorial I've made these gift bags, really nice size, haven't made this size before and they fit the selection box that I made yesterday perfectly. So this is from here and just see as the side, you can kind of see it all there. I'm not going to open these up, these are actually already, I've put the tissue paper in, I just need to fill out the back of the gift tag there but the, I put everything together, they've got their gift cards in them as well. So that's the other one there as well just so you can see and I've used the papers that matched each one. So this is the Dovecraft selection box, it's got the Dovecraft papers, this one is using the Magical Memories and then this is the other one, so this is what I made just today for it. So for anybody coming into this tutorial, if you want to see how to make this just go up here or just look back at yesterday's tutorial, be able to find it on my page. So for that one I'm using the Festive Folly papers, so I've got everything here ready to go, I'm going to just move that away actually so I don't get that much. So on its own it's a really nice gift bag, you don't have to use it to put that in. So again that's why I've kept the tutorials separate because it's always nice for you to just be able to go to one if that's all you need and not have to watch the whole thing. So for the gift tag I use the Twas the Night tag from Woodwear and then for the large sentiment on the front I've used the Happy Christmas from the Big Christmas Words, I just always use that one, I used it a lot last year as well. So I'm going to go through the bits as we go to them rather than go through everything at the beginning. So to start off it's a deconstructed gift bag in order for us to get that large size using our 12 by 12 and A4 papers. So you want two pieces of pattern paper that are 9 by 12 and along the 12 inch side if it's directional paper okay so there it is the right way up you want to then pop it on its side and then you're going to score that six and a half. Okay then do that on both pieces, fold it in half and it's that six and a half piece that becomes the base and that is the front that's one of the sides. So again with this one here so then the larger size you can see when they're folded in half the larger size is the base and that one will stick over that one and you'll see there how we've got our front and back of it coming together. So that's those two pieces then you want to create your side so I've already cut one down but you want two pieces that are seven and a half by eight okay and it's along the seven and a half side you want to score it half an inch and seven inches and then along the eight inch side you want to score it three okay do that on two pieces and then just fold and burnish those score lines okay and then once I've got the scoreboard these two pieces here are the large pieces for the handle and these measure eight and a quarter which is the default A4 width in the UK and that is by nine inches okay and along the eight and a quarter side you want to score it four and one eighth of an inch you can if you want do it eight inches you can do it eight and a half okay so if you're you know somewhere where you have eight and a half by 11 paper you can do the eight and a half just score half way so you'll be scoring it four and a quarter rather than four and one eighth do that on two pieces okay and fold and burnish okay so that's all the scoring done so with the side pieces the ones that you've scored at half an inch and seven I've already done that one but you want to along this shorter piece here you want that facing you you're going to cut up these two score lines to this score line here and then just remove that okay cut a little wedge there and cut a little wedge off of that as well these will be our little tabs to fold in the sides and then cut up that one take a little wedge off and again just take a bit more off of that one there okay so you will have two pieces like that so we now want those two pieces and our pattern paper so make sure you've got your right direction up and you're going to be sticking all of this so remember the large six and a half pieces of the base all right so this here this score line here needs to line up with this score line here don't worry that they don't reach the top they're not supposed to so you just want to make sure that it runs nice and parallel with the fold there but these score lines match up okay so I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue on these tabs here okay so I'm just going to line up that score line and just stick that one down once it's grabbed just flip it over and if you fold that one you can see that you've got it nice and straight and you'll have a little bit of wiggle room there just to move it like so and also do the bottom fold just fold it up and make sure that they run nicely together okay but that's what you should have there then grab another one of these and you're going to put glue along the other tab like so and you're going to stick it the opposite side so again exactly the same way so just lift it up underneath making sure your score lines all match up okay and then get your other piece of pattern paper pop some glue again make sure you got the right direction the largest six and a half piece should always be at the bottom and then lay that one down on there they all line up perfectly then flip it over bring over one of your sides and bring this one over and just pop again some glue all on that tab lay that one down and pop that one over the top and they should line up perfectly okay next you want to decide which you want to be your front and back so I've got the just seeing where I've got my little reindeer's there because that's going to be the base that's actually quite nice see how they are on that side so you do see more on that one it's actually the same but you do see they are pretty much the same I'll just stick with this one okay and then you want to what we're going to do is I'm going to reinforce the base so I've just got this here which is just some of the card from the back of one of my 12 by 12 paper pads but if you're putting something with a bit of weight to it which this does because it has chocolate and stuff in it then I've got this piece that I've cut to nine by six and a half you may have to just shrink the sizes slightly but I found it to be okay but I'm going to now this is when I'm going to use my Kalau glue and because it's like a little layer of cement between the paper so it does you know provide a lot of strength so I'm just going to pop this all over the back of this fold those out and then I'm going to stick it onto this piece also just flip it over there just so it's all stuck down okay and then I'm going to pop some glue on one of the sides and I'm going to stick the side on there just kind of tack it there for a minute and then do the same on this side here and if you just flip it over for the minute you just make sure that all sticks down. These are great as well when you've got double sided paper because you get that really nice effect inside so it all matches very nicely and then I'm just now going to pop glue on the back of this one here and then just make sure that's all stuck down yeah we've got a really nice you know gift bag coming together next you want these pieces I'm going to leave that now so I've got these pieces here okay so these are the ones that we've folded in half so what you want to do is I've used the card making magic these the A5 oval dies and I used the one two three four five six so the fifth sixth and seventh I've used from the smallest from the center and the smallest one I used to die cut and stamp my little message there and then it's the sixth and the seventh that I've stuck together like this to make the actually no because that's to make the rings so you want just the the sixth I guess largest or smallest however you want to look at it is the one that I'm using to actually make the handle so you want to lay it down with the the folded piece at the top okay because we're going to end up gluing it all together and you just want to sit the oval or square doesn't have to be an oval but I'm going to bring it so it's about it's about half an inch from the top and make sure you've got it equal you know there but I think that's about right I'm just going to take that down there okay and then I'm going to run that through my die machine so it's going to cut through both layers so make sure you got your sandwich right and metal shims and things like that okay and then it should yeah mine's gone through and that's with the germini that's to cut through both perfectly and then use this one as a template for the next one just to make sure that you do get them in exactly the same place I've just sat that over the top oh try not to draw on it and just draw around that so now I've got my oval there and then all I need to do so you just then want to make sure that you just line up the pencil line let's stick that inside there and then just die cut that one okay so that's those two keep all of these pieces they're always handy for making the tags and things like that okay so now I've got these pieces ready we are going to stick them over this piece here that's this like half an inch piece that's higher so it will go one side over this bit and one over the other and you want it to just stick you can just see there just covering that half inch piece so that's your guide but it just extends the bag everything matches I'm just thinking it'll look quite cool and then I've got these decorative strips to just kind of break up that join which we'll stick on in a minute so all you want to do here is you want to stick glue onto one half of one piece and then just along the bottom of the other okay and then just along there cover half an inch and then it doesn't matter which one you want to start on first which one is my front again that's that one so I'm going there I'm going to do this one here so just make sure you sandwich it keep it nice and straight so with your other piece you want to do the same and stick it on this side okay so whilst that's drying then I've got all these pieces and to get these ones I cut the larger one and that's medium one so it would have been six and seven and I put them together and you just want to stick them so that you've got a nice even border with both of them so like that okay so can you see I've got a nice even border there die cut them four times if you want to do inside as well which I did and you'll then have these you'll get these rings and that's now what I'm going to stick around each of these I think it's this and then these strips here which really kind of just add that little detail and that finishing touch so for them and then these are the width of the bags and nine inches the cream one is half an inch and then the brown one is a quarter of an inch both nine inches long and just do two of those okay so I'm now going to go and get all of this stuck down I did die cut them all in brown first and then thought actually no I want them in cream so I've just put brown behind so mine are two layers there but you don't have to do that okay and then with my merry christmas and one of these if you just sit it on there you've got an instant tag for the front so I'm just going to pop a couple of sticky pads on the back so then I've got the box so you'll see I love these that look all matching and then that will sit inside I've got tissue paper to go over the top but I've still got the gift cards to come for those so there's a cinema gift voucher going in those with all the chocolates I thought that worked quite well together so I'm yeah I love that and what a beautiful presented gift I think it's so nice okay so I've got some twine here I've got the gift tag already done and I've got these little shaker they were around little gift tags they had like two and from on them but I took them off I got them from B&M but I'm just going to cut some of this and thread it through here I already stuck some berries on this it's the last two berries that I've got so it will have tissue in it you want to make sure that you've stuck that trim down because it will pop out otherwise as this kind of curves around and then I'm just going to thread that through the top of that one tie that on there like a loose knot and then I thread the star on and then just trim off the ends and there you have it really lovely very strong gift bag you'd be surprised what you can now fit in that because that base is really strong and if you want to reinforce it with a thicker grayboard then you can do so yeah I'm really pleased with these and I love that you know it's all homemade yet they look really really special they look like little houses as well you could certainly maybe use this concept and create like a house on the front a bit like I've done my Christmas cottage you could possibly do you know something like that let me just can't get it all in but there you go you can see what I've done so hope you've enjoyed this gift bag tutorial it's a different size it will go into the playlist where I title all of the bags by size so if you've brought a present and now you're trying to look for a gift bag to suit it just go through that playlist and you'll be able to see all the measurements so I will list this one as the nine by six and a half by five I guess it is so yeah hope you like it please give me a thumbs up if you did enjoy today and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye