 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got this really cute clutch bag which I've added this massive kind of concertina bow onto the front of it, so it's a big bow clutch bag. It's a really nice size 8 by 2 so you can get plenty of bits and pieces in this. Wrap it in some tissue obviously to cover it because it isn't completely closed on the top. The idea came from a bag I saw in the window of Kate Spade who I love and she had a very small slim line obviously it was all made out of leather but the idea she just had this huge bow on the front and I thought I can replicate that in paper and here's my kind of take on it. So really really nice I've made a few little differences on this I've cut away the kind of I guess the corner so it is open but nothing would fall out of that I mean unless you put loose beads in or something then yes but if you've got it wrapped in tissue but I like the way that you get this kind of little bit of the inside popping through the sides there and you can see it on that side there as well so a few little differences to this one and then the back there you can see what it looks like all opens up and you've got plenty of room inside there so that's what we're going to make. So let me bring in today's stuff so I've already gone ahead and obviously prepped bits and pieces so I've done my kind of little center decoration there so it's just a piece of the decorative paper that I'm using and then another piece of the same from the pack and then just a little diamond here in the middle and I've just die cut them just from some circle dies that I've got for the larger one it is two and a half diameter and the smaller one is two sorry one and three quarters okay so anything similar to that it doesn't matter if it's bigger or smaller as long as you've got something and when I show you it you you can actually not even have that so we'll get to that bit in a minute okay so the paper pack I'm using is this lovely new ish new for me first edition paper pack and it's the fiesta fever and it is gorgeous and I'm going to be using some of these for some halloween projects because it's all based around the festival of the dead so it's got these skulls the really decorative skulls there so these are going to be great for some halloween projects and you've got these kind of infremera pieces that you can kind of cut out again the one there but some of the just the bold prints and colors are gorgeous you can see they're really really lovely and this is the one we're going to be using today this one here so pop that to one side so first of all we're going to make the actual bag so really straightforward you need a piece of 12 by 12 and I've already scored mine so I'm just feeling because it's a patterned paper here beautiful pattern it's all like um piñata and when you hit it and all the sprinkles come out it's kind of those tissue paper pieces okay so along the 12 inch side you want to score at five and seven so that is our base that we've just created on our two sides okay so five and seven then rotate you then want to score at two and ten okay so that's now giving us this eight inch section here with these two inch sides okay so that's the base then you need a piece of eight by 12 if you want a color that's going to match I'm using plain I found that a plain color for the bow against then a matching patterned background worked best because it made the bow really stand out okay so I've got some sun peering through now which is always the way okay so along the eight inch side you want to score it every quarter of an inch so quarter of an inch half an inch three quarters of an inch one inch then one and a quarter one and a half one and three quarters two and so on every quarter of an inch you want to go along until you have this effect and you can see all those lines and that's what we're going to follow when we do our concertina okay then you need one piece of two by four and this is going to be our little kind of enclosure over the top and then I've just got a piece running through the middle of the same paper you know that I'm using for the bow and that is going to sit right in the center there and that piece measures one and a quarter by four okay again it's optional once you see me put it together and then you can obviously change it so get rid of your scoreboard and now what we do first of all is go back to our 12 by 12 piece where we've done our gift bag and we're just going to furnish all of those score lines I love this paper because you're going to have such a nice inside pattern in this gift bag so and that one there okay so you should have it like that so you've got that two inch base and then you've got two sides and then you've got these two inch pieces here so that's what we need now need to do a bit of cutting so I'm just going to grab my scissors and basically you want to cut up the little um the sorry the five and the seven inch score line that's what you want to cut so okay so when we put it in the scoreboard we scored it five and seven I'm cutting up the five and the seven but just to then that score line that we done at two and ten so all you've got then is this little square okay I didn't realize just how busy this paper was going to be on camera but hopefully you can still make out what it is that I'm doing okay so you can see now I've just cut these two squares out here so then you can bring up your sides like so okay so that's what we're going to be doing now it's optional if you want to cut these out so I've cut them out and it is allowed for this little kind of detail here so you can just see inside there from where we pinch that in but like I said nothing's going to fall out of that so it's up to you if you want to have that effect then cut these away if you don't leave them in so it's really really straightforward so now I'm going to go and cut these very neatly out okay and this side here okay so I've now completely removed them so that when this one folds and we fold we need to add a score line in there but then you'll see a little bit of that print so it's just little bits like that that I like to change up sometimes okay so now what we can do actually is wrap your scoreboard pop it back in so it's in this orientation she's got these two square bits if you've kept them in that's fine but what you want to do now it just will help with you folding is score it one inch down and then just follow the track so you get back into the next bit down and then score it 11 down keep it in the track keep everything nice and straight and then continue and it would just mean now if you just burnish all of those so that they are valley folds there we go and then when we bring this bag back up choose what one you want to be your front and back if it's the front so this would be my front piece you want these side pieces to be over the top so for example like so bring that one in and fold that one in okay and that's what's going to give us the side of our little box or back here okay so that's that done for the minute and then again get rid of your scoreboard keep this piece now this is the 8 by 12 that we've done all those score lines on and basically flip it over and what you're going to do is just fold the first one down so it creates a valley fold okay then fold it back so you've got a mountain fold flip it over again a valley fold a mountain sorry mountain valley mountain valley and you want to do that all the way along concertina fold until you get to the very end and it will give you your fan the trick is to do each one really nice and tight pinching it together and then i'm folding it over and then flip it over again pinch it together and fold it over and that way you will keep it nice and straight okay you have something like this now it wasn't until i started doing it that i realized it was a piece of 8 by 8 not 8 by 12 so i read it that in when i tell you what size you need but basically just along any eighth inch side just score every quarter of an inch as i showed you and basically now when you pinch that in in the middle and we pull this out you can see there you start to get a really nice fan and once it's all in place it will stay like this okay so what we want to do now is actually you need some little kind of scrap pieces let me just grab i've got some bits here from when i cut it all down so this is when um you know i said that you can have um you can either decorate it with a die cut like this over the top or you can not have that and that's what i mean by using this piece here so this piece would match what i'm doing i'm going to flip it over and just keep it on the plain side here now this is literally just scrap i've just pulled it out of the bin and this is one by four okay you won't need the four length four inch length but you might want to have it wider but you're basically this is i'm just using this to um keep my bow together my intention is not for you to see any of this because this is going to be going over the top but if you want to just have this piece then you can do just watch what i do and how i put it together and then you can decide so basically you want to pinch it in as central as you can so you want to be around four inches inside so let's just bring in my ruler here so here is four inches so i'm pretty bang on there so that is the center and then i can just kind of start pulling this out you want to do well this is one inch so you want to have it so that you've got three and a half and four and a half so i'm just going to pinch it a little bit more like so just so i can create that kind of one inch area in the middle there for this to then sit like so okay so once i stick it together it will make sense so i've just popped my heat gun on there and i'm just going to let that get hot and just pop that to one side for the minute we can come back to that so i'm going to bring this back in again so we've had it all folded now we've burnished all of our sides again decide whether you've got a preference to a front or the back i'm just going to have this one as my front so what i'm going to use is my one inch double sided tape i'm just going to pop it on the insides of both of those kind of folded pieces i can add a little bit of wet glue onto any other bits as well and you can cover this all in wet glue if you would prefer you can see that i'm just putting it either side of where we scored those side pieces earlier like so and then just grab my bone folder make sure that's all nicely spread out and i will add a little bit of wet glue at the tops there just so i've got a nice kind of finish and grab my poke tool just take off the backings and then just with a little bit of wet glue a very very thin amount i'm just going to add a bit just on the tops there where they have not quite got the double sided tape and again at the bottom there like so i'm just going to bring it around that way actually and basically just kind of straighten them out a bit both of them okay so they're kind of back to being straight and just get them nicely lined up make sure you get your top nice and lined up and the bottom there and again so pop it on its side just use your ruler there and then where you've got your folds your score lines you can just then kind of work that back in again and it will give you that cool little bit there like i said it's optional if you don't like it then don't do that bit and then again with this one straighten them out again concentrate on the top make sure that's all nice and straight so and just pinch them in and you can close it up okay look how cool that pattern is inside so that's really easy to do and what i'm going to do is just trim away a little bit of the score line which i can see so and see if i've got any on that one like so right so that's all done now i think my glue gun is yep ready to go so pinch that back basically before you pinch it just run a bead of glue so it kind of drops in all of those kind of valleys and then pinch it together okay i don't know if it forms a big splodge like that okay and when your fingers can withhold the heat that blob that was on the top i've just gone over it now pushed it in to all of those kind of gaps okay so now you can see it's starting to hold the bow together it's opening up on the back so we haven't done the back yet but that's what you want is to have it kind of like that flip it over and again kind of let it open a bit and just put some glue in the bits let's splodge some on top there again keeping it all within that one inch area and again once that glue is kind of still wet but warm and you can handle the heat i just push it all in so now i've got that bow it doesn't move and again it's still just drying a little bit but you can really now start to pull out the fan like so and it will stay like that and then just to cover up obviously all of that glue that's when this piece here will come in handy so i would say cut it down to two you probably even cut off a bit more there put another little bead of glue pop it right in the center again keep using your reel if you want to use wet glue here i've got three and a half three and a half it's a little bit off that side it could probably still lift that off and just move it over a little bit more completely dry so just just making sure one and a half three and a half three and a half that's about that'll do okay and then on the side bit here the little quarter inch side just again i'm just putting another little bead of glue and just fold that in and again on that side there just a little bead of glue bring up the sides and then just fold whatever one it is you want down like so and then that other one now like i said you're not going to see any of this on my one if this is all going to be visible on yours then i would do it obviously neater then i've just done it but i think even for a rushed attempt there if i just take off the strings you can see that still looks really nice so you may just want to keep it like that and again just keep working all of your pieces until you get your bow nice and even okay so i am then going to have that now stuck over the top of that so you're not going to see any of it so let me just pop that out of the way next you want to bring in those two pieces that we had here and this is when we're going to use our magnetic our magnets to make our magnetic closure so i've got a ton of these very thin magnets which are rare earth ones and they are believe they're one mil yeah one mil by 15 probably 16 actually it's usually they are so one by 16 i'll share links but these are really really good and because they're so thin you don't you know they you don't get any of that bulk on your um paper projects so first of all i would use a glue dot so just bringing in i've got some large almost the same size glue dots i'm just going to pop one over my magnet and just take that one off and then i'm going to pop it on the bottom in the middle of this hang on a minute if i done that the right way yeah so it's going to go like so okay so it's gone at the bottom of this piece then this piece is going to stick over the top so what i'm going to do is add my double-sided tape right down through the middle like so then i'm also going to add a very very small um bead of hot glue so it's just to take that one off and that's just going to be where the magnet is so i'm just going to put a little just a small bead of hot glue pop that one down so it keeps that one in place and then just lie the rest up line up even lie it down and line it up okay like so and you should just kind of see push it down so you do see the magnet because you're not going to see it once we stick that right at the bottom like so okay but we're going to attach this to our bag first because it makes it much much easier to do it that way and then so that is the front that's going to come down on the front of the bag here so this end bit i'm just cornering rounding off the corners and then just to help it all kind of fold over nicely grab my other bone folder and just curl card by doing that it will help because i didn't want a fold line i didn't want it to be you know a scored line and folded in half i wanted to keep that nice and a curved effect there all right so now we've got that piece there and then basically you want to line this up in the middle so this is a uh what did i say it was eight so i would just lie your ruler over the top with a pencil just mark a kind of a line of four inches okay just so you've got something there to mark it with and then i came down because that came down further so this is one and a half so from that four inch marker come down at one and a half and again put another line and you don't want to go any further than that one and a half so with the end that's got the rounded edges not the end with the magnet we're going to stick that and you just want it to sit nice and centered and in line with that one and a half inch pencil mark you don't like I said don't go down any further than that so i'm going to add some of my wet glue onto this just so just down to that one and a half inch and then i'm going to add it right across so i know that that it all sticks down like so again it's only a lightweight bag so you don't have to go crazy crazy and then just spend some time you've got that wiggle room just making sure that you get a nice even amount but the main is to you know make sure it's right at that four inch right in the middle you just get that all stuck down okay so that's now stuck down so that is going to come over like so okay so what you want to do now is get your other magnet pop that over and just drop the magnet inside and you can see now where it closes the magnet is in there just attaching itself already so i'm going to look in i'm going to now pinch and hold that magnet in place she says let's just bring that down so i do want it to come down a bit more bring it down a bit more you want the magnet i would say to be you do want it to close your bag so let's come down so i'm going to have my front piece two inches all right so you want the magnet to be down around the two inch mark so what i'm going to do is take that all out i've got the magnet there and then inside again mark at four inches so it's going to be hard for you to see this i'm just marking four inches in the middle and then now two inches down so just put a little cross so you've got there you can see my little pencil mark there which is at four inches and then i've just come down two inches and all this is is for you to put your magnet so again i've got a glue dot okay so just stick that down inside with your glue dot make sure that you've got it in the right it's up the right way so that the magnets do snap together you don't want them to be on the negative so they push away from each other okay so just make sure your magnets are the right way so that's all nicely stuck down and then i've just got a piece of one by one one inch by one inch of the same color inside here so this is just from the pieces that i cut off these little two inch by two inch cut it down pop a little glue dot in the middle sorry um bead of hot glue and then i'm putting some wet glue around this and i'm just going to pop that inside just to cover the magnet because these are only one mill i've got little glue glue strings all over me because it's only one millimeter you don't get any bulks it's really easy to conceal your magnets like so and just seeing they're a little bit crooked but it's concealed nonetheless okay so now when i bring that over it snaps nicely into place okay now we need to attach our bow so i'm going to pop my nice piece here you might want to do this you might want to it's still attached to the bow but i'm going to pop this on now i'm just putting a bead of glue there and just get that nice and centered about there okay and then again i'm going to pop some hot glue now on this piece and pop this one just at the bottom of your tab that hangs over i'm just going to lift that up and just make sure that's all nicely stuck down so i've literally lined it up you can see there with the very bottom of this piece okay you bring that over the weight of the bow as well also brings it down but it just all snaps in to place take those strings out they are everywhere bringing your sides a little bit there as well gorgeous bow again i can still pull mine even more because on my um other one they almost touch the bottom so there's that one there isn't that gorgeous absolutely love these so that's that one let's just move my turn my glue gun off and there's the other one in fact i think i might have done that with 12 8 by 12 and scored along the 12 inch side and not the 8 inch side so there you go if you use 8 by 8 you'll get that kind of bow but i must have done i totally forgot i made this a few days prior and then filmed it afterwards so um i guess this one i've used so i'm just trying to get the glue off there it was yeah 12 by 8 and i must have scored then along the 12 inch side at every quarter of an inch rather than the eight and then it gives you that really full of bow that comes down but actually i think they both look really nice so it's entirely up to you i'll edit that into the video anyway and then you can decide which one you want to do so there you have it two very lovely little clutch bags perfect for some nice little gifts and the magnet holds it all into place really nice yeah i think they're great so i hope you've enjoyed these ones hope you give them a go please share them on the mixed up craft facebook group i love how many of you are sharing at the moment it's becoming a really really nice group so do go across and join and i will be back again soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye