 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 adorable handbag style gift bag. I actually made this one as an addition like an add-on for an online craft along that I done the other day and it was using these supplies that are featured in this one so I actually did share this with the ladies in that craft along so I know that a few of them will be looking out for this tutorial today because they already have the product to be able to make this. I'll link all the product that I've used below that video is an exclusive video for the people that paid for the class so you won't be able to see the cards apart from photos that I share on social media. The actual tutorial for that is for those that participated on the day however there will be future craft alongs and I will always share those details over on my Facebook page if you're interested and you'd like to maybe catch one in the future but for today I'm going to show you how to make this. So the scoring and everything you can do and you can use other embossing folders that you might have but I do love this lovely little gift tag that I've got here and this top is actually from a belly band and then you just open up here and you've got so much space inside and I've used the embossing folder on the front on this piece and also on the back and I've done the handle slightly differently this time so it kind of falls back and then when you go to pick it up and you know it's that way so it's really nice I've got little embellishments on here as well so let me show you how to make this really fun gift bag. Okay so I've got here two pieces of cardstocks you need one piece that is 10.5 by 12 and this is going to be the back piece and it will have a little bit of the closure attached so it's going to kind of flip over for us to attach another piece on too so along the 10.5 inch side if it's directional paper make sure it's facing up the right way you might be using a pattern cardstock or something so along that 10.5 you want to score it 6 and at 10 then rotate it so that last score lines along the top and you're going to score it 1, 2 and 8 okay so that's that piece and then you'll want this piece here which is 10.5 by 10 and again along the 10.5 this is again if you've got anything with pattern make sure it's the right way up you're going to score at 6 and at 10 and then you're going to rotate and score at 4 okay now I've also scored at 8 just back along this 10.5 I've scored at 8 about three quarters of the way down it will just help you close it kind of pinch it together a little bit just on the side there so that's those two pieces and I'll just give you the measurements for these here so these are going to go on the front and the back these are mats and layers so the white is five and three quarters squared and then the pink is five and a half squared and I've got two pieces for the front and back and I've used this really nice it's a wicker pattern embossing folder by Craftwork cards and you can see the design that you get with that there so it looked great in craft cards especially if you're doing like some nice baskets for Easter and even Christmas time and things it looks really good and obviously a bag like this as well and then for the lid so this is the front of the lid this piece here I actually cut from the excess here from this piece okay and this is six by two and then the white piece is five and three quarters by one and three quarters and the pink is five and a half by one and a half and then I've just embossed that top piece there just so that everything matches then for the decoration I'll go through the handle later but for this piece and the birthday cake here I've used these dies here which is the cake shop by Craftwork cards and this is the cake that you can create and then I have cut the same again in white and covered the backs now I've got a little tag and I've got somewhere to be able to write on so it's just really really cute I do love this and then this lovely piece here is just the center part of this belly band again which is by Craftwork cards and you've got the extra little flower there which I've used just to build up and I've just used glossy accents on it and you can see there there we go when it catches the light you've got all that shine over it and I just thought it's going to tie everything together and look really nice and match that card and everything so I've got this to one side there okay so first of all we want to fold and burnish all of the score lines okay so first of all with the larger piece I've got this half inch tab here on my right hand side and I've got these two sections along the top and this is the base so first of all we want to do a little bit of cutting so along the bottom here I'm just going to cut up this one right up to that first storyline and then this one here we're just going to remove completely like so and then flip it around so now that half inch is on the left hand side you're going to cut down these two score lines here sorry that one score line past those two score lines okay just there and then again this corner here we're going to remove completely like so and now we've got this tab so I'm just going to take a little wedge off of the two corners there and then this these two here we're actually going to remove completely I forgot it's not just that end but you want to actually take this away as well because this is the side so really neatly and then we can add our score line into the side of this if you want to okay like so and then this square here this is going to be one of your side tabs so I'm just going to take a nice wedge off of the sides there don't need to do anything with that because what's going to happen is this is going to fold in add the score line in a minute and once we've done that that will pinch in and this will come over the front so we'll do that now just so then we can see how it's all going to look so pop it back in your scoreboard like so and then just follow the eight inch down and then that should bring you halfway and then just score about three quarters of the way down you know don't you don't have to worry too much it was just now what we can do is just kind of roughly pinch that in and you can see now that's the side that we're going to have okay so that's that piece and then with this one you want to have the half inch tab on the right hand side and again you're going to do the same as the other one so you're going to cut up just to that first score line and then we're going to cut this section away completely I'm going to cut a little wedge there at the same time so it's all done and then just along the top there and now we can just pinch back that score line as well like so okay so now with this piece here we're going to attach this tab into this section here so ignore these it's within this six by six square that we've got here so I'm just going to bring in my glue I'm just going to run my glue down that tab and then just sit this one over the top always focus on your base score line make sure that they're lined up because everything else you can always trim and you know it's easier to alter the top there than it is the bottom and I've just remembered I actually need to take a couple of wedges just off of this square one here as well just like we did with that one there okay and then if we flip the whole thing over I've just gone and cut that one there fold this side and again add some glue and then bring that one over there and again it should all lay down and line up like so okay so while that's drying I'm now going to stick down these so this is going to go in this six by six area here and you'll see it fit nicely with that border remember the piece this side one with the score line that's your side of the gift bag so you want to make sure that you put this I mean you can see the square anyway but just make sure you're within that square so I'm going to do this one on the front and I'm going to do exactly the same with the other one on the back okay so I've stuck those on the front and the back and then I'm just going to add glue onto this outer rectangle here and then I'm just going to stick this one over the top it's exactly six inches wide and I'm just going to line it right up to the score line there so we'll fold down nicely again just give that a moment to grab okay so now we can open everything up and I'm just going to fold it up like this so this one here is the back so I want to fold that one down first of all and then I'm going to add glue onto the sides of these fold them in and then glue on that one and fold it down and then that will conceal the side pieces within these two larger rectangles I'm just going to flip the whole thing over you've got lots of room inside there so I can really get in bringing your ruler or your bone folder then just really push down make sure your corners are secure that'll be a nice strong base there you can always reinforce this you could put some grayboard on top of this piece or you could sandwich it in between the two so while that's drying so now because we kind of burnish them they will just go in like so and then you want it to just kind of bounce open so that it's the width of that one inch there and you get a really nice shape to your gift bag just make sure there you go it goes right down to the points there just push them in like so okay so now I can decide where I want this top to go and it's when you start adding in these pieces now look at that it just becomes such a pretty looking gift bag once we add that on and then the birthday cake tag oh I love all this stuff so I think for me I might find it a bit easier to stick it that way and then the velcro dot can go under there so I want this to overhang and yeah and I've got to bear in mind that obviously that surface is raised so it's only going to stick to the you know the raised parts of the embossing folder or the embossed pattern so I'm just going to pop my glue on that top half there I just flick it over and then I can see where I am so I mean if you're using an oval shape or something or a square obviously it'd be easier to line up but I think I've got about you know an even amount on each side there just test how that looks I think that looks really nice I'm just going to hold that down for a second and then I've just got some velcro dots here these are 10 mil hook and loop so I'm just going to take a pair off there and I'm going to pop it probably in that bit there because I think that's it will hold you know it's just I don't want to put it right down on there because it might just be a little bit too weak for it and again make sure before you stick it down that you've got the gift bag open that one inch and then it will just it's nice and straight and you can just push that one there okay closes up really nicely such a great shape to the handle optional you could keep it as a little clutch style like this it looked really nice but I want the handle because I also want to be able to tie that around so it's kind of yeah kind of like that I think it's going to look very very sweet so this piece here is just how I do a lot of my handles if I haven't already linked it I'll link my handbag playlist because there's there's so many on there now and they're always popular I try to make each one different so this is a piece of scrap this was 11 and a half by one inch and what you want to do is score start scoring from one inch all the way down to 10 and a half okay so you should have you know one inch free here and here of that center score line then just fold it in half and just curl it with the bone folder okay now you can add glue in there but because of the way that you've curved it you've kind of stretched the cardstock it's not going to come out of that position and once we stick these ends down there is no real reason to add the glue but if you want to because maybe you're putting something quite heavy in there or you just want your own piece of mind to know it's not going to come apart by all means do so so yours will right now yours would be like probably something like that pinch it right down to the end of that score line between your thing finger and your thumb and then push back on itself so you get that triangle shape okay and then from the bottom there just fold that up like so let's use a scoreboard so again pretend that one's not done so you'll have something like that pinch right up to the end of this score line here and then push back so you get a nice triangle shape and then just fold that up so it lines up with the bottom of the triangle so you should have half an inch here and half an inch there now there's quite a few ways that you can stick this down because I was playing around in my head before you could have it like this okay which is how I think I'm going to do it for this one so when you're not holding it it's going to because once that's stuck if I just kind of hold it they're going to fall down like that but then when you lift it up they come up and I think I don't know it's just a little bit different you'll if you want to you can do it that way for there be like this or you could do it that way so it faces backwards and you could also stick it on the actual backs of the bag on there then you maybe want to glue it or you could do it that way actually that's what I think of course you want to do it that way there we go like that so there's loads of ways but I really like the thought of this way so it's a bit bouncy a bouncy handle so I'm going to use the quick grab a cosmic shimmer which is here so I'm going to sit this one down on the left first so I just want to make sure that I think I'm going to come in maybe actually let's just lay it down first of all yeah one inch from each side will be fine so I'm just going to and I'm going to open the bag up because I think it's going to be easier to work with it like this so I'm going to come in about one inch oh that way and then I want it to be right in the middle so I'm going to get this one down nice and straight and then I can measure exactly where that is and I think I'm going to bring in a couple of these embellishments they are from stamping up I've had them for a while now just to tie in because I've used them on the lovely little arrangement here I'm going to pop them in there as well the actual measurement now from that one there is it is seven eighths of an inch so I'm going to add my glue okay so there is the gift bag isn't it adorable I love the little gems there or the flat bat pearls embellishments whatever you want to call them I think it looks absolutely adorable it's just got such a cute little I always say whenever I make these cute little gift bags I just think they'd be perfect for a little girl's tea party you know and have these as a little gift this is the gift bag for everybody on their kind of place you know at the table I think it's adorable so then you've got your gift tag here so again completely optional but I do think it just all just makes it super cute I just love doing all this kind of stuff so I think I need to almost attach it whilst it's on there and then I might with a bit of hot glue I think what I'm going to do actually is just do a like a little bow here and then just attach with a bit of hot glue the cake to this piece do you like a gift bag with a tag with a matching tag but I don't find that I make them enough so I'm going to do something like that and just attach it to the the one candle I think that'll look quite cute I'm just going to pop the smallest bead of glue just on that candle and then I'm going to pop the candle in here and just hide it behind that knot in the center of the bow there and just bring that bow towards the front and now I've got a really cute little birthday cake gift tag all ready to write on I think it's adorable absolutely love this so there you have it so I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial it's really straightforward to do but I just think with those little details and just the tag and I love this on the front and you've just got so much room inside there it's yeah nice bit of pink tissue paper as well to finish it off I think I look adorable and I just like that that different way of having the handle I think it's yeah it works really well I think so there you have it so thank you for watching as always all the links to what I've used today will be shared in the video description below and I'll be back very soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye