 Hey everyone it's Sam here thank you for watching today so I'm going to make a gift bag today and I've got my lovely little handbags book here for inspiration and today I'm going to try and recreate this Fendi bag from 2001. I love this beadwork and then the embroidered flowers here obviously I'm not going to be doing any embroidering or using any beads but I think the idea that I've got is going to work quite well so yeah let me show you how I'm going to make it. Okay so as always I've already gone ahead and done a lot of stuff and I'll talk you through the detail on those as we go get rid of all of this here so I've already stuck down all of these sequins to give me the look of the beads on that bag and these are just a little sequin mix that I've had for ages it was actually I think it's like a party table party kind of confetti and they came to mind as soon as I saw that beadwork because it's all the same kind of colours I thought I was originally I was thinking about doing lots of dots of nuvo and I just thought that's going to take too long to dry and if I go wrong you know it will ruin the whole thing whereas you can see here's like really heavy beading at the bottom then it just kind of fades out so I've kind of tried to recreate that with these little discs I can always add a few more once I put the bag together if I feel it needs it but that's what I've done so this is the front that you need the same for the back so I can use that one to score and then this is the lid you can see I've done the same kind of effect there so you're going to want two pieces of seven and a half by 11 it's a nice style bag and the way that I'm putting this together is a little bit different to what I've done before and I don't think I've done this size before either so along the 11 inch side you want to score at eight and ten and a half and then along the seven and a half side you want to score at five and you want to do that on both pieces now you also want to score at let me just use this one here so I can remember so it's nine and nine and a half so you want to score at nine you want to go down to three and three quarters and then again at nine and a half down to three and three quarters pop it on its short side and just join up at the three and three quarters just join those two markers up you can see that I've gone past that one there but I can what you can do is just go on the back and just rub over the score line but we're going to be doing some more scoring in a minute can you see it's just faded it slightly but you just want that effect so that was at nine and nine and a half down to the three and three quarter marker okay you'll then want this piece you want two pieces of that and then you want one piece of four by eight and along the four inch side you want to score at one and then one and a half I'm being careful that I don't want to catch any of my discs and then just fold and burnish and then I've just rounded off the corners here using my corner punch just to soften it a little bit and then go back to this one and with a ruler and a metal stylus you want to score from the bottom of this rectangle piece down to each corner within that rectangle there don't go down into this part so I'm just going to pop my stylus down first then lay your ruler down and just score as you can see that I've just scored across down to there and then again on this side like so so what this creates is a little area for us to attach the handle but it's all also the same width as this part of the top of the bag so it just means you've got a little bit of that extra space plus it expands obviously out once you open it fully anyway but that's what you should have there so you want to do that again on both pieces then fold and burnish all your score lines and then with these ones if you just make them both valley folds and just follow that all the way around so all of that is a valley fold just pushing in there with my finger this isn't going to fold flat this is just so you get a nice detail on the side there so it's just that little bit thicker next you want to do some cutting so you want to cut up this one here just up to the first score line and then again this one here and then remove that piece completely and then just take a little wedge off of this one and at this end as well okay and then I like to fold that one up and then you can just take a little wedge off of both of those sides there and I don't think I did that on this one here no I'm just going to do the same on this one okay next we want to stick these together so I'm going to use my all-purpose Kalao glue and first of all I'm just going to run some glue down that tap and then I'm just going to lay this one over the top focusing on that base score line so make sure you line this one up here that means your bag will kind of stand up nice and it won't wobble if you're off on the top you can always trim that piece just hold that there for a second okay and then I'm just flipping the whole thing over fold this side and then run your glue again down that tab and then just bring this one over and again it should all line up nicely now if you're limited on space and you want to keep make this now and then use it later maybe don't attach the bottom and that way you can still keep it flat until you need it and then all you'd have to do is stick this in but next just stick in the base one down first and then folding both of the side pieces in and then adding some more glue and like I always say if you want to reinforce this a bit more then you could pop a another piece of cardstock in here maybe some grayboard and that will add strength but by the time we stuck these two together in the side pieces with the Kalao glue it really becomes very strong so you can still put something with a bit of weight in here stick that one down and then just flip it over and you can go in there with your hand if not just use something that you can just rub the top there just to push all that glue down so now when you're pushing the sides can you see when it all goes together it will have that half inch kind of opening and that's going to be enough for your lid to go on so you you create this really cute little clutch I've actually got clutch bags very similar to this so it's a really nice style you can see I was all coming together there so when I do go to add the handle you don't have to if you'd rather just keep it as a little clutch next you want to add some glue to the back one inch section like so and then you're going to you can stick the if you kind of line the front up with that score line and then bring the back around that way you've got something that you can kind of push down on there and then you can just move it around until it's all lined up on the back once you're happy just pinch the sides and then open it up and you can then go in and push down everything else so that's how it looks on the back and then that's just going to come over like so what I'm going to do now is just pop in quick probably only be about a minute just showing you me sticking all of this down here which is going to be for the faux buckle do you see how that goes on like so and then that's going to go onto the front here and start to make it look more like a bag so the pinky coloured piece is two and a quarter by three and a half and I've just used the cricket pen I've never ever used it I don't use my cricket with the pen so but it's a really nice gold metallic so I've just used that to create like a faux stitching I've done it on the handle there as well and then I've just rounded the corners and then this piece here I'll show you the backs I've done some scoring here but it's one and a half by two and three quarters and I just marked along the short side there the one and a half side at every quarter of an inch and along the bottom there as well and then just joined it up joined the lines up and then along this side I just done quarter of an inch with a marker at either end so you can see there a quarter of an inch and two and a half is where the pencil mark is and again along the bottom and just joined up those lines I then cut it on this side you know that way it just means the front's much neater you can see I've just cut out down that first pencil line and then I come across past that one and then kind of halfway between the second and then cut up I mean it's entirely up to you just want to have a section in the middle that's still attached but it just gives you that design you can just have it sitting over the top if you would prefer but I do quite like having it through like so because it does look like a buckle you could also if you wanted to just cut that size and then just cut another rectangle in the middle because when you sit it on there you can't really see that it's but it's over the top of that one okay so it's up to you you might just want to have it playing like so so just whatever works so next I want to position this so on the picture here let's just see how far down so the buckle's actually underneath that flap so there's quite a lot there but I don't know I might prefer a bit higher let's just have a little play around so again you know you can have this however you want so that's kind of how it is but I'm not sure if I like all of that I prefer it I think I prefer it kind of in the middle so you know entirely up to you how you want to do this but I'm just going to use my quick grab glue this is the cosmic shimmer glue I'm just going to just run a little bit along the top there that's all I need really just make sure you get this in the middle and then once I'm happy where that is I'm then just going to pop a little bit of glue just to hold that buckle in place because it's not actually really attached to anything so I'm just popping a little bit of glue either end there and then I've just got my Velcro dot just put a pair together there bring this over and just kind of get it in place and then just hold both of them when you prize them apart and then I can just squeeze it down I will rub all that pencil out I would probably say do that before you stick it down actually but I can get away with that still then I've got these flowers here so again trying to recreate the colors and the kind of arrangement there they have got four I've added an extra one I needed to have an odd number and I've also got some little green leaves there as well so I've got my glue gun on I'm just going to lean this on the book here so I think I'm going to have the blue and the yellow there and then the yellow and the pink there and then this third one up there and kind of come over onto that strap a bit I guess and then I've got the leaves which are going to then fill some of this space maybe something like that that looks quite sweet and then once we've got the handle attached I think that's going to look good so I'm going to get that stuck down okay this is very bold this is so different to anything I've done before but I really like it I'd love the real bag to be honest okay then I've got these two strips of half an inch by 12 I'm not going to end up needing all of it but I am going to attach it in the middle and then I can kind of see how much I want to keep one was just too short two would be well you could have you know the length of two if you want I'm probably overlapping about an inch there and then let's get rid of this I don't need the gun anymore so now what I'm going to do is attach to the side here but again in the book it kind of has the end you just curl it out a little bit again it just gives it a bit more of a authentic look so I'm just gonna about an inch up there just adding some glue and just sit that down right in the middle of that piece there and then what will happen is that will close and it will kind of wrap around and then come out and then yeah see that's too long so I'm going to come down I'm going to go so this is up to you I'm going to cut it about there and then I'm just going to add little dashes there and then again just curl that out slightly and then again add the glue about an inch up open that back up I'm just kind of eyeball that you've got a similar amount being over each side there close that up and there you have your cute little handle I don't think it's adorable I absolutely love that so there it is depending on how you decorate it it's actually a really quick gift bag to make it's going to hold some nice gifts in it and again I'll just bring in that version and my version in the paper I don't think it's too bad you know put the handle even down like so I think it looks pretty good so there you have it something a bit bold somewhat garish but I really like it hopefully it inspires you to maybe do something a little bit out of your comfort zone in terms of decoration I love the sparkle on this one though I think it looks really cool and eventually I'll give it away to somebody but right now I'm just going to keep that one in my craft room so as always thank you for watching if you've enjoyed this gift bag idea today I'll pop up some more from this handbag series that I'm currently doing I'm just trying to really work through this book so it's an ongoing series it may last a few years who knows I've already done quite a few the playlist for those will be coming up now as well and if you've enjoyed today and you haven't subscribed if you hit the subscribe 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