Chinese Fruit Box style Handbag Gift Box

Do you think I have enough descriptions in the heading? When I first saw a picture of this box I knew I had to track down who made it and how to replicate it.

Happily the lady in question has both a blog and a YouTube Channel. She calls herself Mixed Up Craft and her projects are amazing. This Bag looks complicated, and to be honest it is not that straight forward, but once you get the hang of it, you will be able to make loads of them with ease. I am going to see if I can change the dimensions and make different sizes, which I think could be really cute.

Both of the bags I have made are using retiring products, all of which are/were available at the point I shot the video, but as with all retiring itmes, they are only availble while stocks last, so if you want any of them, please jump over to my online store and fill your baskets. The basic dimensions and scoring instructions for this bag are further down this post, but you are probably going to want to watch the video too!

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Dimensions

Two Pieces of Cardstock - 8-1/4 x 11"
Two Pieces of Designer Series Paper - 6-7/8 x 3-1/8
Two Pieces of Ribbon - 10"

Score each of the pieces of cardstock as follows:
Long Side at top of Simply Scored Score Board - 3-1/2 and 10-1/2"
Short Side at top and the narrow scored piece at the bottom - 3-1/2 and 6-3/4"
Rotate card so the other short edge is at the top and score at 3/4" to the second score line only
Long Side with the last scored line at the top - 1 and 2-1/2 to first score line ONLY, then mark down from this first score line on the edge of the card and the next vertical score line, at 1-1/4". Join these marks (score) to the bottom of each of the vertical lines you have just put in. Find the middle of these vertical lines too and mark 3/4" up and down from this point.

Seriously, you need to watch the video, it really is not this difficult!!