Double Pouch Bag

A few weekends ago I was away at our Annual Winter Angel Round Up hosted by myself, Avis and Lori.  What a FUN event!  Avis was in charge of our "ClubMED" event for the team leaders and above in our company.  She brought a project for us all to make - and I just LOVED it!  She showed us the how to and then challenged us to design and decorate our own.  I did just that and taught it at my Stamping Night out last week thursday - and promised the girls I would post it on my blog!  Well - I am finally getting to that!  Avis shared the link where she got the idea - Here and I also found another here.  Both of these tutorials make a smaller pouch - and I wanted to make it bigger - bigger is better right???  I am always looking for cute ways to give a set of handmade cards - and i thought this one would be perfect.

I adjusted the measurements and altered the top closure.  I was able to fit 4 cards in one side and 4 envelopes in the other side.   Here is mine finished:

SO I started with a 12x12 piece of Mimi Paper. I scored from two sides at 1/2 inch. 

Fold that over and adhere it down to itself.  (see next picture)  This reinforces the edge and makes it nice and crisp. Next place your paper back onto the Scor-pal and then score in the middle at 5 1/2. 

Next scoot the left edge of your paper over to 1/4 and score at 5 and 6 1/2 - this will give you a scored line 3/4 of an inch to the right and left of your center line.

 

Now you are going to turn your paper on the Scor-pal 90 degrees and you will score at 3 and 9.

Now you can fold your paper up - You will want to fold the lines you scored LAST first.  SO fold on the 3 and 9 lines

then fold in half with the open side of your purse OUT like this:

then fold back on the lines that are 3/4 inch to the right and left of your middle. 

and then the other

Now you have the basic purse shape - but in order for our purse to be big enough to handle regular A2 envelopes I have made it so the papers just meet in the middle.  (the other 2 tutorials I linked to above overlap in the middle)  We will disguise this with 2 Tag tabs that will also act as closure for our pouches.  We will also attach our oval handle (this was Julie Griffiths Idea for her handle on her challenge purse) at the same time as these tags.  You will need an oval with the center cut out - I cut mine on my Colluzzle.  Before attaching any of these pieces I drew stitches on them all with my Tombow WHite Gel Pen.  It looks GREAT on the dark brown cardstock.  First attach the oval like this:

Then I punched out two Giga Merchandise tags with my punch, drew stitches and then ran them thru my corrugator. Then attach your two tags like this

Next add some extra adhesive on top of the pieces you just adhered onto your purse - like this to close the purse inside up we fold it closed:

Now just fold it up on your scored lines and be sure to line up both sides together - and voila!

One of the tags in that picture is on the wrong side of the handle - so just bend it down and slip it thru.  Next I added velcro dots to the tags - to act as closure for each pouch of my purse:

Then decorate the front of your purse:

I made up a set of cards and a little Matchbook of Labels for the receiver of my gift to use as greetings on the cards.  (I got that brilliant idea from the Paper Trey blog - she put them into a portfolio with stamps and I just made a matchbook for the greetings.)  First we sponged ink onto the labels - so they would not HAVE to be white!

Then I scored a piece of ivory CS at 1 and 5 1/4 fold on the scored lines and insert the labels to form a matchbook of greetings.

There is a blank layer on the front of all the cards for them to peel and stick the appropriate greeting onto the cards.  SO so clever!

SO that is how I did my version of the Double Pouch Bag - super duper easy!!  You do not really even have to measure - if you are not trying to fit in anything in particular that is!

Comments

[Jany]

Thanks for this great tutorial! I'm going to try it and hopefully it will be pretty soon!

[lisa808]

Thanks for the great tutorial.

[Helen]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

[Louis Vuittion handbags]

Displays only in it for me so much experience with depth and meaning for their readers. Thank you for sharing!

[Cathy]

How cute! I think I am going to make one and give it to one of my best friends to cheer her up. Thanks for the tutorial..