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Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard

In daily life, when we need to pack things and there is no suitable bag at hand, it is time to show off our manual skills. We can use a piece of paper to make an origami bag in minutes. Making this kind of origami bag is also very simple. You can learn it by following the origami tutorial of our production department editor. Handmade paper bags are also very practical in daily life. The material should be made of harder paper, and the finished bag should be slightly decorated, which is both beautiful, practical and environmentally friendly. Teach you how to make practical paper bags out of cardboard, let’s learn together.

Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard

Paper bag making tutorial

  1. Prepare your favorite paper. It will be made using pink stiff paper.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  2. Turn over to the back and fold in 1cm of edge.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  3. Fold in half to match the paste. Make it staggered inwards by about 1mm instead of perfectly overlapping.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  4. Slide the paper forward to the left and fold the corresponding width. Because its in a square shape, you'll snap the same width on the right gusset when folded. As shown below.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  5. Fold the center of both sides. Make it look like an hourglass on the side.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  6. Attach the folded bag to the pleats and lay them flat.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  7. At the bottom, fold the gusset horizontally about 1 cm wide.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  8. Continue folding the edges inward into a triangle. Coinciding the fold lines together so that the connecting lines look nice.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  9. Repeat the same operation on the other side.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  10. Align with the fold lines on the sides and attach a vertical crease at the bottom.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  11. Return to the hourglass shape of process "5".
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  12. If you fold the crease (yellow line) firmly into the mountain fold in process "10", the next process is easy.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  13. Fold, unfold and fold using the creases you made earlier.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  14. Same on the other side.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  15. Collapse it.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  16. We will use the creases we made to secure the glued bottom.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  17. Same on the other side.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  18. Use glue on the white dotted line (white dotted line).
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  19. Let the glue dry.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  20. Look at the surface from the side. There are no folding lines, very neat.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  21. Try standing it up like a bag.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard
  22. The inside looks like this. The handmade bag is finished.
    Practical gift bag making tutorial teaches you how to make paper bags from cardboard

Extended reading:

1. The process of making handmade origami cups. Teach you how to fold three-dimensional paper cups

2. 3D paper cup origami tutorial illustration

3. Illustration of the steps of origami for a three-dimensional round cup

4. How to fold a hand-made origami three-dimensional round cup

5. Illustrated tutorial on folding a small origami cup