Hi, I'm Sophie and welcome to my world you know people are always asking me for
unique accessories jewelry purses shoes that kinda stuff so today I'm gonna
teach you how to take a magazine and turn it into this adorable clutch purse
and it's perfect for carrying things like your cell phone a little makeup for
touch-ups even a little money like my money clip isn't that fancy so I'm gonna
show you how to make a magazine into a clutch purse right now for this project
you're gonna need a magazine now it's awesome if you can have like a fashion
magazine or comic book or something like that I have a balloon image magazine but
it's awesome whatever kind of magazine you want to use I'm going to be using a
little bit of this elastic this is crafters elastic it's pretty thin but
it's not skinny skinny skinny it's one millimeter I've got a few jewels this
is a option if you want to add a little jewel sparkle to you button when you're
done for the buttons I want to make sure that I have two different sets I
want to make sure that I have one button that's larger and has four holes and
then I want another one that's the same size with two holes then I want the
second set of buttons both of them to have two holes and one can be smaller
than the other in this case but in the first one we want to make sure we have
1 4 and 1 2-hole button then the rest can be two hole I'm going to be using
clear packing tape but you want to make sure that you're using a good thick
packing tape not a thin brittle packing tape and this one I'm using is actually a
duck brands but Scotch brand makes a very good packing tape as well
scissors of course then I've got my exacto knife just make sure that you're
careful and then I've got a popsicle stick or tongue depressor and my
handy-dandy contact paper your contact paper would come in a very very large
roll but what I've done here is cut off a piece that
is slightly bigger than my magazine so see how there's about a quarter of an
inch and quarter of an inch there that's what we want to make sure that we have
at least a quarter inch on either side and I want to make sure that I've got
enough space that I can cover my entire magazine so you want to just make sure
that you have enough contact paper they've got extra on either side now
what I did when I did this is I cut it out, contact paper has a
tendency to roll up on itself so I like to work with smaller pieces rather than
larger pieces some people would tend to cover their magazine cover with one big
piece and fold it over but I don't like to work that way because I find that the
contact paper does exactly what its doing right now which is its nature
which is to roll so instead what I do is I fold my contact paper in half
give it a nice good crease and then I cut it right down the center here in the
meantime I end up with two pieces of course what I'm going to do here is
open up my magazine and with my exacto knife my fabulous exacto knife I'm going
to cut the cover of the magazine off right at the seam. now I have tried
ripping it and what ends up usually happening is I get a jagged edge here I
don't want that for my purse and so because of that I use an exacto knife
the next thing we're gonna do is we're actually going to cover this front
and back with our contact paper so I've covered the first one on this one
and then get my second piece here you want to get your contact paper and you
want to peel it so that about two inches is back two inches of the paper
is back flip this over I'm going to line up my edges so I've already put
on my first piece and I just laid that on the front, lay my second piece on
the back here and line it up top to top and seal that nice and good now I can
slowly start pulling my paper back and I can start smoothing the contact paper
you can do this as you go along if you want you can pull the whole thing off in
one fell swoop just like that and start smothing down now one of the things I was
hoping I would get and it looks like I got one is a little bubble
see that little bubble there what you want to do if you get a bubble that you can't
seem to smooth out with your popsicle stick or tongue depressor and
you could see how that works really really well but let's pretend that we
can't get that smoothed out take an exacto knife give it a tiny
little cut and then that will let the air come out see that allows air to
come out and allows you to smooth out your creases now once you're done all
that you're going to trim
I'm leaving about an eighth of an inch and that's all. I'm going to take my
packing tape I'm going to lay a piece of it half on, half off on the edge and
then using my exacto knife, trim it always make sure that you leave the end of your
packing tape either folded over or stuck to something otherwise you're going
to be searching for it and searching for it now at this point we're actually
going to be adding the buttons because we want to make sure that we're tying
off in this center of our purse on the inside of our purse so we get a nice
clean outside edge so what I'm gonna do is fold up my magazine to make it into
the size clutch that I want I'm gonna put one button here and then I'm gonna
put one button here so I figure out where I want those buttons I
have to find the center point so to find the center point I'm gonna fold
this once again in half long wise that's gonna give me the center and then with
my xacto knife I'm going to make a tiny little cut and I'm giving myself a
little bit of space from the edge about an inch and I'm cutting and I'm making a
little hole its not a very big hole here as you can see it's about a half an
inch. made my little cut, fold it over and I want to figure
out exactly where I'm going to put my other button I'm going put it right
about here with my finger I have marked and I'm going to again do that little half
inch cut not much use my exacto knife push it and open it up just a little bit
and then let me just check and make sure that I've got it in the right spot
because if I didn't get it in the right spot I could always put a piece packing
tape over there and do that again
so the first thing I'm going to do is add my bottom button find that little hole
and I'm actually gonna put my exacto knife into it so that I don't lose it
I'm going to take the elastic here cut a piece about six to eight inches long this
the button that I want to use its the two buttons, the double buttons, slide this
through so that it loops through I'm gonna pull these so that they're pretty
even and from the front coming from the front where that hole is I want to feed
these through to the back now this is always a little teeny bit tricky you
might want to use your scissors here to help you push it through to the back
pull it through push it through to the back ok there you go now once you've got it
in here take your elastic and just tie a little knot just a double knot once
twice
take your button and this is the button that has the two
feed it through
one string through one side one string through the other side now here's where
you wanna pull really nice and tight and tie it off the reason that I am
putting a button on the back and a button on the front is so that it does
not pull through and I'm gonna put a really nice tie here once, twice, you can even tie it
a few times more if you want to but once I'm done tieing that I can snip this
pretty close because I'm going to actually come back and put a little hot
glue put a little dab of
hot glue right there that's going to seal that keep that from going anywhere
but you can see on the front it's nice and clean if I had done this backwards I
would have ended up with my knot on the front and that would not have been as
clean and not as nice ok now for the top button we're gonna be doing something a
little bit differently remember I told you get that four button ok so we've got a
four-hole button here take my elastic give myself a little bit
more this time because this is going to be the loop that ties it off fold this
up make sure this is dry so it's not going to stick and actually at
this point in time since its cooled down enough I'm gonna take my piece of tape
and just seal this with a nice piece of tape fold this up and over and you want
to figure out how big your loop needs to be the way I like to do this is I
like to make my loop I like to put it on here around my button but I like to put
it on and not pull because as you fill this up you're gonna need
this to get stretched so you want to just make it at the normal size so you
are not stretching it out if you stretch it then you're not going to have any
place to go so I've got it kind of loose right there
and I note where that is with my fingers and I tie this off with a little knot
I end up with kind of basically like a little little hangman's noose there
so that goes on to there and that's about perfect now this part here
trim this so that I have a nice easy to thread this is going to go through the
underside of your button this is why we wanted a four sider so I'm gonna put
one in one side one and the other bring it up and through this is on the backside
see that then I'm going to criss-cross and take one side of the string down
through the other button hole and the other string down through the other
button hole again the reason I did that is so that I would end up with this in
the back and a nice neat front right back here I can tie just one little tie
does not have to be a double knot just a single knot and now I'm gonna feed this
through the front this is the hardest part of the clutch purse once you get
this done it's actually pretty easy so just gonna take one side through the
other side through and this is why you can use a double button in the
back we don't need the foursome you just need a double button because now this is
just going to secure it in the back so I'm just going to take that put it
through one side the other string put it through the other buttonhole again you
can use a foursome back here if you want to but you don't need to and again
just tie this off now again like we did this one you're just gonna tie that
off nice and good add a drop of glue
let it dry really good and then put tape over top of it now once you get
those buttons in place it's time to seal the edges to seal the edges what we're
gonna be doing is using packing tape take piece of packing tape and we're going to
put it on the side here just like we do with our duct tape projects half on half off
this is going to be on the inside so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to fold this flap
in just like that on top of itself and then make sure to do the right side this is
the flap so I went to keep that flap there this is gonna be the bottom so I'm
folding up the bottom onto the edge there and I have sealed it so that it's
sealed on the inside with this clear packing tape here's the thing I wanna do
these one side at a time so I've got one side and then I want to do the second
side so that I end up with this nice pouch that is sealed on both sides from
the inside and now I'm just gonna add the final edge I've already added one edge
here again half on half off and this is the reason why I suggested to
you that you use good solid packing tape I just fold that over and seal it
up and see that's all there is to it just take year fabulous little loop loop
it right over there and that's how you make a magazine into a really cute
clutch purse and now I'm gonna fill it with all the stuff that I need for my
hot date out with my hubby tonight got my cell phone and make up for a little
touch up and of course my money for more great things made from recycled materials
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