For our expandable art journals, we'll need some supplies. We'll start with just the basic ones, a pencil and eraser. A good pair of scissors, a bone folder. If you don't have a bone folder you can use a doll butter knife or even your fingernail. A bone folder gives it a nice edge. When you flatten papers and you score them, you can also use a stiff ruler will need some giant elastics I find that the ones that I purchased at little stores for headbands work great, they have different widths.

And because they're made for a head, they're not too tight. This is a thicker one. This will be this is a good one for if you have a lot of pages in your journal. These are the suits thin ones, I try and purchase these and I can find them because they make great elastics and these are kind of the mid between the thicker and the thin ones. You can get them in a package of 10 or 12. We're going to use these to hold our pages in our book.

We'll need some file folders. These are the standard letter size. These are manila folders, fairly stiff, which is good. Here's a fancier one. When the school supplies are out, you can find some different colors, different patterns with basically all you need to be able to do is open and close it and we're going to cut off the edge and cut it down to size. So whatever size or pattern you like, get that one.

To fill our journal make our pages we'll use watercolor paper I have 140 pound to make it easy to fit with our file folders. This is a nine by 12 For the watercolor This will require some cutting down of the file folder. But it create creates a nice sized journal. For the other journals which don't require as much cutting down the mixed media paper in 11 by 14 is the perfect size. This is also 140 pound. we'll fold it over and score it.

We'll need some taped to reinforce our binding. There are a number of tapes that will work really well. Duct Tape works terrifically it's a nice durable tape comes in a lot of patterns and very reasonably priced. masking tape work as well gives a more generic look but it doesn't look bad. And the craft paper tape, not washi tape but this one's called craft paper. I think it's made by the same company that makes the duct tape.

I found that the washi tape comes on done doesn't tend to stick as much so I avoid that Also tears more easily. And lastly we'll need a paper cutter. You can use a pair of scissors as well and trace a line but this makes it super easy you load your paper in and draw your line. It also helps sometimes if you want to score additional spots, because you're nice straight edge that you can use your bone folder on. Let's get started.