Next up, we want to reinforce the spine. To do this, we're going to open up our folder and then take out our tape. We're going to pull enough tape we're to actually flip it over. So this is the outside of the cover and put tape hanging over both the top and the bottom. Here I'm just using masking tape. I'm going to line it up trying to make it straight.

But just eyeballing it with the masking tape I can see underneath just to get a rough idea, then I'm going to very lightly burnish it with my side of my thumb. I will Flip it over and fold over the top piece. burnishing that well and folding over the bottom piece. Now I'll put another piece down the length of the interior of the spine. To make it easy, I'm going to cut a nice straight edge so I don't have to do that after I've pulled off the tape. Put my tape down, try and line it up.

Slowly go down the length the spine. Clip my tape. I can see I was a little off when I can Do I don't want to pull up the tape again. What I'm going to do is clip it right at the end. And I think I'll just put a piece of tape an additional piece of tape right down the side. The interior is not going to show but this will just further reinforce it.

So now I'm going to gently close my folder trying to preserve both of the folds. Here I have my completed folder Here's one of the signatures that we had. I'll take one of the rubber bands, put my signature inside of my folder. Put my rubber band in place right up against the spine. If I want to add additional signatures, I'll just take another one. This is just the single page but if I had all three paper pages folded, I would add that again, I add my elastic and then I put it in place.

Okay, next we'll make up he folder with watercolor paper. There'll be a little smaller and will require additional color