When working with journaling on patterned papers, one of the things I like to do is adding a slight brush layer, as I recommended in the first part of this tutorial. So, today, I’m going to show you how to do just that: Adding a Brush Layer to Enhance Journaling Take a look at this page: On a slightly striped paper, I wanted to add some journaling. But after I added it, I realized the striped pattern was just to strong -the journaling lost its focus. So, if you look more carefully, you can see how behind the journaling, the stripes are nearly wiped out, and I did it by adding a brush layer. And here’s how it works … (I’m assuming that you already added your journaling to your page, and that you placed it somewhere on top of a patterned background.) STEP 1 | Add a Layer Above Your Patterned Paper To avoid messing with your patterned paper, simply select that paper layer in your Layers Panel, and add a new layer …