Anna suggested that I change my paper to a chocolate brown paper. So I gave it a try this morning. I left the original paper and then added the brown paper above the page using a Multiply blend mode so the grunge comes from the original paper. This brown paper is from Snapshot which is part of the Photography Value pack.
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