Creating a paper with a seamless tile
This tutorial was written for ps6, may work with some small adjustments in other ps versions or in psp

For this tutorial you will need a seamless tile. I personally used one of the tiles from my Flowering Quince pack that I'm offering you here, only difference is this one isn't high res, it was optimised for the web but this shoulb be ok just for the purpose of this tutorial.

Right click to save the image.

Open your tile and go to Select/All (or Ctrl+A)

Now go to Edit/Define pattern... A small window will open, give it the name you want or don't give it a name, doesn't really matter and click OK.

You can now close this document.

Create a new document 3600X3600 at 300ppi. This will give us a 12"X12" paper which seems to be a standard format in scrapbooking.

Go to Select/all (or ctrl+A).

Now go to Edit/Fill and use the following settings (Your tile should be the last one on the pattern picker) then click ok:

This should give you something like this, but much larger of course:

We could leave it like this, but we can also keep on playing a little... I kinda like playing...

Click on the "foreground color" and with the eyedropper pick a color from the background:

Now click on the "background color" and select another color from the background again, preferable a color that will contrast with the foreground color, don't pick a color that is too identical...

Create a new layer in Layer/New layer and go to Filter/Render/Clouds:

With the "circular marquee" tool, select a big circleand then go to Select/feather and enter a "feather radius" of 250. Repeat again the Select/feather with "feather radius" of 250 still and then click delete, this should give you something like this:

Change the layer propeties to:

Go to Layer/Duplicate layer and on this duplicate layer, change the property to multiply instead of color burn:

Go to Layer/Flatten image.

Go to Filter/Pixelate/Mezzotint et select "Medium strokes":

Then go to Edit/fade Mezzotint with the folluwing settings:

And you now have a paper slightly more interesting to print...

Once again, don't hesitate to play with the different settings to see if you can get more interesting results...

Here's another example following this tutorial with a different seamless tile:

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