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Depending on the filters you have available you could also try something like Ink Outline or Glowing Edges (I think I normally set those to Soft Light at a lowered opacity) to work the Edges a bit more like a painting (Or other artistic filters). Or, if the effect isn't enough, you could try adding a pattern over the entire icon. I think I had some default paper, linen and other structure patterns in Photoshop that can give the effect of a paper basis.
Some tutorials really suck at explaining things and just giving out numbers like every image is the same.
I can always sign up for a third table here... or a bigger one, once I'm finished with the others. Or typing up those remaining snippets and actually finish them. Although I'm considering on creating several "snippet" stories where I put random snippets together that might or might not get finished, but are set up like an open ended ficlet instead of the unfinished beginning they actually are :D