Here is my background.
I tried the weathered look with toothbrush painting.
Note : I didn't have my craft mat, blending tool and a background ready to roll. I'd recommend that!
I started to look for a tag, but gave up because I didn't want to waste more time and grabbed a piece of ivory cardstock instead. I trimmed it to just smaller than a card front. I used the Peeled Paint distress paint I had gathered earlier. I didn't have ink out, so I found tumbled glass distress ink and hunted for my ink blender! Haha! I put the ink down, found the blender, then had to go back and find the ink again! Ugh!
I followed the tutorial instructions. I ran out of time just before I was about to ink the edges with a darker color.
One issue I had was sanding the edges of my paper ... I was using a sanding block, holding the paper in the air, but that was difficult without bending the paper. I laid the paper on my craft mat, but I was afraid sanding on the craft mat might ruin the mat? How did you accomplish this? You can see a little darker ink, especially near the bottom of the background where the ink did sink in to the sanded paper.
Also, because I was in a hurry, inking with a blending tool felt like it was taking FOREVER! I finally gave up and went direct to paper with the distress ink pad, then buffed with a rag.
I didn't know if I was allowed to read the tutorials first, so I started the timer and then opened the first tutorial.
I like the weathered look of this technique. I think I will try again on a tag, or bristol paper. I would use less pressure on my toothbrush maybe, and think about using spray ink (I have some Dylusions).
Thanks for the challenge Jan!