Hiya GlitteryKatie here!
One of my favourite techniques is distressing with inks and tools to create a vintage look. I've never been a neat and tidy crafter and I love the vintage look so learning to distress my papers was a logical step!
My first steps into distressing involved using chalks. I used brown and black chalks along the edge of papers to give them an aged look!
The look I try and aim for is the yellowed look that pages in a book get after a few years. After using chalks for a while I discovered Chalk inks which were great for running along the edges of paper, they were softer and more versatile than dry chalks- plus they didn't make that yukky scraping sound, hee-hee!!
You can see some of my ageing techniques on this layout of my Dad: this was a picture taken in the mid 1960's and I wanted to convey the passage of time and the fact that Dad and his unit were roughing it up-country in Malaya.
I like to crumple and tear paper for a vintage look. I use Tim Holtz Distress Inks to colour paper, Antique Linen will transform a white piece of paper into an aged piece of paper, I just wipe the pad across the paper and sometimes add a little water to help the ink spread.
I use Walnut Distress Ink around the edges of papers, labels, sticks and embellishments to make them look grubby and old.

Speaking of embellishments I do ink the edges of die cuts a LOT! I like the 3D effect that it gives as with these Sizzix dies cuts I inked heavily on my tattoo layout:

Another use I have for inking is to form a frame. I find that without inked edges a card or layout can look a little flat-I find my eye tends to wander off the image as with this Mo Manning image I coloured:

So I inked a little around the edges of the image with my Walnut Ink which forms a frame and draws the eye back onto the little boy and his dog:

You might not be a lover of inkiness or vintage but as you can see you can use these techniques in other ways than just making something look old!
Now let's see what the other girls have come up with!
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Hello, Eleanor here. I almost didn't enter Katie's Weekend Workout challenge, but I haven't let a workout beat me yet, and this is the 13th one, so I knew I had to come up with something!
Why is it that distressing doesn't come naturally to me? I wandered around some lovely blogs for inspiration, then heaved out my box of rubber stamps and ink pads, some vellum and patterned paper, and these two cards are the result:

I coloured the chair with watercolour pencils, and almost stamped a sentiment on the check paper, but decided it could do for Get Well, retirement or whatever I need it for.

I stamped with Stazon ink, which dried instantly on the vellum (I had been worried about smudging), then chalk inked the edge before anchoring with machine stitching onto a scrap of frayed damask.
I tore and inked the patterned background paper on both cards, stitching the 'chair' one around and around messily, before roughing it up a bit.
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Hiya Claireliz here wih my take on Katies' challenge.
I love using Kraft paper on anything that I'm planning to do in a vintage style, it just fits for me, I've used a selection of Echo Park journaling cards to create the main elements of the layout, all of the papers have been inked with Distress Ink - Brushed Corduroy. The photo itself it nearly vintage (well the original is, this one is a copy, & apparently for something to be vintage it has to be over 20 years old - does that make me vintage than?) the photo is of me 18 years ago, on the day we were supposed to be moving house, the day when my dad was working abroad, I had chicken pox & the removal truck didn't turn up - not a good day for mum. I've used a Basic Grey doily rub on in the top right corner & hand stitched using back stitch around the edge of the cardstock.
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