Have you ever had those perfect pictures, perfect papers, and perfect embellishments but when you put it all together it was totally missing something and your layout just felt incomplete? In my case, I have! What was was lacking from my layout was some good old distressing.
Here's the first take...now this was one of the very first layouts I've ever completed when I began scrapbooking in 2007. This was before I ever heard of distressing. I had these great vintage photos that I spent hours (literally) digitally restoring and removing discoloring; found the perfect paper I wanted to use, and had this great title from a vellum quote stack and suited my pictures well.
You can see this great paper and great pictures, but are left feeling like the picture were just put on a piece of paper with very little effort. Now, here's the altered layout I did about 7 months ago...
I used the same photos (minus one from the original), title, paper(I just cut it up and distressed with an edge distresser and ink), and added some extra flare with some embossing and beads, and lace flowers and my layout that had no vintage flare finally has plenty of character and helps tell the story without writing a word by adding just some distressing!
Onto the showcase of distressed layouts! There were so many amazing layouts with great distressing. I was in awe and so inspired after looking through all of them but these are highlights:
