Distressing Colour Match Tip

Hi ya, I can't believe I'm heading this with distressing colour match tip, as I'm only learning the distressing technique but I can't think of any other title, thought I'd mention that as you may all be reading thinking this is obvious everyone does it lol.  Anyway below is a pic of a card I'm starting.  I have just started sewing on my cards and I did this on my backing paper on a piece of card, then I thought it would look nice slightly distressed, but I wasn't sure if to just distress the paper or paper and card and also how should I ink both and what colour, so I made a mini version ..............

The piece of strip was my mini version and you can see that at each process I tested it on the strip.  For once I haven't thrown the card away at the distress stage as I never get it right.  You will just have to wait to see the finished card, mind you with this month being end of year accounts I'm only getting a little bit of time to craft, but at the beginning of June I will have clocked so many hours up I will be able to have a few weeks of lower hours hurray!!!!  The patterened paper I used here is Glitz 12by12 Hoopla Frames H2921 and Adirondack Pool dye ink pad and some cut n dry foam (just started using this wow wow wow I'm really liking this, wish I started using this before buying so many other types for a lot more cost doh!!).
Day 2 of blogging again since Easter and I'd like to say thanks for joining me.
Kezzy x