The idea of all this is to make and aging old school like postcard, so I won't use any complex brushes effects and shading. I want to use mere brushes with even all the pressure sensitivities turned off.

I'm beginning to paint my background.







I just left my background slightly toned for now; we will deal with it just a little bit later and now the thing I want to do is to texture my boxes. For this I'm going to do it to deal with my patter brushes and its transformation.



Hold the CTRL key to distort the patterns. Erase the pattern areas where it is needed.















Maybe to give some king of drop shadow:











So back to background: I just to render it a little bit more.







... some color adjustments, because I don't really like that colors.







I've also exposed some effects using a mask.



So basically you can control your colors by using masks and black to white gradients: suggest you try it.

Another thing I really like to do here is to paste some text of course. This time I will put it on the curved patch. Draw a curve using pen tool. Switch to Type Tool: when you are close to the curve the Type Tool icon will change: it means that you can type text on the curve.







And this completes out tutorial. I also did some variants to this image.

This is a clean one:



And this is the textured one.



I've done it with the help of textures I've found in the internet.

So I hope you did learn something out of it. I've skipped the texture part but you should know that premade texture can save you a lot of time and even make the result even better: well depending what you really want to see.

Download support files: textures and pattern