Please help - Need to make an aged look map for dd's project

[dustystar]

DD has a map to make as a project for school. She wants to age it and I said we could do that with tea. Should we age the paper before we draw the map or after?

TIA

I would say before, let it dry then draw. But that is entirely a guess. Thing is you don't want her to spend ages drawing the map then the tea ruins it! Could you use a brown crayon and lightly colour the paper instead?

Before and I can remember burning the edges to give it a 'treasure' map look! All the ink would run if you did it after.

Thats what i though kbear but i wondered whether the effect would then be spoiled when she drew on the paper. I don't think she'll want to do the crayon thing - she's really keen on using the teabag for soem reason.

before imo, and some drips after. make a few raw sheets though

We're going to burn the edges too lucklady Thanks for your replies.

If you draw the map with wax crayons, you can easily do it after. DD1 did one a little while back and it looked really good.

Before, and do a couple..
my dd did one, and burnt the edges- used a dip pen and ink with curly writing. It looked fabbo..

Thanks for all the help - we've stained it and dd is now doing the map. Its looking very good