@levo Picking out elements of your example
You can get pre-made background images - search and look for grunge / old manuscript examples. Example http://www.textures4photoshop.com/tex/paper/
Making your own ? This background filled with an old paper pattern and using a large grunge-dirty brush to 'stamp' on top. Not wonderful, just a quicky.
The foreground ? You can make a selection with free select tool then distort it Select -> Distort. Play with the settings. Again that is applied to a layer mask.
You can get pre-made background images - search and look for grunge / old manuscript examples. Example http://www.textures4photoshop.com/tex/paper/
Making your own ? This background filled with an old paper pattern and using a large grunge-dirty brush to 'stamp' on top. Not wonderful, just a quicky.
The foreground ? You can make a selection with free select tool then distort it Select -> Distort. Play with the settings. Again that is applied to a layer mask.