Achieve particular text effect

[Optillusion]

Hey guys, this is my first post. I am not completely new to Photoshop as I've been playing around with it for the past 9 months or so. As an autodidact user, though, I often find myself using the most tedious and tiresome way to get the desired result. I've therefore decided I want to learn the skill (art?) a bit more thoroughly.

My first question is, how do I achieve the text effect seen on the pictures shown below? I've tried playing around with filters but nothing really seems to do the job.

 

[Rich54]

It seems to me it was done by hand.

1. Select a font and type your text.
2. On a new layer, go to Edit>Stroke and add a black, inside stroke (and then turn off the text layer from step 1). On the stroke layer, use a hard brush to fill-in the pink color by hand, making sure to be deliberately sloppy about it.
3. On a new layer, choose a hard brush and, again by hand, draw deliberately sloppy strokes over the letters.