Place stained paper in front of an open, meshed window to dry quickly, if possible; otherwise, lay it on a flat surface.
It reminds me of one of those school projects in which in the interests of "living history", kids are made to collect bits of old junk and manufacture ancient manuscripts by staining paper with tea.
If you're in fifth grade and doing some sort of school project that involves staining paper with tea leaves to make it look like an ancient scroll, using Papyrus may be acceptable.
You can read either How to age paper using tea or How to stain paper with coffee to know what to do to make the invitation paper look old.
Beyond the initial painting produced in 1969, there are examples of the same image of Glass as a lithograph made from Close's fingerprints, as a Chinese silk tapestry a la Chairman Mao, a rendition created using a plastic grate and another made from stained watercolour papers.
He would bike with it; his sweat stained the paper until the edges wore thin.
"From the acorn grows the tree — slowly, slowly," he writes, as an oak fills a two-page spread, stained onto paper.
Write your invitation on white paper with green ink, stain with a cooled coffee or tea mixture (try staining your paper before you write on it, and dry it flat), and roll up when dry. Tie with red ribbon or seal with red wax.
On a sunny afternoon in late spring, Bloomfield was holed up in a plaid-curtained booth at the back of the Breslin's dining room, rustling through a sheaf of papers stained with olive oil.
In essence, they "stain" the paper.
