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Need help with decorating invitations?!?

I am making my own wedding invitations, because I have a small budget. I got a pack of 50 blank cards and envelopes on sale for $4 (they're white). How could I spruce them up? My wedding colors are white, dark brown, and dark green (going for a more natural outdoorsy feel!) I don't want them to look too cheap, and I don't want to spend another $30 making them look too extravagent for a simple wedding, you know? Any advice on how to decorate/spruce them up is appreciated!

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1. Some leaf stamps might be nice on plain white stock. Very simple but tasteful.
2. I did a very simple cream colored invite and did a shell stamp because we had a beach wedding. You can find a nice stamp and stamp pad for no more than $10 at a craft store like Michaels. A couple yards of thin ribbon would only be a couple of dollars as well. Reach into your creative side!
3. Buy a caligraphy style marker (they sell cheap ones for a couple dollars at fabric stores) and practice your penmanship for the wording. Some stamps in dark green and brown to frame the wording would go with the colors, and the paper is already white so that color is taken care of. Chose the stamp designs based on what would look good with the style of decorating you are planning for the wedding. Like more formal scroll-y designs as the frame or plant stuff like maybe green vines at top/bottom/sides and a brown pinecone at each corner. Be creative. I've seen art supplies like this at dollar stores before so take a trip to a couple of dollar stores before spending more money at other places.
4. I guess it depends on what time of year the wedding is but you could press some leaf prints onto them if it is in the fall or sea shells for summer...or something. You can get lots of ideas for little $ at a craft store. Practice first on plain paper!
5. I did the same thing. I covered the inside right side of the card with colored paper. I printed the invite itself in colored ink on tracing paper (looks like rice paper, and a pad of 40 sheets is only about $2.00) and put that over the colored paper. It looks awesome! I used double-sided tape to attach the colored paper to the card and the tracing paper to the colored paper. It's worked great! Be careful when printing on the tracing paper. I had to cut it to size and put each sheet through individually using the paper feed button. It was so worth it, though!