I used the same image, same colouring technique, and same 1” strips of paper but chose to arrange them slightly differently and changed the orientation of the card. I also added different sentiments – but the principles of bulk making mean that you can quickly get cards made by using similar supplies and working in stages.
So I stamped the main image twice. Obviously if you want you could stamp your focal point many many times – the important part is to do this as a stage and get all that done in one go before moving to the next stage.
Stage two for me was colouring. Normally when I am bulk making my advice is to do all the colouring of that colour and then all the colouring of the next colour – but I didn’t do that for these – maybe it was because I was painting rather than using pens or maybe because I didn’t turn the paper to paint the second image. But as it didn’t take long to do the loose painting in this case I don’t think it would have really saved time.
Then I die cut the focal image out. So this is stage three. Whether it be die cutting or fussy cutting – do all your cutting as a stage. It becomes routine and less thought required – although for these cards it was only twice so super quick!
Next I sorted out the card bases and the background panels for each card and made life easy by keeping them the same – knowing card sizes and layering panel sizes helps a lot. For a UK size C6 card I usually fold the cardstock in half and then cut at 10.5cm to create two top fold portrait card blanks. Then I cut a panel for the background of the card at 13.9cmx 9.5cm. This gives it a lovely frame.
With that sorted I decided to create 1” strips of the patterned paper and then when I trimmed them from 6” long to about 13cm I kept those little rectangles for layering too!
Again all this cutting is a stage and if you do it for all the cards you need it for it’s so much easier than retaining measurements whilst you layer up and make your cards.
Once you have everything cut its assembly time and this is where you can choose to go matching or to differ the designs – and of course I chose to differ the designs – I am not a fan of making the same card multiple times. Instead I like to use the supplies and change it up.
For these cards I changed the orientation and the positioning of the small rectangles and on one I went wonky with the background strips not straight!
I also chose to add different sentiments and unusually didn’t grab ready made ones but instead stamped and die cut from this stamp set – so this took me away from my usual bulk making tips and would have advised to do that at the beginning when the stamping stage was happening – but hey that’s the way it goes sometimes!
A lovely set of cards and happy with my bulk making tips!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Inkyfingeredcat 
Lovely cards! I tend to do batch making for Christmas cards as I sell a few in packs – I use the same process as you, making all the cards in stages
It’s by the far the best way to make in bulk!