I tend to make my badges in batches. Mostly, I multi buy the component parts and then glue them together. It’s quite a common sight in our house to find horizontal surfaces full of resin cabochons and metal backings waiting for the glue to set. Or cards stacked up ready to be placed with their envelopes in cello sleeves.
I don’t often plan which badge and card will go together until I lay them out. It’s one of my favourite parts of the process. Budgerigars wearing bow ties, giraffes with speech bubble HELLOs and hedgehogs wearing Santa hats, to name a few.