Cardstock

Cardstock is the collective name for paper with a weight that is thicker or heavier than standard copy paper, often subdivided with terms such as lightweight or heavyweight cardstock. Cardstock is used as a card base, due to its sturdiness.

White cardstock

For a lot of , a non-branded cardstock is good enough. Especially if you're going to glue elements on the front of your card. A second benefit to white cardstock is that you can color it any color you want, with pretty much any kind of coloring medium.

Colored cardstock

The benefit of using colored cardstock is that it often matches the colors of stamping ink of the same brand.

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