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I noticed that some of the newer sticker albums based on Italian comics include both stickers and cards. The album itself has place for stickers, and also has pages with transparent sleeves where cards should be palced. The packs themselves include like 4 stickers and 1 card. Card is of typical dimensions while stickers are smaller.

Stickers do have numbers from 1 to 250 or whatever is the last number, and cards have numbers like C1, C2, etc.. Cards are less in quantity and are maybe around 60 or 90 per album, stickers are 3-4 times more in quantity.

First, how would I go about adding that set's dimension? Would I treat it as card dimension (typical 2.5" x 3.5" or by sticker dimension which are more like 1.5" x 2.8")?

For sticker album sets I noticed we always add word "Stickers" at the end, but seeing how this also has cards, should I add something like "Stickers & Cards" or leave it out altogether or what?

Third, these are all part of the set so I don't think cards are treated as "chase cards", but I'm guessing they should still be added as included set rather than mixed with stickers even though in the album itself they are mixed in with pages where they are relevant.

Here is one full such album to see what I mean...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx3addM_rM0

If you forward to 01:52 you can see first set of cards inside the sticker album. You can also see by pockets how much bigger they are than the actual stickers.

Others will weigh in but I think you will see the resolution that the "base" set is the stickers and the cards will be treated as an Insert.  If the cards and the stickers were all numbered together in a mix, then it would be one complete set with both included in the same checklist.  The fact that they can be saved in an album together is going to be irrelevant.

A scan of the album would be appreciated for the "Packaging" section of the set.

Here is an example of such a Panini product that is listed: https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/269833/2019-Panini-Disney-Donald-Duck-Sticker-Story-85-Years-(German) The stickers are the base set and the cards are listed as inserts.

I think you just have to make a call based on how the product is presented which is the 'main' the part and which is the insert. In that case the name of the whole thing is "sticker story" so I think it's right. There are of course also card sets with stickers as inserts

The guidance you have received from sandyrusty and anabwana is correct. The stickers are the base set (and the appropriate size should be used when creating the set) and the cards would be an insert set (which can have a different size and should be set to the correct size when creating the set).

anabwana, yes, this is exactly the same case, and by same company no less. Thanks.

Although I am not sure why inserted card sets were all groupped together in the same entry. If the cards have different langauge variations, don't base set stickers have as well?

I remember old albums like Panini's The Smurfs which had Italian, German, Croatian, aand other langauge versions on the stickers (album itself wouldn't matter if the stickers were the same, but localized stickers usually have text on them in different language).

Maybe in case of Donald Duck there isn't any German text on the stickers, but it's strange that its set title has "(German)" in it when card inserts of other languages are mixed in the same entry.

In ex-Yugoslavia there were many Panini stickers and albums as well as others such as He-Man, Smurfs, Zagor, Alan Ford, Asterix & Obelix, and what not, and they were all localized and stickers that included text in bubbles said by characters was localized. That alone would treat each localized release as a separate set, I didn't think mixing them can work too if all localized releases share base set 100% exactly, but only differ in localized text on cards included. Ah well, good to know. Thanks for the help.

MAT13, please remember that not all members are as diligent as you have been, and they add stuff without checking, and therefore add it incorrectly.

If the stickers could be found with the multiple languages all within the same packs/boxes, then they should be listed together. If each language was released individually, then the sets should be listed individually. Please enter IRs on the sets that should be moved out - we have tools that make that easy to do now (fairly recent development). Another thing was because some tasks were so difficult to do before certain tools came along, things like this were overlooked.

Thanks again for being as careful and helpful as you've been. Keep up the good work! It's much appreciated.

I think the stickers in that Donald Duck set are identical across the kanguage versions, only the cards are localized. (German) should probably be removed from the title, I think it's a remnant because originally it was just the German version and the other language cards were added later.

Here's an example from the Basketball side: 2019-20 Panini NBA Sticker and Card Collection

In cases like this where cards were also included with the stickers, we went with what was on the sticker packaging and/or album cover and put all cards under Inserts/Related. We typically don't include the word "Cards" in a set name unless it's the only way to distinguish them from the stickers (or if we're emphasizing the included card part of a figurine, diecast car, pin, etc.). And as seen already, any sticker sets should include "Stickers" in the overall set name to let people know they aren't cards.