The sticky notes have arrived from the manufacturer. I think they turned out great, and I'm happy to have these little guys in-hand!
The Isopod sticky notes were the final outstanding item from my previous campaign, and I'm excited to send out the final batch of orders and finish the Isopod Colony shipping.
I ordered several extra of the isopod sticky notes. I have updated the pledge manager if you wish to select the isopods as a sticky note design option. You can add a new sticky note, or edit an existing sticky note order to use this design.
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Pledge Manager
Pledge manager surveys went out last week. Over 2/3 if you have successfully completed your surveys! If you encounter any issues, please let me know and I will work to resolve them.
The surveys will be open and editable until the end of May, at which point I will lock orders and credit cards will be charged. I will be sure to send out an e-mail notice a couple days in advance of this so it's not a surprise.
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Pre Order Store
If you missed the campaign and wanted to order some of the items from it, the Pre Order Store is now available. Preorders placed before the end of May will go out alongside the campaign orders based on packing groups. (Similar orders/regions are done in small batches to be as efficient as possible!)
If you pre order early it can help to get an accurate item counts so that I can order the correct amount of designs based on popularity. I always order at least 25 extra of every design, but if I know that one design is 3x more popular than normal, it lets me know to order even more extras of that one!
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Thank you for your support of the Elemental Myth campaign. I hope that everyone has a great week!
The following items are available as add-ons for your pledge, now and later! You can select as many as you want in each section.
Here you can take advantage of a great opportunity to get additional items, that are available on my online shop, but with your pledge you can get them at a discounted rate.
There are two ways you can do this: ✧ During the campaign: go to the add-ons tab, and choose what you'd like to add-on which will include these items with your pledge. You will be charged at the end of the campaign, along with your pledge.
✧ After the campaign: if the campaign is successful and goals are unlocked, a survey will be sent out, you will be able to select add-ons, along with the shipping costs for the campaign items.
Please keep in mind that some add-ons may increase the estimated shipping costs suggested, due to weight and/or size of the additional items. You can find more information in the shipping section.
Thanks so much for the support so far on the campaign, I am super excited to see all the pins. I have mock ups already, which I will share with you soon!
The final outstanding item for Isopod Colony, the sticky notes, arrived today and are now in-hand. Thank you for your patience with the delay of this item. They turned out great and I can't wait to send them to you!
There are 15 orders left to ship for Isopod Colony. I'll be getting these orders out next week, and with that, Isopod Colony will be a wrap! Thank you so much to everyone who helped make this happen. This was my first Backerkit campaign, and having this project be successful enabled me to produce items that would otherwise have been out-of-reach for a small creator.
I ordered extras of all of the items for this campaign so that I could have stock to take with me to conventions and art shows. For now, I'll be leaving the Isopod Colony preorder store open if anyone would like to order any additional pins or Isopod goodies.
Short update to share that we have received final versions of the pins from the manufacturer. They look amazing!
Soon we will start the process of preparing and packing the pledges and pre-orders to send. Then we will do the charges (including shipping), and close the surveys. The packages with your pins and stickers will be sent over in early May.
The pre-order shop will be open only until end of April. After that, getting these pins will be a lot harder. Visit the Fluffypede pre-order shop in Backerkit to get yours!
It's been a month since my last update and it's been with a big reason: I've been swamped with work, a 4 day con and another 1 day con back to back ^^; All with fun work and fun things but it's been very busy which meant that I had to place some priority on things other than the pins.
Good news, I've just emailed my manu contact to pick up the project and start the production. I have to wait for an update on the quote but the enamel pin files are all sent off so it's now waiting for a correct quote and paying that.
The pins have had some minor colour changes to be more accurate with the animals, so I wanted to show you all the (digital) colours as we've chosen now. Mind you, colours can still vary a bit due to screens and print work. (Picking colours is the biggest hurdle of enamel pin making if you ask me!)
All the pin designs in their (most) accurate colours (Colours can still differ due to different monitors and screens.)
Survey info The survey is still open for changes, you can still switch around any choices of pins you'd like. I won't lock the survey until we're closer to receiving the pins. This due to the tariff issue as well in the survey.
As a reminder for the tariff costs non-US backers might saw pop up: I will manually remove these before I charge the survey. The tariff percentage might still changes so I'm gonna leave this for the last moment so it's the most accurate for all!
If anything changes with the survey (locking them, charging the cards, etc) I will first give you all a heads up for this with another update.
The other products update The acrylic keychains have been ordered a few weeks back, those will have the first colour run but I think this is pretty fun to have the differences between the amphibians. So many have different tones of coloures between the same type of frog already, it's like a mimic of real life. After this print run is sold out I will update the artworks to fit the colours of the enamel pins.
The sticker sheets are up next to be ordered, these will have the same colours as the enamel pins.
The socks are now up on the to do list to finish up the product file. My sock manu reached out this week to let me know they are getting more busy and making a sample takes 3-4 weeks now instead of 2 weeks. This means that if the socks arrive later than the enamel pins, those with socks in their orders will have to wait a bit longer on their order being shipped. One way or another, Desert rain frog socks will be send to you if you ordered them <3
As always if you need to reach out to me, do not hesitate to contact me via Backerkit support (the 'Contact us for help' button on your pledge page). Or you can use the contact form on my website, that way you reach me immediately by email and I can help you out much easier. Please keep an eye on your email when you reach out. I usually respond within 48h to your questions.
Hi everyone! I hope you're all having a good week so far.
I wanted to update again with more manufacturer sneak peeks, as I know you're as excited as I am to see!
Please keep in mind, that these are manufacturer photos, so any B-grade defects shown on any will be things I will be vetting for when they eventually arrive and I can check their individual quality before fulfillment.
This is all I have for now, but I hope you enjoy seeing these!
Surveys are going very well. Only 6 people left to fill theirs! If you are one of them, remember to complete the surveys. We will still send a few reminders about it.
Froggy is, so far, the most requested pin. (Not a surprise: it is sooo cute!!)
We are still on track to send the pins early May. And, although we left them open a few extra weeks, we plan to close surveys (and the pre-order/late-pledge store) soon: before the end of April. So if you want to change anything in the surveys or you missed the campaign and want to buy some pins or stickers, you still have a couple of weeks!
We are also close to unlock Vampi as a Pin. It is available in the surveys and our pre-order store.
If you were still undecided, you can see how the pins will look like from our manufacturer digital proofs:
They look so cute!
We have added those images to the items on our pre-order shop and surveys.
The audience takes their seats and the performers take the big top stage! Vote for your favorite design preview to determine the order of their introduction (and unlock order!)
I've got another small update of pin images from my manufacturer to share as a few sneak peeks! They are looking SO CUTE and I can't wait to show you all more.
✨Production Progress
⭐ Mini Enamel Pins: Currently in production
⭐ Cat Enamel Pins: Currently in production ⭐ Freebie Collab Pin: Currently in production
⭐ Sticker Sheets: Shipped, on their way to me ⭐ Vinyl Stickers: In-Hand, though will be placing another order because you guys cleared me out adding extras to your pledge! ⭐ Freebie Sticker: Placing order soon! ⭐ Pin Backer Cards: In-hand
This is all I have for now! I will continue to keep you all updated as things progress.
- Zandra
🎪 Whimsical Woodlands Guest Artist Spotlight
My friend and fellow artist Liz Schmidt is running another big plush campaign for her successful circus animals series! 🎪✨
I've been a guest artist on almost all of her previous projects and this time I had the honor of doing two designs for two characters! I illustrated a shaker keychain for Hickory the Brown Bear and an enamel pin design for Nettles the leucistic raccoon. Hickory is a foodie and Nettles loves insects and it seemed like a perfect fit for them!
Help shape the final pin design by picking your favourite trope/genre. At the end of the campaign, the one with the most votes will be turned into a pin.
Voting will remain open until the end of the campaign.
