🎉 Welcome to Pintopia — a celebration of creativity and collaboration from a diverse group of artists collectively running enamel pin crowdfunding projects from March 28th -April 18th.
The more Pintopia pins you back, the more FREE pins you can earn ✨
⚔️ 2 FREE Cross Collaborative Pins if you back both pins from a cross collab project pair
💯 1 FREE Full-Color Pintopia 2024 Pin once ALL projects are 100% funded
🏆 1 FREE Gold Pintopia 2024 Pin if you back 5 projects or more
*Only pledges to physical reward tiers qualify towards earning these FREE pins. See full details here.
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Thank you so much for everyone who already submitted or have attempted to fill out the backer's survey. Many of you might have experienced issues with selecting the kitty pins they want last Saturday, a few hours after I sent out the surveys to everyone. The issue was due to an error on my end, where the maximum number of pins available for each designs were set at 20 pieces max. When the maximum has reached after many of you have submitted your surveys, the system made all the pins unavailable as it thought the pins were out of stock! Thank you so much for everyone who have reached out and let me know that there was an issue, thus I was able to have it fixed as soon as I can. I have now set the maximum quantity of the Kitties of Whiskewood pins to infinite, so there shouldn't be anymore problem with selecting any of those designs you want. I am really sorry for the inconvenience this has caused, and thank you so much for all your patience while I tried to figure out what went wrong. If you have attempted to filled out the survey last Saturday and decided to put it aside due to this error, you can now go back in and finish your survey~
Next, a few of you have reached out asking about the freebie sketching kitty pin as it was not showing on your pledge. Just to clarify, the freebie sketching pin is only available for all the backers who have pledged for three or more pins during the campaign. This means that if you added-on more Kitties of Whiskerwood pins in the pledge manager after the campaign ended, you will not get the sketching kitty pin as a freebie. As for the sketching kitty pin not showing on your pledge, I am working with backerkit to see how I can have this resolved. Backerkit's support team is very helpful, and they told me there is a way that I can do that on my end. So no worries about having to manually add it on yourself. I will send out another update about this once I have it figured out. Thank you so much for all your patience!
Lastly, I got a request to make the individual stickers of the Kitties of Whiskerwood available in the pledge manager. I went ahead and made it available, so if that is something you are interested in, you can now go and get them! Just a quick note, when I am about to place an order with my manufacturer (sometime by the middle to end of May), I will be removing all the Kitties of Whiskerwood pins and stickers from the pledge manager, as I need to make sure I order enough items for everyone. So, if you haven't filled out your survey yet, please do so as soon as possible so that you can grab those add-ons if needed, and your prompt response is also highly appreciated as it will help me determine how many items I need to order.
Sorry for the long update, but that should cover everything! Thank you so much for your attention. Please feel free to reach out if you have any other questions or concerns. Have a wonderful day~
Hey everyone! Surveys are out! I'm so excited to get this going, I've already got the molds in progess as of yesterday. I already can't wait to get these in hand and out to all of you! I want to see my new shineys in my hands so I know you do too. I hope everyone has been keeping well and had a great weekend.
HI all! Hope you have been well! I've been very busy prepping production for all these goodies! I just wanted to post a couple of reminders!
I have about 90% completion rate for surveys, which is awesome! Thanks so much for getting your surveys in quickly and promptly. This has allowed me to get a snapshot of counts easily and ensure I can go into production as soon as possible.
For the rest of you who haven't completed your survey, make sure to do it ASAP! This will ensure you get all the products that you want without having to wait extra time if I need to order additional products to fulfil counts. If you're having issues finding your survey, please let me know and I can help!
For those who have completed your survey, they will lock on May 11th. This means that you won't be able to make changes to the items in your order because items will be in production. You will not be charged on May 11th. Card charges will be run when I receive all the products. You will still be able to make any updates to your address in the meantime. When I receive the products I'll unlock surveys for a period of time to allow you to make any last minute changes.
Lastly, I had to manually mark orders that had the early bird freebie Spotted Lanternfly pin. As such, there might've been some error on my part. I believe I was able to correct any issues, but if you notice that you should receive your freebie pin and don't have it, please let me know! I'm happy to help.
As before, feel free to contact me at [email protected] or my Etsy storefront at VileWorm to let me help you with any questions or concerns!
This is a shipping update to clarify some details I didn't touch on before, as well as to remind you about surveys.
Surveys
Surveys have been sent out, if you have not yet completed your survey, please do so. To find you survey, please search your email for an email from Backerkit and The Snarky Company. You can also find your survey on Backerkit by logging into your account and going to your backed projects page.
If you've searched your email and your Backerkit account and cannot find your survey, please email [email protected] with the name and email associated with your pledge, and we can help locate your survey.
This campaign will have two lockdown/charge dates. The first lockdown date is May 9th, and the second lockdown date is May 17th. The survey lockdown is when we lock your survey and charge your card for shipping costs and any optional add-on items. Please visit here for all the need to know information about survey lockdown.
Refer a Friend
To have participated in the Refer a Friend program you would have emailed me with the name on your pledge and that of your friends. I recorded those names and orders and replied back to your email to let you know it was recorded. After the second lock down, I will reach out to those of you who referred a friend, via email, to find out what two designs you'd like added to your order for free. Those pins have to be manually added through the back end. So please keep any eye out for an email after May 18th to choose your two free pins for referring a friend.
Pintopia Collab Pin
If you backed both Ink & Enamel, and Celestial, then you know you will be receiving two free Pintopia collab pins. One pin will be shipped with your Ink & Enamel order, and the other will be shipped with your Celestial order. Please note that you do not have to do anything to receive these pins. If you backed both of these campaigns then these pins have been automatically added to your survey, and you should see them in your item list.
So far so good! The surveys are out, and we're getting them in pretty quickly!
Just a few things to note, you'll find a few new items in the Add-on/Pre-Order section:
This pin is a new variant that I had designed as a backup, and I thought it would be nice to include it just in case anyone who was not eligible for the collab freebie, really wanted one. Just note that this is a totally separate pin, that has to be unlocked, and it cannot be exchanged for the freebie style.
If you are a backer for the Winged Wabbits, your survey is out and you already have access to these. If you visting the pre-order store, you can use this link to visit: Preorder Winged Wabbits on BackerKit
You have until May19th to get your surveys or orders in. I'll be ordering in the next day or two after, and I would LOVE for you to be counted and not have to work with what's left over after all the other backers who completed their surveys are helped.
Hey all! I apologize for my absence - I've been busy working in the background to make sure everything goes smoothly - thank you for your patience! 💚
The "Smoke Test" will be going out shortly. This means the survey goes out to 5% of backers to ensure there are no glaring issues with the survey - once this is complete ALL surveys go out (YAY!). I don't want to clog up inboxes so I won't be making an update when the remainder of the surveys go out - I anticipate it will only be a couple days 😄
As always, please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions here!
Hi everyone, Quick update - the surveys are coming soon. Just sent out the 'smoke test' to 5% of backers, so the full survey will be coming soon. If you got the survey already, please message me if you have any issues!
I am just making up the files for the vinyl stickers, and I'm starting to think 2" stickers might be a little small. 2" is the size of the pin, and that's a good size for a pin, but stickers can afford to be a little bigger sometimes.
I've created a poll below, if you have a moment please vote on your preferred sticker size. Note - the size does not affect your pledge/add-on price.
