Since we're super close to the last stretch goal, I've decided to go ahead and unlock the Pink ita bag! 🩷🎉✨
All day yesterday, we were sitting about 1-2 bag pledges away from unlocking the Pink color variant. So I decided to cover the rest so we could officially unlock all 4 ita bag colors at the end of Bag Bazaar!! 🥳
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Thank you so much for the incredible support and for sharing the campaign with your friends 🥰🙏🏼 I'm super excited to get all these new bags to their forever homes!! 😻
📣 Don't forget: there's a new add-on for (5) holographic pin insert colors! 🌈✨
We did it!! 🩶 The Gray/Black gaming ita bag has officially been unlocked!! 🎉
~Mario theme~
~Music festival theme~
Thank you all so much for the incredible support and excitement for this campaign!! It means so much seeing our little community come together to make something incredible 🥰
I'm so excited about this new color, my inner goth dreams are coming true lol 🖤🔮 This is basically what I'm imagining people wearing with this new goth style bag at conventions 🥰🤘🏼
🔒 Our next goal is the pink gaming bag!! 💪🏼💖✨
I've seen pledges fluctuating a little bit back and forth this past week, so I’d love to keep this momentum going strong so we can safely keep this new gray color unlocked! 🩶 Not only that, but it would be amazing to push for the final goal: the pink ita bag!! 💖✨
✨ Here's the best part about unlocking this bag!! ✨ I did the math and we only need about 25 more ita bag pledges to unlock all 4 bag colors!! That means we are *soooo* incredibly close to unlocking the last pink bag together in the last week of Bag Bazaar 😻
The best way you can help right now is to simply share the campaign link! 🥰🙏🏼
Please help share the link below with all your loved ones~
🎮 Gamer friends & family 👜 Ita bag collectors ✨ Convention friends 💖 Pin communities 📲 Facebook, Instagram, other social media, Discord servers, anywhere online really! ^_^
It may not seem like it, but every single share genuinely does help!! 🥰🙏🏼✨
📣⌛️ Reminder: Bag Bazaar ends in 8 days on June 2nd @10pm EST~
(That means only 1 more week to share the campaign!)
Thank you again for making Bag Bazaar such an amazing experience!! 💖 I'm thinking if we reach the final pink bag goal, new holographic insert colors will unlock next?? 🙊✨ Until the next update~
Wow!! I can't believe how successful the first day of Bag Bazaar was!! 😻
✨ Let's look at the highlights of day one! ✨ ➡️ 1st bag unlocked in 3 hours! 🏆 ➡️ 2nd bag unlocked less than 24 hours from launch! 🚀
Thank you for all of your support on the 1st day!! 🎉 We unlocked BOTH the (Red/Blue) and the (Blue/Green) ita bag color variants together as a community!! I can't thank you all enough 🙏🏼
If you didn't see these options, I snuck in the Mega Bundle tier today! This upgraded tier includes (2) Regular pins, (2) XL pins, and (2) Mini pins of your choice!
➡️ With the fully customizable Create-A-Bag Tier, you can change pretty much any color inside and out! We can even customize your (2) insert colors if you so choose~
All pink inside! Normal bag color is black inside
🗣️ But will I lose my Early Bird freebie pin if I upgrade tiers?!
The answer is nope!! Not at all!
➡️ Early bird rewards are linked through your original backer timestamp on the backend, not necessarily by which pledge tier you picked! The pledge tiers are labeled "Early Bird" mostly for the price differences! 😊
So if you want to upgrade your Pledge Tier later, your Early Bird freebies are still safely linked to your account! ^_^ 💖✨
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Thank you all again for the incredible support during the Bag Bazaar launch!! 👜🚀
Just have a little image of our Blackash and Redwood colors. I am so excited for how they turned out. When making 'black' colors I try to go for a deep purple so that black details can still be seen.
Just reaching out with a progress update on these!
All of the shells have been cut out and embroidered, and we’re in the process of putting them together!
The pins might actually take longer than the bags! Funny enough!
Also the singular custom colorway arrived significantly sooner than the rest of the bags and besides looking a little squished from its box, is absolutely lovely!
I’ve put a video clip up for the cut out pieces on instagram ( Arcanemoonstudio there as well)
Hopefully soon I can share with you all the keychains and prints and another progress info drop!
I'm sorting through them and grading them this week. And I'm going to start shipping out pin-only backers next weekend!
In order to do this, I do need to lock addresses. If you're a bag/folio backer and you need to update your address at any time, please just reach out via email and we'll update that for you. admin/@/arledgecomics.com <3
The edits to the dice bag are finished. Those edits were 1) editing PU leather insert straps to elastic, and 2) editing the dice bag inserts to be stiffer to hold their shape and match the inserts of the folio.
Please ignore the brass/gold hardware. This was a mistake that was caught. It will be silver as advertised.
I also have some previews of inserts and insert material.
I haven't seen any production updates on the ita folios, so there's still A LOT of work to be done.
Hey witchy friends! I'm here with another update for you.
I'm happy to say that all the items for this campaign have now been ordered and paid for! 🎉 I've already received the stickers, so I figured I'd show them off! They turned out great!
🪄 Manufacturing note
I did want to mention briefly that my bag manufacturer has brought up a potential issue with the design's gold/silver printing on the back of the bag & on the card wallets & coin purses. I do not currently have enough information about it to share with backers yet, but once I do, I'll post another update. Don't worry about it though, I'll get it resolved, and they said it won't affect the manufacturing timeline. ☺️
That's all for this update - it was a nice and short one!
The purple sample was finished and i wanted to share the changes that were made between the red sample and the purple. The original red sample was made at around 8 inches tall, the campaign i wrote that it would be about 10ish inches.
Heres the sample at the 10ish inches tall. the rose flower in the middle is now embroidered instead of being a 3rd layer on top of the face. Because of the samples now taller body we have more card slots!!
my manu says that production for the backpacks will be wrapping up soonish (not specified) and now that the purple sample is finished we can start production on the red and purple clutches!
This is so exciting, i love seeing how things come together.
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inside left
inside right
bottom
top
side 1
side 2
front
I also wanted to share for my goth lovers of all things spooky, I'm running a campaign of framed bugs right now!
