I hope everyone is doing great this summer~ ❤️☀️ I wanted to announce my new Pin Drop that's happening this Monday August 11th, @3pm!
Pinned & Preserved: A new campaign featuring a beautiful line of scientific enamel pins that celebrate the beauty of insect taxidermy, aka "insect pinning"
These new pins are inspired by vintage field illustrations and feature 3 XL pins and 2 mini pins to start off the campaign:
A shimmering gold Pharaoh Cicada
A regal gunmetal Three-horned Rhinoceros Beetle
A poisedgold & green Chinese Praying Mantis
A petite red dyed metal Fire Ant
A tiny rainbow metal Bottle Fly
More insects will be unlocked after these first 5 pins get funded! :)
Pledge during the first 48 hours to receive a free Fire Ant vinyl sticker!
Backers who pledge for 2+ pinsduring Early Bird Hours will receive this tiny 1" mini pin for free! ❤️
Returning Backer Bonus! 🔥🪰
Returning Backers will receive a free Bottle Fly vinyl sticker as a thank you for your continued support :) <3
Remember that you can pledge first and pay later when the campaign ends next month! Back in the first 48 hours to get the most freebies and to give the campaign the strongest momentum forward! :) <3
If you didn't get an email notification last week with your tracking number, all US domestic packages have been mailed out!! Here's a pic of all the packages I managed to package up in between my day job and vending at events:
✨You'll get a package in the mail that looks something like this ^_^ ✨
➡️ For International orders, I'll be shipping your packages out this week! I already have everything packaged up and I just need to grab the shipping labels. They take a little bit of extra time to weigh/calculate the shipping in my computer, so it'll be no time before yours arrive as well ^_^
➡️ If anyone else backed my Pintopia campaign "Rebirth & Ruin," I am currently packaging those up as well! Those should hopefully be out by this week/next week, I already have half of them packaged up and ready for a label :)
I can't thank you all enough for your patience waiting for me to finish wrapping this up over the last few weeks, I'm so grateful for each and every one of you all who supported my art and help bring these Día de Muertos pins to life as beautiful art pins!! :) <3
I hope you enjoy your new pins when they arrive to you, take care of yourself and see you later in a future pin campaign!! 🇲🇽❤️
The stickers have arrived and the new pins are on the way soon! I get my vinyl stickers made from a fellow artist, so it took a minute to get my stickers finished in their queue of orders. But they are here and looking great! 😊 It's been a little overcast today, but take a look!
I'm starting to organize all orders this week, and I've already applied the Muerte & Magic pins on their backing cards last month when I was waiting for the stickers to arrive! :)
Xolo Dog
Rainbow Sugar Skull in overcast lighting
When the sunlight is on these they look beautiful! :)
Shipping will slowly start with the orders that don't include the new Rebirth & Ruin pins. After the new pins arrive I'll start shipping those last few orders.
Here's some of the new Rebirth & Ruin pins that my manufacturer is shipping soon~
Firefly glow in the dark pins- day
Firefly glow in the dark pins- night
By my rough estimate, I'll be wrapping up this campaign soon here in the next 2-3 weeks depending on when the new Rebirth & Ruin pins arrive. If you missed the chance to grab my latest pins above, you'll still have an opportunity to grab them below:
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As this campaign ends, my new campaign "Myths of the Underworld" launches with Backerkit's ⚔️ Pin Quest: Myths and Monsters 🐉 event this June 10th!
Returning backers will receive a free Cerberus vinyl sticker~
UV/Waterproof to put on your car! 🤟🏼
➡️ Follow the teaser page here, and all pre-launch followers will receive the free red skull key sticker below~ Follow to get reminders when Early Bird slots open, you'll also earn an extra holographic skull key sticker!
Feel free to share the new campaign with your friends and family, link again is here below~
Great news, the pins have finally arrived!! 🎉📦💌 It's a little overcast today, but they look so good in person, take a look!! 😻
Alebrije
Rainbow Sugar Skull mini pin
Xolo Dog pin
All 3 Muerte & Magic Dia de los Muertos pins!!
Here's a mockup of the pins on their backing cards, I think they look lovely as a whole set together! :)
With the pins in hand, here's my next steps for fulfillment:
Waiting for stickers, sticker books, and backing cards to arrive in the mail
Grade pins
Apply pins to backing cards
Wrap pins in protective tissue paper for shipment
Package orders up
Triple check contents are correct & close packages
Purchase shipping labels
I'm hoping this process will take me about 2-3 weeks after the stickers/add-ons arrive to me. I'll be completing orders with just the Pintober Muerte & Magic pins.
➡️ Those that ordered some of the newer pins from my latest "Rebirth & Ruin" Pintopia campaign, you'll need to wait a little bit longer for these pins to finish going through production! They should hopefully be finished around next month by my rough estimate.
👉🏼 Missed out on my latest pin designs above? The Pre-order store is still open!
If you grab these new pins before production ends next month, I'm offering free shipping to combine it with your Muerte & Magic pin order! Just email me your name + Muerte & Magic order number at: [email protected]! ‼️➡️ I will refund your Pre-Order Store shipping and combine your 2 orders together since they are coming in just a few weeks :)
With the Tariff news happening over the past few weeks, a lot of us small artists have been worried about the proposed Tariff fees on our pin orders (145% tariff fees as of yesterday). I'm working with my pin manufacturer on a solution to make sure costs don't rise a significant amount on my end when the new pins ship to me. Any increased costs during production/shipping I will make sure it is not passed onto you!! All pricing in the Pre-order Store is still the same regular tier campaign pricing plus a few bundle deals have been added~
Pin prices will go up when I list these on my Etsy Shop though, so if you have a moment take a look at the Pre-order Store link above! 😊✌🏼 Any pre-orders placed on the extra pins I've already put into production will help offset any extra costs that might pop up during the shipping phase.So any extra support is very much appreciated during this time 🙏🏼💖
There's also a new Tariff Tip Jar if you just want to show some love/support 🤲🏻💖✨ Anyone who adds to the Tariff Tip Jar will get an extra random sticker from my art table added to their order~
Tariff Tip Jar!
Here's a recap list of pins still up for grabs:
Firefly pins glow in the dark 💚
New items added to Pre-order Store this week:
-XL Harpy Woman + Egyptian Night Goddess Nut pins (Both low stock)
-Femme Fatale leftover stickers:
$5 each, or all 5 for $20~
-Femme Fatale discount bundle sets
$10 pins when you bundle~
$11 pins when you bundle!
$10 pins when you bundle~
👉🏼 Muerte & Magic Backers!! Don't forget to email me your name + Muerte & Magic order number to get free shipping from the Pre-order Store!
➡️ Since I don't have many conventions lined up to vend at this year, if you could take a moment to share this campaign link above with your friends, family & social media, I would greatly appreciate the shares! :)
Thank you so much for your support and patience! I'll be back with another update soon <3
I forgot to add to the last update that I found some leftover Persephone collab pins from my last campaign's inventory! I will be locking orders down in the next few days, so now is the last chance to add a Persephone Spring Goddess pin to your order if you'd like~ For backers, these are located in the add-on shop within your surveys, not the actual survey itself!
Persephone's story:
Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and she was the goddess of spring/agriculture. Persephone also became the wife of Hades, King of the Underworld which made her theGoddess of Death and the Queen of the Underworld. She's the perfect Femme Fatale and the reason why I chose her as the special collab pin 🙏🏼🌹💞
➡️ These won't be restocked again since they were collab pin prizes! I'd rather list the last batch here on Backerkit than on Etsy where the shop fees are much higher.
How to add the Persephone pins: to find your survey/add-on shop, please visit the page link below and enter your Backerkit email address~
