I wanted to give a quick update just so everyone knows what's going on behind the scenes! In the last update, I submitted the art to my manufacturer to begin production. There haven't been any pics yet, but they do have the molds finished which means pics are coming soon! 🥰🙏🏼
➡️ From what I can piece together, my manu was finishing up the bulk of the Pintober pins from both Allison & I's campaigns before they fully began working on both of our Pintopia orders.
It makes sense since the Pintober pins were already being worked on by the time we submitted art for Pintopia. I made a visual graphic to get an idea of where production is at, it's just a little staggered! 📊
I asked if there were any pictures of the new batch yet, and they sent me a few pics of Allison's pins in progress. So I'm sure pics are coming very soon for this Rebirth & Ruin collection :)
I'll send an update ASAP when I get more pictures, it should be any day now! Thank you all so much for your patience waiting while the pins are being made ^_^ 🙏🏼
I’ll be copy + pasting the top part of this update across multiple projects and feature specific campaign news below the top update~ Sorry if you see this pop up more than once if you backed multiple campaigns 🙏🏼
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📢 Main update across platforms:
Production overview~
🐺 Myths of the Underworld: Over 50% done packing orders, shipping out soon!
🪲 Pinned & Preserved: Final stages of production, should be shipping to me in the next week or two~
☠️ Muerte & Magic: In the middle of production
🌿 Rebirth & Ruin: Already submitted art + final counts to start production!
Summary: everything is in either in production already or wrapping up for shipping, all we have to do is wait for everything to arrive now!! 💌🎉
My collab partner Allison and I placed both of our orders together, so it’s a fairly large order that is taking a bit of time to complete. Rest assured, everything has been coming together in the background ^_^
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📣 Rebirth & Ruin additional update:
Not much to report here, we are just waiting for the pins to start production! ^_^ Here's a pic of the stickers though, they look beautiful!! 💖
Last year I signed up to participate in the Bag Baazar ita bag event, and it is launching TOMORROW, May 12th @3pm EST! You may have already seen these gaming ita bags in previous campaign add-on shops, if you want one this is your last chance to reserve a gaming ita bag!!
First of all, thank you so much for all the love and support during Pintopia this year!! It always means the world to me to see everyone come together for our little Backerkit pin community 💖 Let's get into this exciting update~ ^_^
📝 Surveys finally released!! 🥳 🎉
I've been working hard in the background finishing the surveys this past month and making sure there were no errors before I sent them over to the Backerkit Team for review. After some back and forth last week, they were finally approved and the Smoke Tests came back all clear. So now ALL surveys are released!
If you can, fill out your survey ASAP! The sooner I can get the final counts from everyone, the sooner production can begin~ I'm hoping in the next 2 weeks, I’ll be able to submit everything to my manufacturer to start production ^_^ This is the fun part where we just sit patiently and wait for them to get made~ 💟⏳
Without further ado, here's the last stretch goal pin design Venom in Bloom!! This design features a venomous Snake Skeleton adorned with poisonous folliage including the tiny pink Oleander flowers & the larger multi-colored Hellebore flowers 💐 This pin is beautiful, but deadly 🖤
Venom in Bloom pins will be 2" tall, black nickel metal with screen-printed details.
If you didn't see the last updates, the other stretch goal pin that was unlocked was The Consumed Raven pinsin both a rainbow metal and a black nickel finish~ 🌈🖤 These will also be 2" wide.
🕷️ New Iron-on Patches in the Add-on Shop! 💚
I added these new 3" patches to the Survey Add-on Shop!! These are leftover patches from the Pinned & Preserved Campaign, so grab yours in the survey for only $12 each before I list the rest at a higher price in my Etsy Shop~
Cicada patch
Praying Mantis patch
Rhino Beetle patch
Death Hawk Moth patch
Black Widow patch
More updates will be coming soon! Thank you again for your amazing support during Pintopia, I'm so excited to be back here to bring something new to the Rebirth & Ruin series 🥰🖤🌿🥀
We have 4 days left and the Poll results are in! Because of your votes, we officially unlocked 2 new pins!!
The winners:
🪶 The Consumed Raven 🪶
🐍 Venom in Bloom 🌸
Hellebore
Oleander
Venom in Bloom is currently a work-in-progress sketch and will be refined to include these 2 beautiful poisonous flowers: Hellebore and Oleander~ Keep an eye out on the next update to see the final design ^_^
Thank you so much everyone for voting and helping shape the path of this campaign!! :)
🛍️ Add-On Shop Update 🛍️
Both new pin unlocks are now live in the Add-On shop! I’ve also added bundle options so you can grab multiple pins at a discounted price~
⌛️ 4 days left for Pintopia!! ⌛️
If you’ve been loving this new pin series, please share it with your friends, family, anyone who loves nature, mythology or dark/macabre art!! 🙏🏼🌿🥀
I've been working hard to make new stretch goal designs!! Now's the time where you get to help determine which two pins automatically unlock in the new Community Poll here~ 🔓🎉
Here's our new potential designs! (~WIP sketches~) 🖤✨
More mushrooms will be added as hair falling up
Poisonous flowers and mushrooms
Toxic Mushrooms
Snake Skeleton surrounded by poisonous flowers (TBD)
After seeing the last community poll results below, I saw there was a strong love for the Consumed Stag pin 🦌💖 So I decided to make 2 matching pins featuring the elusive Fox and the elegant Raven falling 🖤
Here's the fallen skeletons of the forest all together! 🌿🥀✨ The Deer pin will be 3" and the Fox + Raven will be 2" tall/wide.
Here's a closer look at all the pins we've unlocked so far!! Thank you so much everyone for your incredible support for Pintopia 💟🥀✨
Cordyceps Mushroom
Lily of the Valley + Anatomical Heart
Deer Skeleton + Mushrooms
✨NEW!✨
➡️ Check out the Add-on shop to grab these new stretch goal pins together at a discount~
**Mushroom pins will unlock as a separate "Mini Pin Set" add-on**
➡️ Vote now in the new Community Poll here to help determine the next 2 pins to automatically unlock!! If we reach 8k, 3 of these new stretch goals will unlock together 💖
👉🏼 Pledge for all the pins you want so we can unlock everything together as a community <3
