Awesome news -- all orders are packed and in the postal service's hands! Thank you SO much again for your patience with these!
I would love it if you tagged me in photos of the pins once you get them! My socials are on the back of all the backing cards, or you can find me here: https://katzekei.carrd.co/
Finally, here's a couple pics of the pins now that they're here! Yay!
She has eyes now!!
I hope you love your new pins!!! Thank you all again for all the support on this campaign. Until next time!!
Here's what I have coming up:
This June, I'm launching Tails of Tokyo | Modern Day Kitsune Enamel Pins! This campaign is an original art campaign featuring Kitsune themed designs focused on various Japanese subcultures, including gyaru, decora, and lolita! This is a part of the Pin Quest Group Collab! Check it out HEREor by clicking the banner below!
Then, in August, I'm launching Hero's Hoard: Timeless Mini Pins -- a Zelda/OOT themed set of mini pins featuring items from the game in my style! This is a part of the Pocket Change Group Collab! Check it out HEREor by clicking the banner below!
For this year's Pintober, I'm launching Elemental Evolutions -- a series of enamel pins focusing on the Eeevelutions with their type symbols! These are 1.75in pins featuring gold plating and glitter, and an expansion on my very popular Sylveon design from a previous campaign, PokePostage. I'm so excited to get to draw all the Eevees! Check it out HERE or click the banner below!
And finally, for next year's Pintopia, I'm doing a sequel to this year's Pintopia campaign, 64 Bit Memories. That campaign was centered around N64 games, and I polled my backers there to see what they would like to see as a sequel. Gameboy + DS won, so Handheld Memories will officially launch in January 2027! Follow HERE to stay updated, or click the banner!
Curious to see what projects I cook up, updates and WIPs as I design, and have a voice in my design process? Join my Discord HEREfor a full Crowdfunding schedule, updates, convention announcements and more!
Thank you once again for your patience with this campaign!
The pins are currently all in mass production, and when my manufacturer returns from China's May Day holiday break, they will be finished and packed up to ship to me! Yippee!!
Here are some photos of the pins! Please note, both Amy and Shaidoth have not had their printing/shading applied (hence why amy has no eyes and her tights are unripped, LOL)! I wanted to show them off regardless to give you guys something to look forward to, and to offer a little peak behind the curtain of pin production!
Amy (no print, no eyes, all aura)
Shaidoth (I'm obsessed with the glitter!!)
The little manual book pin is TOO cute!
Demon Lollipop! Possibly the cutest pin ever, me thinks
The pins are all estimated to be shipping out mid-may, so I'm hoping to start fulfilling orders around the end of this month. I'll be locking in to get these out to y'all asap!
One final thing I want to address, and it's important -- I don't think I'll be doing more "sexy" styled art in the future, unfortunately.
This campaign sort of... alienated my core audience, who I've learned want cutesy stuff, and aren't that interested in the more sexy, pin-up style I went for with the Menagerie. There's nothing wrong with that, but it definitely hurt my ability to run this campaign as successfully as my others have in the past. As a full time artist, I have to consider what works and what doesn't for my business -- and this did not.
I may return to the sultry world with fanart, but when it comes to originals, I don't currently have an audience who's interested in that. It's part of me, I'm a smut reading, monster fucking perv behind the veil of cutesy pink bubbles, but it's not core to my business, and I'm honestly okay with that!
Maybe one day I'll actually write the novels a lot of my girlies that were showcased here are meant to be a part of, and maybe they'll be someone's favorite characters (outside of me and my husband's lol). But, for now, I don't see another campaign similar to this on the horizon, which does mean the girlies who didn't get made into pins won't be getting pins.
C'est la vie, though! I'm so grateful to those of you who decided to support this project, and I'm so excited for them to reach their new homes. Thank you for giving my girls a chance!
I do have several campaigns coming up, as well, which I'll highlight at the bottom of this update. Notably, my next campaign is also an original art series! I hope you'll check it out!
Much love,
Katze
PS: The aforementioned upcoming campaigns!
This June, I'm launching Tails of Tokyo | Modern Day Kitsune Enamel Pins! This campaign is an original art campaign featuring Kitsune themed designs focused on various Japanese subcultures, including gyaru, decora, and lolita! This is a part of the Pin Quest Group Collab! Check it out HEREor by clicking the banner below!
Then, in August, I'm launching Hero's Hoard: Timeless Mini Pins -- a Zelda/OOT themed set of mini pins featuring items from the game in my style! This is a part of the Pocket Change Group Collab! Check it out HEREor by clicking the banner below!
For this year's Pintober, I'm launching Elemental Evolutions -- a series of enamel pins focusing on the Eeevelutions with their type symbols! These are 1.75in pins featuring gold plating and glitter, and an expansion on my very popular Sylveon design from a previous campaign, PokePostage. I'm so excited to get to draw all the Eevees! Check it out HERE or click the banner below!
And finally, for next year's Pintopia, I'm doing a sequel to this year's Pintopia campaign, 64 Bit Memories. That campaign was centered around N64 games, and I polled my backers there to see what they would like to see as a sequel. Gameboy + DS won, so Handheld Memories will officially launch in January 2027! Follow HERE to stay updated, or click the banner!
Curious to see what projects I cook up, updates and WIPs as I design, and have a voice in my design process? Join my Discord HEREfor a full Crowdfunding schedule, updates, convention announcements and more!
I wanted to post a quick update letting you all know that pins are in production! There was a bit of a delay as I changed manufacturers due to a variety of factors including pricing and design disagreements, and I had to do some negotiation behind the scenes. But everything is rolling again and I'm very happy!
Soon, I'll have pin samples to post here for you all! I have seen previous work from fellow creators who work with this new manu, and have a lot of faith they'll do good by our girlies. I can't wait to see them and show them to all of you!
Now, since things were delayed, the timeline has changed a bit. Here's how it looks now:
Feb 27th - Production Begins
April - Pins Graded + Sorted + Packaged
April/May - Packages Shipped + arriving to you!
This puts us about a month behind the original timeline. I do apologize for the delay, but I wanted these pins to be as high quality as possible! I promise it'll be worth the wait!
With all that aside, I wanted to invite you all to check out some upcoming pin campaigns I am hosting here on Backerkit! Starting with...
My next campaign in JUST OVER A WEEK! On March 10th I'm launching Love is Super Effective, part of the A Pin Of Pride collab! This campaign is an expansion on my existing Pokeball mini pins, now with pride flags! Follow the campaign HERE or click the banner!
Then, in June I'm launching Tails of Tokyo | Modern Day Kitsune Enamel Pins! This campaign is an original art campaign featuring Kitsune themed designs focused on various Japanese subcultures, including gyaru, decora, and lolita! This is a part of the Pin Quest Group Collab! Check it out HEREor by clicking the banner below!
In August, I'm launching Hero's Hoard: Timeless Mini Pins -- a Zelda/OOT themed set of mini pins featuring items from the game in my style! This is a part of the Pocket Change Group Collab! Check it out HEREor by clicking the banner below!
For this year's Pintober, I'm launching Elemental Evolutions -- a series of enamel pins focusing on the Eeevelutions with their type symbols! These are 1.75in pins featuring gold plating and glitter, and an expansion on my very popular Sylveon design from a previous campaign, PokePostage. I'm so excited to get to draw all the Eevees! Check it out HEREor click the banner below!
And finally, for next year's Pintopia, I'm doing a sequel to this year's Pintopia campaign, 64 Bit Memories. That campaign was centered around N64 games, and I polled my backers there to see what they would like to see as a sequel. Gameboy + DS won, so Handheld Memories will officially launch in January 2027! Follow HEREto stay updated, or click the banner!
Curious to see what projects I cook up, updates and WIPs as I design, and have a voice in my design process? Join my Discord HEREfor a full Crowdfunding schedule, updates, convention announcements and more!
That's all I have for y'all for now! Thank you all so much again for the support on this campaign. I hope to see some familiar names in my future projects!
Just a quick update to let you all know that orders have been locked, and your cards on file will be charged for your shipping + any add ons in two days.
If you backed for an Akara pin as a stretch goal, unfortunately she did not fund, and that pin has been removed from your cart. Maybe next time, my fire goddess!
Finally, if you're interested, I'm launching my very first Ita bag TOMORROW over on Kickstarter. It'd mean the world to me if you'd check it out!
I wanted to make a quick update to let you all know that, thanks to the other add-ons you all have purchased, I've raised enough funds and decided to unlock Shaidoth's pin!
Everyone who already has added her to their cart will now get the pin! Want her too? You can revisit your survey and add her right now HERE!
Thank you all again for your support, and I hope you're having a great holiday weekend!
