Card charged and lock addresses EDIT: example of Tariff with Credit
EDIT: The order confirmation or balance you receive when your card has successfully charged will show you a break down of all costs. Those outside of the US will have both a mention of Tariff and Complimentary Credit. These two should cancel each other out. Tariff mentions €41,04 -> Credit also mentions €41,04
This only applies to those who has chosen the combined shipping option and are outside of the US!
Thank you for those who reached out to me with questions regarding this. Each crowdfunding I'm learning new things, also how things on the front end looks. I had hoped it wouldn't show but.. it's an invoice in a way so it'll be mentioned of course. :')
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Ribbits everyone!
It's a quick sudden extra update but the cards are being charged right now and I will also lock the addresses in 8 hours.
Because the socks are in! As usually the moment I wrote the update I got a message the socks would arrive next day. And so they are here!
Now that I have everything in house I'm gonna start packing immediately for those that did not get combined shipping. To get them all out asap and hopping to their new homes! This includes the orders with socks! Hooray, no delays!
Please check if your card charge went through, if not you should have gotten an email about it with info how to fix it.
As always if you need to reach out to me, do not hesitate to contact me via Backerkit support (the 'Contact us for help' button on your pledge page). Or you can use the contact form on my website, that way you reach me immediately by email and I can help you out much easier. Please keep an eye on your email when you reach out. I usually respond within 48h to your questions.
After a week of strangling the tariffs it all should be solved and set up as it should! Everything is set up and I've just started the 48h final notice until cards will be charged for the survey.
In the meantime the pins arrived and are all graded and checked by Mr X my partner, he's been making a decent size frog and toad army on our dining table. A few photo's below!
Socks are still in transit, but otherwise I'm ready to start processing the Backers who did not choose combined shipping. Roundbirbart has some other deadlines first to meet and after that is solved we'll start on the combined shipping Backers. I'll meet up with her at her work space and prep the orders together.
There are 5 Backers who did not fill in their survey correctly. Either with missing credit card info or didn't complete it to the last steps. If you do not get a charge coming up email, please check if you still have to do something in your survey.
In summary: • Survey's are locked • Survey charge will happen in 48h (this is for shipping and tariffs and any extra add-ons) • Non-combined shipping Backer orders will be packed the coming weeks. • Backer orders with socks will be put aside until socks arrive. • Addresses will be locked somewhere next week. Final 48h notice will be send. • Combined shipping orders will be packed when Roundbirbart is done, probably early-mid August.
And now for some unedited photo's of a bunch of pins when I unpacked them. The weather has been 30+ celcius for a week now so have sunbathing pins whilst I was sweating away.
Sunbathing cuties
Malagasy rainbow frog
Harlequin toad
Luristan newt
Collab pin - Herpetology
Great crested newt
Japanese common toad
Wild axolotl
I am very happy with them all and hope you can admire them yourself soon!
Status of all products Enamel pins - done, in house, graded Socks - in transit Sticker sheets - done, in house Acrylic keychains - done, in house Early + Returning sticker - done, in house Pin Safari sticker - done, in house Survey filled-in amounts - all set aside for fulfillment Start packing non-combined-order orders - starting this week Start packing combined-orders orders - starting early-mid August
As always if you need to reach out to me, do not hesitate to contact me via Backerkit support (the 'Contact us for help' button on your pledge page). Or you can use the contact form on my website, that way you reach me immediately by email and I can help you out much easier. Please keep an eye on your email when you reach out. I usually respond within 48h to your questions.
My mailbox was blessed with a Fedex tracking which shows the enamel pins will arrive this week! This means it's time for the next phases for the survey.
• First up, I will lock the surveys tomorrow, 7 July 2026!
• Next I will start adding the complimentary credit to those who have picked combined shipping (Local PickUp) but are NOT an US address. To make my work the easiest: please check if you added in your full address besides choosing Local Pickup (if you are eligible for combined shipping). I will use the info provided (street names, cities, etc) to see if you are living outside of the US to remove the Tariff costs.
• US addresses with Local Pickup (and without) will have tariffs added to their survey for duty paid upfront. So there will be no additional payments needed when you receive your parcel.
• This complimentary credit will be a very manual job sadly, so this will take some time on my end. Meaning I will probably take this week if not next week as well to fix this. When I am done I will charge the survey credit cards! I will give you all a 48h heads-up for it but expect that to happen next week at the earliest.
• In the meantime I will be unboxing, grading, collecting and pinning all the ordered enamel pins to prep them for packaging. Mr X will probably help me with this again!
• Together with Roundbirbart we'll set a date for when we will pack the combined orders at her office. I've heard her pins are also getting near so we timed it pretty nicely! Date for this is tba.
• Orders with the Desert rain frog socks will have to wait until the socks arrive. I hope to receive the socks end of this month, but I'm not sure. I will update when I know more. EDIT: I knew it, one day after writing this update and I got confirmation socks are ready to be shipped! Waiting on the tracking but I assume I'll have them by the end of next week or the week after.
• Lock the address when the actual packing of the orders will begin. I will provide another 48h heads-up for this. That way you can update the address still if needed. But double checking your survey, address AND credit card info and amounts right after reading this update can help loads!
I think that's about it. Locking surveys, fixing the credit, then charge the cards, meanwhile unpack and grade the pins, lock addresses, pack them together and wave them all off to their new homes!
Status of all products Enamel pins - en route to me Socks - in production Sticker sheets - done, in house Acrylic keychains - done, in house Early + Returning sticker - done, in house Pin Safari sticker - done, in house Survey filled-in amounts - all set aside for fulfillment
As always if you need to reach out to me, do not hesitate to contact me via Backerkit support (the 'Contact us for help' button on your pledge page). Or you can use the contact form on my website, that way you reach me immediately by email and I can help you out much easier. Please keep an eye on your email when you reach out. I usually respond within 48h to your questions.
This frog has been sweating with a massive heatwave in Europe, it looks like I got a normal nice summer week coming up so I can hopefully think again and get to work. Hope you all are survive the warmth as well!
Got a bunch more pin photo's trickling in by my manu. I asked if these pins were then done or now approved for mass productions but I didn't get an answer to that just.. more photo's 😆 You know what. I'm just here for the ride and won't rush them because rush jobs means many mistakes and I did place a hefty order with lots of pins so I'll be patience. I do expect a shipment notice somewhere the weeks, just a gut feeling.
In the meantime I did approve the socks for mass production! The background has been made a little darker and that did the trick! Really happy with the result, hope you like them too ✨
Desert rain frog socks all approved and in mass production
And now a little rehash of the previous two updates, just so everyone is up to date of the same things. Find all the new photo's after the PSA!
Survey info The survey is still open for changes, you can still switch around any choices of pins you'd like. I won't lock the survey until we're closer to receiving the pins. This due to the tariff issue as well in the survey.
Pay Over Time Backers should now also have received their survey!
As a reminder for the tariff costs non-US backers might saw pop up: I will manually remove these before I charge the survey. The tariff percentage might still change so I'm gonna leave this for the last moment so it's the most accurate for all! (It's currently set to 35,5% tariff but I believe it's 18,8% at this exact moment.)
If anything changes with the survey (locking them, charging the cards, etc) I will first give you all a heads up for this with another update.
Status of all products Enamel pins - in production Socks - in production Sticker sheets - done, in house Acrylic keychains - done, in house Early + Returning sticker - done, in house Pin Safari sticker - done, in house Survey filled-in amounts - all set aside for fulfillment
But now it's time for some photos! As previous time, these are unedited photos, so enjoy the bad and weird lighting they sometimes have. Especially with the American Bullfrog and the Colorado river toad I am keeping my fingers crossed the colours look better when you see them in your own hands with natural light 😆
Northern leopard frog
Pickerel frog
Green salamander
Dirty lucy
Heavy melanoid axolotl
American bull frog
Colorado river toad
Harlequin toad
Illinois chorus frog
Wild axolotl
Leucitic axolotl
Designs I have not seen now are Malagasy Rain Frog (those were UV printed instead of screenprinted) and the tadpoles in other colours.
As always if you need to reach out to me, do not hesitate to contact me via Backerkit support (the 'Contact us for help' button on your pledge page). Or you can use the contact form on my website, that way you reach me immediately by email and I can help you out much easier. Please keep an eye on your email when you reach out. I usually respond within 48h to your questions.
There isn't really much to update with everything in production But I wanted to let you all hear from me again to know I'm still progressing on Frogstastic Frogs 2! I did get some photo's from pins from my manu so I'll have to share those of course!
First some important info as a reminder.
Survey info The survey is still open for changes, you can still switch around any choices of pins you'd like. I won't lock the survey until we're closer to receiving the pins. This due to the tariff issue as well in the survey.
Pay Over Time Backers should now also have received their survey!
As a reminder for the tariff costs non-US backers might saw pop up: I will manually remove these before I charge the survey. The tariff percentage might still change so I'm gonna leave this for the last moment so it's the most accurate for all! (It's currently set to 35,5% tariff but I believe it's 18,8% at this exact moment.)
If anything changes with the survey (locking them, charging the cards, etc) I will first give you all a heads up for this with another update.
Desert rain frog socks Yesterday my email was blessed with sock sample photo's! I have asked to change the 'background' colour to a different slightly darker one and will wait on that new sample photo before I approve for the full production. Very happy with the pattern and other colours tho!
Better photo for the colours of the sock. He's so frumpyyyy
Un-edited photo's, love the light differences ahaha. Each sock will have a size in the border.
Status of all products Enamel pins - production Socks - sampling Sticker sheets - done, in house Acrylic keychains - done, in house Early + Returning sticker - done, in house Pin Safari sticker - done, in house Survey filled in amounts - all set aside for fulfillment
Now for some photo's I got! All toad and salamanders will receive UV print. This will give it a bit of a raised effect which mimics the bumpy skin of toads and salamanders. All other frogs will get screen print on it, so those will be flat! Again, manu's send the best flavour unique photo's so lighting will be all over the place. Just trust the process, haha.
Golden poison dart frog
Cane toad
Great crested newt
Marbled salamander
Malagasy rainbow (UV print by mistake, will be corrected.)
Miyako toad
Japanese common toad
Tiger salamander
Giant salamander
Luristan newt
Herpetology collab pin
As always if you need to reach out to me, do not hesitate to contact me via Backerkit support (the 'Contact us for help' button on your pledge page). Or you can use the contact form on my website, that way you reach me immediately by email and I can help you out much easier. Please keep an eye on your email when you reach out. I usually respond within 48h to your questions.
It's been a month since my last update and it's been with a big reason: I've been swamped with work, a 4 day con and another 1 day con back to back ^^; All with fun work and fun things but it's been very busy which meant that I had to place some priority on things other than the pins.
Good news, I've just emailed my manu contact to pick up the project and start the production. I have to wait for an update on the quote but the enamel pin files are all sent off so it's now waiting for a correct quote and paying that.
The pins have had some minor colour changes to be more accurate with the animals, so I wanted to show you all the (digital) colours as we've chosen now. Mind you, colours can still vary a bit due to screens and print work. (Picking colours is the biggest hurdle of enamel pin making if you ask me!)
All the pin designs in their (most) accurate colours (Colours can still differ due to different monitors and screens.)
Survey info The survey is still open for changes, you can still switch around any choices of pins you'd like. I won't lock the survey until we're closer to receiving the pins. This due to the tariff issue as well in the survey.
As a reminder for the tariff costs non-US backers might saw pop up: I will manually remove these before I charge the survey. The tariff percentage might still changes so I'm gonna leave this for the last moment so it's the most accurate for all!
If anything changes with the survey (locking them, charging the cards, etc) I will first give you all a heads up for this with another update.
The other products update The acrylic keychains have been ordered a few weeks back, those will have the first colour run but I think this is pretty fun to have the differences between the amphibians. So many have different tones of coloures between the same type of frog already, it's like a mimic of real life. After this print run is sold out I will update the artworks to fit the colours of the enamel pins.
The sticker sheets are up next to be ordered, these will have the same colours as the enamel pins.
The socks are now up on the to do list to finish up the product file. My sock manu reached out this week to let me know they are getting more busy and making a sample takes 3-4 weeks now instead of 2 weeks. This means that if the socks arrive later than the enamel pins, those with socks in their orders will have to wait a bit longer on their order being shipped. One way or another, Desert rain frog socks will be send to you if you ordered them <3
As always if you need to reach out to me, do not hesitate to contact me via Backerkit support (the 'Contact us for help' button on your pledge page). Or you can use the contact form on my website, that way you reach me immediately by email and I can help you out much easier. Please keep an eye on your email when you reach out. I usually respond within 48h to your questions.
There isn't really much to update with everything in production But I wanted to let you all hear from me again to know I'm still progressing on Frogstastic Frogs 2! I did get some photo's from pins from my manu so I'll have to share those of course!
First some important info as a reminder.
Survey info The survey is still open for changes, you can still switch around any choices of pins you'd like. I won't lock the survey until we're closer to receiving the pins. This due to the tariff issue as well in the survey.
Pay Over Time Backers should now also have received their survey!
As a reminder for the tariff costs non-US backers might saw pop up: I will manually remove these before I charge the survey. The tariff percentage might still change so I'm gonna leave this for the last moment so it's the most accurate for all! (It's currently set to 35,5% tariff but I believe it's 18,8% at this exact moment.)
If anything changes with the survey (locking them, charging the cards, etc) I will first give you all a heads up for this with another update.
Desert rain frog socks Yesterday my email was blessed with sock sample photo's! I have asked to change the 'background' colour to a different slightly darker one and will wait on that new sample photo before I approve for the full production. Very happy with the pattern and other colours tho!
Better photo for the colours of the sock. He's so frumpyyyy
Un-edited photo's, love the light differences ahaha. Each sock will have a size in the border.
Status of all products Enamel pins - production Socks - sampling Sticker sheets - done, in house Acrylic keychains - done, in house Early + Returning sticker - done, in house Pin Safari sticker - done, in house Survey filled in amounts - all set aside for fulfillment
Now for some photo's I got! All toad and salamanders will receive UV print. This will give it a bit of a raised effect which mimics the bumpy skin of toads and salamanders. All other frogs will get screen print on it, so those will be flat! Again, manu's send the best flavour unique photo's so lighting will be all over the place. Just trust the process, haha.
Golden poison dart frog
Cane toad
Great crested newt
Marbled salamander
Malagasy rainbow (UV print by mistake, will be corrected.)
Miyako toad
Japanese common toad
Tiger salamander
Giant salamander
Luristan newt
Herpetology collab pin
As always if you need to reach out to me, do not hesitate to contact me via Backerkit support (the 'Contact us for help' button on your pledge page). Or you can use the contact form on my website, that way you reach me immediately by email and I can help you out much easier. Please keep an eye on your email when you reach out. I usually respond within 48h to your questions.
It's been a month since my last update and it's been with a big reason: I've been swamped with work, a 4 day con and another 1 day con back to back ^^; All with fun work and fun things but it's been very busy which meant that I had to place some priority on things other than the pins.
Good news, I've just emailed my manu contact to pick up the project and start the production. I have to wait for an update on the quote but the enamel pin files are all sent off so it's now waiting for a correct quote and paying that.
The pins have had some minor colour changes to be more accurate with the animals, so I wanted to show you all the (digital) colours as we've chosen now. Mind you, colours can still vary a bit due to screens and print work. (Picking colours is the biggest hurdle of enamel pin making if you ask me!)
All the pin designs in their (most) accurate colours (Colours can still differ due to different monitors and screens.)
Survey info The survey is still open for changes, you can still switch around any choices of pins you'd like. I won't lock the survey until we're closer to receiving the pins. This due to the tariff issue as well in the survey.
As a reminder for the tariff costs non-US backers might saw pop up: I will manually remove these before I charge the survey. The tariff percentage might still changes so I'm gonna leave this for the last moment so it's the most accurate for all!
If anything changes with the survey (locking them, charging the cards, etc) I will first give you all a heads up for this with another update.
The other products update The acrylic keychains have been ordered a few weeks back, those will have the first colour run but I think this is pretty fun to have the differences between the amphibians. So many have different tones of coloures between the same type of frog already, it's like a mimic of real life. After this print run is sold out I will update the artworks to fit the colours of the enamel pins.
The sticker sheets are up next to be ordered, these will have the same colours as the enamel pins.
The socks are now up on the to do list to finish up the product file. My sock manu reached out this week to let me know they are getting more busy and making a sample takes 3-4 weeks now instead of 2 weeks. This means that if the socks arrive later than the enamel pins, those with socks in their orders will have to wait a bit longer on their order being shipped. One way or another, Desert rain frog socks will be send to you if you ordered them <3
As always if you need to reach out to me, do not hesitate to contact me via Backerkit support (the 'Contact us for help' button on your pledge page). Or you can use the contact form on my website, that way you reach me immediately by email and I can help you out much easier. Please keep an eye on your email when you reach out. I usually respond within 48h to your questions.
A few minutes ago I've sent off all the surveys! The smoke test (a small % of backers get the survey early to test if things go well) showed one hiccup with the local pickup but it should all be good now! In this update a short summary of things to keep in mind.
What to expect
In your mail you will receive an email with an url to my survey. Follow all the steps, add any items you might missed out on, fill in your address and hit 'place order'. This will make sure your survey is finished and I will receive a tally of all chosen enamel pin designs, which I need to place an order for all the enamel pin designs. Around the time the enamel pins are done with their production I will write another update I am about to lock and charge the survey. This means the choices you've made will be permanent and means you will pay the missing amount. This amount is extra added add-on's, shipping (and possible tariff duty fees) and any missing initial payments.
When the enamel pins are being sent my way (this will be late May early June) I will update again and lock the addresses. Until that update your got all the time to change your address if need be due to a move for instance. But no worries, I will write an update for that before starting fulfillment.
PLEASE fill in your survey as soon as you possibly can! I will need these choices to place an order. I usually wait until 80% is filled in to have an accurate overview.
For those that qualify for Early Amphibian sticker, Returning Amphibian sticker, Pin banner sticker and/or Cross collab freebie, you will find those items in your survey basket already set up!
Combined shipping -> "Local Pickup"
For those who backed both Birds of North America and Frogtastic Frogs you qualify for combined shipping if you want to. You will pay the shipping costs at Birds of North America but these won't be paid in Frogtastic Frogs #2. In my survey you will fill in your address as otherwise except for your country you choose 'Local Pickup'. I URGE you to fill in the rest of your address this due to administrative paperwork on my end. Important notice: this is only available if backed both of our projects. We will check if you qualify for this.
Also good to know is that actual local pickup (at cons or otherwise) is NOT possible.
Only backed Frogtastic Frogs If you only backed Frogtastic Frogs, you can ignore this information and carry on like usual for surveys and fill in your shipping information so you pay the correct amount.
Pre-order shop is open
For those who missed out or have friends asking about enamel pins, the pre-order shop is open. This is a shop via Backerkit which means it's credit card only and fulfillment of these orders will be done together with the Backer pledges. (In de pre-order shop you cannot get the Early/Returning/Pin banner freebies, nor the cross collab freebie pin.)
I believe that's all the important parts, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me via Backerkit support (the 'Contact us for help' button on your pledge page). Or you can use the contact form on my website, that way you reach me immediately by email and I can help you out much easier. Please keep an eye on your email when you reach out. I usually respond within 48h to your questions.
It's been a while since I wrote an update. I had to fix some other deadlines (taxes for one.. yuck) and I had my birthday come up! But now I'm back on the Frogtastic Frogs 2 train and I wanted to share the artworks for the big pins!
Giant Salamander, American bull frog and Cane toad
We've unlocked 2 already and are getting closer to unlocking the Cane toad but it's a real rollercoaster ride at the moment, ahaha. I do hope we can unlock it and the four Axolotl designs after it!
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Backing several campaigns in a short time can be a bit confusing so here's a little overview for Frogtastic Frogs 2!
• All designs are unlocked, except the stretch goals above. Totaling in 17 amphibians to choose from as of right now. (The big pins will cost the same as the other enamel pins: €12 no extra costs.)
• If you back both Frogtastic Frogs 2 and Birds of North America you will get the researcher collab pins of both of us added for free. One frog, one bird!
• Birds of North America and Frogtastic Frogs 2 are both very local so we are offering combined shipping! Perfect for those who wish to push down the expenses a bit. Info about this in the survey of Frogtastic Frogs 2.
• For US backers tariffs are calculated and added during the survey. At this point enamel pins made in China are 35% tariff so keep this in mind. We collect the tariffs so you don't have to expect any extra expenses when you receive the parcel this summer.
• Backers of pledge levels 3 pins or more get a free new mini pin set of 3 tadpoles! This mini pin set is also available as an add-on for the regular price of €12.
• We're part of Pin Safari which means if you back 3+ projects in Pin Safari you will get a free polaroid vinyl sticker of those backed projects added for free. Good to know: Birds of North America is part of that too!
• Previous Frogtastic Frogs 1 and Poison dart frog & Salamander enamel pins are all available as add-ons! So you can make your collection complete while backing this project.
That's it for now! Hope you all had a nice start to February, I know I did I got birthday cake!
What an amazing start to the campaign in the first 24 hours! Thank you all so much for the support from the start!!
We've fully funded so that means all 15 amphibians are available to choose from when the campaign ends. And every backer that pledges 3+ pins gets a set of tadpoles mini pins added for free! (These are also available as a purchasable reward.) You can switch from pledge levels if you wish to qualify for this set of free mini pins.
Extra stretch goals
The campaign is active for another 20 days so let's try to unlock some extra stretch goals I've prepared! To begin with three big pins for three big amphibians: Giant salamander, American bullfrog and Cane toad. The last two goals are for the axolotl fans: each goal unlocks two different axolotl shapes with different colour variants. The first unlocks the Leucistic axolotl and the Dirty Lucy axolotl. (Pink and pink with dusty spots on their face.) The last goal does the same but then for the Wild axolotl and the Heavily marked melanoid axolotl (brown spotted and very dark almost black variants.)
New pledge level
For those who wish to pledge for all the available pins (including the new stretch goals when unlocked) I've added a pledge level called 'Whole pond - one of each'! With this pledge level you will literally get one of each unlocked amphibian and you don't need to specify later on when the surveys are send out after the campaign ended. (You will still receive the survey for address, combined shipping or add-ons.)
Perfect for those who just wants the full collection! (In case we don't reach the €10.000 goal I will update you in advance to take steps if needed.)
Last year I was so surprised with how well Frogtastic Frogs went so this time we prepared a bit more, with extra amphibians in the first goal list and already though out for the stretch goals. I assume that this is enough until the end, but in case you all would like to prove me wrong, (hehe) we can always make some polls for other amphibians to turn into pins! So feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments below, I will take all suggestions with me, even if that means it's for the next project.
Previous pin designs available
For those who missed my summer project with Poison dart frogs and Salamanders: these are available as an add-on! The add-on is called: 'One previous amphibian pin (previous projects)'. Both Frogtastic Frogs 1 and the Poison dart frogs and Salamanders are available in that add-on. A great way to make your collection complete if you missed out on it!
Other news: I received the enamel pins of the poison dart frogs and salamanders this afternoon, so let me share a picture of them! Fulfillment will start one of these days so for those who backed the original project, keep an eye out on your mail box!
And that's it for this update. Thank you all so much for the support, the great responses and the fun DM's over on social media. I love that you are as enthusiastic about this all as I am! 🐸
