Hi everyone! First I want to say I was so stunned to see what the vote count ended up at on the for-fun popularity poll: 75!!! Wow! I've never had that kind of response on a poll on anything lol. I'm so flattered my designs are resonating with so many people! 💞
The winners (and vote count) were:
TV Cat (16)
Dullahan (14)
Baphomet (12)
Ghoul (10)
Necromancer (8)
Since BK polls can't yet be multi-pick, I'm super curious which designs people wavered on the most!
Baphomet is now available to pledge for, because Shinigami being officially unlocked is only about $50 away, and I have a lot of prep for Colossalcon and moths to pack so I can't continuously monitor the campaign today. However, early bird pricing ended 4 hours ago, so Baphomet and the other monster girls are now available only at normal pricing ($18, or still $15 for gacha).
Baphomet officially funds at $4,000, once we hit $4k Rin will be available to pledge for and is up next to unlock!
Please, please, please fill out your surveys if you haven't already done so. The collab pins are on the way, but I can't order anything else until everybody has filled in their surveys. I'm waiting on final counts before placing the order with my manufacturer, so I need the surveys completed as soon as possible. I will also be charging cards at the end of this week, so please make sure your surveys are complete and your payments go through.
We hit our base goal! Thank you so much to everyone!!! im so excited to see everybody's (mine included) pins be brought into reality, I appreciate everybody's support. Strawberry spider is next, now let's see how many stretch goals we can hit! 😊🕷🕸
Hello everyone! Here's a check-in with midway progress from the campaign and to see what's new.
Starting off, there is still some of you who are having card issues, please make sure you fix those with the help of backerkit if you need it so that you get your rewards! If you do not submit all the information then I can't ship your items out!
Addresses will be locked once I start shipping in JULY. So you can change it as many times as you need until then!
All pins have been counted, formatted, submitted and paid for at the end of April, so progress on them has been steady. Lucifer was the only one that had a sample done- and because of the techniques used on it, it takes a lot longer to make.
(Backerkit doesn't allow videos, so this is the best I can do!)
The sample has been approved and production on it has gone ahead now. I am estimating for the other pins to be finished before Lucifer will be, so they will wait to ship everything out once they're all complete (which means we'll get photos of the other pins before shipment!)
I also got all the freebie stickers in with me now :)
So many!!
The wood pins I will start to make in June, as I am currently swamped preparing for Confuzzled Birmingham and Qcon Belfast in the coming weeks. They're not a high priority and won't take me super long to make.
That's all for now! Thank you all very much for your continued patience <3
This means in just a few months, a little bundle of rainy ducklings (and frogs!) will find its way to your home! And since we are on the topic of rainy frogs... I think it would be fair to add a little freebie once we hit Stretch goal 2. Maybe something enamel-pin like, maybe... small frog pin? 👀🐸
Thank you so much for your help, I will be forever and ever thankful to all of you for making my dream come true.
I've said multiple times now that I wouldn't update too much but I'm just too excited to not pop in and show some pins! I think you all don't mind.
More sample pictures Past weeks I've been surprised by my manu with screenprint sample pictures. I had not expected them to be honest, but this is the first time I'm doing screenprint and working directly with a pin manufactor instead of a middle man. Pleasantly surprised tho! I'm only missing the Black rain frog. I received it but the screenprint was so light I asked if they could change it to another. Waiting on that one for now. All others are now approved tho! (The tadpoles were done already, they didn't had any screenprint.)
The Pacman frog had some issues with the screen print colour at first. So I asked for another colour but that was not it. But now the left is the final choice and approved one! Right is way too bright, would be a good one for the albino colour variant. Maybe in a future crowdfunding or pre-order in the shop.
Freebie enamel pin backing card In the meantime I've also finished the freebie backer pin backing card. Not yet ordered but I'm still waiting on the pins so there's not need for it yet.
Combined Shipping Regarding the combined shipping Roundbirbart has emailed a bunch of you already to check if you wanted combined shipping or not. I've processed those who emailed back manually. So those who mailed back should now have 'Local Pickup' in their survey country address. Please double check yourself if you have the Collab freebie pin from us both and you want combined shipping to enter 'Local Pickup' in your address line instead of United States/Germany/whatever country the pins need to go to. This only counts for my survey.
Shipping and tariffs Like the last update it's changing all the time. The 200+% has dropped down again now to.. somewhere around 50% for those in the United States. This will be until August somewhere but we'll just have to see how it'll go. To prepare yourself, expect a payment needed with anything coming from outside of the United States. For orders outside of Europe it's an additional 20%, but there's also the de minimum. My thoughts are: prep some budget on the side for any possible extra payments you need to pay as the person 'importing' the items. That way you are prepared! Locking surveys and charging cards Here to mention I'll be locking survey's and charging cards when I get a shipment notice of the enamel pins. Not sure when that'll happen,but I'll be sure to let you all know a few days before that. Just make sure all is set and filled in correctly. 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. Don't worry about feeling like you are bothering me with questions, I'm here to help!
When will the pins be shipped I'll be honest, I don't know exactly if all the approved screenprint samples are now in production or done already. These photo's were sent to me over the past few weeks. I think it's safe to say I won't receive the enamel pins before the weekend of 7 and 8 June. I have the German convention DoKomi then and would have liked to offer pick up there. Bu I don't think I'll have them by then.
And that's all it! If you are attending DoKomi beginning of June I'll be in Hall 4 at booth 4M03 and I wish you a very fun convention weekend. The next convention will be Dutch Comic Con two weeks after. Can't wait till I have the pins tho, super stoked for them!
Wishing you a frogtacular early weekend!
P.S. I'm overly excited but I'm planning to do a much smaller crowdfunding in August. Focused on poison dart frogs and possibly salamanders. Hit the 'count me in' button if you like to stay updated. Nothing is set yet but hope you are excited for this as much as I am already, ahaha.
