Quickly popping in to let you know almost all Backer packages are sent off! Here's a run down for those who love numbers. (It's not me, numbers aren't my friend, ahaha.)
Fulfillment overview
- There are 13 who didn't fill in their survey; Four of those supported with a $1 backing (offered to fellow Pintopian artists). The others either paid their pledge choice (or didn't) and never filled in the survey. - There are 7-8 whose cards need to be charged. They filled in the survey's but still need to pay the outstanding sum. The cards either refused or had insufficient funds. - The last 23 have paid but are all combined shipping. Meaning they will have to wait until Roundbirbart is back in her office again to pack them together.
The other 292 Backers should have gotten a mail saying it's on their way or even a tracking number with it. All packages are sent with tracking and are officially out of my office. The last 100+ I sent off myself will have their tracking probably be active around Thursday or Friday.
Tracking your orders
BackerKit unfortunately doesn't always recognize the carrier's tracking numbers. Please use https://parcelsapp.com/ to track your package. Once your package arrives in the destination country it will also be traceable through your local postal service!
If you live outside of the Netherlands your parcel will be shipped via Deutsche Post. If you live in the Netherlands it'll be shipped through PostNL.
Next project in August, Poison Dart Frogs & Salamanders
In August I hope to have another crowdfunding project, albeit a bit smaller and without a collab pin option. Just to test the waters and expand the enamel pin selection of amphibians. The theme will be Poison Dart Frogs and Salamanders. I'm thinking around 3-5 poison dart frogs with 2-3 salamanders. You can hit the Check out the teaser page if you are interested in this new project.
Feel free to tag me on socials when you receive your enamel pins and other goodies. I'd love to see where they hopped to! Instagram | BSKY | Discord | Twitter
I'm slowly making my way through sorting and packaging of rewards - I've gotten most of the way through it though, and I am so relieved. Thank you for your patience on this - it's been quite an interesting time in the world 🌎
To my USA peeps:
I am asking anyone who would like to avoid possible tariff charges on delivery to please update their payments and addresses AS SOON AS POSSIBLE 📦 I will be working on sending USA orders to my shipping partner in the next couple weeks. Anything that is not included in this parcel will be sent direct from Canada and subject to tariffs (and I will not have control over that 😔).
To my everywhere else peeps:
Please update addresses when you can, I am hoping to also send these in the next couple weeks! 📦
MORE information/updates:
There are two designs that had a mix up with the manufacturer - this only affected about 10 orders - I have reached out to them directly to figure out options. Please keep your eyes on your inbox!
That's about all I have for now - I haven't had a chance to take good photos of the pins yet... Hopefully soon! 📸 As always - please reach out to me directly if you have any questions/comments or concerns! ✨
Some might have seen it from Roundbirbart's update already but we've started shipping all the enamel pins! I had to process the tracking numbers, survive the packing week plus I had Dutch Comic Con. But I survived so here's an update for you all.
Shipping has started
For those who chose combined shipping, your orders have either been packed and shipped or waiting on being picked up by the postal service. Roundbirbart will be out of town for a 3 week trip so you will have to wait a bit longer. Until mid to late July.
I have 119 orders left to pack and ship off myself, which I hope to start getting to this week. I had to clean up after the convention first, to make literal room for the parcels, but all should start going out next week, I hope!
Stacks of letterboxes waiting to be labeled. Plush is made by Avanii.nl and the vinyl figures are from Bandai
Tracking your orders
BackerKit unfortunately doesn't always recognize the carrier's tracking numbers. Please use https://parcelsapp.com/ to track your package. Once your package arrives in the destination country it will also be traceable through your local postal service!
If you live outside of the Netherlands your parcel will be shipped via Deutsche Post. If you live in the Netherlands it'll be shipped through PostNL.
Shipped 195 of the 336 orders!
Failed charges on cards
There are 9 of you out there who have a failed charge on your card. I will try to re-charge again on 26th of June and I want to ask you to check if you have sufficient funds, check if all is in order or maybe do an authorization.
Some of those 9 failed charges had a SCA regulation mention which (if I understand it correctly) you'll need (next to authentication also) to authorize the payment. (I think this is like how VISA does a 2 step check with their app here in the Netherlands.)
Only 9 failed cards so far, I am positively surprised!
Next project in August, Poison Dart Frogs & Salamanders
In August I hope to have another crowdfunding project, albeit a bit smaller and without a collab pin option. Just to test the waters and expand the enamel pin selection of amphibians. The theme will be Poison Dart Frogs and Salamanders. I'm thinking around 3-5 poison dart frogs with 2-3 salamanders. You can hit the Check out the teaser page if you are interested in this new project.
Feel free to tag me on socials when you receive your enamel pins and other goodies. I'd love to see where they hopped to! Instagram | BSKY | Discord | Twitter
It has been a little over 2 weeks since I gave my last update!!
Timeline: (based on prior update)
May - Production Start for ita bags and enamel pins Currently in production
Aug - Enamel Pins production completed and shipped to me
Sept - Ita Bags production completed and shipped to me
October/November - Receive all items and start grading
November - Start fulfilling pledges. Completion estimated to be December if there are no issues.
We are still on track with the updated timeline and everything is moving forward pretty smoothly! There was a bit of a snag in the preparation of the production, but no new issues so far. Honestly, I'm hoping to receive the products earlier than October, but I'm going to keep the current timeline just in case anything unexpected pops up.
Just a quick reminder, I will be charging everyone's payment card at the end of June 30! It is only a week away, so please make sure you're able to plan everything accordingly!
Progress pictures!
Uninked mini pins
Mini pin molds
Molds of the larger pins
Prints of the Bag (Drying)
More Bag Updates!
It is kinda funny seeing the prints just being hung dry on a line hahaha
Another update should be coming in about two weeks! Because that's when I poke my manus for updates... I try not to do bother them too often because they're busy with other orders.
I'm so, so excited to receive these pins and I can't wait for you to receive them either! But we don't have much longer to wait because they are already on-route to me. As soon as they arrive, I will check them over before packing them ready to send to you, but I'm hoping to have them all sent by the end of July at the latest.
Here's a sneak peek at the Monster Smut pin 😍 I'm in love with how well this pin has turned out 😍
I know it's a bit late right now, but hopefully if any of you see this in the morning or wherever you are, you could take a look and provide some feedback. This is mostly to those who have Espeon/Umbreon and Espurr ordered or were considering having Espeon/Umbreon and Espurr ordered!!
I wanted to get the input of those who either had these pre-ordered or were potentially interested in it. Of course all feedback from everyone is welcome, but I mostly wanted to prioritize those who had their eyes on these kitties - do you like the colors? I was going back and forth with some of my friends about the colors for Espurr and Espeon and we can't decide if we like it or not.. I need fresh eyes! Especially those who adopted them.
I've included a poll in case some of you are shy and would rather not say anything! (However, if you did buy them, I would greatly appreciate your thoughts through a comment since I'm not able to see who answered what, so it's hard for me to gauge the reception of those who actually are planning to adopt them or have already adopted them.)
I wasn't sure if I wanted to make Espeon pinker or if she was OK like this and I wasn't sure if I should also make Espurr darker. :') This may add additional time to production, but I wanted to make sure that I was able to produce something that both the buyers and myself were happy with and now I need to soundboard with y'all HAHA.
Additionally, I wanted to share with you the Lugia, he looks awesome!!!
I'm really happy with how Lugia came out. :D Big white baby. c:
Any feedback for Espurr and Umbreon/Espeon is welcome!! (and appreciated)
It took me a bit to check and fix the surveys before requesting them to be checked due to doctor appointments and image testing. The good news is they have been checked, and I fixed what needed to be fixed. I have emailed them that I am done, so hopefully they approve it so I can finally send out my smoke test before I send it to everyone.
The Meg situation update. I still haven't heard from her, but she did put her Fiverr account on vacation, and it states she'll be back June 30th. Hopefully, then I can talk to her and check on the sticker situation, among other things. I'm super worried about her.
On top of that, there's the Chibi Moon poll, please, please take it so I know what I should do, lol.
After a busy few weeks, we have successfully completed our Dress-Up Beary fulfillment! We are now at 100% fulfillment rate! 🎉
Most, if not all of you should have received your tracking numbers and your goodies should be well on the way to you right now! :)
I've began seeing cute photos and videos that you guys have uploaded on IG and X on your goods and they bring me so, so much joy! I can't wait for your goodies to start reaching you and hopefully you will enjoy them as much as I enjoyed designing them! 💖
For those who might have missed out on our project, we will be uploading them on our online store sometime in September and also bringing them for all of our upcoming events! So there's still a chance to grab them! :)
Thank you all once again for your patience and love throughout the whole project!
Some of the pins are in hand! specifically- Unicorn, dragon standard pins and eastern dragon, rat king, snail, and phoenix minis! This means some fulfilllment is happening soon! If you order included these items and only these items please make sure that your address is up to date and you are ready to have your shipping/addon payment collected! I'll start charging cards tomorrow and will begin locking addresses of these orders next week so please check that everything is up to date! If you're unable to have the payment charged at the moment please reach out! For the time being i'll be covering the usa tariffs and i'll open a kofi if you'd like to contribute. After the most recent talks they're getting raised once more to 55% at some point in the near future so i'm eager to put the decision to bed and send out as fast as possible before then A couple more notes- I forgot to mention but I switched many of the designs from 2 backing to 3 given the size. this means if you ordered a 2-pack backing set you will get 3 locking backings! Sadly the black shuck and wyrm are limited to 2 because this was a decision i made after getting the samples, and the backings were part of the actual mould. I think the black shuck it works fine though i'm admittedly a little disappointed at the oversight of not adding 3 to the wyrm. He's kinda chunky. Speaking of some disappointments- I got a last minute message last week from one of the manufacturers that the chrome i selected for the shrike gryphon colouration wasn't a possibility. The manufacturer ran out of some component to create that particular colour finish. This news was brought to me at nearly the very last stage of their production so I had to pick a new colour on the fly. Thankfully the chrome #20 seems to be very very close from what i can tell it'll have a slighty warmer hue to it. I was really looking forward to the original colour because it has such a nice looking glossy finish to it, but i think this one should also work well. As usual, please let me know if you'd like to pull your order as a result of this. finally, as i said a good chunk of the pins are now in my possession!! I went out today and had a little photo session, enjoy!
I hope you're all doing well. The Final Girl colour poll has closed for the sticker design and the winning colour choice is purple (my favourite colour ❤️). I'll be away next week on a business trip, but as soon as I'm home, I will be finishing the Alpha & Omega sticker design as well. Once that's complete, I'll be ordering all of the stickers 😊
Speaking of ordering things. After a little back and forth with the manufacturer, I'm happy to announce that the unlocked pin designs have been ordered! Including Monster Smut 😊 Even with ordering the stickers later than the pins, they should arrive around the same time. As soon as I have everything, I will begin packing and shipping. If all goes to plan, that should be towards the end of July. A little later than expected, but hopefully not by much.
I can't wait to get these pins and stickers into your hands! Thank you again for supporting my first enamel pin campaign ❤️
