As you’ve probably heard (or read), the Naked Truth Tarot Midnight Edition campaign has surpassed 250% funding — all thanks to you!
We truly appreciate your incredible support!
BackerKit will take a couple of weeks to collect your pledges, so please keep an eye on your inbox to ensure there are no payment issues that could delay your rewards when we start shipping.
Based on the poll results, we’re excited to confirm that two extra cards—the Lovers and the Tower from the first edition—will be added to this Midnight Edition deck to make it even more special.
If you encounter any problems, don’t hesitate to reach out to us!
We are happy to announce that the antique decks are inbound with a delivery date of tomorrow.
They had to order more paper for the basic decks, which are in progress, and I expect to get them soon as well.
We appreciate your patience as my husband, and I navigated ordering and prepping these. We are a small team of two, and this is over 400 orders to send out. It will take a bit of time but It will be worth it. Shipping will begin after we get back from Emerald City Comic Con the week of the 16th.
For those of you who are attending Emerald City Comic Con, we will be there in person in the Artist Alley. Stop by and say hello.
with Pintopia 2026 coming to an end, I figured I´d sneak in a few photos of my current pin project. They are already funded and some stretch goals unlocked.
"Cracked & Kind" Enamel pins are inspired by chipped cups and the idea that repair is nothing to hide. Because perfection is overrated
The metal captures the light beautifully and the reflections work really well with the design.
A Stretchgoal called the Frankenstein Cups, Cups mended together form different colors, have already been unlocked:
If that looks good to you, check out all the pins here before the campaign ends!
Nothing big to report, but I did want to come in and share the "7 Was Wrong Pin" design final form! It is officially named the 1000 Goblin Pin!
It will be 2.5" wide, and while it was offered here cheaper, it will retail for $15. This is the 'commemorative' pin I put up in our final moments when we reached 1000 backers, proving me wrong about that!
Also, look at the dice chests! Just kind of fun to see them in process. They are just about done, and I've paid manufacturing with the manu, but we won't start until March since we have to work around the Chinese New Year here in Feb.
More info in March when we have some clearer timeline info!
The decks are currently in progress at the printer, and there isn't much else to update. We expect them sometime this month. Mostly everything else is done or in progress. The sketchbooks are slightly behind, but I'm hoping to get those rolling into production soon as well.
As for the coloring books, a couple of the line art pieces needed to be redone. They were accidentally merged with the color layers. Thankfully, that is moving along smoothly now, though. One of the downsides of autosave in Adobe Cloud.
Thank you, everyone, for your patience as we are getting this project closer to the finish line.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to ask here or email [email protected].
We've had another pin set back, sorry guys. I missed a massive mistake.
They missed this part of the design on my order sheet. Unfortunately, I didn't notice it on the proofs. So all the rest have it coloured in, as far as I can see; but none of the spider crabs do. Including the BM and glow versions T_T. So they all have to be re ordered. I only just noticed it. Fortunately the molds don't need to be remade so the cost is less, but even so.
So that's underway right now. Work is continuing in the background. We are currently moving house, we'll be moved end of Feb and after that updates should increase.
The Vibrating Tarot project is moving ever forward, but I regret to inform everyone of a further delay in the fulfillment timeline due to unforeseen production challenges with our printer.
While we had sincerely hoped to have the deck in your hands much sooner, circumstances have forced us to extend our original timeline further than anticipated.
We are hopeful that our deck can be delivered to all of you in May 2026.
Thanks for your understanding, as I feel a great responsibility to advocate to the best of my ability for each brand who has allowed their products to be featured in this body of work, even if it tacks on several weeks to the production timeline.
Updated Production Schedule
March: Continue discussions with printer. Approve the new offset proof.
April: Awaiting our shipment.
May: Fulfillment of units to all Backers.
Why are we Facing this Delay?
After having seen the deck printed several times during the past two years by several different North American printers, we finally committed to seeing our first offset proof, which was produced by the company that was to manufacture our full run of 1000 units, who is based in China.
Generating an offset proof of a bulk print job is very expensive but crucial as a final test because it shows exactly how each one of the 1000 copies printed after it will look.
It is at this final stage that we ran into our issue, as the printer we had been working with did not deliver a satisfactory proof of the project. In our offset proof, we noticed that all the colours are much too dark, leading to the loss of important details, and the overall colour palette tends towards red/beige, with many cards having a very noticeable reddish/beige hue washing over them.
Although I could share a variety of different examples, I don't want these inadequate images living on the internet in perpetuity and potentially overshadowing the amazing final product that will soon be coming to store shelves.
Why Does this Discrepancy Matter?
I’m trying to ensure that each product looks the way it should look and that no brand who has put their trust in me has any reason to feel that their product didn’t turn out properly in the final print.
I have an obligation to make sure that all the images are accurate representations of the products they depict. We simply cannot accept this printing result and rush the final product into the hands of our backers.
What is our Solution?
Our printer told us that we were being too picky and that we should just accept a certain level of variation.
They ignored our attempts to discuss the colour calibration on their equipment or the colour profiles and export settings of my files. I was eventually told to find a different printer who had better printing capabilities.
Advancing an ongoing dialogue I had previously initiated with a different printing company, one that has come highly recommended to us, has already been a major improvement.
When I proceeded with the new company and asked to see a full offset proof, they told me exactly which colour profile to apply to my images that aligns with their specific printing machinery.
Now that all of my files have been exported with settings that are optimal to the equipment being used to print the job, I am certain that our new offset proof will look amazing.
Please know that without addressing the issues we’ve encountered, Vibrating Tarot would have been printed incorrectly. It would have been delivered to you below acceptable standards, and it would have been my own fault for not advocating on our behalf.
I believe we're in good hands now and that all of this will have been worth the extra wait. My only regret is that I need to be telling all of you that you will need to wait a little longer to see your deck of cards.
Any Questions?
If anyone has any questions, please ask in the comments below. I'd love to provide more details, but I didn't want to bog down this update with too much info.
If you have any specific questions, or if you want to continue this discussion in the comment section, I'd be more than happy to provide more info and answer all of your questions. I want to encourage a substantive discussion with those who want to have one, so please don't hesitate to voice your opinions below.
Thanks to everyone for understanding about our production delay
Thank you all for your patience and for your belief in this project. We want to make a deck we can be proud of and that reflects all the hard work from so many people in this industry by accurately and beautifully presenting the product imagery on each card.
Thanks to those who have already told me quality is more important than the original timeline.
We know that once the cards are in your hands, you will see how our careful attention to detail has paid off, and that the delays encountered to get to this point were more than worth the tradeoff.
So we move forward, ever optimistic. Someday very soon, this project will make it into the world and all the struggles will have been worthwhile.
Our little 3-person team has continued to be plagued with some difficult life circumstances (since starting this project: a health crisis, a divorce, a family member's death, and a job loss, among **gestures at everything**). We’ve been forging ahead slower than we hoped but we’ve signed off on all the contracts with our printing partner, and manufacturing of the deck is underway. The finish line is in sight!
As an extra thank you for your grace and patience, we'll be sending all of our backers a freebie polar bear sticker with your other items.
Status of items:
Bandanas: produced and in-hand
Enamel Pins: produced and in-hand
Notebooks: produced and in-hand
Stickers: produced and in-hand
Oracle Decks: in production, shipping estimated by March
We will be back with some photos of the items we have in receipt as soon as we can. Carrie is in the thick of an illness, but we didn't want to wait longer to share an update on the progress we've made.
First off, the Helper Dice Set arrived to me! And the dice are good, the cards are good, the box is good-- we're good. (Okay, there are a few small things I've asked them to fix, but very little.) In receiving this, that means I've received all three sets now. I have gone ahead and sent in a handful of digital file updates, including the thinner large set box designs, the final versions of the guidebooks, and that means we're done.
The Dice Chests are already in production, the Dice Goblin pin is about to be in production-- and the stone dice?
The Stone Dice
The Stone Key Keepers set can be seen here above! That's the Housewife's dice, then underneath the Black Lantern dice. Then we have the 7 Key Keepers with their suns and moons, plus the astrology d12. And at the bottom? The 4 Gametaker Dice! Then off to the right, we have the stone Helper Dice Set! Bear in mind that the patterning on each die can be unique, so the red-inked die in the Helper's set is a bit hard to read on that side of the die, but that's just a mismatch of patterning with the design on that particular die and on that particular face. It happens from time to time, but shouldn't be an issue most of the time. It was also a bit of a dark photo from the manufacturer, so I don't feel those will be representative of the in-person experience.
Merging Orders
I will be merging orders shortly to get ready to put shipping on people's orders. This is a manual process I'll be doing personally, so it may take a little bit. However, for people whose orders are merged, you'll find that I'm moving one of your two orders to the 'Fulfilled' bucket. That's just so we don't accidentally re-ship that order. I'm choosing not to cancel one order because that will make later records confusing-- so instead I'm merging items from one to the other order, then moving the one that had its items moved to be considered Fulfilled.
Timeline
So based on the fact that we're just now sending in the final files, I think it's safe to say we won't be shipping until the back half of March and then April at the earliest. This is because February is the Chinese New Year, and everything basically grinds to a halt around that time. This isn't ideal, I thought we could be manufacturing through January, but I needed photos of the real dice in the guidebooks this time around, both stone and plastic, so I could make sure the guides were comprehensive resources.
So I'm going to claim this: By the end of May, we will be all shipped out, ideally all items in people's hands.
I'm a little nervous because I have the Goblin's Tarot set to fund in May, but I'd rather say end of May items in hand and then get to move that sooner as things get done on time, than say we'll be all shipped by the start of May and then it turns out some are still shipping mid-May.
And time-wise, I think that's pretty solid here, as we launched in May last year, so a year turnaround is great for a crowdfunder.
SO FOR NOW, hang out and have a nice day. I'll let you all know when things are moving more certainly and we are more certain of our ability to get things locked in to a particular timeline. I will especially be checking in to share when shipping is being tagged on people's orders so people can check it before we charge it.
So talk again when I have more news!
7DA your pub gob
ps again, Pub Gob Trinkets has its first solo-launch a week from today with new tarot-style enamel pins, this time with a gorgeous stained-glass treatment! So consider giving it a look if you like enamel pins, or got the previous tarot-style pins from us in 2024!
