We are only one week away from the big day: the project goes live with Printopia 2026, on September 10th!
I've been working on the stretch goals, in the last update I asked you to vote on which stretch goals you would prefer and there was a draw between planners and small art prints (postcard size) 🥹 So you made the choice, and I'll deliver it!
I already have one planner design ready! Here's the sneak peek 🫣:
I'll be working on at least another planner design (weekly view instead of a monthly one). ☺️
But let's talk about the book now!
What's Inside?
30 unique illustrations;
Small introductions of each character and some fun facts!
A make your character page! With a blank ID page for you to fill in and a page to add your own feline drawing, feel free to self insert your own cat friend or your favorite character :)
Book Features
The coloring book is square shaped and measures 21 x 21cm (approximately 8.3 x 8.3 inches);
Single-sided pages to prevent ink bleed-through from ruining your work on the reverse side;
With a soft-touch matte cover;
Internal pages of extra white premium paper - 160 g/m² (approximately 108 lb);
The initial goal of the project is to achieve 1750€, with this amount we will be able to produce the physical coloring book! The initial goal is higher than the ones in my last 2 backerkit projects, so I'm a bit nervous about it, but I want the book to feel premium and the thick pages are a MUST since I know a lot of you like to use markers for coloring books.
Hopefully we will be able to reach that goal and even unlock some of the stretch goals 🫣
And if you didn't follow the project yet, now it's your change!
Follow the project and receive this free sticker of Void wearing his cute yellow raincoat with your pledge! It will automatically apply the reward to all the backers who followed the project before launch.
Time for the unveiling of the sticker sheet! Available to Masters of Disguise, Amazing Mimics, Sticker Mimics, and as an add-on for other tiers!
This is a 4"x6" sticker sheet featuring mimics that I couldn't fit into the book. Here's some details on these amazing animals:
Termite-mimicking Rove Beetle (Austrospirachtha carrijoi): A beetle that lives parasitically inside termite nests. To blend in, it not only smells like a termite but has an overgrown abdomen shaped like a termite's body!
Cheetah Cub (Acinonyx jubatus): Young cheetahs have a poof of gray hair on their backs that make them look like honey badgers. Honey badgers are fearless predators, so most animals stay away from them.
Cinereous Mourner Chick (Laniocera hypopyrra): These birds begin life with fluffy orange feathers that make them look like flannel moth caterpillars, who hide a painful sting beneath their long hairs. The chick even moves like a caterpillar to make the disguise more convincing.
Pinnate Batfish Juvenile (Platax pinnatus): The stunning color and frilly fins makes the fish look like a poisonous flatworm swimming around. They lose this bright coloration when they become adults, instead traveling in schools for protection.
Fungus-mimicking Orb Weaver (Taczanowskia waska): Recently discovered in Ecuador, this spider is unusual because it mimics a dead spider infected by a fungus! It captures unsuspecting insects that get too close.
Buff-tip Moth (Phalera bucephala): A moth that mimics a freshly broken twig. When resting, the moth folds its wings to form a cylinder so that the pale spots on both ends look like splintered wood.
In other news, we're about $400 away from the first stretch goal!
After staring at covers at a book fair, I felt inspired to finish up the cover! Look at all that hand-drawn text!
Digital mockup of the book
If we hit the 2K stretch goal, the cover will be elevated with some glossy spot UV! Share this project with your fellow bug aficionados and let's get that upgrade!
The Snow Globe is currently at 44% so we are ALMOST at the 50% mark. Our poll for a friend for Elf will be closing out in THREE days to allow for time for them to be created and mailed in time for holiday fulfillment.
My Maggie with The Snow Globe
If you would be interested in ordering a reindeer, bear, or fox doll - please vote asap! I don't think you can select multiple so if you would be interested in ordering more than one - send me a message at [email protected] or @acorn_cottage_press on Insta.
We are less than $100 away from funding Charles' mini book! Thank you all for the early support of this campaign!
You may have seen the big "Printopia All-Ages" badge and funding tracker at the top of the campaign as well! It's a big collaboration event across BackerKit, and to help promote it you can get a free digital zine for backing 3+ projects in each category. In the All-Ages zine, along with submissions from all other projects participating, you'll get this page by me to print out and color!
View all the Printopia projects you can support here!