I hope you’ve enjoyed a relaxed start to the new year, or at least a fun one! After finishing all the art I was able to take some time off for the holidays and now I’ve been really excited to get back to work. Let me catch you up on what I did the last three weeks!
Product Packaging Upgrade!
I am in LOVE with how this project turned out, the colours and fonts I chose and the cute little critters. And while I originally planned a more low-key approach to product packaging, I may have since gone completely mad… Every keychain will now come in a pretty, themed matchbox!
Check out these sketches and mock-ups:
I scoured the web and finally found a company in Italy that can print the boxes at the size I want and in the low quantities I need. That means, every keychain will receive a box unique to their design! Designing product packaging is an entirely different skill to drawing animals and it was great fun and a good learning experience to work on it!
Of course I didn’t forget about the booster packs in all this excitement. With around 250 booster packs preordered I needed to find a packaging solution that is secure, pretty and not too complicated. Needless to say I scrapped my original idea of hand making little bags pretty much immediately. Instead, all booster packs will come in small, heat-sealed bags. This way they are child-proof and won’t open during shipping AND I still have space to get all the information on them. Here are my mockups for them:
This is going to be more of a DIY project. I will design a front and back sticker for every booster pack, 25 in total, heat seal the bags myself and the stick the matching sticker to it. Not going to lie, I‘m quite excited to try out my heat sealer 👀
Timeline
All products are now in production or being shipped to me, with the exception of the keychain boxes. The keychains themselves are currently going through customs! I’m fairly confident that almost everything will reach me at the end of January.
As products come in, I’ll unwrap them, assess the quality and buy additional shipping supplies as needed. Then it is also time to sort out the booster packs and break in my heat sealing machine.
Currently I am expecting to be done with quality control and the booster packs by the time the boxes for the keychains arrive, at which point I can start with fulfillment. The first packages will be shipped out in mid February!
One last update: If you participated in the Trivia Challenge, you might have been wondering what the promised stickers are going to be 👀 Well I went back and forth on it a lot, but I finally decided on a biodiversity themed sticker for every participant, featuring some (critically) endangered animals, and a snow leopard stickerfor the winning team (Team Snow Leopard yay!)
That’s it from me for now! Let me know your thoughts on the designs and my packaging ideas and if you have any questions, leave them below! Once everything starts arriving I’ll be back with pictures!
