FACTORY SNEAK PEEK

I'm so glad I caved and ordered the orange ones too. The factory really understood the brief with these, they look fabulous.

Okay! First lot of pins that have arrived;

Cyerce Nigricans. Top is the alt version, bottom is the default version. The dual plating did not work out, so we have hard enamel with a screen print effect. 

Bonus pics, the fancy version of the sticker. Its hot stamped with gold foil, the sticker is very thick. Its nearly impossible to get a picture that shows both the lovely print colour and the shiny gold. Its much more impressive in real life. 

Next up is the rainbow sea bunny. This was by far our most purchased add-on, nearly half of you bought one (thank you!). They came out so good. Each one is different due to the metal plating process that's used.

Gold plated sea bunny. Simple but classy in my opinion. But I may be biased.

The sticker books look great, the prints are nice and crisp. The frosted covers are a really nice touch too. 

The spiral notebooks too are pretty mint. They have a lot of pages for spiral notebooks too. Paper is nice quality, not the thin cheap stuff too. 

The leatherettes are... Fine. (The print isn't blurry, its the texture of the cover). Not my favourite.

Sticker effects. So for the fancy stickers we're going with glow in the dark for Cyerce Elegans (all three colours). Nigricans you can see above, with the hot stamped foil. Then the rest are split between matte holo and brushed gold. We tried out tracing paper and washi paper and pearl paper options, but honestly they weren't all that impressive in comparison. The stickers have been designed with transparent and semi transparent areas to show off the effects to their full potential. Default stickers are matte clear vinyl with no special effects. All stickers got upgraded to 3" size because this place measures them differently and we were getting some that were really too small overall. 

These are just some examples from the test batch I ordered. They'll be in some of the mystery bags, if you chose to include other campaigns and holo effects :).

That was all the good stuff so far. The next batch of pins is already on its way, which includes hopefully the glow in the dark and the leaf sheep pins. I will keep you updated :).

I'm so sorry.

I totally forgot I said I was going to preview the stickers first. 

Behind the scenes we had an issue with the manufacturer that meant we had to reorder a whole batch of the pins, so I went ahead with locking the orders and the card charges, ready to pay the remaining balance on the new order. In the middle of sorting that out I completely forgot that I hadn't done the sticker update yet. 

Unfortunately, I can't unlock orders. But I can alter everything manually on my end. So if you want to switch anything out, you can email support and I'll do it for you. The pre order store is also still open; if you wanted to add anything then you can order it and I'll refund you the shipping so you don't pay twice. Please don't hesitate to contact me... I will fix it for you. 

This was my first really big project but I've worked really hard to make sure things like this didn't happen. I'm sorry. 

Some of the test stickers and the first batch of pins did arrive yesterday; I'll make a post sometime this week with some pictures. The stickers aren't what I wanted so we're probably just going to go with holo/foiling options from Stickerapp, with one really awesome exception; we did a hot stamp foil version of Cyerce Nigricans. 

The production for this campaign has been... Messy. For some reason we've been getting back a lot of errors, and a lot of things were promised that couldn't actually be delivered. I refuse to send out anything that doesn't meet my standards, but its meant a few things had to be re ordered elsewhere, and a few things didn't pan out. The dual plating did not work out. The stained glass looks great but we had a whole batch that was electroplated the wrong colour. A lot of colours came back that don't look like the previews we were given. Everything is slowly being resolved, its just a lot of confusion on my end of things.

Stay tuned. I'll try and get the sticker update out before the end of this week. 

Cards are going to be charged in a moment.

We decided to put in the remaining costs to unlock the orange Cyerce Elegans ourselves. I was on the fence but we got a better price for getting an extra colour done so we're going to go ahead. It won't be removed from carts and it is going into production.

One notebook add on was not funded, we removed it from everyone's carts. Another one I realised I actually already ordered, so I removed the funding goal. 

Orders have been locked, but if you have any issues you can always get in touch. We'll always do our best to fix them for you :). 

The first pins are due to arrive with us tomorrow, so keep an eye out for some previews ~

Just a quick one.

In a couple of days I'm going to be locking in orders for the pre order and add one stores. Pins are starting to come in, and I need the money to order the stickers and what not. We're looking to begin shipping at the end of May/early June, but there's still the potential for delays yet (we seem to be having a very difficult manufacturing run this time, probably because the designs are complicated). 

A couple of things didn't unlock. You won't be charged for those, but if you want to switch to different alternatives now's the best time. 

I'll be back with more previews soon :)

Just a quick peek from the factory. We have a lot of complicated designs so production is taking a long time. I had to get a few things remade due to some misunderstandings, but here's what I've got so far! Bear in mind many of them are not completed, but I always think its fun to see the WIP.

Before the screen printing stage. The one on the right is the corrected colours. We didn't sell enough to order the orange, but I kind of regret not just self funding it anyway!

The rainbow sea bunny. The epoxy coating gives a lovely finish over the soft enamel, making it smooth and more durable. Each one will be unique, because of the anodized finish on the metal. Some more green, some more pink/purple. This little guy turned out to be our most popular add on.

The gold freebie sea bunny. This one is hard enamel, and I think he looks great too. The white and gold is simplistic but I think it works.

Nigricans alternate pin. There are three shades of 'black', although the light doesn't show them off. The rest is all gold metal finish.

Cyerce Nigricans seconds pin. This one is lovely, but there was some confusion as to what I ordered - it was supposed to be dual plated, which is apparently only possible with soft enamel. They are remaking it in soft enamel with a layer of epoxy, but until I see which one looks better I won't know which one we're sending out by default. It looks very nice though.

Sneaky WIP peak, before the gradient pearl is added.

Anyone who bought one of these in the add on store, here's a look at the enamel part before the quicksand section is added. We went for a 3d effect on the rocks and I think it looks spot on. Just waiting for the screen print and the sections with glitter.

And finally, not a pin. This is the fancy Cyerce Nigricans sticker - its hot stamped with gold foil. It ended up being 3" long to allow for the foiling pattern. The stickers are nice and thick too. 

I think that's all for now! I'll update when I get some more ~