I've been working on these designs behind the scenes, but I finally have them to share! If you follow me on Instagram, you might have seen them buuuuuut.... In case you haven't, here are the designs for Backer's Choice 3 & 4:
It took some finagling and fine tuning, but I'm pleased with the results. Now all the designs that are unlocked are posted and ready to be added to your collections! If you need to adjust your pledges, remember that the campaign ends at 1pm PST tomorrow.
As a reminder, you can get TWO FREE PINS by backing both mine and The Taffy Tabby's projects! They already have six flags available and we are SO CLOSE to unlocking the Ace & Demi variants! If you love these designs, consider backing their project!
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We are in the home stretch with less than 24 hours to go. Hope y'all have had a great time this Pintopia, I know I have!
I've been alternating between rest and working on the Backer's Choice designs. I thought I'd share the current state of the polls: There's still time to vote, but not for much longer! Be sure to cast your vote in the polls by tonight at midnight PST to ensure we have as much data as possible. (Tall/Small and Immortal/Mortal are only off by one vote!)
And if your fave doesn't get chosen this time, don't worry! The six tropes that are not chosen will become the first designs in my next project. They will be made eventually, I just have to limit myself to make sure I can fufill the project on my current timeline haha.
AND SPEAKING OF BACKER'S CHOICE
I have the first couple of Backer's Choice designs to share with you. I hope you love them as much as I do:
Once the results are in, I'll get to work on those final two designs!
That's all for tonight! If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me here!
I realized I never mentioned it in my previous updates... so I thought now would be an excellent time! For my first Pintopia, I really wanted a collab partner. With all of the family health stuff that was going on during prep time, I really didn't know if I'd find a partner... until VintageDoggo (AKA TheTaffyTabby on Insta) reached out to me!
We brainstormed for a bit before settling on our designs. And I think they came out pretty great:
All you need to do to have BOTH of these pins added to your order is to make a physical pledge to VintageDoggo, who has an amazing pride candy campaign happening now!
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They've already hit their first goal but I a PRAYING we get to that second stretch goal soon! Definitely need my Ace Pride rep haha. With the first stretch goal being $67 away (nice), I KNOW we can get there!!
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I also have an update on the polls. We're already about halfway through them and it's already a close race for #3: About a third of folks have voted for #3's design, so if you're one of the 100 or so that haven't voted yet, make sure your voice is heard!
I've also attached poll #4 to this update, as only 16 out of 144 have thrown their hat in the ring. Be sure to vote so we can have the best data for the final design!
As always, if you have any questions, feel free to reply to this update!
Thank you so much to everyone who voted in the previous poll and on the google form; as most folks wanted more pin designs, I'm opening up two more Backer's Choice stretch goals, which we've already unlocked!
As there was a pretty nice size chunk of folks that wanted the retired designs, I've decided I'll add them to BackerKit's add-ons in the Survey section once the project has come to an end. They'll need at least 15 orders each to be made, but given how many folks put some of these tropes on their Google Form, I think we can hit those numbers :3
ON THAT NOTE! There were some clear winners by a 10+ vote margin. And so...
The first two Backer's Choice Tropes will be... MULTISHIPPER & NOBLE/KNIGHT!
But fear not! I've attached two polls for the final designs. Each poll contains the top three tropes from their category along with a wildcard! The wildcard tropes are ones I saw mentioned multiple times in the survey and thought they should have a shot at being made.
Cast your vote before Sunday @ 11:59pm PST to be sure your voice is heard!
We've done it! All stretch goals have been unlocked by day two and I could not be happier! Thank you to everyone who has backed the project so far; we still have about 20 days left in the campaign, which has me thinking on what new stretch goals I could add that wouldn't overwhelm me once the pins arrive... ^^;;;
Right now there are 12 full-sized designs to choose from, along with two mini pins. Two of those are Backer's Choice pins, which I need your help deciding!
I currently have a Google Form to help choose the top designs to post on BackerKit as a poll. So far, only about a quarter of folks have filled out that survey.
If you want to have a say in which designs, be sure to fill out the survey by Sunday, January 25th 11:59pm PST. I'll post the results in two polls on Monday and they'll run for a week.
Thank you again for all your support. I've had some pretty heavy stuff happen in the last week IRL, so I wasn't sure how the project would turn out. Y'all are bringing a lot of light during this difficult time and I can't put into words what it means to me ;o;
