Pin Pictures, Pre-orders and A New Pintober project.
Hello fellow wanderers,
Summer is slowly coming to an end, and with that the mushroom season is almost upon us! And while we all enjoyed a good summer, I hope, my manu has been busy making samples and has started production. So I wanted to share those pictures with you and announce my new project for Pintober! But first a few housekeeping things:
I still miss 10 surveys - If you want your pins, please complete the survey so I can collect shipping later en have your address.
The gold foil stickers have been switched to gold brushed stickers. They couldn't produce the foil stickers without a white border, and I think they would look a lot better with only gold. So I switched to gold brushed stickers instead.
Pins are estimated to be shipped to me end of September. This is still a bit away and a bit later than expected. Due to the sampling process and the summer break, there is a slight delay here. I still plan to ship the pins in October.
If you have missed the campaign; Pre-orders are still open! So if the pictures below spark your fancy - have a look :).
Pictures!
So there are two types of pictures in this update; Finished samples and fully finished products. The finished samples, are not polished so will look a bit rough. The fully finished products are properly shiny of course ;). I'm very excited to receive these!
New project; Into the Urskog! An ancient forest, with tales, with wisps, with the Old Magick, with glow in the dark. The is my first campaign that introduces you to this world as part of Pintober. I hope to explore more with you in the upcoming future. Of course there will be the traditional returning backer, group collab and partner collab freebes to collect.
See you when the veil between the world is closest?
If you made it all the way to there - thank you for your time! I hope I have the enamel pins in hand by the next update.
Please fill in your surveys asap. I need your data to confirm the final pin counts for the manu and your address, so I know where to ship to ;).
For the backers with failed pledges - you can still fix your payment! Once you do, backerkit will automatically retry your card. Once your payment clears, you will be send a survey as well.
Now I’m going to wander in some beautiful forests and will update you again once I receive samples.
Thank you all so much for your support! We have unlocked all pins and then some <3. I had hoped to unlock everything, but instead we more than doubled it and with in total more than 175 amazing wanderers!
I also wanted to show you some updated colours on the Fairy Helmet and the Witches' Butter. While setting up the production files, I had to make some changes and I think they are for the better. Pictures below.
How do we continue?
Beginning July: Payment processing & Pledge manager setup. Currently there a still 20 or so backers with declined payments, this is the time to fix it! Without payment, I can't send you surveys or products.
Mid July: Surveys will go out & I'll start the sample process at the manufacturer. Since I'm adding quite a few effects to the pins, I want to make sure they come out oke!
Mid/End August: Pins go into manufacturing if everything goes smoothly. I hope to fulfill end of september/oktober.
Changes to designs
When making the production files, I had to make some changes to the colours to be able to match the pantones. Especially dark reds are always a challenge. For the Witches' Butter I added a bi more contrast and colour variation - I think it makes the design pop a bit more. The adjusted designs will shown in the pledge manager.
The campaign is entering its final stages and I'm ready to reveal the final design for this campaign: Witches Butter! The pin is available as add-on, and can also be picked in the survey later. The mushroom part exists out of half raised metal and transparent enamel, combined with screen print.
This wrinkled fungus would spring up on the threshold of a small cottage. It was said that if it did, a witch had put a spell on the folks that lived inside the cottage. One way to break the spell was to place stick pins into the shroom. And when it disappeared, the spell was broken.
To make the sicker pack complete; I'm adding both the Witches' Butter and the Bleeding Fairy Helmet to it! Price stays the same!
Overviews of designs and vote for your favorite!
I made an overview of all designs available for this campaign. And I'm quite proud of the roster we have unlocked together! Please let me know your favorite design in the poll!
Hereby I present the Bleeding Fairy Helmet. Which has the “fun” ability, that when you stab it, it “bleeds”. Hence the name ;)
The pin is 1.5” - just like the others. And will have screen print, translucent and half raised enamel for the blood detail and the moss. The moss will probably have a light glitter as well, I’m going to sample this :). Hope you like it!
The pin will be part of the options in the surveys, so you can pick it then as apart of your pledge
Or you adjust your pledge and increase the amount of pins (which is probably the most beneficial option)
We are almost at 6.5K - This means the Witches’ Butter pin will be unlocked! This is truly mind blowing. I’ll get working on that design asap and hope that I can show you it soon.
We also hit the stretch goal of everybody a free mini pin! Those will be added in the pledge manager to your pledge automatically.
Thank you all for your support and wandering through the forest with me.
First of all; You guys don't wander, you chase towards the goals! You unlock goals faster than I can think of them ;).
But I made a plan, and I hope you'll like it!
I have added a gold foil sticker pack for the pins of the Forest Treasure campaign! So you can now pick, or take them both of course ;).
These two goals we have unlocked over the last 24h:
4.5k - We unlocked a Free Mini Mushroom for every backer that backed for 3+ pins!
5K - We unlocked the Bleeding Fairy Helmet design. I'll start sketching this pin over the weekend and once I have a design that at least gives you a good impression on how it will look, I'll add it to add-ons. :)
5.5K - We unlock the Free Mini Mushroom for every backer with physical rewards.
6.5K - We unlock the Witches' Butter Mushroom. The Witches' Butter Mushroom as a nice story to it, but it's a challenging mushroom to pinify! If we get that far - I accept the challenge!
Full overview of the goals you can find on the main page, and the cropped version below. I hope this order of things makes you happy. I wanted to do them all, so I hope this is a nice balance :)
Summer is slowly coming to an end, and with that the mushroom season is almost upon us! And while we all enjoyed a good summer, I hope, my manu has been busy making samples and has started production. So I wanted to share those pictures with you and announce my new project for Pintober! But first a few housekeeping things:
I still miss 10 surveys - If you want your pins, please complete the survey so I can collect shipping later en have your address.
The gold foil stickers have been switched to gold brushed stickers. They couldn't produce the foil stickers without a white border, and I think they would look a lot better with only gold. So I switched to gold brushed stickers instead.
Pins are estimated to be shipped to me end of September. This is still a bit away and a bit later than expected. Due to the sampling process and the summer break, there is a slight delay here. I still plan to ship the pins in October.
If you have missed the campaign; Pre-orders are still open! So if the pictures below spark your fancy - have a look :).
Pictures!
So there are two types of pictures in this update; Finished samples and fully finished products. The finished samples, are not polished so will look a bit rough. The fully finished products are properly shiny of course ;). I'm very excited to receive these!
New project; Into the Urskog! An ancient forest, with tales, with wisps, with the Old Magick, with glow in the dark. The is my first campaign that introduces you to this world as part of Pintober. I hope to explore more with you in the upcoming future. Of course there will be the traditional returning backer, group collab and partner collab freebes to collect.
See you when the veil between the world is closest?
If you made it all the way to there - thank you for your time! I hope I have the enamel pins in hand by the next update.
Please fill in your surveys asap. I need your data to confirm the final pin counts for the manu and your address, so I know where to ship to ;).
For the backers with failed pledges - you can still fix your payment! Once you do, backerkit will automatically retry your card. Once your payment clears, you will be send a survey as well.
Now I’m going to wander in some beautiful forests and will update you again once I receive samples.
Thank you all so much for your support! We have unlocked all pins and then some <3. I had hoped to unlock everything, but instead we more than doubled it and with in total more than 175 amazing wanderers!
I also wanted to show you some updated colours on the Fairy Helmet and the Witches' Butter. While setting up the production files, I had to make some changes and I think they are for the better. Pictures below.
How do we continue?
Beginning July: Payment processing & Pledge manager setup. Currently there a still 20 or so backers with declined payments, this is the time to fix it! Without payment, I can't send you surveys or products.
Mid July: Surveys will go out & I'll start the sample process at the manufacturer. Since I'm adding quite a few effects to the pins, I want to make sure they come out oke!
Mid/End August: Pins go into manufacturing if everything goes smoothly. I hope to fulfill end of september/oktober.
Changes to designs
When making the production files, I had to make some changes to the colours to be able to match the pantones. Especially dark reds are always a challenge. For the Witches' Butter I added a bi more contrast and colour variation - I think it makes the design pop a bit more. The adjusted designs will shown in the pledge manager.
The campaign is entering its final stages and I'm ready to reveal the final design for this campaign: Witches Butter! The pin is available as add-on, and can also be picked in the survey later. The mushroom part exists out of half raised metal and transparent enamel, combined with screen print.
This wrinkled fungus would spring up on the threshold of a small cottage. It was said that if it did, a witch had put a spell on the folks that lived inside the cottage. One way to break the spell was to place stick pins into the shroom. And when it disappeared, the spell was broken.
To make the sicker pack complete; I'm adding both the Witches' Butter and the Bleeding Fairy Helmet to it! Price stays the same!
Overviews of designs and vote for your favorite!
I made an overview of all designs available for this campaign. And I'm quite proud of the roster we have unlocked together! Please let me know your favorite design in the poll!
