Hello everyone!

Thank you so much for supporting our Pintopia 2026 project - Kitties' Space Dream! The campaign has ended and we are successfully funded with all the stretched goals unlocked! Thanks again for believing in our project!

I've already finished setting up the survey, and now we are just waiting for backerkit to approve it, then I will start sending out the smoke test surveys to 5% of the backers. If there are no issues with the smoke test, then I will send out the rest of the surveys. Once you received your survey, please kindly have it completed as soon as you can, and if you found any issues with it, please reach out to me via email at [email protected], as this will be the fastest way to get a hold of me. 

My target it to send out the smoke test by the end of next week, all depending on when the survey gets approved, and the rest of the surveys the week after. 

It's been decided! The names of our mini planets are Naptune and Catellite! Thank you so much for everyone who helped come up with names for the new mini planets! It was so difficult to decide which names to pick, but we think these two names really do fit well with the theme!

 

Thanks again for all the suggestions! I will contact the individual contributors for the freebies.

I am going to add these two mini planet designs to the sticker sheet! The addition will not affect any of the other stickers,l but I did have to reduce some of the texts on the sticker sheet in order to have enough room for the new stickers. Please see below for what it should look like in the end. Please be reminded that there will be glitter effect on some parts of the stickers, but that is not currently being shown in the below image.

If you are in the UK, and you are interested in getting some of the products from this campaign, I've created a UK preorder listing at my Etsy store! The listing will be available from now until Feb 21tst. Here is the link to the listing:

https://walnutandclam.etsy.com/listing/4455150970

For all other project followers, if you missed our campaign, I will be opening up a pre-order store here on Backerkit soon, and you will be able to grab these pins/stickers there, as well as a huge selections of products from my previous projects! Please note that backerkit campaign freebies do not apply to the pre-order store. 

Just a quick reminder that shipping fee has not been collected yet, Instead it will be collected when we are closed to project fulfillment.

Canadian Backers 
If you order 1-3 pins, shipping will be $5 CAD (no tracking). Tracking upgrade is available as an add-on ($10 CAD) in the pledge manager. If you order 4+ pins (approx. 60g), shipping will be $15 CAD. Please note that I am currently using weight to determine how much shipping is going to be, so if you order 10 mini pins, your shipping will still show up as $5 (no tracking), as the weight will still be less than 60g. Please feel free to add the tracking upgrade in the pledge manager (highly recommended), or if I happen to notice it, I will manually add the $10 shipping upgrade fee in the pledge manager for you. Thank you for your understanding.

US backers
In addition to the shipping fees, I will also be collecting tariff in the pledge manager, and remitting it to the US government via my shipper when I ship out your rewards. The % of tariff differs among different items, and it will show up in your pledge manager for your review. Please note that tariff rates may increase/decrease from now until fulfillment, and I will update the rate in the pledge manager if needed. I am also seeking out cheaper shipping alternatives to the US. No promises made right now but I will send out an update as soon as I have something. 

That’s it for now! Have a good weekend!

-Catherine @WalnutAndClam

Hello Everyone!

Thank you so much for everyone who voted for what items I should add to the campaign! The result shows that mini enamel pins is the most popular choices. So I have taken some time to work on new designs (and scrapped a lot), and finally I settled for these two mini planets! 

These two mini planets are going to be hard enamel pins with only one pin post at back. The size is approx. 0.8" for the orange one and 0.9" for the purple guy. Since they are very small, there will not be a back logo on them.

I've decided to turn the orange planet into a freebie, and in order to get that, you will need to pledge for $30 CAD or more during the campaign. Below are some scenarios to help you with the calculations:

1. Have two or more standard size pins in your pledge
2. Have one premium pin set and anything else (ex. mini pin, sticker sheet, standard size pin, etc) in your pledge
3. Have three or more mini pins in your pledge

*The freebie pin will be added after the campaign is over in your pledge manager. So you will see it when you fill out your survey.

These planets are considered unlocked and you will be able to get them from the campaign. However, to make things less complicated, I am going to add them to the same pledge level/ add-on as the mini alien. And I will go ahead and change the name of the pledge level/add-on to just "mini pins". But please be reminded that the aliens are soft enamel pins, and the planets are hard enamel pins. 

The orange planet will be added to your full set as a freebie, but if you would like to get the purple planet, please make sure you add-on an extra mini pin to your pledge!

Since I exhausted all my creative power in designing these designs, I didn't get a chance to name these little guys. Help me come up with a name, and if we decided to use the name you come up with, you will get a copy of that mini planet pin as a thank you! Please note that you must be a backer with a physical pledge for this campaign to participate. You can reference how I named the other planets/ moon~ Can't wait to see what we got! Please leave your ideas in the comments section!

Thank you everyone for supporting this campaign! There is only less than a week left! We can do this!

Catherine @WalnutAndClam

Hello!

Thank you so much for your interest and support for my Kitties' Space Dream campaign! The project is fully funded and all the designs have been unlocked in just a few hours! 🥳🥳Thanks again for believing in my art!

If you backed a full set of pins soon after the campaign launched (both early bird and the regular one), you might have noticed that the description says the full set includes three standard size hard enamel pin. This was a typo. It should be four standard size hard enamel pin, and I corrected the typo around two hours after the campaign launched. Sorry for the confusion, and thanks so much for those who noticed the error and DM me right the way for clarification! 

So just to recap, if you backed a full set of pins, you will receive 4 standard size hard enamel pins, 2 premium enamel pin sets, and 3 mini soft enamel alien pins. Here are the pins again~

I am also extremely proud to be among the top three cross-collab projects for this year as of now! If you didn't get a chance to check out my cross-collab partner @mochiville 's project, make sure you do, as you will be getting a very cute alien kitty spellbook pin from them, as well as the old text book with a worm hole from me when you back their project!

There are still 20 days until the campaign ends. Please continue to share my campaign with your friends and families who love kitties and space arts! Your support is what make this project amazing! Now, since we still got some time, would you like me to add more designs to the campaign? I am leaning towards adding some more mini soft enamel pins, maybe aliens, maybe mini planets? Of would you like to see a sticker sheet with alien. What do you think? Please let me know in the poll below, or in the comments if the poll doesn't show the items you want, and I will get to work! Poll closes on Sunday the 25th so I can have enough time to contemplate. 

Have a wonderful day!

Catherine @WalnutAndClam 

Hello everyone! There are only three more days until the launch of the Kitties' Space Dream campaign, and I am so excited to reveal all the designs to you here! First of all, there are going to be a limited number of early bird tiers, so please come early to snatch those spots!

For the first time, I am going to include some soft enamel pins in this series! I have always to give them a try, and I thought they would work perfectly with the mini alien pins we got here: 

For this pintopia campaign, I have collaborated with another very talented artist, Mochiville to bring you two collab pins! To get these two freebie pins, you just have to back both of our campaigns (tiers with physical rewards), and of course both of our campaigns have to be 100% funded~ 

 

I've always like to turn my pin designs into stickers, but this time I would like to get some opinions from you guys. If I am going to do that, do you prefer the normal standalone vinyl stickers, stickers with special effect such as glitter/holo/transparent or would you like it as a sticker sheet? Let me know in the poll (poll close tomorrow at noon so I can have enough time to work on them before launch)!

In the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to leave us a comment and we will get back to you as soon as we can. That's it for now! We are see you at launch day!

-Catherine @WalnutAndClam

Hello!

Can't believe that there is only ten days until launch! I finally managed to finalized all the designs over the weekend, so it's time to reveal some of the designs!

The first one we got here is PAW-115b (image on left). I also call it the lonely planet as there is only one kitty living there. I wonder why the kitty got stranded there?! The second one is 12P/Meowley, also known as the Meowley Comet (image on right). If you want to find out more about these astronomical bodies, make sure you check out my campaign page on launch day, or you can also follow my instagram as I will be doing more design reveal there as well! 

I hope you enjoy these designs~ Thanks again for your interest in my campaign!

-Catherine