Hey hey everyone!
Are you all excited for Pintopia yet? SO many exciting campaigns this time. I want to share a few things with you little by little ahead of time so you don‘t get overwhelmed on launch day. Today‘s topic: freebies! Yay!

There‘s up to four pins you can grab for free from me: Cross Collaboration, Banner Collaboration, Early Bird and Returning Backer. If those words are all nonsense to you, don‘t worry because we‘re going through them one by one!

A cross-collaboration on Backerkit consists of two projects, and if you back both of them, you qualify for a reward. In our case, Meowshrooms is teaming up with Across the Galak-Sea. If you back both projects with a physical reward, each of us is including a free pin. This time we are making a matching pair that is doing a cosmic high five! :D
(These pins will also pair well with so many her pins that they can reach for. Like my stars and moon filler pin set from the Magic Tea Party project.)

A glimpse into Across the Galak-Sea: (click on banner to get taken there)

Banner collaboration is a new feature this Pintopia! It is very similar to Cross Collaboration, but instead of two fixed projects, you have a pool of themed projects, and if you back 3+ of them, you get a reward. We‘re part of the Cat-Tastic banner!

You can browse cat-tastic projects here. There‘s even more obtainable kitties that didn‘t make it into this graphic so do take a look if you want to get maximum cat for minimum spend :D

How to qualify for this freebie: back the campaign and at least two other cat-tastic projects. Please double-check the participating campaigns, as not every cat project is part of the cat banner.
This pin is not purchasable in this campaign, but may become purchasable afterwards.

How to qualify for this freebie: Just back within 48 hours from launch. Easy, right? Sign up to Launch notifcations so you don‘t miss the period
This pin is not purchasable in this campaign, but may become purchasable afterwards.

How to qualify for this freebie: if you have backed any campaign from me on Backerkit, then you qualify to get this pin for free. But don‘t worry if you are new here: you can buy this pin regularly as a pledge/add-on item too, as it is not exclusive. 

I hope you like the freebies and will grab some of them during the campaign! Designing these was fun, as they are a little more stand-alone than the main pins, while still somewhat matching the overall theme of the project.

Just a little friendly reminder: None of my pins will be gone forever after the campaign, even the exclusive ones. They just remain exclusive for a while! So don‘t let them pressure you into backing more projects than your bank account can handle at a time. But that‘s of course up to you :D

That‘s it for now x)
Have a great one!
Averil

Hello everyone and late happy new year!
Can you believe it, there‘s just two weeks left before Pintopia launches (and still so much to do for me, lol). The meowshroom samples are on their way to me, and if all goes well, I‘ll have photos of them before the campaign launches :D

In the meantime, I want to reveal the mushroom tea set which you guys requested in my previous project‘s poll (thanks for the great suggestions!)

These aren‘t 100% final yet, I might still have to increase some of the narrower spaces and I might move some spores around if I wake up one day and find myself bothered by some of them lol. But the overall design should be done!

They will be a stretch goal, but really I have no doubt that we will unlock them as we always do x) 

Hopefully next week i can reveal some freebies. 

That‘s it for now!
Best,
Averil

I hope you are all ready for some whimsical silliness in the form of cats with colorful mushroom hats! We‘re going full rainbow with this project, with a mushroom for each color of the rainbow.

Meet the fly agaric (red), the caesar mushroom (orange), the yellow waxcap (yellow), the parrot waxcap (green), the pixie parasol (blue) and the inky cap (purple). Each cat has a slightly different pose and expression. All of them will come with some gradient printing, some of them may get some pearl gradient effect (I‘m making samples to see if it looks as good as I think it may!).

Vote for your favourite design below! And sign up for notifications so you don‘t miss it. This time there‘ll be a mini pin reward as early bird, since that‘s what you all voted for in the last campaign survey. Additionally, Pintopia will have sub-banners where you can get another freebie, and the usual Cross Collab with my friends from Mad Child Soul art is also in the making. Lots of stuff to grab!

In addition to these six main designs, there will also be matching mini mushroom pins. And I‘m also thinking of making an alternate colorway of each, to cover some other nice colors or to play around with different effects. 

I hope you like these designs and are looking forward to the project! Coming in January. 

Best,
Averil