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Dragons of the Sun, Moon and Nature hard enamel pins

Created by The Art of Katie Croonenberghs

Show your love of dragons with these jewelry style hard enamel pins. The Sun and Moon glow while the Aura Dragons encompass the beauty of nature with four Aura focuses: Healing, Clarity, Love and Tranquility.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

A new Limited Edition dragon pin is about to launch! This time with even more new designs
about 4 years ago – Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 04:34:59 PM

Hello everyone! I shall keep this short and sweet, because just wanted to announce that the next dragon pin kickstarter is launching very soon!

January 28th at 10 a.m. Pacific Time

You can sign up for a launch notification on this handy Kickstarter preview page, plus get a peek at the selection that will be available. I'll be updating the Kickstarter page on my website with extra bits of info and previews up until launch as well, for those interested.

This year I'm doing something new, and giving a special holographic sticker to all who pledge within the first 24 hours regardless of the tier. In addition to that, there will be 3 open edition pin designs unlocked right away, plus six more to unlock. 

Preview of the holographic sticker design

I've been working hard on everything for these new pins and I can't wait to release them to the world. :) 

Thanks for reading!  -- Katie

All survey-completed orders have shipped! Last update
almost 5 years ago – Sun, May 19, 2019 at 12:29:42 AM

Hurrah!

Thank you all SO much, from the bottom of my heart for helping create another successful enamel pin project. It makes me so happy to see them come to life and also see them as they make their way to homes all over the world.

You're the best!

This morning I dropped off the last 15 orders at the post office, so tracking should show up for them sometime on Monday if it hasn't updated yet.

If you haven't received any notifications of your order being shipped, it may be because I'm unable to fulfill it due to the survey not being completed.

There are 10 surveys that are still waiting to be completed via Backerkit. I cannot ship these orders until the surveys are complete so please make sure you get it completed all the way to the very end.

You can check on the status of your survey at the following link if you're unsure: https://eclipse-dragon-pins.backerkit.com/


Upcoming conventions

For those going to Lilac City Comic Con in Spokane, WA at the end of the month, I will have a large booth there so I'd love to see you there if you're around. And, for those going to Denver Pop Culture Con (or comic con), you will find a small selection of my art prints in the Artist alley at table X17

See you next time! =]

- Katie


Continuing the journey

If you'd like to keep up on current projects (even in the early stages, ponderings, concepts and ideas as they come to me, sketchbook drawings, etc.) you can join me over on Patreon for all of that good stuff, including a secret shop, permanent shop discounts, downloads and more good stuff:  https://www.patreon.com/Kamakru 

Official online shop for other merch @ Kamakru Art

Monthly Newsletter / 'This Just in'

Official online Social Media ~ Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

Orders imported into Shipstation, shipping will now begin :D
almost 5 years ago – Thu, May 09, 2019 at 02:33:52 AM

The first batch is ready to go!

Today all of the ready-to-ship orders were imported into Shipstation which is my fulfillment shipping program. ALL of the limited edition pins (with completed surveys) are going out along with an additional 18 orders - so well over half of all enamel pin orders! 

It's late in the day so I don't think I'll make it to the Post Office today but I will likely bring them in first thing tomorrow morning. I've taken great care in prepping every order and I'm excited for you guys to finally see them in person =]

Shipping will begin soon. Hype!
almost 5 years ago – Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:00:54 PM

Hi everyone! I got all of the pins individually sorted, the stickers are here and I can begin the process of exporting all of the orders into Shipstation to start fulfillment. Yay!

If you need to change your address please do ASAP by going to this link and updating your survey: https://eclipse-dragon-pins.backerkit.com/

                                                                      so shiny

Schedule

Exporting orders from Backerkit to Shipstation -  Once this action is complete then any updates made in Backerkit will not be reflected in Shipstation. I will be exporting orders May 2nd, Thursday morning. If you have an address change between now and this weekend, or you are not sure I have the correct address please message me and I will confirm. 

First 'batch' of orders: LE Pins -  Shipping will start with all of the limited edition pledges since these I will need to keep track of the edition numbers according to the pledge order. I'm just going to start with number one and then go from there. Please keep in mind that because of dropped pledges that happened throughout the Kickstarter and that not all 100 of the first backers got the LE pin, that your backer number will not be the same as the edition number you receive.

Timeline - I'm still expecting to ship orders within the first two weeks of May, so by around the 15th or through that weekend. If things look like they're taking a bit longer then I'll update here so you all know what's happening. The only actual hurdle at this point is making sure all of the orders are accurately imported into Shipstation without missing info since this is how all of the shipping labels will be created.

Packaging - I have made the effort to not purchase any new bubble wrap or packing material other than sleeves for the LE pins (which I already had), the shipping boxes themselves and tissue paper.  I always keep packing material from boxes I receive, and I'll be re-using much of this for orders to cut down on overall waste. The bubble wrap is obvious that it's not biodegradable (unfortunately) however I have a bunch of corn based packing peanuts that I may be using. If you receive any packing peanuts from me they will dissolve in water or can go into compost =]


If you have any further questions at all please don't hesitate to shoot me a message! Things are still going pretty smoothly here in the studio while I prep boxes to be filled with all the shiny pin goodies =]

- Katie

Wooo the pins are here! Did you get your survey in?? BIG UPDATE
almost 5 years ago – Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:57:55 PM

Pins are here! 

I am so excited to finally announce that the pins have arrived! I just got back from SakuraCon this past weekend and now I can finally start going through the pins to inspect them each for quality and start sorting out the stacks. Once I have the right amount of pins set aside I can finally start assembling orders!


Stickers - slight delay

There were some issues that needed to be fixed with the stickers so I am told I should be receiving them by April 30. I plan to have as many orders pre-prepped as I can so it'll just be a matter of setting the stickers in each box right before they are sealed for shipment. The shipping boxes and everything else are ready to go though!


Updated Shipping Schedule

*Assuming all pins pass my quality inspections* I'm going to start by shipping all orders that include a limited edition pin and then will move onto the rest. There are about 200 orders to get through and I will start shipping as soon as the stickers arrive, which means orders start shipping during the first 2 weeks of May. The size of the KS order and my insistence on high quality ended up adding a week, plus a few extra days for the stickers puts us about a week and a half past my wishful shipping date, but not past the possible 'small hangups' shipping timeframe. If for any reason I come across too many pins with issues I will be updating right away, but so far they seem to be a pretty good batch! We're still looking pretty good over all.


Surveys! Addresses will be LOCKED by Thursday

Surveys: If you've filled out your survey already thanks so much! It looks like there are still 15 surveys missing though. If you can't find your survey no worries - you can recovery it by going here: https://eclipse-dragon-pins.backerkit.com/

Accurate Addresses: Now it's ever more important to make sure that if you just moved or will be moving between now and the middle of May that you let me know your address may change. I will be locking addresses this week on Backerkit because once I start prepping boxes I will be pre-printing shipping labels


And now....the much anticipated photos! =]

They came out so lovely and just as I imagined! I opted for recessed sand-blasted rays on the sun instead of flat enamel so that it would have a bit of texture and not be a solid mass of shiny and it worked out perfectly. The glow on the sun dragon is extra nice, and as you can see is not a green color in the daylight at all!

Some close ups of each of the new pieces. I'm having trouble deciding if I like the sun/eclipse dragons to be vertical and straight up and down like I have in the photo on the left or slightly angled to the side like I have it in the photo on the right. To get them to fit on the backing cards I have them angled but I personally like them situated both ways :D

The Aura Dragons in Nature series came out absolutely stunning as well! I am so incredibly happy with how they all turned out and are exactly as I imagined them when designing them. I can't express how excited I am overall for you to see these in person. 

Thank you all again for helping to make this happen and taking part in this pin adventure! <3