WOW! The backer train has officially pulled into the station and made its final stop 🚂🎉 Take a look at what YOU GUYS accomplished with 3 HOURS of overtime mode!!




I think we ended with 29 people on the backer train?! I unfortunately didn't get a screen shot of the last one, but just know that every individual icon in that backer conga line has brought me SO much gratitude and joy!! 😄🙌 I can't begin to express my full thanks to all 240 of you who have brought this project to life WELL beyond my expectations. Just know that I'll be sketching our commemorative backer train freebie pin AS SOON as my hands stop shaking from all this excitement! 😂

In the meantime, feel free to throw out your ideas for the new freebie pin in this poll's comments, there's SO many wild and fun ideas spinning around there! I'll be sketching them all and will let you guys vote on the final design once I have some visuals going :)



ALL OF MY LOVE AND THANKS AGAIN! So honored and proud at what this community has accomplished, both here and with Pintopia as a whole. We're seriously part of something special, and I can't wait for everyone to get their pins from ALL the amazing campaigns that finished today :)

Talk to you soon, shroomie gang! 💪🍄😎

THIS IS CRAZY, YOU GUYS!!! OVER A FULL HOUR of overtime mode, HOLY MOLY!! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

I'm trying not to hyperventilate a little bit here, but I just had to tell you all a big public 💖THANK YOU💖 real quick!! My fellow Pintopia creators and I have been celebrating super hard in Discord, but I want to share all the excitement here too!!

I'm so tempted to draw a commemorative Shroomie like riding a train, charging into battle, or multiple shroomies in a conga line or something, because all this backer train hype IS REAL! Throw down your ideas below for a commemorative Backer Train pin 👀👍 ALL pledges will automatically get this commemorative new pin FOR FREE as my immense thanks to you all for keeping this project and for keeping PINTOPIA ITSELF going!!

💪🍄 Love you all, shroomie gang!

Hello again, shroomie fans! Quick poll question for you all, since I keep coming back to the color palette on the "Yer a Wizard Shroomie" pin. I'm not entirely settled on it, so I've been playing around with other color options, and now I'd like your vote on which you think is best! The winning result from the community poll below will be the color that goes to manufacturing :) I will also update the sticker sheet to correspond with the final pin.

Take a look and let me know which Wizard you'd like to see come to life!



Thanks a million, and be sure to check out the previous update to see this project's new freebies, if you haven't yet 👀👍 Final ~40 hours now, LET'S GO!

Unbelievable how far we've come, friends! There's only ~3 days left now of Pintopia, and I still can't thank each of you enough for funding this project and bringing it to life well beyond my expectations :') You're truly the best fellow fungi fanatics around 💪🍄 And with this update, I have two brand new, SUPER shiny additions to thank you guys with!
First up:



This delightfully fun "Certified Mushroom Collector" sticker is my super shiny, super official ✨badge of recognition✨ to all of you kindred spirits who love fungi as much as I do! Its waterproof, holographic vinyl, and FREE / automatically included to all backers who have pledged for 3 or more pins. (The 2-pin "Lead the Way" set counts as 2 pins. So if you got those and at least 1 other pin, you qualify for this new sticker freebie.) The sticker will be automatically added to your cart during the final checkout in the post-campaign survey, so as long as you have 3 or more pins in your pledge, then you're good to go! :D 


👉 To add any pin designs to your pledge:
- Click "Manage your pledge »" at the top of the page of this campaign
- Click "Edit your pledge"
- From there you can either use the drop down menu to jump to a higher tier that gets you more pins, or click "+ Add additional items" to add single pins / other individual items to your existing pledge



And for those curious about the sticker sheet and whether it would include any of the new designs, I'm excited to share that we now have TWO full sticker sheets, since so many new Shroomies have been unlocked! 🤩🙌



This new sheet features the 8 bonus stretch goal Shroomies that have been spontaneously designed and added to this project since its launch! Plus, for good balancing measure, I added in my two previously-existing mini shrooms at the bottom, bringing this sheet up to 10 full new stickers :)

✨ This "Part 2" sticker sheet is now added as a bonus to the "Reusable Sticker Book" add-on, meaning if you get the sticker book, you'll now get BOTH Shroomie sticker sheets included with it for free! This will be the best value deal I'll likely ever have with a sticker book + sticker sheets combo (all three for $25), so jump on it now before their prices go up later in my Etsy store.

✨ Or if you'd prefer to get the new sticker sheet on its own, it's also now available as a single item add-on! Check it out in the campaign's Add-On section 🥳





If you haven't yet checked out my FANTASTIC, super talented collab partner's project Salty Tinies, please don't miss out! Mindy has just designed and added a brand new batch of adorable ocean animal pins, so there are super cute new things to see since you may have last been there. And if you back BOTH my project and hers, you'll automatically unlock the two freebie pins above! It's a fantastic value deal you'll only get through this live Pintopia event, and these are your final few days to get in and rack up those extra pins!

Check out these wonderful creators if you haven't yet! I know there's so much to look through with Pintopia, but KEEP going back and exploring everyone's projects again — so many of us have continued to unlock and add new stretch goals and designs 🤩

And now, onward to the final campaign hours! 💪🍄 Until the next update, stay shroomy, friends. 

Hey fellow fungi fanatics! It's a complete understatement to say that I've been having SO much fun spontaneously designing new Shroomies for this campaign since the launch. I appreciate your votes and comments tremendously, as they've helped shape my sketches and color choices :)

As for the new Artist Shroomie from the last poll, the peach-colored paint kept the lead, but the black paint wasn't too far behind. So I decided to combine the two and mix both paint splatter colors on the canvas! Hope this is a fun balance that everyone can enjoy 🤩



But that's not all! I mentioned before that I'd be sketching your other top picks from the polls, and now I'm thrilled to show you guys the next crowd-favorites in official pin form 👀:










Note: final colors and line work on all designs may be tweaked as needed to best bring them to life as pins!

Thanks to your incredible continued support of this project, the Artist and Wizard shroomies are already unlocked! 🥳🙌 The final 3 (Chef, Gamers and Gardener) are set to be this campaign's final stretch goals as we head to this finish line this week. I appreciate each of you TONS, and I'm so honored to have you all along for this incredibly fun Shroomie journey.



👉 A new "Full Set - 23 Mini Pin" pledge tier has also been added to accommodate all of the new designs (since there are now EIGHT new mushroom pins that have been added to this campaign since it started). You can jump up to a higher pledge tier to get more new designs, or use the Add-Ons feature to get as many individuals as you'd like :)

Let me know below which of all the new fungi friends is your favorite!

Talk to you again soon,