Popping in with a quick update with new design reveals and a new poll. Pintopia has been a whirlwind, but we are thrilled that y'all are showing up to set some boundaries and find your No! You all are helping to shape our campaign and this is what we love about crowdfunding. If there is anything else you would like us to keep in mind as we plan for future stretch goals, please drop a note in the comments. We love hearing from you!

The discerning among you may have noticed we added a cross-collaboration stretch goal in there at $9K – and we achieved it so quickly we didn't have a chance to properly announce it! Now that Just Say No has flown past $9,000 in funding AND our friends over at Hex! reached $4,200, all backers will receive one of these stickers for free (you'll choose which one in the survey after the campaign ends). We had so much fun designing these two stickers and we hope you love them as much as we do. These stickers are also available as add-ons in both of our campaigns in case you'd like both.

While we were working on those sticker designs, we ALSO unlocked the $15K stretch goal, and by popular vote this opossum has entered the collection. The Oh No Opossum is now available as an add-on (and included at no extra charge if you are backing at the "One of Each Pin Design" tier or higher).


We have some more fun things in the works, so please be sure to vote in our next poll to weigh in on what you'd like to see. 

Thank you again for your support!

Carrie and I are gobsmacked at the enthusiasm y'all have shown for Just Say No! You're unlocking our stretch goals as quickly as we're adding them—and it's only been two days!

We are hustling to finalize some new art and goodies (acrylic charms, anyone?) to add to the collection (while being mindful of our own limits and the ever-sneaky "scope creep")

Right now is the best time to pledge for one of the All-In tiers—the Early Bird discount gets you best price that's possible for us to offer on all of the pins!

The next best time to pledge would be tomorrow, before 10am PST, because we're extending the Early Bird offer to 72 hours! We discovered that our launch announcement email encountered a glitch and most of you never got to see it, meaning you missed out on a big chunk of the Early Bird time. Sorry about that!!! 

>> Vote in Our Backer's Choice Poll to help us choose the featured animal on our next unlockable pin ends tomorrow. Please get your vote in if you haven't already—it's neck and neck!

>> Share our Campaign Page to Help unlock more Stretch Goals and new pins! Social media shares are always, always appreciated. Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell anyone you think needs to say NO more often. <3

>> Check out Killer Klowns from Outer Space by our Pintopia collab partner Mark Monlux. If you back his campaign and ours and we've both met our funding goals, you get 2 free pins!



Finally, we wanted to give a special shout out to Carly K, whose amazing pin displays you will see on many a Pintopia campaign! We are so thrilled to be working with them again in order to offer a very fun NO display to coordinate with our pin designs. Thanks for being awesome, Carly!


That's all for now, folks. We will be back with more polls and more stretch goals soon!

This is Carrie, jumping in here to say that Crystal and I are so so grateful and completely humbled by your support, and just incredibly thrilled that you love this dang pin collection as much as we do. It started with a silly but intensely heartfelt idea (and honestly required so much hypocrisy on our parts by saying 'yes' to all the work it would take to make it happen) and it feels great to know that you feel the same way as we do about needing to say NO more often.

We have totally blown through all of the initial stretch goals that we'd planned, but if you can bear with us for a little bit we've got a few more pin ideas up our sleeves. (But do get in on that All-In Early Bird tier while you can, every unlocked stretch goal pin will be included for no extra charge!)

If you want some hints at what might be coming, be sure to:

There are more animal friends we'd love to put on a pin, which would you most want to see?
Backers only poll! Ends Sunday at 5pm PST!
(You can also scroll all the way down to vote!!!)

My friend in the 253, Mark Monlux is following up his successful Atomic Age Aliens Series of enamel pins with a Killer Klowns collection that any fan of the movie or campy horror is going to LOVE. We're also fans of trying to find the humor in the horror, so when you back both of our campaigns you'll get a free crossover pin from each campaign!


Kim Kuzuri (who let me bully my way into Folkgore) is back with another brilliant collection—HEX! Inspired by tabletop gaming and game pieces with a dash of nostalgia. There is no crossover collab here. YET.

One of Carrie's favorite pins in Pintopia:
I just love this multidimensional pony from Ocular Beasts—as an artist who loves trippy cerebral motifs like animals with too many eyes and legs, I wish I'd designed this one, I think it's so stunning.



One of Crystal's favorite Pintopia projects:
Last year I read the brilliant sci-fi novel Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon and when I saw Martha’s Flirtatious Fungass pins, it immediately came to mind. I didn’t know that fungus could be sexy but I’ve been convinced!




That's all for now, but we'll be back soon with some new ways to say NO.

<3 Carrie