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Midnight Amethyst Enamel Pin Collection

Created by Ellenstration

Beautiful, gothic, witchy hard enamel pins to decorate your bag, clothes or pinboard. Inspired by moons, celestial bodies and nature

Latest Updates from Our Project:

New Kickstarter Coming Soon
over 2 years ago – Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 04:22:47 PM

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Pins are on their way
almost 3 years ago – Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 01:21:43 AM

Everything has been shipped!

I had fun packing up all of your orders, I hope you like them 

I would love to see that they have arrived safely, if you have time, posting a photo to social media and tagging me @ellenstration would be amazing. I'd love to see the pins in their new home. 


Those of you who paid for tracked shipping, should be getting your tracking numbers via email soon, keep an eye out.


Thank you everyone for helping me fund these pins, we had some crazy bad luck with the misprints and delays! Thank you all for being so patient when I was stress level x 1000 dealing with the manufacturer


Have a wonderful day, 

Ellen (ellenstration)

Finally some good news!
almost 3 years ago – Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 10:00:21 AM

First off sorry there haven't been any updates, I had nothing new to report, I was waiting on the reprints of the pins to get here, I've been impatiently checking my emails every day😓. Also, Kickstarter has been really glitchy for me and didn't tell me I had comments & messages asking for updates, I'm sorry I wasn't ignoring you Kickstarter just likes to hide things from me apparently. 


Anyway amazing news 🥳 this morning the pins have arrived! I have looked over them all and they are beautiful!

Backerkit should be emailing you soon asking if your address is correct, please look out for that email I don't want to accidentally send your pins to a different address.

An eclipse of moths flying your way soon

In the next few days I will be packaging up all your orders and I'll be making trips to the post office next week! 

Speaking of packaging I never showed you the beautiful backing cards, they are printed with silver foil and are super shiny! (the photo doesn't do it justice)

Thank you all for being so patient with the delays, I think we were just hit with a spell of bad luck getting so many defects. 

I will post a new update when I posted all the packages out 

Have an amazing day,

Ellen

(ellenstration)

Delays and Defects
about 3 years ago – Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 04:58:55 PM

Hey everyone, 

All the pins have arrived and I've been spending the last few weeks looking over each of the 700+ pins inspecting them for defects. 

Sadly 4 of the designs have severer defects, Moth, Diamond, Spell Book, and Potion Bottle. I do not feel comfortable sending you out subpar quality pins. 

I've been in contact with my manufacturer to see if I can get them remade, annoyingly this will probably take another month to sort out. 

As always I will keep you updated when I have news. 


I'm really sorry about all the delays, I wish I could make this go faster.

Here are the issues I'm having with the designs

The main issue with the Moths is the missing dot on the body
The spell books have a lot of scratches and marks over them
Here you can see the tarnish/rust on the metal on the Diamond design, I wouldn't even be comfortable selling this as a second
The potion bottle designs have a few common flaws, here is the missing/not connected line, you can also see the heavy scratch marks on the metal
A similar issue happened with this one leaf outline
And some are missing enamel

Thank you all for being so patient, I will update you when I know some more concrete dates for when the pins should be delivered to me 


I hope you have a wonderful day, 

Ellen (ellenstration)

Look What Arrived!
about 3 years ago – Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 09:51:35 AM

Hey Everyone, 


I know some of you were asking for an update earlier, but I didn't have any news to share until... today!


Good news

The pins arrived this morning!

I took some very quick photos to show them off, they are so shiny and the colours are so rich, sorry if the photos don't do them justice 


Some not so good news

  • The colours are slightly different from my orginal designs, I was using the full Pantone guide where the manufacturer only had a limited number of colours available so I had to do some redesigning. Very minor changes but I thought I'd let you know to be fully transparent  (biggest difference is on the Gemstone & Diamond Pins the lighter purple has a more pinky tone)
  • The Diamond and Planchette pins have some manufacturing issues and are going to be arriving a little later (the date the manufacturer gave me was the 12th April)

Delivery 

I'm waiting on the backing cards to arrive then I'll start shipping out your orders.

It will be most likely after Easter holidays as things will be closed etc. 

Those of you that have ordered the Diamond and Planchette pins, I'm so sorry that you will have to wait a little longer for your order to ship out, I hope you understand (I'll post an update with more concrete dates when those pins should arrive to me)  


Thank you all for being so patient 

Hope you have a lovely day/evening

Ellen (ellenstration)