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Monster Makers Pins - A Puppetry Inspired Makerspace | Pintober 2024

Created by Made by Max Designs

Welcome to the Monster Makerspace! Come get your stitch fix in the sewing studio, whittle away time in the woodshop, get wired about the electronics lab, and explore! This pin collection features a crafty cast of characters inspired by puppetry arts.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Timeline Updates
over 1 year ago – Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 08:43:26 AM

Hi everyone,

The survey is taking longer than I expected to get finalized. This is my first time running a campaign entirely in backerkit, so there's been a bit of a learning curve, and this has been a rather long month for me personally. I wanted to share an updates and give backers a more realistic timeline for surveys.


Pre-Order Store

The Monster Makers pre-order store will remain open until the end of the month! Anyone who missed out on backing the campaign can pre-order stickers, pins, etc. and receive them when campaign rewards ship.


VIRTUAL End of the Year Art Sale!

I'm hosting a virtual shop-at-your-own-pace event on my Facebook page this upcoming weekend. The virtual end of year art sale is an easy way for customers to shop from my art, stickers, and misc. crafts at discounted prices before the holidays. Items will be listed for sale in this Facebook event throughout the three day shopping event. Shopping is easy - if you see something you like, just leave a comment! At the end of the event shoppers will be invoiced and their purchases will be on their way.

Bookshelves for Bibliophiles Collab Partner Announcement!

I'm excited to announce that I've partnered with Violet Magician's Cryptid Carousel - Pride Flag Edition campaign for my upcoming Bookshelves for Bibliophiles campaign. Backers who support both campaigns will receive a free pin from each! These campaigns will be launching on January 23rd as part of Backerkit's Pintober 2025 event.

Campaign recap, acrylic pins, and a new add-on item!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 10:18:39 AM

Hi everyone,

The Monster Makers campaign is coming to an end! A few folks have had to scale back or pull their pledges, which is a fairly normal occurrence, which has caused the campaign to dip back under the $1,000 stretch goal. Don't worry about it -  I plan to move forward with manufacturing the Sewing Studio pin regardless! If the campaign reached $1,200 before it ends we'll unlock another design.

Recap of unlocked items:
  • Arts and Crafts 2" enamel pin
  • Sewing Studio 2" enamel pin
  • Monster Wrench mini pin
  • Monster Pincushion mini pin
  • Monster Paintbrush mini pin
  • Monster Pliers mini pin
  •  Monster Cookie mini pin - folks who back 3+ will receive a freebie one!
  • Monster Makers logo sticker - every backer will receive a freebie one!
  • 3" Vinyl Stickers of ALL monster designs - early bird backers will receive a freebie one!

Acrylic Pins of Locked Designs
I will be offering any of the monster designs that were not unlocked as enamel pins during the campaign as 2" acrylic pins. This will allow backers who really wanted specific designs to get them! These pins will be available as part of your pledge or as an add on item once the campaign ends. The acrylic pins will be exclusive to backers and made in very limited quantities, so please fill out your backer survey when it goes out if you want one.

NEW Coloring Book Add On!
Monster Makers: Crafty Characters Coloring Book features the designs from the  Monster Makers campaign (10 monsters + 4 monster tools). This will be a 6"x9" saddle stitched booklet with a full color cover and black and white illustrations inside. Each coloring sheet will be single sided to prevent markers and pens bleeding through the pages to other designs. There coloring books are now available as an add-on item for $7 each.

Sewing studio unlocked!
over 1 year ago – Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 06:37:05 PM

Hi everyone,

The Sewing pin design has officially been unlocked! The next design will unlock at $1,200.



With love and creativity,

Max

Arts and Crafts Room has been unlocked! Voting is now open for the second pin design
over 1 year ago – Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 10:59:52 AM

Hey everyone,

The first pin design is... Arts and Crafts! I'm really happy this design was the crowd favorite because I absolutely love Scribz the craft goblin.


Happy crafting!

Max

VOTE NOW - The Monster Makerspace has been funded!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 09:13:19 AM

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for helping me reach my campaign goal today! ALL the Pintober campaigns have now been funded and we're hyped about it.

I've created a new poll exclusive to backers so that y'all can vote on which of the ten pin designs to fund first. Another design will be unlocked for every additional $200 raised (next goal: $1,000). VOTE HERE for the design you want to see funded! Voting will end at noon tomorrow (10/10) and additional polls will be made for stretch goals. Once the poll closes I'll update the Makerspace Map on the campaign page and update backers.

These are the items that were unlocked  with the campaign's initial funding.
Reward items:
  • One full size pin design - backers will be voting to choose which design!
  • Four Monster Tool mini pins - for backers of the "Monster Toolbox" tier or available as an add on items.

Campaign freebies:
  • Monster Makers Logo Sticker - for all backers!
  • Early Bird Sticker - for backers who joined in the first 48 hours.
  • Monster Cookie mini pin - for all backers who support 3+ Pintober projects (including this one).

I'm so happy this campaign has been funded and I'll get to have mini pins made for the first time. I can't wait to see which design(s) y'all choose!

With love and creativity,

Max