The Seed&Spark campaign for
He Bears the Cape of Stars and
She Wears the Midnight Crown includes a lot of gorgeous merchandise options. Today, we’re taking a look at two of them!
Bookmarks
Our bookmarks, one aligned with
She Wears the Midnight Crown, the other with
He Bears the Cape of Stars, feature the lovely artwork of
Pippin Peacock.
With printing by
UPrinting, who have also printed the campaign bookmarks for
Add Magic to Taste and
And Seek (Not) to Alter Me, our first two anthologies, we know that this merch will be gorgeous in high-gloss on quality, thick cardstock. The back of the
She Wears the Midnight Crown bookmark will feature the signatures of the authors who contributed to that book; likewise, contributors to
He Bears the Cape of Stars provided their signatures so we could share them on the back of that bookmark!
The bookmarks are each 2 in x 7.25 in (5 cm x 18.5 cm) and will have rounded corners, a 3/16 in hole at the top center, and gold tassels!
Enamel Pins
We’ve once again contracted
Miss Aceriee to create artwork for our enamel pins, and the results are simply stunning. (In fact, Miss Aceriee produced so many lovely ideas that we had trouble picking – more on that later!). Miss Aceriee took our inspiration and ran with it, creating a design for two pins that are each lovely as stand-alone pieces, and even more amazing when paired!
For manufacturing purposes, we will be working with
Alchemy for the third time – the pins they made for each of our previous campaigns have turned out fantastically. These pins will each be approximately 2 in x 1 in (5 cm x 2.5 cm), with two back-prongs to help ensure they attach securely. The metalwork is gold, with matching butterfly pin backers. The enamel work will be soft enamel with a clear epoxy coating, and one color (the dark green-blue) on each will have glitter to make it extra sparkly.
Bonus: Backer-Exclusive Reward!
We had so much trouble deciding which of Miss Aceriee’s designs to use as the campaign pins that we decided, first, to have a third/fourth pin offered as a stretch goal (if we hit $26,000 in funding, everyone who backed the campaign at level 5+ will receive one or both pins as extras!), and second, that we’d make the same design we chose for that into a die-cut sticker for some of our monthly backers. People who back Duck Prints Press monthly on
Patreon or
ko-fi at the $10 or $25 level, AND who back our crowdfunding campaigns, always get an exclusive extra. This time, it’ll be this design in one of these four colorways:
Want to know which of the four will become the sticker? So do we! Our backers can vote on their favorite for the next week, and their wish will be our command – and, if we reach the $26,000 stretch goal, the colors of their choice will also be made into two pins – the sun/crown mask and the star/beard mask, lovely as stand-alone, amazing as an interlocking pair!
So, if you’re a backer, go vote, and if you’re not a backer yet – no time like the present to become one!
You, yes YOU, can support us on Patreon or ko-fi!
(Also, just sayin’ – it’s also the last 24 hours to have a say in the theme of our next Queer Fanworks Inspired By… anthology on
Patreon or
ko-fi – that poll is open to ALL our backers; the sticker poll is only open to backers at the $10 and $25 levels, since they’re the only folks who receive the exclusive campaign extra.)
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