BOUTONNIERE PINS: UNLOCKED!
over 4 years ago
– Sun, May 03, 2020 at 06:32:34 PM
Thank you for all of your support and thoughtful input on our pin choices! The Dandelions have it!
We've unlocked our newest stretch goal:
A 1" hard enamel dandelion pin, to be included with all ALCHEMIST, DARK ALCHEMIST and ENCHANTER editions, as it's own $15 rewards tier and add-on. If you'd like to add on a pin to an existing order, just add $18 to any US order or $30 to any international order. (We're sorry to charge shipping twice for those of you already getting decks -- due to our fulfillment process, the pins and decks will arrive in different packages and have to be shipped separately.)
Thank you friends! The next stretch goal is for sturdier drawer-style boxes on all HERBALIST and up editions. GO TEAM BOTANICA!
-Josh, Maëlle and Kevin
STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED! Drawer-style Deck Boxes!
over 4 years ago
– Sun, May 03, 2020 at 06:32:21 PM
This crazy campaign just keep cruising! BOTANICA can't be stopped! We seem to reach a new stretch goal every day!!
Drawer-style deck-boxes are GO! These come with all physical editions of the deck. Mini-postcards are within reach!
With you folks on our side, it seems like anything is possible. THANK YOU YOU'RE ALL AMAZING.
Josh, Maëlle and Kevin
STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED! Three Mini-Postcards!!!
over 4 years ago
– Sun, May 03, 2020 at 06:32:09 PM
HI! Are these daily updates getting annoying yet? I could slow them down if you all would stop being so amazing and backing this campaign in such crazy numbers! You have no one to blame but yourselves. (NOTE: Please don't stop.)
We've unlocked the three Tarot-sized postcards that will come with every deck! You can send your friends personalized readings in the mail!
Which paintings should we use as postcards? Here are some of the ones we're choosing from. Let us know in the comments what your favorites are!
THANK YOU friends! Kevin's amazing behind-the-scenes book of process, research, and and invention is up next, if we can reach the staggering heights of $130k! We're so eager to be able to include all of this extra material Kevin's generated over the course of YEARS working on the project... so let's get this bread!
Love to you all! Onward!
Josh, Maëlle and Kevin
STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED: Process Art Book! And a New Stretch Goal!
over 4 years ago
– Sun, May 03, 2020 at 06:32:04 PM
Hello friends! This campaign just keeps chugging along. We've now unlocked our SIXTH stretch goal, and it's one we're particularly excited about.
We'll be producing a compendium encompassing a mass of Kevin Jay Stanton's research, sketching, study and theory behind his BOTANICA project.
We had priced this out initially as part of our original campaign, but it wasn't something we could fit into our budget. We're so excited that you all have gotten behind this project and made this possible.
Right now, the book is a digital-only PDF that will come as a free bonus with all decks. If we can reach the dizzying height of $150k, we'll unlock a print edition, which will come with all ALCHEMIST, DARK ALCHEMIST and ENCHANTER sets, and also be available as an add-on to any other tier.
To the end of trying to reach that $150k goal (WE WANT THIS THING IN PRINT) we've decided to take an idea from a backer suggestion and experiment with a SPECIAL SOCIAL MEDIA STRETCH GOAL.
You all have expressed a lot of excitement about the postcards we're planning to include with every deck as part of our most recent stretch goal. We asked you to vote on three of six possible cards, and your votes were so various and passionate that we're having trouble choosing. Thus, our new experiment:
FOR EVERY 500 RETWEETS THIS TWEET GETS, WE WILL INCLUDE ONE ADDITIONAL POSTCARD IN EVERY DECK, UP THREE ADDITIONAL POSTCARDS. (Six total, counting the three we already unlocked.)
https://twitter.com/kevinjaystanton/status/1254823364029546499?s=20
We thought this might be a nice way to keep everybody excited about spreading the word about this amazing campaign. No pressure -- just a little extra thing for fun. We'll see how it goes, we've never tried this before.
ANYHOW: thank you, you dear, dear people. We're still thoroughly gobsmacked about this magical campaign, and we're so excited to take the rest of this journey with you.
Josh, Maëlle and Kevin
THE COMPENDIUM (PRINT EDITION) IS UNLOCKED!
over 4 years ago
– Sun, May 03, 2020 at 06:31:59 PM
Thanks to an incredible mid-campaign surge, we've unlocked our single most favorite stretch goal: THE COMPENDIUM, a book containing much of the process art, theory and research that Kevin Jay Stanton put into his years-long obsession with creating BOTANICA.
THE COMPENDIUM will be 96 pgs and 4.5 x6.25" (though if this campaign keeps climbing we may up the size of page count!) and will include foil stamping on the cover. It will come as a free bonus with every ALCHEMIST, DARK ALCHEMIST and ENCHANTER edition. We've also created a new tier, THE HERBALIST AND THE COMPENDIUM which includes the standard HERBALIST tier plus the book. (NOTE: This is the print edition of the free PDF stretch goal included with every copy of the deck.)
If you've already pledged for THE HERBALIST and you want the book, just switch to the HERBALIST AND THE COMPENDIUM tier. If you want to add a book onto any other order, just add $20 to your pledge if you're in the US, and $30 if you're outside of the US to cover the increased international shipping.
Currently the book is planned to be a softcover, but we're moving quickly towards our next big stretch goal, which would upgrade it to hardcover!
As usual, we're scrambling madly to catch up with you all. We're almost out of stretch goals! We have some really ridiculously exciting new goals and bonuses to announce, so stay tuned for those over the next couple of days.
But in the meantime -- in our last update we announced an experiment with a SOCIAL MEDIA STRETCH GOAL. We said for every 500 retweets that THIS TWEET receives, we would add a bonus postcard to all the decks. Well, we're currently sitting at 461 -- so a few more boosts will add a new postcard for everyone!
But really, y'all have done more than enough. Thank you for everything. Our excitement and joy in this project is boundless, as is our gratitude to this community.
Hope you all smell a flower through your masks today. Onward!
Josh, Maëlle and Kevin
