Flora & Feather - Enamel Pins & Bookcharms - Birds, Flowers, and Dragons!

Oh my goodness - I can't believe how fast these are going by!! We not only unlocked the new pin design - Cattails - but the matching bookcharms as well!
 

I've always loved cattails and was wishing for an excuse to paint them. One day I was talking with my friend Kristen about it who is super nice about helping me with files of great reference photos and helping me brainstorm on some of my projects - and she told me that cattails are actually flowers!! 

I couldn't believe it! How perfect! I knew instantly I was going to paint a Flora & Feather painting with cattails! 😊 And now these elegant and unconventional flowers get to be transformed into pins and charms as well!!
 
I'm really excited about this set - these pretty coppery browns and greys are really calling to me and I hope you guys love this set too! Up next we have the Crested Grebe ✨

Grebes are an extremely ancient species of bird dating back to the Late Cretaceous Epoch - about 80 million years ago! Grebes are highly specialized diving birds with no obvious close relatives - living or fossil. I love how sharp and delicate these birds look and the fact that they are from an era of dinosaurs makes them all that more incredible to me! I can't wait to finish the designs for the Grebe pin - and at the rate we are going - I better get back to work on it lol 

Thank you so much everyone for all the support and excitement in bringing these all to life. I hope you guys love the Cattails!! 

We did it!! ✨ We unlocked the complete trio for the Scarlet Ibis & Poppy set! We unlocked both the pin and bookcharm yesterday for this swoopy critter who hides among the scarlet ibis and poppy lands!  And I finished the Scarlet Dragon design late last night 😅 

Out of all my Flora & Feather paintings, this dragon seems to be the hardest for people to find - and sometimes I think maybe it's not as fair as the others - as these dragons are hidden in the water, swimming close to the surface around the ibis feet, passing notice as fish. So for the pin, I wanted the scarlet dragon to show its aquatic nature. This also gave me a lot of fun shapes to play with to try and capture the gestural movement that the poppy and ibis designs have. I hope you guys love the newest addition to the set! 

With 2 days to go - I've added another painting to transform into pins and charms - the Crested Grebes & Cattails!! And - we are already halfway to unlocking the first design - the Cattails!! 

Thank you again everyone for all the pledges and support! I can't believe how far we have come and am so excited to make all these beautiful new treasures for you! <3 

Wow! We are racing through these stretch goals!! 😅 lol you guys are awesome - thank you!! ❤️

The Scarlet Dragon Pin has been unlocked and we are well on our way to unlocking the bookcharm as well! I am hard at work on the dragon design - so hopefully will have the design finished by tonight :) and I did finish the Scarlet Ibis design last night as well which I snuck into an update at like 2 am lol but here is where we are with this set so far



I can't wait to complete the trio with the dragon design!

And since you guys have already pretty much unlocked this entire set with 3 days left to go - I added another set to work on before the end - Cattails & Crested Grebes


I'm not sure how far we will get into the set, but at the rate we are going, I think we have a good chance of unlocking at least a few of these! 

Honestly, I am just so amazed to see how many of these paintings we got through already. We did in days what I thought would take the whole campaign to do - so each new design we hit is just an exciting extra bonus that I am so glad to be able to bring to life. Thank you so much everyone! I'm going to go finish bringing this scarlet dragon to life now lol hopefully before we unlock any new designs 😅

oh my goodness - can't believe how fast these are going lol but we've unlocked the bookcharms for the scarlet ibis as well! ❤️ And, I was able to finish the design tonight! (Allbeit - a little later at night than I was hoping lol) 

I wanted the ibis to have the same sense of movement and gesture that the poppy did rather than the more simple side profile - and I had a lot of fun with how these two played off each other. I hope you guys love how the ibis turned out as I know it's one a lot of people were waiting to see ❤️ 

And - that means next up is the scarlet dragon! 

I'm super excited for this one! This dragon is usually one of the hardest for people to find in the painting out of the series - and sometimes I second guess my choice of where I hid them lol because of that - but staying connected to the dragon in the painting, this dragon is going to be a red water dragon 🐉❤️ I can't wait to see how the swooping shapes of the other two in the set translate into the dragon as well. 

Anyways, I must call it a night as I have a dragon to design tomorrow lol 😅😊 thank you so much, everyone! I am so overjoyed to see how much these designs have connected with you and so grateful for all the enthusiasm and support ❤️ 

Quick update - sans picture 😅 - the Scarlet Ibis pin has been unlocked!!

I am so happy to see this one get unlocked as I know this is the one so many people were hoping for! ❤️ And you guys definitely beat me in the race to get it unlocked before I finished the design lol but I am hard at work on it today - so hopefully I will have a shiny new design to share by tonight or tomorrow morning! Maybe even before the bookcharm of it gets unlocked as well lol 

New Pledge Tiers: Also - I've added three new pledge level tiers!

I hope this is helpful for everyone who has been wanting to get a bunch without having to add them to your pledge one by one. 

Thank you, everyone, for all the support and enthusiasm you have brought to this project! ❤️ Ok - back to designing the ibis for me 😊