The Chromatic Fates Tarot

Chromatic Fates Pendants
almost 2 years ago – Tue, May 10, 2022 at 04:01:16 PM

Hi again lovely backers! I am working on fulfillment this weekend and wanted to let everyone know about a ”popup” shop I’ve made for Pendants. If you happen to want to purchase a pendant, please go to this site here:

https://www.colortarotproject.com/secret-store

It’ll prompt you for a password, which is ”pendant”, and let you make a purchase with free shipping. This’ll send me individual notifications and let me manually edit your Backerkit carts without re-opening and relocking everyone on the Backerkit end.

And once again, if you’d like to SWAP your enamel pin for a black and gold pendant, please send me a private message. I know it’s been a year, if you don’t remember if you originally ordered a pin or not feel free to message me and ask!

Please decide on pins vs pendants and send me those messages (if applicable) by the end of day Monday. Purchases will be possible after Monday but you may be charged shipping if you wait (as your Tarot box may have been prepared for transit already).

Thank you again for your excitement with this project! I’ve talked to a bunch of you recently about pendants and I’m feeling very supported by the whole Tarot community right now as this big endeavor wraps up its physical-rewards stage.

Have a good weekend!

-Stephanie

Chromatic Fates: PENDANTS (and shipping!)
almost 2 years ago – Mon, May 09, 2022 at 02:19:30 AM

Hi everyone! I'm so sorry for the delay on my end with shipping updates. Brief personal update, my job situation has been going through massive upheaval and has reduced my free (art) time to a trickle, so I'm REALLY grateful for your patience as we're getting things out the door with Chromatic Fates.

If you want a PENDANT, instead of a PIN, this is the update for you! Please send me a DIRECT MESSAGE with your first and last name (or whatever identifier you used for Kickstarter, so I can easily look you up), stating that you'd like to swap your pin for a pendant. If you'd like to BUY a pendant outright please also send me a message or leave a comment. If there's a lot of interest in buying pendants outright I will set up a way to do that, but right now it seems simplest to just offer to swap option since we're so close to shipping.

Now on to the good and bad news! The good news is that most of the products have been delivered to Whitesquirrel, who'll be handling shipping and handling. The bad news is that the special edition tier of backers with the custom seven-stickercard-reading will have a bit longer to wait. Naturally writing out little customized fortunes is taking time. Here are some pictures! For full immersion please imagine me attempting to explain this project to coworkers passing by this conference room after hours!

That's it! Again, please message me via Kickstarter with your FIRST AND LAST name if you want to swap your pin for a pendant and I will do that manually before Whitesquirrel ships your package.

Packages should begin shipping soon! I hope you're all enjoying your May so far!

-Stephanie

Chromatic Fates deck arrival and video!
about 2 years ago – Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 02:50:30 AM

Hi everyone! I am snagged on the pendant issue for a bit longer, so this update isn’t about that. But! I’ve visited our fulfillment partner, Whitesquirrel, and gotten the first deck in hand, which was such a nervewracking moment. Finally seeing the cards in their final form was such a huge weight off my shoulders though; they look REALLY nice.

So while I’m signing things and cutting other things and bundling things up, I thought I’d share a short video to give a preview of the gold foil effect, which was one of the biggest unlocked stretchgoals of the campaign.

Talk to you all again soon!

-Stephanie

Chromatic Fates DECK ARRIVAL
about 2 years ago – Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 07:48:16 PM

HELLO EVERYONE. I didn't get a ton of sleep last night so I'm a bit manic, but I have GOOD NEWS (finally! wee!)

The Chromatic Fates tarot decks themselves have arrived at our shipping fulfillment center (Whitesquirrel), which is just a few cities north of where I live. I'm really overjoyed that they exist on the physical plane instead of just in my mind, let me tell you.

What does this mean? WELL. 

1) First off, I am going to lock your shipping addresses now. Kickstarter will give you an automatic 48 hour window and a secondary heads-up about this. If you happen to miss the window or don't open this email until it's too late or you have a sudden move in the next few weeks, you'll be able to send a private message with the new address and we'll try to manually update it before it leaves the warehouse. Please get all this info in ASAP if you need to though. Once packages are launched into the world, my part in this process ends. If you need to re-send me a DM to make sure I caught it, do so! 

2) There are a lot of add-ons that need to be consolidated and in some cases signed, so on my end I have a lot of work to do this weekend preparing things and then driving them up to Whitesquirrel's HQ. This means shipping to customers won't begin immediately- I also have to work with my partners to come up with the best way to package things. It's a Whole Process, but! Hopefully everything will be tidily consolidated, prepared, and ready to be packaged by the end of this coming week.

3) Those pendants as a secondary option- if you're interested in pendants instead of pins, my next update will be for you- it'll probably come pretty quickly on the heels of this one.

4) PICTURES. I don't have these yet. I know it's a bit bizarre but I'd intended to have everything shipped to my house first, and it turned out 61 large shipping boxes and a delivery truck wasn't going to attempt that. So I'm going to ask Whitesquirrel for some photos! 

Talk to you all soon! Entering the final phase is exciting! Thank you for sticking with me. 

<3 !

-Stephanie

Chromatic Fates Status
about 2 years ago – Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 05:49:56 AM

Hello Backers! I have a pretty brief update for all of you today. 

I really appreciate the people that have reached out and said how much they want to be kept in the loop regardless of what's going on. I wish there was a more eventful announcement- essentially we're still waiting on the shipment of Tarot decks to arrive in the States. I'm keeping an eye on the tracking number and my manufacturer rep (her name is Yunice and she's an absolute champ) is also monitoring the shipping process for an arrival-update). Just a waiting game on that end still.

I just wrapped up the last sticker work tonight! I have a big board called "STICKER MATH", and doing the calculations for this situation was actually pretty fun. Everyone is getting a sticker just for being a Backer, but the "seven-card sticker reading" proved to be a lot trickier. I ended up ordering "sticker decks" (five sheets of 16 mini-card-stickers each = 80 stickers per 'deck'), which I'll slice into individual sticker-cards and randomize to create readings. 

I've also wrapped up the painting/illustration and the layout, and ordering of the certificates of authenticity. Originally I was only going to include little certificates for the Collector's Edition tier, but I ultimately decided to make two separate versions. The Collectors and the artists' decks will have a separate design and numbering system, and the other tiers will get a First Edition certificate as well. I wanted everyone else to still get a certificate because I'm not sure if this deck will look the same when the contributing artists get a chance to order inventory stock later this year (those decks will probably be less shiny), and I wanted a way to set this special Kickstarter experience apart and memorialize it for everyone involved. Which is you! <3 

Hummingbirds are really special to me and I decided to be a little self-indulgent and use that personal imagery when I designed this. I wanted a bird design to pair with the other natural elements on the deck box, and I also love the ties in folklore and mythology between birds and "special" or unseen worlds. So this is the special edition certificate; the other version will be a reproduction of the deck box.

Some answers!

Q: Is it too late to update my address?

A: No! Please be patient with my administrative work, just send me a private Kickstarter message with your updated address if you can't find your backer survey form; I'll update it manually. Addresses will be locked when the decks arrive in the States, and I'll send out an update specifically about this as a heads-up.

Q: Can I still add things to my order?

A: Sadly no, I'll be locking everything down in Backerkit because I've just finished the last of the sticker ordering and I'm wrapping up the taxes process for this campaign before mid-April.

Q: My friend wants a deck but didn't get in in time! Is it too late?

A: Artists WILL have deck stock to sell through their individual stores if they'd like, but that won't take place until much later after fulfillment. Have your friend sign up for the newletter at colortarotproject.com, that's how I'll be highlighting contributing artists' storefronts later on.

Q: I don't think I was ever charged, please help!

A: There are about 15 cards that haven't successfully been charged yet. If you simply cannot get your bank to process a payment (I try periodically, and so does the automated processes within Backerkit if you update your CC info), please reach out to me. My highest priority is making sure everyone who backed the campaign gets a deck, so please don't stress!

Q: I still want a pendant and not a pin, how can I do that?

A: I'll let you know, hopefully in the next update, once I settle on the most efficient way to gather this info!

Q: Can you and the other artists answer specific questions I have about Tarot, Art, or Running Kickstarters?

A: YES! Leave a comment if you have a question you'd like us to address! This is coming up soon!! 

That's all for now. Thank you for your patience, as always. I'm getting REALLY excited to see this deck in person, everything is lining up for hopefully a smooth fulfillment process once the biggest shipment arrives in port (and warehouse). Our ETA is still Spring, as I believe our decks were shipped before China entered their recent lockdown. Fingers crossed!

-Stephanie