September Reward Club Reveals! (+ NEW TIERS ADDED)

Hello fish fries and happy August!!

This month is a busy month for me due to last month's shop update & if you haven't heard the news yet, I am officially moving to a new home by the end of the month! It'll be a larger space where I'll finally be able to have an OFFISHIAL office for Umvvelt, so I am super excited! That does mean I will be a little slow on the updates for patreon, but I will still be getting those monthly rewards out ASAP! 💙

REPEAT FROM LAST MONTH FOR MEMBERSHIP CARDS AHEAD! ➡

The membership/stamp club cards have been officially discontinued!! As mentioned in last month's posts, it was just a ton of work to keep up with and as a result, made shipping patreon rewards a ton slower so starting this month, you'll no longer be receiving any stamp cards or stamp stickers! Thank you so much for participating during this past year, I'm really happy with the community patreon has allowed me to build during the one year I've been on here and thank you so much for your support, especially to those of you who joined me on this journey from the very beginning ;;

I'll be working on a patreon exclusive t-shirt to give out for those of you who have been with me for the past 6 months or more or anyone who has completed a full stamp card regardless of their time here! A form will be put up sometime in September-October for everyone qualified to fill out and receive their free t-shirt! If you don't qualify, no worries either, they'll also be available on the secret shop once that's up and running!

Just as a quick reminder, if you haven't joined the discord yet, to please do so if you wish to see more frequent updates! I update a lot more things casually (such as WIPs and personal life updates that may result in any delays for Umvvelt/patreon!) than I will on here!

PATREON TIERS UPDATE & SECRET SHOP:

The secret shop will be reopening permanently starting October 1st! (I know I mentioned sometime in September but I think with the big move, I might need a little more time to adjust before I can start jumping to secret shop! ><) All past rewards, including past trading cards, pins, stickers, sticker sheets, postcards, and etc will be on there! Future patreon exclusive t-shirts (from the membership cards) will also be sold on the secret shop only as well!

I've also updated my patreon tiers! It's been a year since I last made those tiers and I figured they were a little outdated and needed to be fixed to include combined reward tiers! All the tiers are listed as below:

There's now a total of 12 tiers instead of the original 7! Here's a quick TLDR over what each tier offers:

🐟 FISH FRY: Non-physical reward tier! Includes access to patreon discord, secret shop, early access shop updates, and etc.!

🐟 CRYBABY'S STICKER CLUB: The original name of this tier was just "sticker club" but it's been changed now to reflect the ongoing theme of crybabies for every month with these rewards in particular!

🐟 EDUCATION CLUB: Originally named the deluxe club, it has now been changed to "education club"! Everyone who was originally in the deluxe club before is now a part of the education club, you still receive the same rewards (monthly info postcard + matching clear vinyl sticker sheet)

🐟 PIN CLUB: Self explanatory! You get a happy little fin friend every month :)

🐟 DELUXE STICKER CLUB  : Deluxe club has now become its own tier! Includes the CRYBABY'S STICKER CLUB rewards & EDUCATION CLUB rewards.

🐟 CRYBABY'S STICKER & PIN CLUB  : Includes the CRYBABY'S STICKER CLUB rewards & PIN CLUB rewards.

🐟 EDUCATION & PIN CLUB  : Includes the EDUCATION CLUB rewards & PIN CLUB rewards!

🐟 SEA KING: Receives all the physical rewards (crybaby sticker club, education club, & pin club)

+ all rewards will still receive the freebie monthly trading card as well!

This changes will start going into effect for SEPTEMBER'S rewards (so for the reward previews shown above) and will NOT be reflected in August's rewards! You are welcome to swap to whatever tier you want as necessary or stay in your current tier if you are happy with it!

SEPTEMBER PATREON REWARDS:

This month's freebie trading card features the red lionfish! I realize a few months late that I've been displaying the wrong trading cards for each month, so I'm so sorry for the mix up ahh (everyone in August should be receiving a leafy sea dragon)!

CRYBABY'S STICKER CLUB features a very autumny crybaby! As summer comes to an end and fall approaches, what better way to celebrate the season than with crybaby enjoying (crying??) over the slow and beautiful deterioration of the leaves :-)

EDUCATION CLUB continues off of last month's theme of Whales of the World! This new postcard features the toothed whales & dolphins (as opposed to August's baleen whales)! As always, it comes with an informative fun postcard & a clear vinyl kiss-cut sticker sheet!

PIN CLUB of September features the leatherback turtle!! Turtles are, personally, one of the hardest animals for me to draw. Something about that head+flipper combo sticking out of a big lumpy rock just doesn't look right. But nonetheless, it's very cool! I had a fun time drawing this leatherback friend, and I hope you'll all get to enjoy adding him to your little collection of Umvvelt pin friends next month! ♥

As autumn approaches, I'll slowly be working on new items to preview for the next upcoming release, which is currently scheduled to be in October! I'd love to plan something for Halloween and Christmas, but I don't know if I'd have room for two big releases so I'm debating on combining them instead so people have them ready!? I'm not sure... what would you all prefer? 🤔 And is there something you'd like to see!

Looking forward to hearing from you all! I'm so sorry again for the lack of updates this past month, but I'm hoping to get working on some more things soon!

As always, stay safe and all the best!
Kir 🐟