Awwww, I loooove seeing my favorite people getting together and hanging out! Thanks for taking us to Emily's studio (Hi Em! Lol!!). Also, happy belated anniversary Mike!
Happy 3-year anniversary Mike! 🎉 It doesn't seem like it has been that long that we've been blessed with Mike's joyousness on the vlogs. 😊 Thanks Catherine for sharing your behind-the-scenes of running a business. I'm just starting down my path of an official business and your vlogs help immensely.
Etsy took down one of my listings as soon as I submitted it to be reviewed for counterfeit. It was for stickers I designed. Contacted them but the lady couldn’t help me. I’ve been waiting two weeks to hear something. But what gets me is if it weren’t for copyright infringement, Etsy wouldn’t exist. That’s 90% of all the stuff they sell. No seller there has a license to sell Disney or NFL merchandise. Give me a break.
Theres a big problem relying just on Etsy be careful. I was making $10,000 on my first year selling on Etsy and they marked 2-3 products all at once as copywrite as someone reported it (its usually other sellers I found out as some actually got reversed as they were not 'authorised' according to Etsy) because there were so many all together I hit their max breach and they shut down my store. After that you can not reopen at all its compleatly done! This was years and years ago when I was making invitations and like you said I saw so many people making disney etc ones I thought it was ok (I just didnt know at that stage). So make sure you have other ways of selling not just Etsy as you might just wake up one day and your store is completly gone and your not able to reopen ever. Google Etsy stores closed and see eevryones stories. My $10,000 was nothing compared to other people $50,000 - $100,000 in sales and then overnight just lost their businesses!
Love it! Happy 3 years Mike! We remember you in the second bedroom studio never mind when he started. This is just too cool to see. So much has happened and you’ve just thrived so beautifully. You’ve invested so much hard work and dedication everywhere on your life, we wish you the highest of success.
@@KatnippStudios you’ve inspired my daughter greatly. Your art represents so much! She has a mermaid you made that looks a lot like her with beautiful brown skin and it’s our favorite piece. ❤️
Omg Etsy did the exact same thing to me a few weeks ago! Removed my best selling earrings while I was on holiday so I was then in a mad panic to find out why. They told me it was because they we're handmade? I told them that's nonsense and I'm happy to send over photos and videos of me producing them but still haven't heard back. It's so frustrating!
Thats what happened with us, they claimed that it wasn't handmade (Which it isn't) But it states I designed them and got them made (Which is allowed) however some seller on Alibaba has stole my photos and listings, so they thought I just bought it in, it was very frustrating, eventually they put it back up, haha I could of cried :')
Wow, beautiful stickers, and the colors are awesome. I'm sorry to hear about your troubles with Esty and Wix. I hope it all gets solved quickly. That's such a cute haircut, you look great!! Eveything will work out, you have a great mind for business. A bump here and there is nothing compared to everything you've accomplished and will accomplish. You're awesome!! Wish Mike a happy anniversary and wish him the best from me. You're a great boss to work with as I seen through the years.
Hey Kat! I can't believe its been 3 years for Mike. I remember when you worked alone in your first studio. 😭 BTW, super random, but I noticed that you wear your engagement ring on the inside. I always wear my wedding ring on the inside because someone once told me that way it's closer to your heart. ❤️ 💍 👰♀
Etsy is getting to be a headache but as I don’t have a large enough platform I am sticking with it. Hopefully I can make the change to my own website but since it’s just a side hobby that pays sometimes I’m good where I’m at. Hopefully things work out for you. 🙏
Etsy is great because of its SEO capabilities when your just starting out! Until you build your own customer base, I would still reccomend them for the beginning stages!
Always love your vlogs. Etsy may have an issue with Bumblebutt but Mira Byler certainly doesn't. I watch her channel too and she was opening things she'd bought from other artists and you were first. Please don't ask me why but I actually squealed and felt like a proud parent. She said so many lovely things about you. But it doesn't surprise me that you are loved the world over 💕💕💕
The die cuts looks wonderful! The sour puss shirts cracked me up, so cute. I love the pink and yellow colors together,very pretty and summery. And I loved the gingy planner stickers. I think gingy and spice are my favorite characters of yours. 🥰
Dear Catherine Kay, You are absolutely amazing, talented, and a most charming vlogger. Some of us are authors or creators of a different kind, and we find your videos very inspiring. I have a kind request or idea for your future video. Last year you made a video of some bad guys copying Katnipp's trademark characters, your brainchildren. You were so devastated back then, but you did great, moved on, and keep going. Can you please make a vlog talking about your journey since then, and what lessons you learned? For example, did you learn to just keep doing what you love? Did you learn of ways to protect your company by legal trademark applications? We look forward to your next video and would appreciate you telling us a bit about this topic. Cheers!
This is a great video to talk about thank you so so much for sharing this! It is so frustrating, and something that shouldnt be allowed to happen in the idustry! Thank you so so much!
@@KatnippStudios you are such an amazing artist, and still so young. You are creatimg your Empire. Not sure if trademarking your characters works, and how expensive it is. But you are a "girl in pink" Walt Disney building your legacy.
I haven't finished the video yet, but if the vinyls were done on a Roland the grain can't be helped. I was looking into switching to one when we went from silhouettes to large format, and the grainy-ness on details (and certain colours) was just too much for me. I was not a fan and I prefer companies who print on a good quality printer and then laminate it with UV protection.
Sigh, I’ve used Wix in the past, not a fan! I’m so sorry that happened to you! What do you use to integrate it with your Etsy shop? I currently use Wordpress, but it’s become clunky with plugins and I’m planning to move everything to squarespace and do a massive overhaul and cleanup of my portfolio. I’m not ready to have full e-commerce yet, but I want a way to make it easier. Currently, I just post image thumbnails and link them to listings in my shop.
Etsy can be such a pain. A payment reserve was put on my account (I think because I’m a new shop?) and they withheld my money for 45days. So annoying! You’d think with them being such a big company they’d have better customer service lol.
Etsy is doing that a lot. Deactivate and no emails like they say you will get explaining anything. No live person to contact anymore and emailing them just makes you so frustrated because you get generic information, they clearly don't read your message and I am fed up with them. Now I earned star seller and they won't let me have it ever they said too many violations! I don't understand it but again no info to back up their claims and nobody to be able to contact and help you for all the fees we pay
Great vlog. Are you building your own online shop, I want to do that, so things like what Esty did don’t happen. Hope they give you a reason why, I love the Summer collection 🥰
I’ve just found you. I came from Mira Bylers channel as she bought some of your products and I’ve binge watched the past 6 videos this morning lol. Love the designs and can’t wait to make my first purchase from your website.
My local ecommerce platform also took down my perfume listing citing a totally incorrect reason of violation. My product lost exposure because of it and the new listing I made has no body buying till now. It is so disheartening to the point that I could cry if I think too much of it, sigh.
bloody etsy, you prob already looked but here are some cut and pastes about deactvation "An Etsy listing will only stay active for 4 months. If it does not sell during that time and you have not set it to automatically renew inside of Etsy then it will be moved to an inactive status." " Etsy may remove listings that violate the following policies: Handmade Policy. Prohibited Items Policy. Sanctions Policy. Intellectual Property Policy." I think I'd take a bet on auto renew, you may not have done that bit, why would you?
Is it just me, or does it feel like the video was unfinished? It feels like we only got the first part because it was short, and she didn't do her usual outro.
I’ve been noticing that with a few videos lately! When she was talking about taking product photos it felt like we were going to see the process then the video just sort of cut off?
Sorrry! ive been just grabbing the camera, and filming and half the videos are like a hour or so long so I've split them ahhaha i wanted to feel like a continuationo into the next vlog nice and smoothly, but I think I need to plan more hahah
@@KatnippStudios that's alright! I really love your vlogs so I still enjoyed this one. I think even if you just put text on screen, or a little extra clip of you saying goodbye it would be enough to make it feel more finished
@@KatnippStudios the only thing you need to do is film an intro or outtro after the video of over letting people know it’s a part 1 and part 2. Or at least, this is a technique I’ve seen others do
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Your pink makeup was SOOO beautiful oh my goodness 😍😍😍💗💗💗
Awwww, I loooove seeing my favorite people getting together and hanging out! Thanks for taking us to Emily's studio (Hi Em! Lol!!). Also, happy belated anniversary Mike!
Congrats to Mike on your 3 yrs @Katnipp! Wonderful pieces of art Catherine! 💞 the gift Emily gave you! Purple is my favorite color!
Congratulations for your anniversary. Thanks 😊 to be with us. You are my inspiration.
I wish more bosses treated their employees with such love and respect and care. If they did we might value our work more.
Happy 3-year anniversary Mike! 🎉
It doesn't seem like it has been that long that we've been blessed with Mike's joyousness on the vlogs. 😊
Thanks Catherine for sharing your behind-the-scenes of running a business. I'm just starting down my path of an official business and your vlogs help immensely.
Yay, happy Mike-a-versary!
BEST WISHES MIKE
Cant deny … you really are just such a lovable person.
Etsy took down one of my listings as soon as I submitted it to be reviewed for counterfeit. It was for stickers I designed. Contacted them but the lady couldn’t help me. I’ve been waiting two weeks to hear something. But what gets me is if it weren’t for copyright infringement, Etsy wouldn’t exist. That’s 90% of all the stuff they sell. No seller there has a license to sell Disney or NFL merchandise. Give me a break.
Theres a big problem relying just on Etsy be careful. I was making $10,000 on my first year selling on Etsy and they marked 2-3 products all at once as copywrite as someone reported it (its usually other sellers I found out as some actually got reversed as they were not 'authorised' according to Etsy) because there were so many all together I hit their max breach and they shut down my store. After that you can not reopen at all its compleatly done! This was years and years ago when I was making invitations and like you said I saw so many people making disney etc ones I thought it was ok (I just didnt know at that stage). So make sure you have other ways of selling not just Etsy as you might just wake up one day and your store is completly gone and your not able to reopen ever. Google Etsy stores closed and see eevryones stories. My $10,000 was nothing compared to other people $50,000 - $100,000 in sales and then overnight just lost their businesses!
@@ThisMumAtHome Oh man this is scary! Please be careful, copywrite can get your shop shut down, one of my friends had this happen to her too!
Literally loving your new studio its such a different vibe to the last one
Love it! Happy 3 years Mike! We remember you in the second bedroom studio never mind when he started. This is just too cool to see. So much has happened and you’ve just thrived so beautifully. You’ve invested so much hard work and dedication everywhere on your life, we wish you the highest of success.
heheh thats crazy, thank you so so much! That really means the world YOU DA BEST
@@KatnippStudios you’ve inspired my daughter greatly. Your art represents so much! She has a mermaid you made that looks a lot like her with beautiful brown skin and it’s our favorite piece. ❤️
Sending you lots of love and virtual hugs! ❤️
For the ones that were misprinted, how about cutting out the centers to use as freebies or little inspirational cards? Loveed seeing Emily too! :)
Omg Etsy did the exact same thing to me a few weeks ago! Removed my best selling earrings while I was on holiday so I was then in a mad panic to find out why. They told me it was because they we're handmade? I told them that's nonsense and I'm happy to send over photos and videos of me producing them but still haven't heard back. It's so frustrating!
isn't etsy advertiding that they sell handmade stuff... such a weird reason!
Wait because they were hand made? Or were not?
@@caroljeeben7064 Etsy claims it's because they weren't handmade, but they absolutely are
Thats what happened with us, they claimed that it wasn't handmade (Which it isn't) But it states I designed them and got them made (Which is allowed) however some seller on Alibaba has stole my photos and listings, so they thought I just bought it in, it was very frustrating, eventually they put it back up, haha I could of cried :')
@@KatnippStudios So glad you got it back up! I'm still fighting them on it TnT
Congratulations Mike 🎊 time flies
Think about the white tshirt too! many people would like it that way and it'd turn out so cute, I'm sure!
Wow, beautiful stickers, and the colors are awesome. I'm sorry to hear about your troubles with Esty and Wix. I hope it all gets solved quickly. That's such a cute haircut, you look great!! Eveything will work out, you have a great mind for business. A bump here and there is nothing compared to everything you've accomplished and will accomplish. You're awesome!! Wish Mike a happy anniversary and wish him the best from me. You're a great boss to work with as I seen through the years.
I'm originally from Redcar so it's so nice to see glimpses of it in your videos and Saltburn looked beautiful too.
hehe its so lovely to see locals on here heh YOU DA BEST
The die cut stickers are sooo pretty! I really like how the bottom row have similar style, but different color palettes. They look gorgeous together!
Omg I love your haircut!! It suits u so well
Just joined your Patreon….Love your content and RUclips channel !!
12:30 this is how my brain feels right now
love your art work also I love using pro create for my art work :) happy drawing x faye x
Hey Kat! I can't believe its been 3 years for Mike. I remember when you worked alone in your first studio. 😭 BTW, super random, but I noticed that you wear your engagement ring on the inside. I always wear my wedding ring on the inside because someone once told me that way it's closer to your heart. ❤️ 💍 👰♀
Can you just create a new listing for the removed listing? (Or/and contact Etsy?)
Etsy is getting to be a headache but as I don’t have a large enough platform I am sticking with it. Hopefully I can make the change to my own website but since it’s just a side hobby that pays sometimes I’m good where I’m at. Hopefully things work out for you. 🙏
Same here. I don’t have a big audience yet, so I don’t want to pay more money for an e-commerce site.
I hear ya. I want to leave Etsy, but I'm still a little fish in a big ocean. But, I'm learning to be patient
My big concern is ales tax because every state has so many different laws regarding nexus
Etsy is great because of its SEO capabilities when your just starting out! Until you build your own customer base, I would still reccomend them for the beginning stages!
ahhh ive never been this early lol LOVE the new planner stickers!! They're so cute and pastel.
Always love your vlogs. Etsy may have an issue with Bumblebutt but Mira Byler certainly doesn't. I watch her channel too and she was opening things she'd bought from other artists and you were first. Please don't ask me why but I actually squealed and felt like a proud parent. She said so many lovely things about you. But it doesn't surprise me that you are loved the world over 💕💕💕
Wow...I can't believe it's been three years since Mike started. I started watching before that and I really didn't think it had been that long. 😅
Love love love your colour palette! Such happy colours 😍
Just started watching you and omg! you’re looking so stunning! Super proud of you!! You’re an inspiration xx
Oh my goodness, than kyou so so much Kim! heh This really means the world YOU DA BEST
Sourpuss is adorable! Would love a pin of that!
The die cuts looks wonderful! The sour puss shirts cracked me up, so cute. I love the pink and yellow colors together,very pretty and summery. And I loved the gingy planner stickers. I think gingy and spice are my favorite characters of yours. 🥰
Hey 👋 I have a question how did u partner up with the post office to deliver your goods to those who order
omg, I can't believe how far behind I have gotten with these vlogs, haha! But I love binge-watching them sooo hi, I'm back in your comments, HAHAHA!
Looking good, Catherine!! 😍 And it is so frustrating Etsy have taken down your listing! Grrrrr!
Dear Catherine Kay, You are absolutely amazing, talented, and a most charming vlogger. Some of us are authors or creators of a different kind, and we find your videos very inspiring. I have a kind request or idea for your future video. Last year you made a video of some bad guys copying Katnipp's trademark characters, your brainchildren. You were so devastated back then, but you did great, moved on, and keep going. Can you please make a vlog talking about your journey since then, and what lessons you learned? For example, did you learn to just keep doing what you love? Did you learn of ways to protect your company by legal trademark applications? We look forward to your next video and would appreciate you telling us a bit about this topic. Cheers!
This is a great video to talk about thank you so so much for sharing this! It is so frustrating, and something that shouldnt be allowed to happen in the idustry! Thank you so so much!
@@KatnippStudios you are such an amazing artist, and still so young. You are creatimg your Empire. Not sure if trademarking your characters works, and how expensive it is. But you are a "girl in pink" Walt Disney building your legacy.
I haven't finished the video yet, but if the vinyls were done on a Roland the grain can't be helped. I was looking into switching to one when we went from silhouettes to large format, and the grainy-ness on details (and certain colours) was just too much for me. I was not a fan and I prefer companies who print on a good quality printer and then laminate it with UV protection.
Sigh, I’ve used Wix in the past, not a fan! I’m so sorry that happened to you! What do you use to integrate it with your Etsy shop? I currently use Wordpress, but it’s become clunky with plugins and I’m planning to move everything to squarespace and do a massive overhaul and cleanup of my portfolio.
I’m not ready to have full e-commerce yet, but I want a way to make it easier. Currently, I just post image thumbnails and link them to listings in my shop.
Can i ask what brushes you like to use in Procreate? And do you have custom brushes?
Etsy can be such a pain. A payment reserve was put on my account (I think because I’m a new shop?) and they withheld my money for 45days. So annoying! You’d think with them being such a big company they’d have better customer service lol.
Just here to say i'm obsessed with you and your short hair, okay luv u goodbye
Hey girly, soo I was just shopping at aliexpress and someone is selling pins that look soo much like ur work!!!! It looks like ur gingerbread man.
I love getting to hang out with you here
Wow Mike has been there for 3 years now that was around the time I met him on twitch. Hope everything goes smoothly with the website!
14:22 bless you
LOL! 🤧 😄
Emily Harvey? I subbed her 😄
Etsy is doing that a lot. Deactivate and no emails like they say you will get explaining anything. No live person to contact anymore and emailing them just makes you so frustrated because you get generic information, they clearly don't read your message and I am fed up with them. Now I earned star seller and they won't let me have it ever they said too many violations! I don't understand it but again no info to back up their claims and nobody to be able to contact and help you for all the fees we pay
Great vlog. Are you building your own online shop, I want to do that, so things like what Esty did don’t happen. Hope they give you a reason why, I love the Summer collection 🥰
Was that the whole video? You didn't do your normal, "thanks for watching, I love you, good byeee"
I’ve just found you. I came from Mira Bylers channel as she bought some of your products and I’ve binge watched the past 6 videos this morning lol. Love the designs and can’t wait to make my first purchase from your website.
Oh my gosh that is amazing I am fan girling hehehe I need to send her a message ASAP
@@KatnippStudios it’s weird because I’m English and had to hear about you from an American but I’m so glad I found out about you. Amazing work ❤️ xx
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My local ecommerce platform also took down my perfume listing citing a totally incorrect reason of violation. My product lost exposure because of it and the new listing I made has no body buying till now. It is so disheartening to the point that I could cry if I think too much of it, sigh.
What company do you use to get the stickers done?
She usually uses local suppliers. You can google some local to you or use websites like Alibaba to find one overseas.
Sounds like the Etsy AI struck again. They took one of my listings down for no reason. I just reuploaded it and its been fine since.
bloody etsy, you prob already looked but here are some cut and pastes about deactvation "An Etsy listing will only stay active for 4 months. If it does not sell during that time and you have not set it to automatically renew inside of Etsy then it will be moved to an inactive status."
" Etsy may remove listings that violate the following policies:
Handmade Policy.
Prohibited Items Policy.
Sanctions Policy.
Intellectual Property Policy."
I think I'd take a bet on auto renew, you may not have done that bit, why would you?
Etsy needs to becareful cos they n be nothing without customers such a shame how they’re treating everyone
Etsy are huge A holes - get rid of them and be in control of your business
I still love Etsy as a buyer, but as a seller I kind of hate them. They don't seem to care about sellers at all. Which is a weird business model!
Etsy is terrible
Is it just me, or does it feel like the video was unfinished? It feels like we only got the first part because it was short, and she didn't do her usual outro.
I’ve been noticing that with a few videos lately! When she was talking about taking product photos it felt like we were going to see the process then the video just sort of cut off?
Sorrry! ive been just grabbing the camera, and filming and half the videos are like a hour or so long so I've split them ahhaha i wanted to feel like a continuationo into the next vlog nice and smoothly, but I think I need to plan more hahah
@@KatnippStudios that's alright! I really love your vlogs so I still enjoyed this one. I think even if you just put text on screen, or a little extra clip of you saying goodbye it would be enough to make it feel more finished
@@KatnippStudios the only thing you need to do is film an intro or outtro after the video of over letting people know it’s a part 1 and part 2. Or at least, this is a technique I’ve seen others do
U loose so much weight... Please teach me youre getting prettier and prettier each time u post a vid.. hugs yay
She had the gastric sleeve surgery recently. Doesn't she look marvelous! She's doing so well after it. I think she's got a glow to her. So lovely!
heheh thank you so so much!