Today we are starting a new series here at the The Button Blog that will feature the many button making how-to videos we have created in the past. In our effort to be outlandishly creative, we are going out on a huge limb to title this series featuring videos…the ABM Video Series.
In the video below, you will see the short, sweet, and easy process for taking a set of button supplies and making a wonderful little 1 inch button.
We have spent a lot of time discussing designs for the front of your buttons, but today we are flipping things around.
Did you know that there is an easy way to add free advertising to every single button you create?
It’s true. It is called a “tagline” and it goes on in the small area around the outer back border of your button that is created once you have pressed the graphics down.
This area of the button is the perfect place to add a phone number, website address, email address, or even your slogan or business name.
Our newest video tutorial shows you how to create the design using the Build-a-Button Online Design Center.
Brighid Brown – Director of Blogging and All Things Cool at ABM
We’ve posted a new tutorial to help you better utilize the Build-a-Button Online Design Center!
This tutorial walks you through the layer capabilities of the Build-a-Button Online Design Center, as well as the color picker function that allows you to create a custom color from any pixel on the screen.
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To see all of our Build-a-Button tutorials, click here.
Brighid Brown – Director of Blogging and All Things Cool at ABM
As we expected they would when we launched them a couple months back, our Magneta-Snaps™ and Clix™ interchangeable magnetic jewelry products have become two of our hottest-selling items.
The button below was submitted to by Michael Davis, who tell us that it was made for the Fraternal Order of Police, specifically for 2012 Mini Convention attendees.
Have a fun, exciting, interesting button you want to share? Submit it here!
And if you need a place to go design some buttons, do so over at the Build-a-Button Online Design Center.
Brighid Brown – Director of Blogging and All Things Cool at ABM
It was Ronald Reagan who said, “There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
This is exactly how we feel about everything we do at American Button Machines, including and especially the Build-a-Button Online Design Center™. And we most certainly believe that the intelligence, imagination, and wonder of our customers have no limits! (Plus we have the button submissions to prove it!)
That is why, yet again, we have made enhancements to make the greatest online graphics design tool for button makers even better.
Every now and again we like to step a little bit outside of our button-centric conversation to highlight a person or organization doing something that we strongly endorse.
FIRST fits this criteria to a T, and we highlight this great organization today.
Our year of new products and accessories continues this month with the launch of the School, Sports, and Fun! Graphics Design CD for Buttons. We are very excited about this disc for a number of reasons:
And here is the best part: we are running a release special through the rest of March that allows you to get the CD for $19.95 instead of the normal price of $39.95. Just use the code “school” during checkout.
Get the CD here: School, Sports, and Fun Design CD
Among the sub-categories included in the CD:
The graphics are one high-resolution size, which is 4” across and 300 DPI. You can easily reduce or adjust the size to fit any button size, 1” through 3.5”, using your own software or the Build-a-Button Online Design Center.
As always, happy button making!
Brighid Brown – Director of Blogging and All Things Cool at ABM
As you know, we recently launched our Magneta-Snaps™ and Clix™ lines of interchangeable magnetic jewelry. The response, as we anticipated, has been overwhelming, not only because the final product is so fun and customizable but also because of how easy it is to assemble.
In this post, we are going to present all of our Magneta-Snaps™ and Clix™ tutorial videos in one place (bookmark it now for future reference!) along with written instructions so that everyone will know how to make interchangeable magnetic jewelry with 1″ buttons and see how simple the process is.
What a whirlwind the last week has been!
As you know, we were so excited to release our new interchangeable magnetic jewelry products – Magneta-Snaps™ and Clix™ – to the button making world, and we have been thoroughly pleased with the launch and your response. Your excitement for the products has been contagious!
And we are so thankful that so many of you have taken to the discussion forum and to our Facebook page to provide candid feedback about your experience. Keep it coming! We read, consider, and respond to all of it.
Among the few issues that a handful of folks seem to be having concerns magnets, specifically an inability to remove magnets from the Magneta-Snap pendants. We are writing this post to quickly clear this issue up for anyone who has experienced it.