What is as smooth as a butterfly’s flutter?
And as precise as Tiger Woods’ putter?
It slices paper like a hot knife through butter,
Ladies and gents, it’s our peerless punch cutter!
That’s right, we welcome you back to the ABM Video Series, where today we educate you on the simple process for lining up and cutting button graphics using a punch cutter.
Here are the steps, and you can follow along as you watch the video:
Many times, button making projects involve the creation of bulk sums of buttons. Sure, every now and then you make 5-10 at a time for a small, specific purpose; but, most of the time you are making hundreds or even thousands of buttons and want to make sure that you are being as efficient as possible.
Today’s entry in the ABM Video Series aims to provide useful step-by-step info and a visual tutorial that will help you prepare circular button graphics when you are doing a bulk project.
As we continue our one-by-one journey through the tutorial videos that we have posted on our button making videos page, today’s video involves the creation of ponytail buttons.
The beautiful thing about making ponytail buttons is that the process for making them is very similar to the process for making any type of button, as you will see in the video below.
Here is the main difference: our ponytail kits include an eyelet that is easily inserted into the back of the button. This eyelet then allows you to easily add an elastic ponytail cord.
When you watch the video, you’ll see just how uncomplicated these additional steps are.
Follow the link for more information about purchasing our ponytail sets, which will allow you to start creating and customizing your own ponytail buttons today!
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Brighid Brown – Director of Blogging and All Things Cool at ABM
As we continue with our button making video tutorial series, we take a quick break from the tutorials to celebrate the exciting world of fabric buttons.
And as you will see below, when set to a funky background beat, a montage of fabric buttons can be and is exciting!
Fabric buttons have been one of the most prominent topics that we have covered here at The Button Blog. Rather than try to re-invent the wheel or regurgitate old information, we will provide you with the links to our fabric button tutorial series, plus some other useful resources to help you in your fabric button endeavors.
Welcome back to the ABM Video Series!
Today’s video tutorial is a very simple one, and shows you how to cut out circular button graphics using American Button Machines’ econo circle cutter.
The econo circle cutter differs from our other circle cutters by obviously being less expensive. Still, it cuts perfect circles and is adjustable from 2 inches to 7 1/4 inches. And while it’s perfect for preparing graphics for button making, it will work well for any type of circular cut you need to make with paper.
Here are the quick and easy steps:
And, of course, don’t forget the most important step in the econo circle cutter usage process: get one!
Here is your short and sweet video tutorial:
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Brighid Brown – Director of Blogging and All Things Cool at ABM
In this, the fourth installment of our ABM Video Series, we are going to show you just how ridiculously easy it is to make a pinback button.
And when we say easy, we don’t just mean simple…we also mean quick.
Would you believe me if I told you the total time it takes to make a professional pinback button is less than 10 seconds?
It’s true. The video evidence that proves this claim awaits you at the end of this post.
But first, a quick outline of the steps:
Quick pop-quiz: one of the above 11 steps is actually not a necessary step for creating pinback buttons (but is, however, something fun and perhaps even challenging to try!).
If you’re having trouble with the pop-quiz question, just watch the video below. You’ll see that the entire process takes less than 10 seconds, and here’s a hint: there is no magic required.
Just you, a few supplies, and an ABM button maker!
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Brighid Brown – Director of Blogging and All Things Cool at ABM
Welcome to the third installment of our video series. We’re happy to have you back! Previously, we described and showed you videos on how to make a one inch button and how to use an adjustable circle cutter to cut out an individual graphic for a single button.
Now, the question you may be asking yourself after watching those two videos is, what do I do if I want to make a whole bunch of buttons? Do I have to use the adjustable circle cutter to cut out each graphic individually?
And the answer, of course, would be no. To be more specific, the answer is the high volume die cutting press that we offer at American Button Machines.
We began our video series with a quick tutorial showing you how easy it is to use a button machine to make a button. Video #2 in the series is going to show you just how easy it is to create perfectly circular graphics for your buttons using our adjustable rotary circle cutter.
Before we get to the video, a few quick highlights about the adjustable circle cutter:
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