New Build-a-Button Tutorial: Layers and Color Picker

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

Customer Spotlight: Fraternal Order of Police

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

More New Improvements to the Build-a-Button Online Design Center™!

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.

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School, Sports, and Fun Design CD Now Available!

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:

  • It includes a wide variety of images that work for button sizes of 1″ through 3.5″.
  • The designs work on 1″ buttons, so they are perfect for use with our interchangeable magnetic jewelry line.
  • You can personalize the buttons further by adding your own photos or text to them. (And you can do this easily here!)
  • The theme of the graphics on this CD is especially relevant with spring and summer on the immediate horizon.

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

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Among the sub-categories included in the CD:

  • Arts
  • Math
  • Sports
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Student Awards
  • Academic Awards
  • Teacher Awards
  • Student Encouragement
  • Special Education
  • Camp Awards
  • Anti-drug Awareness
  • PTA
  • Anti-bullying
  • Teacher Aide
  • Visitors and Volunteers

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

How To Make Interchangeable Magnetic Jewelry With 1″ Buttons

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.

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How To Properly Use Magnets With Magneta-Snap™ Pendants – Clarification, Explanation, and Video

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.

 

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Magneta-Snaps™ and Clix™: The Era of Interchangeable Magnetic Jewelry Is Here!

When we told you about Magneta-Snaps™ interchangeable magnetic jewelry a month ago, teasing its planned introduction this month, we said the following:

2012 is already off to a rip-roaring start and we aren’t even out the first month yet…and now we are happy to announce another new product that we are adding to ever-growing line of button making machines, supplies, and accessories.

You see, we fibbed a little.

Because we aren’t just introducing one new product this month. We aren’t even introducing two new products this month. Nope.

Right here, today, we are introducing three new products to the ABM line that will knock your socks off (or “unstrap your sandals,” should you not be a shoe person – in which case you better not be a socks person!)

In addition to Magneta-Snaps™ we also quite excited to introduce Clix™ bracelets and pendants.

You’re going to love these products.

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Pre-Release New Product Announcement: Magneta-Snaps™ Interchangeable Jewelry

2012 is already off to a rip-roaring start and we aren’t even out the first month yet. We already launched the new and improved Build-a-Button Online Design Center, and now we are happy to announce another new product that we are adding to ever-growing line of button making machines, supplies, and accessories.

Coming this February, we will be introducing ABM’s very own line of Magneta-Snaps’ Interchangeable Jewelry, or simply Magneta-Snaps for short.

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