How to Make Your Own Promotional Buttons
To make promotional buttons, you do need to purchase a button-making machine. These come in a wide range of prices. As for the actual buttons, you can design and make them any way you want. Make a button that has the symbol of your business, mascot for your school or text that promotes your candidate or any other information you want to put on them. Give the buttons away or sell them as a fundraiser for your school.
Things You'll Need
- Button making machine
- Extra supplies for the machine
- Computer graphics program
- Printer
- Paper
- Scissors
Instructions
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Design your buttons. Make several different styles to appeal to a broad group of people. Use the computer to make the templates for your buttons.
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Follow any manufacturer's suggestions for the appropriate size for your particular button machine. Make your circles accordingly on your computer program.
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Be careful when designing your button. Make sure that none of your design hangs off the edge of the paper that folds over to the back of the button, causing you to lose some of your design.
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Put a new colored print cartridge in your printer to ensure quality printing. Print out as many button templates as you need. Use a card stock paper to add quality to your buttons.
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Cut out the button templates. Purchase a round cutter from the scrapbooking section of the craft store or find a round object, such as a drinking glass, and uses it to draw a circle around your template.
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Layer the top of your button, the template and the back of the button according to the manufacturer's instructions.
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Follow the manufacturer's instructions to put the button together.
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Tips & Warnings
There are several online sites that make buttons for you. You create and upload your template and they manufacture them and send them to you. This is a cost-effective option for one-time button making.
There are pre-made button programs for the computer available. These are great for people who need to make buttons over and over again. The downside is that the programs are not useful for anything else on your computer.
