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Learn how to draw a design for a homemade button, color it, choose a background, and make a button in this free video series on designing and making buttons and mirrors at home.
There are 20 videos in this series:
Learn how to select pens to use when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to select paper to use when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to center a drawing when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to draw straight lines when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to design a button when making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to draw geometric shapes when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to draw boxes when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to finish a design when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to fit a square drawing on a circle button when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to draw 3-D boxes when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to finish your design when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to color boxes when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to select colors when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to color transparencies when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to cut background paper when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to select a background when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to use a button press when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to attach a mirror back on your button when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to clean a button mirror when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Learn how to make your own original buttons when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Buttons are a lingering icon in American culture. Once used to promote political candidates, raise awareness of breast cancer, or affiliate the wearer with a club or organization, buttons are today retro pieces of fashion flair found usually in the glass checkout counters of vintage clothing stores, places like Hot Topic, or used record outlets. Buttons from an unknown high school that advertise some silly event are generally the most sought-after button of all. With a mirrored back and straight pin design, the button is both elegant and fashionable, especially when the design is something from the 1980s. Like tin lunchboxes and frumpy roller-skates, buttons will be a part of Americana nostalgia for an undetermined amount of time before being retired for good.
In this free video series, expert buttoner Robyn Lyman of www.manyhearts.com shows you how to make a button in your own home. You will learn how to draw a geometric design, how to select pens and colors for the intricate image, and how to put that image onto a transparency and finally onto a button. Robyn shows you how to draw 3-D designs with pens and how to choose a mirrored, glittery background for your new artwork. Whip it into a button press machine, maybe one you got from your cousin’s wife, and you will be set. Making buttons was never easier!
Robyn Lyman Robyn Lyman is a creative artist who has finished thousands of pieces of artwork and owns the company Many Hearts, One Nation, reachable at the link.dkdk
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