The Button Blog - American Button Machines — Button Making

Hey Button Makers! The big day is finally here so please congratulate fellow button maker Bill Manning - the winner of our first ever Free Button Machine give-away. We can’t thank you enough for helping to promote our FaceBook page and all the wonderful website & Google+ reviews. We’ve had so much fun with this contest that we’d like to do it again but we need your insights to keep it fresh. Please share with us your ideas for future contests and tell us what you’d like the criteria to be and which product(s) you’d like to win. We’re all ears!...

Hey Button Makers. We occasionally have callers who ask how to change the blade on their Adjustable Circle Cutter. It’s actually very simple, but we’ve put together this step-by-step tutorial to guide you through the process. You will need a small, flat-head screwdriver and a pair of needle nosed pliers. If you organize anything like me, the screwdriver is in the drawer to the left of the fridge and the pliers are in the garage. We’ll wait while you look for them…. Okay, ready now? The first thing you want to do is remove the plastic Centering Template from the Circle Cutter.  ...

Hey Button makers. Earlier this month I dedicated and entire post to 5 Things to know about Ceramic Magnets. Anybody remember? Of course you do – I knew you would! What better way to wrap up our March Magnets Series than to share “5 Things to know about Peel & Stick Magnets”? 1. Our Peel & Stick Magnets are available in a wide variety of sizes to fit most any need – as small as 1” all the way to 3.5”. Great for posting a picture of your little soccer star or favorite band on the refrigerator. 2. 1” magnet...

Continuing our March Magnets theme this week I’m sharing with you a few of the differences between American Button Machines (ABM) magnet sets and those of Badge-a-Minit (BAM). March Magnets Title Fight:  ABM vs BAM Round One: Size Options ABM (us) has magnet sets available in 1”, 1.25”, 1.5”, 1.75”, 2.25”, 3” and 3.5” BAM (them) magnet sets are limited to 2.25” & 3” Winner: ABM     Round Two: Appearance ABM’s (Us) peel & stick magnets cover the entire surface of the button back providing a professional looking button. BAM (Them) have a small square magnet covering a tiny portion...

If you have been following our button machine giveaway here on our Button Blog and our Facebook Page, then you know we are very close to reaching our goal of 1,500 Facebook  likes. There is just about a week to go until the big giveaway and we still need 115 likes to make our goal of 1500. We truly want someone to win and so we're going to make it even easier. A few weeks ago we launched our new website, which is not only easier to use, but has some great new features. Did you know you can now review products...