The Button Blog - American Button Machines
Prop 65 and Button Making - Proposition 65 California
About California Proposition 65 Proposition 65, also known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, is a California law that requires businesses to provide a warning to consumers if their products contain certain chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm. While it's important to be aware of the potential risks associated with these chemicals, there are a few reasons why Proposition 65 may not necessarily be a cause for concern. Prop 65 was intended to notify customers of potential dangers so that they could make informed purchases. At American Button Machines, we...
Original Button Artists - ABM Wants You!
Are you an original artist? Do you design your own buttons with nothing more than good old fashioned imagination and talent? Are you looking for an outlet to share your greatness with the world? Then ABM wants you! We are looking to purchase graphic designs, clip art, backgrounds, borders and artistic elements. We're working on enhancing our already fantastically fantastic Build-a-Button 5.0 and we're looking for designs related to all manner of button mania including campaign borders, banners and accents as well as school and sports related illustrations, any and all holiday happiness, causes of all kinds, occupational concepts, cuteness overloads and...
Building a Business with Buttons - Rapid Fire Industries
Building a business with buttons is always a fun and magical venture full of opportunity to express your creativity and connect with others in a way that only buttons can offer. After all, they are the ultimate conversation starter! When that business is being built with the kind of love, passion and purpose we see in Rapid Fire Industries, we have to take time to share their inspirational story! We recently spoke to Randy Early, the leader of Rapid Fire Industries, and he was happy to take the opportunity to brag a little bit on his incredible group of student...
Build-a-Button 5.0 Half Price for a Lifetime of Greatness!
Build-a-Button is an industry leading software specifically designed to help you create the best buttons in the universe. There are a a lot of ways to receive that coveted membership time. One of my personal favorites is by winning a contest in our super awesome Facebook group, The Pinback Button Making Community. You can also score a full 3 months with the purchase of any Button Maker Kit on the ABM website and get bonus time each time you order pinback buttons from our website. Then of course there's the old fashioned method of purchasing membership. There are 5 membership options...
Button Making Ideas by ABM - Spotlight On Badge Reels!
Button Making Ideas by ABM spotlights some of the greatest projects that are shared in The Pinback Button Making Community on Facebook. This week, we take a look at Regina Greco and her very popular Badge Reels! In today's society, most of us have an ID that we need to keep handy be it for work, school, church, conventions or any of the many other places we go. Badge reels keep them super handy and convenient while saving you from spending tons of time searching through that seemingly bottomless bag or briefcase looking for that little plastic, but oh so important,...