The Button Blog - American Button Machines

Decorating the Christmas tree is a time-honored tradition much-loved by countless families across America and throughout the world. It is a wonderful experience to share with the entire family and brightens up houses for the entire month of December. Over the years we’ve heard from many of you who wanted to make Christmas ornaments but were stumped as to how to achieve a useable, but pretty, end product. Ever aspiring to offer our customers innovative solutions, the wonderfully creative staff here at ABM has designed 2.25” and 3” Christmas Ornament Sets. These sets include all the components needed to make...

Happy National Button Day! I bet you didn’t realize – in the midst of your Thanksgiving Day preparations and early Christmas shopping – another important holiday had snuck up on you. But it has. Yes, every November 16th is indeed our national day of making, celebrating and enjoying the wonderful world of buttons. And of course you just know that we cannot let an important day like this go by without recognizing it and providing a few suggestions for how to celebrate. Suggestions for celebrating National Button Day: 1. Check out the ABM Design Marketplace: We’ve partnered with artists from...

Greetings Button Makers! American Button Machines is proud to announce the upcoming launch of our new and improved website. We have been hard at work updating the look, adding cool new features and expanding our product offerings. As part of the update we’ve revamped our lineup of Pendant Specials. Each Pendant System Special & Machine Pendant Special now comes with 5 Magneta-Snap pendants and 5 Ceramic Magnets. So, if you’ve been contemplating a venture into the 1” market, the Professional System Pendant Special is a great way to get started. The best part is you can take advantage of these...

Hey Button Makers!  As promised, we are taking your promo code requests seriously and this week are offering free shipping* on 1.25” Pinback button sets (any package size up to 1,000)  when you also purchase one of our brand new, professionally designed collages.  Don’t miss out - call us now at 972-985-5074 as this fantastic offer will be limited to the first 100 callers.  Be sure to mention the super secret code:  I Love ABM Collages! *shipped via US Mail to any US address       By Brighid Brown, Director of Blogging and All Things Cool at ABM

American Button Machine Review of Flashing LED Buttons One of our coolest new products is the ability to add a flashing LED to any button. The smallest button size the LED will fit on is a 1.5” button. The Greatness of Flashing LED Buttons There are several pros involved in the creation of a flashing LED button: They are incredibly energy efficient, which means that the lights on your buttons will last a looooooong time. In fact, our LED assembly comes with two long-life LR41 coin batteries. You can add two, three, or four LEDs to a single button depending...