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Buttons are small, highly reflective, and (usually) highly saturated coloful objects, which makes them exceedingly difficult to photograph well. Almost as difficult as photographing cars! Luckily buttons are way smaller than cars and so we can hack together studio conditions on a nothing budget, photograph buttons with a cell phone, and have the results look totally pro!

Designing is half the fun of making your own buttons! But unless you're a talented illustrator, sometimes finding right graphics to express your idea is a challenge. It's tempting to just do a Google image search and use something you find from

At ButtonMakers, we have 2 different options for cutting out graphics, the ProMaker Punch and the MultiCutter. You can also just use scissors if you want. In this video, Becky Buttons compares the two options.

In this video Becky Buttons will demonstrate how to make buttons with both the ProMaker model 300 and the MultiMaker with a 3 inch die set.

Have you ever jammed a punch? Here's how you recover from that.

Most button machines work more or less the same way. Here you can make a print out of helpful button making instructions.

If your button machine is stuck, stay calm and whack it on the table.

Learn about what you need to make buttons 

Video tutorial for designing a button using the open source software, Open Office. 

Laura shows us how to tie a fabulous bow using 3 inch buttons as name tags! Adding a button to a gift box is a great way to personalize your gifts and upgrade your bows.