How To: Buttons For Craft Beer Week
Looking for a way to promote your brewery during Craft Beer Week and the summer festival season? Check out these four creative and fun ways to use buttons for your brewery: Sell Them This one’s kind of a no-brainer, but selling buttons is an easy and cost effective way to let the world know about...
How To: Scratch Off Buttons
After coming across this tutorial for making your own scratch-off tickets a while back, we got to thinking about the possibility of making scratch-off buttons. As it turns out, the process of making them is pretty simple and the possibilities for using a scratch-off button or magnet as seemingly endless– hide special coupon codes, use...
How To: Button Name Tags
We’ve shared on the blog before that buttons make excellent name tags, and the idea is worth revisiting now that we’re offering fancy new 2″ x 3″ rectangle buttons. These buttons mimic the size and shape of the classic “Hello, my name is” sticker that you’ve probably stuck on your shirt at countless meetings and...
How To: Use Rectangles to Your Advantage
Our new 2″ x 3″ rectangle is a shape bursting with opportunity. Here are some tips for using rectangle buttons and magnets to your advantage to get your message noticed. 1. Wide open spaces Got a design that’s just too detailed to be contained on a small button? A 2″ x 3″ rectangle might be...
How to: Display Buttons for Sale
You’ve probably already figured out that buttons are a great merch item to sell at conventions, craft fairs and other events, and having an eye-catching display can mean the difference between your buttons selling a handful or selling out. Here are some ideas for great ways to display your buttons for sale. 1. Bin Some...
One Button, Four Ways
At Busy Beaver, we’re always at work coming up with innovative ways to make buttons that spread your message in new and exciting ways. That’s why we were the first company to offer the metallic effect back in the 90s, reintroduced the world to glow in dark buttons and introduced cosmic effect holographic buttons earlier this...
How To: Create Diamond Buttons
Ah, the diamond-shaped button. Quirky and unusual, it can also present a bit of a challenge for the button designer. Just what kind of images look good on tiny diamond-shaped canvas, you may be asking yourself. Here we present Busy Beaver’s tips for creating diamond buttons that stand out from the crowd. Tip #1 –...
How To: Glow in the Dark Button Tips
Our glow in the dark option makes your buttons stand out day and night. It’s a pretty easy effect to take advantage of— the main tip to keep in mind is to have lots of white space in your design. With a glow in the dark button, your artwork is printed on transparency that’s then...
How To Fake Gold Buttons
Our 24 karat gold 1″ buttons are a great option for getting your message out in a unique way. But we understand that they can be a bit over some budgets (they’re GOLD, for goodness sake!), and sometimes you want a button larger than a 1 incher. Did you know that there are ways to...
How To: Resolutions for Beginners
Image resolution can make the difference between a crisp, clear image and blurry, pixelated buttons. If you’re new to all this resolution mumbo jumbo, here’s the deal: in a nutshell, resolution is how many dots of information your image has. High resolution means lots of info (and usually a large image). Low resolution images are...
Grassroots Fundraising with Buttons
Coming up with creative ways to engage supporters can mean the difference between a ho hum and highly successful fundraiser, and buttons can be a great way to make that happen. Here’s our list of creative and fun ways to use buttons to create a successful grassroots fundraiser. Give Them Away Maybe it seems counter-intuitive,...
How To: Bleed or Not To Bleed
If the word “bleed” only conjures up images of vampire movies, have no fear! Busy Beaver is here to explain what a bleed is and how you can use to to make your buttons their best. Meet Mona. She’s a lovely button from the front and to make her even lovelier, we want to be...
