Rockin' Buttons Blog

Name Tag Buttons made for a Face Painting Workshop

2008-09-19T17:22:00.000-07:00

Last week I helped co-produce a face painting workshop with world-famous artist/instructors "The Wolfe Brothers". They are twins, and yes their real last name is Wolfe. They like skulls and stuff, hence the skull button holder...

I made name tag buttons for the workshop. The attendees used a perm marker sharpie to write their name on it - and it doesn't smudge or scratch off!

Click here to view the photos from this awesome workshop. We had a freakin' blast!

Here we are, you can see our buttons...I made their buttons in a cool, drippy font.

Custom Buttons for Cowboys & Cowgirls

2008-09-15T17:09:00.000-07:00

I made buttons for one of my best friend's sons' birthday party. You can see the darling invitation that Kelly made. So I was inspired to make buttons with the same type of graphics and font.

We attached them to all the goody bags.

My daughter wearing her button!

It's kind of nice to have some form of name tags when at a party. When kids are running around, it's just helpful to know thier name when their parents aren't around. Instead of yelling "Hey you lil' boy in the Transformer shirt!"

First Button Project

2008-09-07T22:36:00.000-07:00

IT'S HERE.

The Button Maker!

*sigh* me so happy.....

My three-and-a half-year old daughter attempting to push it down to make a button.

Her first button!

So we made 170 buttons in about two hours. Hubby came home from work, saw all the stuff on the table then gave me the whole Ricky Ricardo "What the hell is this?" schpeel. Stood around and watched for a bit, then passively started making buttons (like he wasn't interested) - and kept going. It freed me to keep cutting with the circle cutter which speeded up the process. Then I made the small labels to stick to the back with the instructions on how to wash off.

On one of the buttons I sprinkled some yellow glitter on it. The picture looks terrible - just looks sandy/gritty. But in person, it is very SPARKLY (and anyone who knows me, knows that I LOVE THE SPARKLE) and when it hits the sun or light - ZING! Sparkle goodness! This one I will wear on my apron.

THE VERY NEXT DAY:

The next day I face painted at my sons' AYSO Soccer Opening Day - hubby is Coach of both their teams, and of course, I am Team Mom.....

Every kid I face painted got a button so now the moms or dads know how to wash it off. Hopefully it will end up on some bulletin boards in homes all over Orange County! (BTW, this is my very fast one-minute cheetah since the line was as long as a soccer field!)