How to Make Your Own Celebrity Buttons
- 1). If you already have a small image, skip these first two steps. Find the celebrity image you want to use for your button by searching the Internet or scanning in an image from a magazine, CD cover or similar item. Load the image into your photo-editing software.
- 2). Crop any areas of the image that you don't want to appear in the button. Reduce the size of the image to 2.5" x 2.5." Print the image.
- 3). Carefully trim around the corners of the image so that the image circumference is the same as the button's.
- 4). Put a metal button dome into the button machine in the appropriate pick-up die as specified by your machine's instructions; the dome should be convex-side down. Place your image over the front of the metal button back. Put a small clear plastic sheet over both.
- 5). Rotate the dies to the appropriate places as directed by your button machine's instructions for button creation. Pull the lever down completely, then pull the lever back up.
- 6). Insert the pin-back on top, pin-side down. Follow your machine's instruction for die placement, then bring the lever down again. Rotate the dies on your machine until you see your finished button.
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