Button Making

Tag: Button Making

July 24, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS

MakerSpace: How to turn a photo into a silhouette – and make it into a book page button of course!

Arguably one of the most complicated buttons I have ever made involved learning how to use GIMP to turn a portrait into a silhouette PNG which I could then use for other types of art. To be fair, I set out to make this button because I wanted to learn how to cut a person […]

July 18, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS

MakerSpace: How to Design a Button

Button, button, who makes the button? I do! Teens do! But how? Yesterday I shared some basics on button making, today let’s talk about designing your buttons. For the purpose of this discussion a button insert will refer to your final circle image cut to size that is placed in between the two button parts […]

July 17, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS

MakerSpace: The #ButtonFun Gallery

Earlier today I shared with you a summary post about button making in makerspaces. Using the hashtag #ButtonFun, I and some Twitter followers have been sharing our favorite button making tips and a gallery of our creations. Here’s a roundup. The #ButtonFun Gallery// Storify by TeenLibrarianToolbox Mon, Jul 17 2017 20:33:04 Edit The #ButtonFun […]

MakerSpace: Button Making is All the Rage (The Complete Button Making Index)

July 17, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS

One of our most popular stations in our Teen MakerSpace at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (OH) has been button making. We enjoy making buttons so much that a couple of staff members have purchased their own button making machines for personal use at home (hello, yes I’m one of the […]

MakerSpace: Making Fingerprint Pokemon Go Buttons

July 25, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Pokemon Go is big – you’ve probably heard. So my library is like many libraries and we are trying to plan a Pokemon Go program for our patrons while the program is still hot. Yes, I know Pokemon has been popular for 20 years now, but this is a new level of popularity and we […]

MakerSpace: Button Maker Challenges

June 30, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

At The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (OH), we have found that one of the most popular activities among our teens in our Teen MakerSpace is making buttons. We run into a lot of our teens around town that look like this: But we started to notice that teens were just coming […]

Scenes from a Teen MakerSpace Open House

June 21, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Yesterday in celebration of The National Week of Making, we officially introduced our Teen MakerSpace at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (OH) to our community by hosting an open house. Our Teen MakerSpace is normally only open to teens ages 12 through 18, but we wanted to let the public know […]

TPiB: The Books of Our Heart Button

June 6, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

A few weeks ago I was talking with another librarian friend of mine when she started to ask me about a book. She stopped and said, “Oh yeah, you’re all about making now, you don’t really do books anymore.” This caused me to pause. Of course I am still all about books. But it’s true, […]