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Tag: Buttons

June 7, 2021 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Tech Tip: A Quick and Easy Way to Make 1.25 Buttons

Teen Librarian Karen Jensen shares a quick and easy way to make personal photo buttons on the 1.25 button maker

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 […]

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MakerSpace: The #ButtonFun Gallery

July 17, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS

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 […]

Teen MakerSpace Outreach at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County, Day 1 – Getting Organized

September 26, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

At The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County, we have been working really hard to do outreach for our new Teen MakerSpace. This week, I thought I would share with you what our outreach looks like. We have now put together 2 separate outreach packets, and I am working on a third. What […]

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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 […]

MakerSpace: Thumbprint Art Buttons

May 9, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

You might think that teens would not be interested in doing thumbprint art. I thought that. It turns out, we would both be wrong. That is the takeaway from this past week, at least for me. I was right there with you, I too was worried that my teens would not be into doing thumbprint […]

Things I Learned Visiting the Cincinnati MakerSpace: Fun with Buttons! Edition

July 2, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

In early June my colleague and I journeyed to the city of Cincinnati (OH) to tour their new MakerSpace. It was glorious in many ways. You can see pictures of that visit on the TLT Tumblr page here, here and here. I learned many things: 1. I can not consistently spell Cincinnati correctly. 2. A […]

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