My handmade custom temporary tattoos have recently become a very popular item for weddings! It’s a unique favor that adds a personal touch to the big event. Temporary tattoos are easy to apply, fun to wear, and leave guests with a lasting memory that you don’t need laser surgery to remove.

I’ve been making wedding temporary tattoo favors for years, and I’ve got the process down to an art. Recently, I stopped to take a photo of a batch in the process of being made. These are the packaging tags that are affixed to the top of the favor and the scoring tool I use to fold each card.

Check out my custom temporary tattoo selection on Etsy, if you are interested. I make them for birthdays, bachelorette parties, gag gifts, or just because! Trust me, they’re even better than the real thing.

Create Repeat Customers for Your Business and Projects

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Ali (Buttonhead)

Custom Button Pins For Your Business, Projects, and Events

Are you curious to see what types of goodies I’m making for other people? Check out my photo blog and find out what’s hot off the presses at Buttonhead!

If you like meeting nice, new people who enjoy chatting about life and style – meet your new obsession! Or, if you are an indie business owner looking for great examples of successful bloggers, look no further. I’m really impressed with Amber Rose’s ingenuity, and I think you will be too.

I’d like to recommend to you a resource that has really helped me wrap my brain around the seemingly black hole of computer tech.  Lynda.com is an instructional video library with courses available on pretty much any computer-related topic.  The videos make complex topics so easy to understand – and the subscription price is only $25/month (with NO contract!).  I’ve been using these online courses for nearly a year now.  I’ve learned so many amazing new skills that have helped me take my business to the next level, including: 

•  Twitter and Facebook for business marketing
• Product photography
• Podcasting
• Using Quicken to manage business and personal finances 
• HTML/XTML and CSS
• Website design fundamentals
• Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Acrobat
• Search engine optimization for websites
• Print color management

There is so much information waiting to be consumed!  Hey, you can’t learn everything you need to know in a day or even a year.  Just take it one step at a time.  Instead of going to a million different websites to learn a technical skill, watch a training video from beginning to end, then move on to the next course.  I promise, you will not regret it.  The more time you spend developing your technical skills, the more your art-based business will grow.

Lynda.com

On January 1st 2007, I accepted a challenge: Take a self-portrait picture every day for an entire year. Rain or shine, good days and bad, the goal was to compile photo diary. By July, I had bought my very first button machine and started casually making pins for my friends who were also participating in the ‘Photo 365’ project on Flickr. Little by little, my button-making expanded. I adopted the name ‘Buttonhead’ and began to develop a shop on Etsy. On day 316 of 365, I took the photo that would become synonymous with my business for the next 3 years… and it was completely unrelated to buttons! Inspired by Elvis Costello singing, ‘Tear off your own head. It’s a Doll Revolution!’, the picture was supposed to look like a life-like doll. At the time, I didn’t think it quite accomplished what I intended, so I quickly disregarded it. A few months later, I made a deal with talented illustrator and fellow Flickr friend, Ben Rollman. I traded a few of my buttons for a custom-drawn robot portrait of me based on a photo of his choosing. Guess what? He chose the Doll Revolution photo! The robot portrait was so unique that it made me begin looking at the original photo in a whole new way. So, with branding on my mind, I turned to poptoon dreamer genius, Jelene Morris, to help me create a set of graphics and banners based around the photo. Within days, the Buttonhead girl was born! 

Today, Buttonhead has sold and shipped over 50,000 button-based items worldwide. In 3 years, I’ve grown from offering just 1” pinback buttons to making 3 sizes of buttons, magnets, mirrors, and more! Now, as my studio has grown, so have my graphic design skills. I’m able to accomplish so much more with digital and web media than the girl who just wanted to dress up as a doll and take photos. For 2011, I decided to create an illustration of the Buttonhead logo and give all of my graphics a much-needed facelift. Enter Buttonhead version 2.0! I think the new artwork is fun, fresh, colorful, and most importantly, it’s representative of who I am… and how I started. 

See the new Buttonhead artwork in action:
The Etsy shop
Buttonhead.org
All New Packaging

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