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Creating buttons and button related products doesn’t mean always having fancy complicated designs. Sometimes, the answer is much more simple.

This past weekend I picked up my first batch of bottle opener supplies and wanted to play. My husband and some friends recently started their own homebrew club, Emerald City Homebrewers and with the monthly meeting coming up it was the perfect time to practice.

They already had the logo designed for them so it was just up to me to put it in a button template and print…but black on white paper is boring for a bottle opener and I was out of all colored paper except an odd gold and silver pack I found at Goodwill. All the colors I put behind the logo seemed to cheapen it until I remembered that instead of printing colored graphics and protecting them with a sheet of mylar you can print directly onto transparencies and press them as both artwork and coating.

By printing on the transparency you let all the metal of button shell show through giving the buttons an industrial look and some high shine. Thanks to my husband’s quick thinking we printed with the logo mirrored so the ink is inside the plastic and not on top of it. Not shown are the keychain rings that can be attached through the holes on the back. My fingernails had already broken today so he added them later before taking them to his meeting.

If you’d like your own Emerald City Homebrewers bottle opener, well, you’ll just have to join the club.