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How to Make Button Badges & Grab Buttons

Posted on the 27 November 2011 by Ourlittlecorner @ourcornerblog

I wanted to learn how to make button badges and grab buttons for quite a while. I finally learned how to make a grab button (thanks to some helpful readers!) a couple weeks ago but still couldn't figure out how to make the button badges. It seems like almost every other blogger out there has cute, one-of-a-kind button badges on their sidebars... and I realize I'm probably about 2 years behind a lot of you! But, just in case there's someone else out there who'd like a step-by-step tutorial on how to make the badge buttons and grab buttons... here are two tutorials that really helped me out! Hopefully they can help someone else too!
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Above is a grab button along with the grab box. You can learn how to make your own button and get the grab box on your sidebar in this link here: How To Make A Grab Button
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These are button badges that link to your personal Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc pages. I made these very easily on my free Picnik and Photoshop accounts. Here are two great, detailed tutorials on how to make these. Go here or here to learn how to design a button on Picnik. And here is a great link that tells you how to get the HTML code from Photobucket.
Here are the links one more time:How to make a grab buttonHow to make a button badgeGet button badge HTML code on Photobucket
Hope this helps someone!! :)

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