I see there are few cat molds on AliExpress. It looks like the next bomb in buttonmaking. My daughter would kill for them. Has anyone tried them? Unfortunately, as of now, the molds are too expensive for hobbyists. I hope they drop in price eventually. But the fun part is that they even have paper cutters for this.

How is everyone printing photos to make buttons on demand? Like at a market/event? I'll be printing single images at a time so it doesn't feel appropriate to print one image per printer paper size. I have a cannon Selphy I could use but is that cost effective?

Hi guys! New to this button making topic. Trying to create a good set for birthday present for my daughter. But the Chinese sellers have done their usual best and mixed something up, so I received molds 56mm of good quality but without plastic baseplate that is needed to install them to the Vevor-like classic press. I got refund but that does not help, since not much time left till birthday and next shipment won't come in time.

So, my question is, can I make these molds work for my press machine? They seem to me the exact same mechanism, only that they have individual round metal bases with 2 doted keys instead of one plastic baseplate. I can unscrew them from this metal plates if needed, there is standard 8mm Alan key bolt.

My current ideas so far:

1. 3dprint it. I can use plate from my other molds to take all the sizes, not sure if they are the same though for 25mm/37mm as 56mm.
2. make it myself from wood
3. use them without baseplate. I'm not sure the baseplate is that important after all, if we are talking about making few buttons and not commercial usage
4. buy the cheapest plastic mold for plastic presses and use its baseplate. They seem to be the same form and size on the photos, but I'm not sure if they will fit.
5. find seller who can send me the base plate. So far everyone say they do not sell baseplates separately.

Would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you.