2025 Creative Challenges
We’ve been challenging you to get creative since 2022!
Every year we hold The National Button Convention in Springfield IL. This year’s event is on August 4th, and you have until July 28th to choose, create and enter any or all of the Challenges.
Everyone can participate online or at the convention:
- JUNIORS compete FREE against other juniors in all categories
- All entries require a small entry fee, with only 5 buttons minimum and imagination
- No limit on the number of entries per Challenge per person.
- All entries should be purchased by July 28th and may be submitted
- On site on Monday August 4th at the 2025 NBS convention OR
- Online via an email by July 28th to creative@nationalbuttonsociety.org
Entries will be shared on the NBS Creative website pages and at the 2025 Fall Fest.
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NBS Creative Challenge #1: National Pearl Button Museum sponsored Best Small Bead-and-Button Mosaic
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NBS Creative Challenge #14: It’s All Yours!
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NBS Creative Challenge #13: Free Standing
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NBS Creative Challenge #12: 3-D Mounting
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NBS Creative Challenge #12: Whatever – anything that doesn’t fit into other categories
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NBS Creative Challenge #11: Free-Standing Object
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NBS Creative Challenge #10: Tell a Button Story
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NBS Creative Challenge #9: Free Choice Mounting
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NBS Creative Challenge #8: Commemorative
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NBS Creative Challenge #7: Button Enhanced Clothing
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NBS Creative Challenge #6: Accessory
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NBS Creative Challenge #5: Jewelry
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NBS Creative Challenge #4: The Quilt Block
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NBS Creative Challenge #3: Make a Button
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NBS Creative Challenge #2: Capture the Show Theme: Harvesting Buttons on the Illinois Prairie
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