The button below was created from a smashed torus duplicated several times, scaled, and rotated, and then pressed. Its texture is actually metallic gray; all colors are due to lighting.

These littles are metallic ovals spotlighted on a shiny textured brown surface. The oval was scaled down and turned ninety degrees to give the basic shape of the striped portion.
The lefthand side shows a waiting button; its texture makes it look transparent in stripes.
The right image shows the mouseover version or the clicked on version which was created by altering the texture with a media glow. This was done with code and a raytracing renderer.

When buttons go grand....