Homemade Race Medals

UPDATE:

Here's what we did for our second anniversary: Homemade Race Medals Part 2

Here's what we did for our third anniversary: Homemade Race Medals Part 3

Erin and I wanted to make some nice homemade race medals for our first anniversary run.  Here's what we came up with. The body of the medal would be made out of a polymer clay we found at Micheal's. We would stamp it, bake it, coat it with sparkle mod podge to complete the finished medal.  We used magazines when rolling out the clay to ensure a uniform thickness of about a quarter of an inch. As we worked we used wax paper to keep the clay from sticking. We colored in the stamped sections with a silver paint pen.  It does take some time for it to dry before the back can be colored in.

Here's a complete list of materials we used for making 23 medals.

2 - 1lb blocks of polymer clay, we had some extra

1 cookie cutter

1 rolling pin

2 objects of uniform thickness to put on either side of the clay when rolling out

Wax Paper

Small jar of sparkle mod podge

Paint brush

Cookie Sheet for baking

Silicone stamps

Large straw for making ribbon holes

Elmers Painters metallic paint marker

American Crafts Precision Pen fine tipped black

Ribbon - 30 yards, but we had extra

Silver Glitter Puffy Paint for writing on ribbon

Most of the things we used to make the medals

Cutting the medals with a cookie cutter after rolling it to a uniform thickness.

After cutting the meals out and making holes for the ribbon with a straw.

This was after stamping and before baking.

The toaster oven worked well for us.

Once the medals were baked we colored in where it was stamped

The stamped part had been colored in and the black text added,
then we covered in a couple of coats of sparkle mod podge.

We used a sparkle fabric paint to write on the ribbons.

The finished back of the medals.

The finished front of the medals.