Homemade Race Medals Part 3

After painting and drilling

For this years race medals we decided to use round pieces of wood from Michaels. We painted them with a blue sparkly spray paint left over from a previous project and drilled holes for the ribbon.  We found a silver cord that was elastic, which is working great for the ribbon.  We finished them off with text in silver sharpie. These were much faster to produce than our first homemade race medals or even our second anniversary race medals. They could have been a bit larger to include more text, but I think they turned out well.

The silver elastic

The finished product

Homemade Race Medals Part 2

Erin and I had our second anniversary during my hiatus from blogging.  Since many of our friends were not logging long miles at the time we decided to just have a 5k this year.  We also wanted to stick with our tradition of giving out homemade race medals.  We revisited some of the ideas we had from the previous year and opted to go with a design made out of Perler beads done on  a hexagonal template. For colors we opted for a dark blue and decided that the second color would be the glow in the dark beads. For a ribbon on the medal we went with a sparkly thread. For text we used a blue sharpie.  Here's what the finished result was.

The finished Second Anniversary race medal

The run was a lot of fun. Erin biked because she couldn't run yet, and afterwards we enjoyed our potluck breakfast with our friends.

UPDATE:

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

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.