• Medals and Lanyards

Medals and lanyards are a common match. But when combined with custom medals, lanyards are called as “ribbon”. If they separate, the ribbon is what we called lanyard. With lanyards, you can wear the medals on the neck. But do you know how many kinds of lanyards are there?

Ribbon can be classified into five types. They have different features. How to choose the best type of lanyard to suit you will give you more details.

No.1 Polyester lanyards

No.2 Nylon lanyards

No.3 Tubular lanyards

No.4 Dye-sublimated lanyards

No.5 Woven lanyards

How to link medals and lanyards? There must be hooks involved, which can be counted as lanyards attachments. I find some types from <<Something about lanyards accessories you should know>>.

No.1 Keyring

No.2 J-Hook

No.3 Metal Lobster Claw

No.4 Metal Oval Hook

No. 5 Metal Swivel Hook

No.6 Metal Slide Hook

No.7 Snap Swivel Hook

• Medals and Pins

Medals and pins are special matches because it is usually used on military medals or fiesta medals. People like wearing them on their chest or pinning them on their hats. Therefore, these types of medals are small in size. Usually, the safety pins are placed on the ribbon or metal.

Tips: More knowledge about different pins in other products like custom pins:

How to Choosing the Right Attachment for Your Custom Lapel Pins?

• Medals and Keychains

Medals and keychains together must be a showy way to express your fashion attitude because you can take your honor to everywhere. Don’t you feel cool when wearing a metal keychain? Nowadays, more buyers choose this way to customize their medals. You can try it as well!

• Medals and Buckles

Medals and buckles are rare matches. However, it doesn’t mean that these two can’t be a good match. It means when you design custom belt buckles, you can use medals design. Of course, some buyers will choose that belt buckles where you can place your medals. In this way, the medals are not the original medals, and it looks more like challenge coins. Nevertheless, it is indeed a good way to show your medals on the waist belt.

No matter which combinations you choose, they are nice choices to show the meaning of medals. According to your needs to choose the best selection!

Sources:

1.https://buckleshack.ecrater.com/p/31278108/hampshire-state-seal-award-design

2.https://www.bucklesofestes.com/coins.htm

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Fiesta San Antonio is a big carnival. Although 2019 Fiesta San Antonio has gone, you must still are immersed in this atmosphere. Let’s review these years by looking at those funny fiesta medals. They must be your memorable thing.

1) 2019 Fiesta San Antonio Medals

If you observe carefully, you can find this year’s Fiesta Medal uses medals and pins design. Because it has two clutches on the back, you can wear it on your clothing, hat, or anywhere else. It doesn’t use ribbon. Many people like it for its small shape. Even more, people wear many custom fiesta medals on the clothing.

2)2018 Fiesta San Antonio Medals

For the 2018 Fiesta San Antonio medal, the design is relatively complicated. Using glitter to make fiesta medals vivid is a nice choice. Using lace design is also to make custom fiesta medals more delicate.

In Fiesta San Antonio, we often see these human skeleton fiesta medals in the “Dia de Los Muertos” style. Using the skeleton is their habit. It seems that using the skeleton can attract more and more people to enjoy the carnival. At this time, the skeleton is not a horrible image anymore.

Fiesta medals are one of the custom medals used in the big carnival. They are used for commemorative meaning. People can use them at any place for decoration. If you see a man with many fiesta medals on their cloth, you can grasp quickly that they are a fiesta carnival fan.

So, when you design your fiesta medals, please don’t just go for the regular design style. Regular design style will not add the beauty of fiesta medals. Try to use some funny elements or odd shapes to make custom medals interesting! Only in this way can people be attracted! If you don’t have any ideas about fiesta medals, it doesn’t matter. When you chose a custom medal maker like GS-JJ, they have professional designers to help you realize your funny fiesta medals!

Picture Resource:

1.https://www.sunrvresorts.com/blog/dont-miss-fiesta-san-antonio/

2.https://www.mysanantonio.com/fiesta/slideshow/Fiesta-medals-2018-180521/photo-15408060.php

3.https://www.sacurrent.com/ArtSlut/archives/2015/04/17/our-favorite-fiesta-medals-so-far

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So, what are they?

They are flowers!

In the flowers world, there is some flowers’ name that uses “medal”. Let’s see them!

1) Gold Medal

Petal: 35 – 40

Color: Orange / Gold

Flower diameter: 8-10 cm

Thermo stability: Strong

Flowering: Repeated flowering in many seasons

Gold Medal was developed by American Christensen in 1982. The gold medal is a very worthy of large rose varieties. Gold flowers are very beautiful, and the flowering period is long and very resistant to open. why not like it? The gold medal has good branching and strong plants with dark green branches and dark green leaves. It is also highly resistant to diseases and is suitable for potted plants and garden planting.

Because of the gold color, it is named the gold medal, standing for a kind of honor.

2)Medal Sakura/ Accolade Cherry

Family: Rosaceae

Name: Prunus Accolade /Cerasus ‘Accolade

Petal:12-15

Color: Pink

Flower Season: Spring / Autumn

The Medal Sakura is a hybrid of P. Sargentiand P. Subhirtellain England. The Medal Sakura is round and upright, which seems to be the medal of honor, so it gets the Chinese translation of “medal”. Double pale pink flower! It has deeply serrated, which is dark green, showing orange to yellow in the autumn. Bud is deep pink and becomes soft pink after opening! The Medal Sakura is bigger and more beautiful than the October cherry.

Now that flower can use the name, why don’t medal use the design with flowers? In the fiesta medals or running medals, adding flower elements is more and more common. Usually, when you choose flower elements, the designer will suggest you to choose soft enamel crafts to add color, so your personalized medals will be eye-catching! Maybe this way will perfume your medal!

Picture Sources:

1.https://www.autumnhillnursery.com/product/gold-medal/

2.http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_bc9f8f830102xcaj.html

3.https://racethedistance.com/collections/frontpage/products/100-miles-of-spring-challenge-medal-and-certificate

4.http://www.metalawardmedals.com/sale-9454128-flower-logo-double-side-sports-metal-award-marathon-medals-for-schools-environmental-friendly.html

5.https://www.sanantoniomag.com/April-2016/125-Years-of-Fiesta-San-Antonio/

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Special Craft-Dual Plating

As we all know, plating is a surface covering where a metal is deposited on a conductive surface. Generally speaking, plating is to make your products covered the color of the metal. At GS-JJ, there are several plating – shiny gold, shiny copper, shiny silver, shiny brass, shiny black nickel. (Dye- black isn’t plated) In addition, there is another special plating- dual plating. When you think that your products aren’t delicate or eye-catching, dual plating is one of the best ways to make your products look attractive. Because it will cause a striking contrast. Classic collocation has silver and gold, which gives custom made medals their unique appearance. Other popular plating options include black nickel and gold as well as silver and copper. If you want your personalized medals to be unique, dual plating is deserved to be considered.

External Ornaments- Glitter Powder

Almost all products are made in a traditional way. Adding texts, logos, or images and you made it. Nevertheless, if you want your products to be praised and more delicate. Adding glitter powder is a nice way. You must know eye shadow in the cosmetics. Actors often use it. Nowadays, it is widely used in crafts, decorations, and cosmetics industries. Glitter is also named as a gleamy slice. Its characteristics are intended to enhance the visual effect of the product, make adornment part concave-convex levels, and more stereo feeling. Because of its shiny characteristic, it makes adornment thing more bright-colored and brilliance.

(resources: http://frugalbeautiful.com/blog/glitter-rainbows-pugicorns-virtual-pug-run-landed/)

Different Outline- Edge

You must think that custom made medals are not the only a smooth edge. And you must think about that different edge are adopted in custom challenge coins. Custom made challenge coins are similar to custom made medals. They almost adopt the same crafts. Why not adopt the design of challenge coins? When you design, you will find different beauty. There is rope edge, cross-cut edge, spur edge, oblique line edge, and bezel edge. You can know more information here: https://www.gs-jj.com/info/challenge-coins-edge. Then you can add different edges in customizing medals.

Picture( basing on Custom Challenge Coins)

Different Appearance- Shapes

Most custom medals are designed in oval or rectangle in order to keep its seriousness. But a product wants to be funnier, designing different shapes is a good idea. For example, if you want to customize running medals, you can design the posture of running; if you want to customize fiesta medals in a food competition, you can design the shapes of food. Only you dream it, GS-JJ will try their best to help you make.

GS-JJ is a rich experience custom medal maker with a high reputation. If you don’t believe, you can browse our comments on the website or you can order minimum quantities for the first time. If you have any other questions, don’t worry and you can contact our kindly custom service for more information. Cheap price & No minimum & Free shipping! Waiting for your order!

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Fiesta of Countries

• The Water City Venice——-Pizzafest

To celebrate pizza as one of the world’s most popular food, a four-day festival is held every year in Naples that is the birthplace of pizza. Visitors can watch music and perform the kneading skills shown by the pizza makers, and of course, eat a variety of freshly baked pizzas.

• Melbourne——Brewfest

Thousands of food and wine lovers are pouring into Melbourne every year, reveling in the food festival, which lasts for more than 200 events in 10 days. A big activity among Brewfest was ” the longest lunch in the world”, which broke the world record because of having most dinners last year.

• France——Salon Du

Salon du Chocola is the world’s largest chocolate feast from Paris in France. Everything you see during these five days is made of chocolate. More than 220 chocolate makers, pastry chefs, and confectioners will cook live shows for visitors. Chocolate market not only provides a variety of aroma of chocolate to taste but also even artists made clothes chocolate shows to attract large numbers of tourists for visiting, which is also an interesting food festival and chocolate lover’s paradise!

• Singapore—— Savour

This small and diverse island is full of famous food from all over the world. Savour is a four-day celebration with over 50 signature dishes from world-class restaurants. There are Michelin-starred and award-winning food, famous gourmets, and world-renowned master chefs, the scene of which is grand.

• America——Maine Lobster Fiesta

Chefs make fresh salads, sandwiches, or whole lobster wrapped in butter sauce at the Maine lobster festival. During these five days, you can also enjoy the music, art exhibition, stand-up comedy, 10km long-distance running, and seafood cooking contest.

• Vancouver—— Surrey Food Car Fiesta

You can enjoy all kinds of delicious food in the Olympic Village every Saturday from 22nd June to 31st August. The fiesta brings all kinds of street food in Vancouver together, and more than 20 food cars will be involved every week. In addition, there will be music, DJ, handicraft stalls, and various activities related to children. In previous years, there are food trucks attended: Australia pie guy, blue smoke barbecue, hot pepper pot, community, pizza, salad, fat duck, etc.

Of course, there are thousands of “A bite of fiesta” in the world. Above are the most popular. Besides these, there are the world’s top ten food fiesta. Do you know that? Look at the map and you will know right now!

Table 1:

Looking at the map, are you afraid that you won’t be able to enjoy “A Bite Of Fiesta”? Each month in every country, whatever how magnificent it is, you all can join. Of course, each fiesta will end. Maybe you will be drunk in that good memory and exclaim how time flies! Maybe sponsor think that there are no things to motivate people to attend and make them an impression. So why not design your fiesta medals? Listen, design your fiesta medals! GS-JJ advocates customers designing their own special fiesta medals. Because GS-JJ believes that they can give their own first-ranking and original design. You just tell us your mind and our designers will give some drafts for you. What are you waiting for? Come to design your fiesta medals now! If you have any questions, you can email at info@gsjj.com or click our website: https://www.gs-jj.com/medals/Custom-Medals

There are some samples for you to look at!

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