Crossing Sign My newest series of posters is based on road signs. I have come up with a lot of fun, unique designs that follow this theme. I am including step-by-step instructions for my first two posters. I will be adding many more designs this year. Check back every week to see what has been added. I decided to use the "Avery Iron-On Sheets" for this poster. Drawing the Charger head on the poster board would have taken forever and would not have looked as good as this. I also printed out the words on "Avery Iron-on Sheets." I found yellow poster board that was the same shade of yellow as the caution road signs. I bought this at Wal-mart for only .52 cents. I always buy 2 or 3 of of each poster color I use for a project. This way, if I make a mistake drawing or cutting, I don't have to drive back to the store for just 1 more. The first thing I did was cut my poster into an exact square. This was very easy. It measured 22 inches by 26 inches. So I measured in 4 inches on the longest side I marked this and drew a line on the poster to cut. Then I cut that end off. All of my sides measured 22 inches. I used a plastic cup to trace around the 4 corners of the poster. You can use anything round, it doesn't matter. In order to make all the curves the same I measured in ½ of an inch from each corner for all 4. When the corners are trimmed off and the poster is turned sideways it looks just like an outline of a caution sign. Before you heat the iron-on images to your board you should draw the black stripe around your poster. I do this first because I sometimes accidentally draw on my poster with marker when I'm coloring on it. It is cheaper to redo just this step instead of making two more iron-on sheets. I measure in ½ inch on each side. Use a pencil for this because you may need to erase the last inch of the line. Then I draw a line all the way around my poster except for the last inch. This is where you will draw a curved line in order to connect the two side lines. I then draw a second line just like my first, but this one is 1 Inch in from the side of the poster. Remember to stop this second line about an inch from the corner You will now have two lines that go all the way around the sign except for the corners. I traced around an aerosol can in order to connect my corners. I measured in ½ inch for the first curved line and then 1 inch for the second curved line. You can use anything rounded for this. Your curved lines don't have to be perfect, because no one will notice. Usually my lines overlap a little. Yours will too, so just erase any lines you don't need. Then all you have to do is color this in with a black marker. I always use a permanent "Sharpie" because it is a much darker black and will not rub off. Also the dark marker covers up all the pencil lines I trimmed around my iron-on sheets and laid them on the poster to decide where I wanted to place them. I always lay them design side up for this. If you are using an iron do not cut yours out as closely as I did. I cut mine out really close to the design and this made it harder to peel off. The outside part that looks white is actually transparent. It will leave a shinny clear edge, but you can only see this if you are standing really close to the poster. Make sure you flip them back over before you heat them on. Bend back part of the iron-on so you have a tab to grab hold of. After it is heated you need to pull this off as fast as you can. We used our professional heat press for this. We set our heater for 360F and them pressed it down for 15 seconds. We only did one image at a time because the iron-on cools very fast and you only have about 3 or 4 seconds to peel it off. Caution! this headed transfer will be very hot when you are feeling it off! If you have long fingernails it will help you pull it off. We re-covered the already heated image before we heat pressed the second one down. This will keep the first image (transfer) from sticking to the press. You can iron your transfer on with your iron. Just set the iron to its hottest non-steam setting and press down firmly. Your iron will not get as hot as my press so it will take longer, maybe 30 seconds to heat to the cardboard. Do a couple tests with scraps of transfer paper first. Practice on some scrap cardboard a few times until the transfer paper easily peels off. Remember to have a folded back corner so you can grab the transfer with your fingernails and pull it off quickly. I would suggest laminating your poster when you are finished. It will last much longer this way. Go to Page 2