Christmas Road Sign Deer Crossing

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• Step 1

  You have to find a picture of the road sign you'd like to 'Christmafy' ;)

  I used the Dutch warning sign for deer crossing over, but you can use an other one or the one they use in your country.

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  Step 2

  To make sure my sign was a good copy, I used a grid for my picture and on my paper.
  I did this using paint. I made the grid in a new picture and copied it on my picture.
  If you add numbers, you know where to draw you lines.

  If you are good at copying without a grid, just do that, it saves you an enormous amount of time! But if you know your deer will come out funny, just use a grid.

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  Step 3

  Make the same grid on scale on your paper as you did in step 2.
  Draw the right lines in the right boxes (like you probably did when you were little).

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  Step 4

  Make the main triangle. Make sure your deer fits. You can use your scale to see how big this must be.

  Cut out the deer and erase the lines in the white areas. Use a test piece of paper to see if the pencil lines are visible through the marker (or paint) you use. If it is, than you have to erase every pencil line..

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  Step 5

  Cut out three pieces of paper that will make the border of the sign. Make sure they are big enough.

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  Step 6

  Colour the deer and the borders.
  This can take up quite some time if you use markers.. As you can see, markers leave marks that show where you've coloured. To try to avoid this, you have to go over it (at least) twice: horizontally and vertically..

  I used 1 black and 3 (!!) red markers to get my end result.

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  Step 7

  When you are done with colouring, you can attach the deer and the borders on the triangle. I used glue for the deer and tape for the borders.

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  Step 8

  Make sure the edges of your triangle are rounded (like real road signs). I used my protractor for this. I drew half a circle on the back of the sign and cut the excess off.

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  Step 9

  I used cardboard and tape to make sure the sign is firm enough to hang on the wall this Christmas (and hopefully many to come).

  Make sure you can hang your sign on your wall. I did that by adding a fishing wire through the back of the sign, but before the cardboard. That way the wire rests on the cardboard.

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  Step 10

  Hang it somewhere you like and you're the owner of a handmade Christmas sign! :D Hopefully you like it as much as I do!

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Mnemosyn · Antwerp, Flanders, BE · 16 projects 14th February 2015

Super!

MissCindy · Zwolle, Overijssel, NL · 43 projects 16th February 2015

Thanks

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Abi k. · 3 projects 19th December 2013

very cool

MissCindy · Zwolle, Overijssel, NL · 43 projects 23rd December 2013

Thanks

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