: Have you ever wanted to add a little bit of pizzazz to your summer decor? Well, now is your chance! With DIY summer popsicle wall art, you can create a trendy and fun piece of wall art that will look great in any room in your house. All you need are some popsicles, some plaster, and some paint or an adhesive. We’ve put together a step-by-step guide so that you can create your very own DIY summer popsicle wall art in no time!
Summer Popsicle Wall Art
One day I was working on something, and I don’t remember what I was working on, but I messed up. I’ll let my Facebook status from back then explain the rest. The girls were 5 1/2 years old. So wise for such a young age! I’m glad I wrote it down.
I had been wanting to do an “Anything’s Popsicle” craft for so long! Finally, here it is!
I made my Anything’s Popsicle Summer Wall Art with my trusty Cricut Explore and Xyron adhesives. I first designed my popsicle shapes in Pic Monkey. There are two shapes for the popsicle: the popsicle’s background, or shadow, which is the shape of the popsicle plus the popsicle stick. Then there’s another shape that is just the popsicle itself i.e. the part that you would eat if it was a real popsicle. You can cut out some rectangles for the sticks, or use actual popsicle sticks (or wood sticks from a different source, which I’ll share in a moment!).
Feel free to save the popsicle shapes to your computer, and upload them into your Cricut Design Space.
Size the top piece slightly smaller than the shadow piece. My shadow piece was 3 inches wide, and the top piece was 2.75 inches wide. I made two additional copies to make chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla. Then I made every piece a different color because all of the papers I’m using will be different: the shadow pieces are plain, and the top pieces are patterned.
All done cutting. As mentioned, I used something else for the popsicle stick. They’re the handles from the wood spoons I used in my Wood Spoon Flower Wreath! Glad to have found a use for three of them, only a zillion more to go. Yes, I saved all of them, of course I did!
To give the popsicles a little 3D effect, I’m going to make some foam tape using my Xyron, a little trick I’m kind of addicted to (I’ve recently done this with my Nautical July 4th Banner, and my Golf-Themed Father’s Day Cards). So first, you feed some craft foam strips into your Xyron.
Rub rub rub on the plastic sheet, and peel it off. Trim your backing piece so it will fit back into your Xyron. Turn it over, and run it through the Xyron again, upside down, so it will apply adhesive to the other side.
Then, run your popsicle shadows through the Xyron, and leave them on the backing as well. Apply your newly created DIY double-sided foam tape in the middle of the top piece (I cut my foam strips in half and stacked them on top of each other because my craft foam is rather thin). Then, use some glue stick to adhere the wood stick on the bottom center edge of the top piece, making sure it doesn’t stick out more than the stick in the shadow piece. Adhere the whole thing onto the shadow piece. Repeat with all your flavors!
Next I worked on the banner. I cut out my wording in my Cricut Explore so it was just slightly longer than the width of all of my popsicles (so about 10 inches). You can either write it out in Pic Monkey and save it as an image and upload it, or just open a new project and use any of the Cricut fonts available (some free, some you need to purchase), or you can also use your own fonts.
I cut two pieces of paper at 11 and 12 inches long.
I also wanted to give the sign some dimension so I folded the sides in to form a Z shape, so the result looked like a banner. Fold in one side about an inch, and then flip it over and fold it again so about 3/4 of that 1 inch is at the ends. Repeat on the other end of the sign.
Add the wording.
I was looking for a frame to use and was going to mount all of my pieces on another piece of paper, but I came across this cool peg board I had found at the thrift store. I have yet to use it in its original form, so I decided to use it as my backing. Super quick and kind of unusual. The dark back ground was perfect for my pastel colors too. So I used my ruler to center my first popsicle, allowing enough room beneath for my sign. Add the other two popsicles around the center one.
And finally, use glue stick to adhere the sign to the peg board. Just apply glue stick to the ends.
All finished.
“Anything’s Popsicle” with my Cricut Explore! What sold me on it was that I could design my own images, but I could also use those from my cartridges as well as the ones from their design library, either through a subscription or purchased individually. I have had my Cricut Explore for over a year. I purchased it a few months after it came out and I’ve been using it ever since. This year, there are two new models:
The Cricut Explore Air:
And the Cricut Explore One:
If you have been thinking of getting a Cricut Explore for yourself, I’m offering some information over the next few weeks (along with a new tutorial!) to help you make your decision. It’s a big purchase, I know!
The two machines that Cricut offers are:
- the Cricut Explore One– allows you to cut. In a nutshell, this one costs less.
- the Cricut Explore Air– allows you to cut and write wirelessly. In another nutshell, this one costs a little more.
- Note: You CAN actually write and cut wirelessly with the Cricut Explore One. But, it just takes some manual steps and a Bluetooth adapter. Personally, I am okay with the wire.
Along with the machines, you need Cricut Design Space:
To give you loads of creative freedom and versatility, Cricut developed the Cricut Design Space, a cloud-based software that works seamlessly with the Cricut Explore® family of machines. Design Space gives you access to all of your images and projects from any compatible computer or iPad, so you can design just about anything, anytime, and anywhere. Once you’ve uploaded your design (or pre-designed image <–my favorite part!) to your Cricut Explore cutting machine, you can sit back and watch it magically bring your design to life.
So I’ve already been using my Cricut Explore, as mentioned for a year, plus today’s tutorial to also give you a look at what the Cricut Explore can do. But in the next few weeks, I’ll be going over in more detail:
- How the Cricut machines work
- How Design Space works
- Materials that the Cricut machines can cut
- And more creative ways to use Cricut machines
Thank you for reading! Let me know if you’ve been thinking of getting a Cricut Explore for yourself!
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