Over the past year, I’ve seen tons of adorable garden gnomes popping up in stores and in people’s yards. I love it so much, and I wanted to figure out a way I could incorporate them into my cards. Since Stampin’ Up! doesn’t have a gnome stamp set, I decided I was going to have to come up with my own way to create a gnome for my cards.
I had a lot of fun figuring out how to make my own gnome card, and I’ve laid out a tutorial for making the paper gnome below. Enjoy! This is perfect for spring, but it doubles as a cute Christmas craft!
Handmade Paper Gnome for Your Cards
Supplies You’ll Need to Make Your Gnomes:
- Snowman Builder Punch
- Beautiful Boughs Dies
- Smooth Sailing Dies (buy it with this bundle and qualify for free product during Sale-A-Bration!)
- Cardstock in color of choice (I list what I used below)
- Designer Series Paper if you want a pattern for the body or hat
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Paper Gnome Set-up Instructions
- Using the larger pine cone outline die from the Beautiful Boughs Die Set, cut the beard from Whisper White Cardstock.
- Using the smaller, single ship die from the Smooth Sailing Dies, cut the hat from Poppy Parade Cardstock.
- For the body, use the Snowman Builder Punch in Garden Green Cardstock.
- Use a small circle punch for the nose in Very Vanilla and shade the sides of it with the Ivory Stampin’ Blends by coloring the outside of the circle (or whatever marker/ink you happen to have).
Paper Gnome Assembly Instructions
1.Take the beard and glue it to the snowman.
2. Position the hat where you want it and glue it down.
3. Add the nose right below the hat. I also cut a circle in half out of black cardstock for shoes.
And that’s it! You can add these to cards or gift tags, or it’d be a fun craft for kids! You can also embellish them however you want with sequins, hearts, flowers, etc.
Here are a bunch more paper gnomes I made. I think they are adorable! You can do so much with them. Use patterned paper for their hat or body, emboss for more texture, or even use glitter paper to make a gnome wizard!
These paper gnomes are so much fun to make, and the possibilities are endless with them! Here’s a spring garden card I made using the gnome I created for this tutorial.
Just adorable! I hope you will try this and let me see what you come up with. Here is a tutorial for the card.
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What a great idea! Thanks for sharing another use for my snowman Punch. Great use of other dies, too! Very creative. 😊