Carol Singing Gnomes 🌟 CCC 2025

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This Victorian inspired Christmas gnome craft project is perfect for those cold wintery nights.

Two carol-singing gnomes are standing under a glowing lamppost on a snowy evening, singing Christmas carols from their hymn books.

This is a Dickens inspired design, completed with Victorian style outfits and a quintessential British scene. A little robin perched in the snow, listening to their songs, completes the wintry setting.

The cardstock layering in this design helps each element stand out, adding a realistic dimension to the scene.

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Get creative with your cardstock colours and textures to add warmth and contrast to the scene. A combination of deep reds, forest greens, and soft neutrals works especially well to echo the vintage style.

This is a great project to cut and assemble for framed décor, shadow boxes, or a standout element on a handmade card. The clean design and easy-to-cut pieces make it ideal for crafters who love a bit of detail without too much complexity.

For those looking to explore how to make a Christmas gnome in a new way, this scene offers a thoughtful spin on the trend.

This Christmas gonk duo is perfect for adding to your Christmas gnome SVG collection.

This project is part of the 2025 Christmas Craft Countdown.

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Materials supply list for Christmas gnomes

Here is a list of the materials that I used to make this project.

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This project is suitable for the following types of Cricut machines: Explore series, Maker series, Joy Xtra and Joy. You will need to make the design smaller to cut on the original Joy.

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Foundation learning

If you're new to making papercrafts with your cutting machine, check out these links to get you started.

They include videos on topics such as: which file to use with your type of cutting machine, how to load the files into your cutting machine's software, how to cut cardstock with your type of cutting machine, how to recolor and modify/customize the cut files and tips for displaying your projects.

The following tutorials are Cricut-specific, but many of the ideas will work similarly with a Silhouette or ScanNCut machine and any cut files that are shared in them are compatible with all types of cutting machine.

Video tutorial for Christmas gnomes

Watch the video below to see how to make this project. Keep scrolling for a written tutorial.

Written tutorial (with photos!)

Here’s how to make these lovely and detailed Christmas gnomes using a Cricut machine.

Step 1) Download the cutting file & upload to Design Space

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This cut file is available as part of the Instant Access Bundle.

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Or, purchase this design individually here

Before you upload the SVGs to Design Space, you need to unzip the download folder that they come in.

After unzipping, upload the SVG file(s) into your cutting machine software.

Not sure how to use cut files with your type of machine? The following links lead to videos on how to open cut files in:

The download folder also contains printable PDF versions of the templates for hand cutting.

If you are using Cricut Design Space, start a new project and then click the “Upload” button on the left of the screen.

You can then either click “Browse” to find the file on your computer, or drag-and-drop it.

Select the file in the “01 Cricut Version” subfolder called svg-01-gnomes-carol-singers-craftwithsarah.svg

Press “Upload” on the next screen.

After uploading, the design should be automatically inserted onto your Canvas.

To hide the left sidebar (to give you more space for designing!), click the arrow that’s about half way down the page.

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If the design doesn’t get inserted onto your Canvas, it will show under “Uploads” in your “Recently Uploaded Images”. Click on it and then press “Add to Canvas” to put it onto your Project.

Step 2) Size the design

Click the design on your canvas and use the width/height boxes near the top of the screen to make it the size that you want to cut.

TIP: Make sure the padlock icon above the width/height boxes is CLOSED before you resize. If it appears “open”, click it with your mouse to close it.

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I cut my gnomes at 7.4 inches wide and 7.5 inches tall.

I don’t recommend going smaller than 5 inches wide as this is quite a detailed scene with lots of individual elements. Here’s a tutorial on how to cut designs really small with a Cricut.

If you are cutting this design on the original Cricut Joy machine, you’ll need to make it a maximum of 4.5 inches on the shortest side.

Here are some tips for making sure the design fits perfectly into a shadow box frame:

The below video has some tips on how to frame your craft project, including my Number One hack for making sure that your design will fit perfectly every time without wasting any of your craft materials.

Don't have a Cricut? Check out my top framing tips for:

Want to learn more about designing your own shadow box backgrounds? Check out this CWS Premium Class on creating custom backgrounds for frames and greetings cards.

There are matching versions of this video for Silhouette and ScanNCut machines on the Cutting Machine Help page.

Step 3) Cut out all the layers

When you’re happy with how the project is looking in Design Space, click “Make” and follow the instructions on-screen to cut out all the pieces.

To change the paper size, go into the dropdowns over on the left side of the screen and choose the paper size that you want to use. You need to change it for every single colour.

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To save space on your cardstock, you can move things around by clicking and dragging. Make sure when you’re moving things about that nothing overlaps because otherwise, it won’t cut out properly.

TIP: New to using cardstock with your cutting machine? Check out these machine help guides for Cricut, Silhouette and ScanNCut that go through every step of the process, including tips for getting the best quality cuts from your machine.

Step 4) Stick the project together

Use 3D foam pads and glue to stick the layers together.

Use this guide to see the order to stick the layers together in.

A printable version of this assembly guide is included in the folder when you download the cut files.

My favourite glues to use on papercraft projects are Bearly Art Glue and Collall All Purpose Glue.

These are great because they don’t “warp” or bend the cardstock like some glues do. You can use as much of it as you want and the card stays perfect – and it dries perfectly clear too!

Bearly Art Glue comes with a tiny nozzle to make it easy to apply glue to small areas of card. The Collall glue doesn’t come with this, so it’s easiest to decant it into needle tip applicator bottles so that you have more control.

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The foam pads that I use are from “Dot & Dab”, but any foam squares will work. If yours are big then you may need to cut them smaller with scissors to fit inside the edges of the layers.

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When adding the foam pads to larger pieces of card, make sure you add some in the middles of the pieces of card so it gives stability to the middles.

If you don’t add any foam pads in the middles then it can “sag” under the weight of the other layers which doesn’t look as good.

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Continue sticking the pieces together, following the assembly guide, until your papercraft is all finished.

Christmas gnome craft project to make with a Cricut

After sticking all the pieces of card together, your adorable carol singing gnomes are all finished!

You could then mount them in a shadow box or glue them to the front of a greetings card.

How to make a Christmas gnome with a Cricut

If you’d rather not mount your gonks in a shadow box, check out these free easel stands for two alternative ways to display them.

Or, go for a more simplistic approach by making a triangle stand or nail hook.

The triangle stands are completely invisible from the front of the project, making it look like it’s standing up by magic! The hooks allow you to hang the design straight on the wall without a frame.

Love Christmas gnome craft projects?

Check out these other festive gnome themed Cricut crafts:

Get all those designs and more, including a full Nativity scene, in the Christmas Gnomes Mega Bundle.

Happy crafting,
Sarah x