How to Make Christmas Gnome Stickers with a Cricut!

Gnomes, if you didn’t know, can be bossy little creatures. They like to tell you what to do and have opinions about all sorts of things. And because they’re a little narcissistic, they LOVED the idea of these Gnome stickers. 😂 They’re banking on the fact that if you were to have a question about anything, “Put a Gnome on it” will be the answer. “How should you seal your holiday cards?” Put a Gnome on it. “How can I give my planner a holiday theme?” Put a Gnome on it. “What can I use to cover this tattoo?” Put a Gnome on it? It STILL works! So today’s post has free hand-drawn and a tutorial on how to make Christmas Gnome Stickers with a Cricut. So you can put a Gnome on it. Whatever your “it” may be.

Gnome Takeover Craft Party (with Special Guest Bloggers)

Gnome Craft Party Takeover Event Invitation — Week-long Gnome Takeover Event featuring a Collaboration of 6 Bloggers!

This post is part of a week-long Craft Party sponsored by my friends, the Gnomes. Because they’ve done a Craft Party Takeover of this blog, each day this week will feature a fun Gnome craft. Yesterday’s How to Make a Gnome Coffee Cozy was the kick-off post and featured a collaboration with 5 other craft bloggers. Each contributed a Gnome craft and you can see all of them at the bottom of this post!

Because some of you will wonder, these Gnome stickers were drawn in Procreate, an iPad drawing app. Which I’m also a little obsessed about. After I drew the Gnomes, I was able to save them as a PNG file with a transparent background. This file format can easily be uploaded into Cricut Design Space as an image upload. Just upload it and then save it as a Print then Cut and you’re golden! If you’d like to see the process I have a video tutorial on uploading sticker designs into Design Space.

Just so you know…

These Gnomes are equal opportunity Gnomes and they want you to know that if you don’t have a Cricut or Cameo (and don’t have a friend with one) then there is an easy workaround. Just print them out on sticker paper, and then cut them out by hand. Voila!

How to Make Christmas Gnome Stickers with a Cricut- Using Print then Cut!

Supplies and Materials

Gnome Sticker PNG file- A free download in my Creative Resource Library.
Sticker paper in matte or glossy
Cricut Maker
Light Grip Mat (blue)
Computer or iPad that has Cricut Design Space
Home Printer
Paper Cutter

Directions

Step One- Download the Gnomes Sticker File and Upload into Cricut Design Space.

I won’t get into this too much. You can see how to do it in the first video, How to Print then Cut Stickers with a Cricut.

Step Two- Upload the Gnomes Stickers into Cricut Design Space.

When you upload this PNG file you’ll be prompted to process it as an Image Upload. Choose Complex. Then “Save as a Print then Cut” image. Back to your Uploaded Images, where you can select the file and “Insert Image” into your canvas.

Gnome Stickers Large Size — Full Sheet Sized Gnome Stickers.

Step Three- Size the Image.

So this is where you have some choices to make. Cricut will not let you use an image bigger than 6.75″ w. x 9.25″ h. as a Print then Cut image. So you can do one of two things. You can size the Gnomes by changing the width of the image in the toolbar at the top of the screen, to 9.25″. It will keep the correct proportion and change the height automagically. This makes a full-sized sticker sheet.

How to Print then Cut Gnome Stickers. — Duplicate, Select All, and then Size.

OR you can make the image smaller and print two of it on the same piece of paper. To start, make the image smaller so you can more easily work with it. Then, with the image selected, duplicate it once.

Gnome Stickers Align Left and Attach — Select all, align left and attach.

Rotate the sheets and then with both selected, choose the “Align” function in the top toolbar. From the drop-down menu chose “Align left”. This will move your sheets up against the ruler on the left-hand side of your screen. Select both and slightly move the bottom image down just a smidge from the other image (so they aren’t butted right up against each other which makes them hard to cut apart).

Then select both and change the height in the top toolbar to 9.25″ This automatically adjusts the width as well. With both images still selected, click on the “Attach” option in the bottom right of your canvas.

Print then Cutting Gnome Stickers with Cricut. | How to Print then Cut Stickers — Cutting option “b”.

Step Four: Prep Your Mat!

Click on the “Make it” button in the top right of the screen. This will take you to a screen with a small mat image on it that has your sticker image placed within a black box on a white rectangle. The black box is the registration mark that the Cricut will scan to keep everything positioned correctly when it cuts. The larger rectangle represents a piece of letter-sized sticker paper. If you were to click on the stickers you can hold and drag your image to the center of the sticker paper. I like to do this for the full-size stickers.

For the sticker sheets that have two sets of the image, I know I’ll be trimming them down a lot, so I keep them nudged up against the top left corner of the mat. Then choose “Continue”.

Step Five: Print your Image.

On the next screen, you’ll be prompted to print your image. When you say you want to, Cricut will bring up a box with your printer selected. Choose the number you want to print, and then toggle off the “add bleed” suggestion. Print.

Select materials for the Gnome Stickers to print and cut. | How to set the materials to get a kiss cut in Cricut Design Space. — Set Materials to Vinyl and the Pressure to Less for a Kiss Cut.

Step Six: Cut Your Stickers.

Once you’ve printed you can “Select your Materials.” I usually like to do a “kiss cut” with my stickers. To do this, I’ve found that choosing “Vinyl” and then changing the default pressure to “Less” works really well. Place your printed sticker paper on the mat so that it aligns with your image. Then, upload your mat and then when prompted, press the blinking “Go”. Your Cricut will find the registration box, and it will cut your sticker images. Once it’s done, unload the mat, flip it over, and then pull the mat away from the sticker paper. Use a paper trimmer to cut between and around the stickers! Perfect!

Gnome Craft Party Gnome | He just likes to Craft Party — He just likes to Craft Party.

Get More Stickers!

You guys I’ve gone Gnome Crazy! (I blame it on the mushrooms they gave me) but I did a whole week of Gnome projects and have even kept if going throughout the year! There are Gnomes for Halloween, gnomes for Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day. I’d love to have you look around the blog and see how many you can spot!

Cutting the Gnome Stickers Sheets after the rest is done'. — Use a Paper Trimmer to remove the black registration lines.

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