overview

Gnome Shadow Box

Updated: August 22, 2025

With the following step by step tutorial you are going to learn on how to make a gorgeous Shadow Box by using your Cricut skills and adding some new skills. In this opportunity the theme is Thanksgiving / Gnome and you can change the design to match any occasion.

Difficulty: advanced
Design: ~55 minutes
Assembly: ~70 minutes
Cutting: ~20 minutes
Material Cost: ~$20
Final Size: 8” x 8” Shadow Box

Skills

In this tutorial, you are going to learn/practice the following functionalities: 

  • Slice Images/shapes
  • Search Images
  • Add Shapes and Images 
  • Upload Images
  • Resize Elements
  • Delete Elements
  • Attach Elements
  • Change colors
  • Weld Elements
  • Group / Ungroup

materials

  • Cricut Machine - For this project, we are using Cricut Maker.
  • Shadow box ($8.99)
  • Foam dots ($ 6.98)
  • Cardstock 65 lb ($22.28)
    • 1 Sheet White  8” x 11” -> Gnome
    • 1 Sheet  Black  8” x 11”  -> Gnome
    • 1 Sheet pale pink  8” x 11”  -> Gnome
    • 1 Sheet purple  8” x 11”  -> Gnome
    • 1 Sheet brown  8” x 11” -> Gnome and sunflowers
    • 1 Sheet light yellow 8” x 11” -> Butterflies, corn and gnome
    • 1 Sheet  Dark Green  8” x 11” -> SunFlower and corn
    • 1 Sheet dark yellow  8” x 11” -> SunFlower
    • 2 sheet orange in 2 different shades 8” x 11” -> sunflowers

files

Gnomes

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