Gnome Border SVG

About this design

A parade of gnomes. Five little gnomes stand in a neat row on a long snowbank, their hats leaning alternately left and right, and every other gnome wears a polka-dot hat.

The design is wide and short, so it makes a ready-made border for shelves, cards, banners and the bottom of a sign.

Pieces and weeding

The solid file has 32 pieces and 4 cut-outs. The gnomes stand in the snowbank, which joins them into one long design, and the hats and beards are separated by thin cut lines. Keep everything on one sheet of transfer tape so the parts stay lined up. It passes our cut checks from about 3.5 inches wide.

Color layers

• Hat and coat in red: the whole gnome, cut as the base layer
• Beard in silver gray
• Nose in peach
• Accents in gold: the snowbank and the pompoms

Projects

• Shelf and mantel borders.
• Card borders.
• Banners.
• Shirts across the chest.
• Classroom bulletin boards.

Step by step: a mantel border

1. Set the design to 12 inches wide and download the solid file.
2. Cut several copies from white removable vinyl.
3. Line them up along the front of the mantel, end to end.
4. Leave a small gap between copies.
5. Peel them off after the holidays.

Size guide

Color ideas

• White on a red mantel
• Red and green alternating
• Red with a gold snowbank, as shown

Repeating it

The snowbank has rounded ends and the gnomes are evenly spaced, so copies sit neatly end to end along a shelf or a long banner.

Good to know

The border is long and low, so measure the space first and size the design to the full width you want to cover. On a shirt, place it across the chest about three fingers below the collar. Because every gnome stands in the same snowbank, the whole border lifts off the mat as one connected strip, which makes it easy to move with transfer tape even at banner sizes. For a classroom, cut one strip per wall and write a pupil’s name on the snowbank under each gnome with a paint pen.

Longer than your mat

If the border you want is longer than your cutting mat, cut two copies at half the width instead of one long strip. The rounded snowbank ends meet neatly, so the join barely shows.

Pairs well with

The Snowman Row Border is a matching border, and the Gnome Family has bigger gnomes.