2025 Artist Insights: Gnome for Christmas

Gnome for CHRISTMAS Celebrating 5 Years

It’s a big year for Gnaughty and Gnice, and Keepsake Artist Gregor Benedetti is dishing on what’s new with the playful pair.

Gnome for Christmas
Fifth Anniversary

How do Gnaughty and Gnice celebrate the fifth anniversary of their Gnome for Christmas series? With a special ornament, of course! Keepsake Artist Gregor Benedetti created this limited-quantity papercraft ornament that will be the first to debut the newly designed Gnome for Christmas logo on the back!

Gregor says, “We had the Hallmark lettering studio help us create this official logo, and I’m excited to see its first appearance on this anniversary ornament. We decided to do this papercraft design as a fun celebration of Gnaughty and Gnice. They’re decorating a little gingerbread Christmas tree inside their gingerbread house.

“The ornament itself is built in four layers, and I worked with R.J. Stebbins to get everything technically correct. I come up with the art and how I’d like to do the layers, and then I give him my design files and he’ll construct a 3D mockup. He’s so good at that-and it gives us vital information as far as the amount of wood we want and how the layers will be situated inside.

“I also wanted a fun attachment for this design, so I decided on garland, which is actually a metallic blue pipe cleaner. We’re very selective about our attachments because they can get expensive, so we want to be sure they really enhance the design.

“There’s another little surprise on this ornament-a little mouse friend is joining Gnaughty and Gnice for some holiday festivities. He doesn’t have a name yet, but you’ll also find him on the official Gnome for Christmas fifth-in-series ornament-and you just might see him pop up again in 2026!*

In addition to their fifth anniversary ornament and the official fifth-in-series, Gnaughty and Gnice are having a busy year in the Keepsake Ornament world! You’ll see them front and center on “Baking Up Some Fun,” the collaborative studio ornament releasing in October, and their little sister Sweet Peppermint will also make her first appearance at Ornament Debut. But that’s not all. If you’re a fan of Halloween, you’re in for a treat! Gnaughty and Gnice are starring in their first Halloween ornament, Gnothing But Treats, releasing in July.

Grab their special fifth anniversary limited-quantity papercraft ornament at Ornament Premiere in July-and don’t forget your Early Shopping Day on Friday, July 11!