Vinyl Nail Decal Tips and Sizing Guidelines: Silhouette Tutorial

If you've joined the vinyl nail art club - welcome! I've been using vinyl to decorate my own, as well as my daughter's finger and toenails, for almost as long as I've owned a Silhouette.  Whenever I share a photo of our vinyl nail art I get questions - most about cutting such small designs and sizing the decals. Today I am going to answer the three biggest questions I get about Silhouette vinyl nail designs so you can get decorating your nails, too!

How to Make Nail Decals: Sticker Sheets and Silhouette CAMEO

You can make custom nail stickers for holidays and other occasions with waterproof sticker sheets and Silhouette CAMEO. (This tutorial is so awkward...let's just establish that right away...) 

These are a fun, fast, inexpensive and temporary way to add nail art without going to the nail salon or struggling through painting tiny designs. 

Halloween Nail Art Set: Free Silhouette Studio Cut Files

My daughter and I love to do DIY holiday manicures - so this week, for Freebie Friday, I'm sharing a recent set I created for some fun Halloween vinyl nail art!

The set, which you can download below, includes three sizes of pumpkins (sized for adults and kids),  #31, dots and stripes.  Everything is already sized to fit 'average' nails.  I'm assuming the two us are average haha....so don't resize the shapes.

Silhouette {Heart} Nail Art Tutorial

My little girl loves to have her nails painted - but what she loves even more is the few times she's actually gone to the salon and they've done a cool design on her nails.  I do not have a steady hand so I'll have no part of that, but I recently saw a really cool idea on Marvelous Mommy. She put mustache nail art on her toes...how freakin' cute!

So for Valentine's Day I thought it would be cool to make some little vinyl Silhouette nail art using hearts!  There are two ways to do this - you can actually use the vinyl as the nail art and keep it on the nail like a sticker or you can use the cut out as a stencil and paint the design on the nail then peel off the vinyl.  It would even be cut to do a combination of both!   Since I didn't have white nail polish on hand, I decided to use the white vinyl as the actual nail design.

First, I created the design in Silhouette.  I had purchased this heart and arrow design set a while back so I just ungrouped it and deleted everything I didn't need.