I love sparkly Christmas ornaments and this tag is definitely that. Christmas bags and gift wrap come in all colors and this silver/teal tag I will show you how to make would look so pretty with your silver, teal, or bags with snowflakes on them. Hope you are getting in the Christmas spirit to spread a little joy this Holiday.
Category Archives: Vicki Achard Natures Best Artist
“25 Tags Till Christmas / 2020 – Week 3”
Making these Christmas Tags is so much fun. It really puts me in the Christmas mood. I love Christmas and thinking about how this year we can still exchange gifts (social distance style) brings me so much joy. These tags will bring someone happiness to receive such a sweet tag.
I show you how to make little peppermint candies and tell you other ways to make this tag if you don’t have the same kind of materials I do.
Happy Creating,
Vicki
“25 Tags Till Christmas / 2020 – Week 2”
Hello Everyone,
I love the way you can get the look of gold without having to emboss, especially making more than one at a time, it saves a lot of time. I’m so happy to share how I got my design idea with you and also share where I store my gift tags. Where do you store your gift tags?
I look forward to next week when I can show you part 3 of our 5 part series of “25 Tags Till Christmas”.
Happy Creating and Happy Thanksgiving!
Vicki
“25 Tags Till Christmas / 2020”
I love this time of year, preparing for Christmas. I learned long ago that I enjoy it when I prepare way in advance so that I won’t feel rushed. In this video I show you my first 5 gift tags I will put on my gifts, one we will make together. By the end of five weeks we will have made 25, just in time for your Christmas giving. Each set of 5 will be a different design. They also make nice Christmas gifts that someone could use next Christmas.
Happy Creating,
Vicki
10 Top Picks That Made Me Smile / 2020
Although it’s been a challenging year to say the least, I tried to creatively and purposely keep in touch with my family and stay occupied with projects. Sticking close to home brought many smiles. In this video I talk about how I coped with Covid and ten things I thought of that made me smile.
I hope you too have had some happy times and stayed busy with a project or two to keep you motivated to enjoy your day.
Stay well and safe.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Vicki
“Painting a Ball Jar of Flowers in Watercolor / Floral Joy”
This is the second painting I have finished from the beautiful flowers my son Jonathan and his girlfriend Molly gave me for my birthday, September 13th. I had divided the flowers into containers and having fun creating the paintings. In this painting I made the hydrangeas a little bluer, and painted some a lovely lime green as they were. I added a few golden rod and changed the Ball jar at the last minute from the one that said wide mouth to one that said Mason.
“Roses in September”
Hello Everyone, I had so much fun celebrating my “milestone” birthday September 13th, and all that week actually and received so many beautiful flowers. I have begun to paint my first vase of flowers. These red roses were actually among a bunch of several other beautiful flowers I received from my son and his girlfriend. I split them up into four vases and having fun painting and creating. Milestone birthday you ask? Well I only feel about 40 years old! Hope to be around for a long time!!
I am using a rubber cement eraser to take off the masking fluid. The masking fluid helped save my highlighted areas after I applied paint in my vase. The highlighted areas will give the vase that look of glass.
Happy Creating,
Vicki
“Christmas in September / Making Small Bags”
Hello Everyone, One of my favorite things to make are gift bags. I love how it’s so easy to make bags out of recycled paper. I like to start in September as the time gets very busy around Christmas getting the decorations up, last minute preparations and yes this year we will still make the big dinner. Unfortunately this year due to the pandemic, all of us will not be able to gather together, but I will send a great dinner along with gifts to my children and families.
I hope you too stay hopeful and look forward to somehow celebrating this wonderful holiday. Thinking of you all and hope you are well.
Happy Creating,
Vicki
“Swallowtail by the Lake”
One day Tom and I were photographing this beautiful swallowtail in our garden. I don’t recall ever seeing such a beautiful butterfly flying around our Queen Anne’s Lace before. These beauties bring me so much joy. Golden Rod has just popped up in our garden for the first time, and I absolutely love seeing cat tails by ponds, lakes, or by the side of the road. I thought the combination of all of that with some rocks that I absolutely have so much fun painting would make a nice painting.
I also added geese flying because I think composition wise it added to the painting. I think this would look nice with a wooden or black metal frame. Hope you too are finding and enjoying so much of God’s beauty.
Happy Creating,
Vicki
Behind the Scenes Work in Progress/”Chicory in the Field”
Using a reference photo and making decisions about changes to a finished composition is a must at times. If I painted the entire scene it would have been way too much greenery and the chicory would have gotten lost in the painting. Also I decided painting this horizontally would be better than vertical. I like this particularly with a white mat and brushed silver metal frame.
Did you notice I got a new #2 round brush?! I’ve been wanting one since my other one really never had a nice point, which was always frustrating! I also got a #6 round, which was in the pack and never had that before and love it!
Happy Creating,
Vicki