There’s nothing quite like a homemade gift for Christmas (perhaps now more than ever, with a seemingly endless array of consumer options.) Our favorites include food, poetry, and of course any type of handmade art. This year we partnered with our friends at Shutterfly to create a fun set of botanical gifts all printed with our own original artwork. We adore how these gifts turned out, and even better, the process of creating them was incredibly fun. First, we commissioned a set of botanical watercolors from our mutli-talented media director, Kelly Colchin. She whipped us up a few green ferns, a ladybug and a butterfly in no time. We used a home office scanner to scan in each of her illustrations individually and then saved the files as jpegs. Next, I took the jpegs and used photo-editing tools to create a “repeat” — that’s a tile-able pattern, like one strip
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