How She Creates: Ep 013 - Travel with Amy Tan, and Lauren Hooper
Today Caylee, Lauren and Amy Tan chat travel, inspiration and creating on the go. Lauren and Amy travel a majority of their time and love to document their travels through different arts. They share their tips for making on the go, being in the moment, packing light and capturing your experiences not just a pretty photo.
Episode Takeaways and Artist Actions
- Tips for exploring your own home as if it's a glorious destination.
- Using travel as inspiration.
- Artist takeaway: go on a photo walk
- How to creatively figure out ways to remember your trips
- Using travel as inspiration.
- Documenting while traveling
- Digital mindfulness
- Using your photos as your itinerary
- Cultivating art through non-traveling
- Artist takeaway: revert back to the basics
- Artist takeaway: use postcards or googled images as photos
Resources and Tools
Guests
Amy Tan
Amy has always had a fresh outlook on life. By the time she was 23, she founded the popular and award-winning handcrafted t-shirt line Amy Tangerine. But it wasn’t until 2007 that Amy discovered her true passion: scrapbooking. What started as a slice-of-life hobby blossomed into a full-time, fulfilling business venture that includes signature collections with American Crafts, her own book, celebrity events, consulting services, and teaching workshops online and around the world. Through sharing creative DIY scrapbooking and crafts on her YouTube channel, workshops, creating content for major brands, and collaborating and speaking at companies like Facebook, Craftcation Conference and Brit+Co, Amy’s mission is to inspire women everywhere to confidence and joy through creativity.
Lauren Hooper
Lauren is a crafter, adventurer and storyteller living in Seoul, South Korea with her husband. Lauren loves street food, taking photos and making things. Lauren believes that you can find adventure in your everyday life and that it should be captured and documented. Lauren is an art journaler, photographer, scrapbooker, laugh enthusiast, designer, artist and DIY dabbler. 
