How She Creates Podcast

Welcome to Season 2 of How She Creates! I could not be happier to be welcoming you back to this incredible community of creators. There is a lot of really exciting stuff coming up for you this season, plus a few changes around here. Caylee and Lauren are chatting in this episode about what’s new for the podcast, plus what we’ve been up to since the last podcast and what is inspiring us creatively lately. During this conversation, Caylee shared some creative genius that actually launched us into a frenzy to create a full, free webinar on How to Find Your Creative Style. You can sign up for that webinar and get all the shownotes from this episode at http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-is-back/

Get ready for a ton of fun, truth and marvelous inspiration! In the season one finale of How She Creates, co hosts Caylee Grey and Lauren Hooper bring on their husbands for the final interview to share all the messy, glittery dirt on what living with a creative person is like. The guys share the weirdest things we do in the name of art and how much they actually love looking at our scrapbooks full of family memories...no matter how many thousand photos it took to get the #whereistand shot perfect! They share their creative stories, how they set creative goals, tips for talking to your man about your creative time and how being married to an artist is inspiring, fun and weird. We love them so much and cannot wait for you to meet them and laugh along with us for this episode. Thank you so much for helping make our first season so incredible. We have loved getting to know all the kind and talented artist we have interviewed and we want to thank YOU for listening! We would love it if you left us a review in iTunes and if you told a friend about our show so we can spread the crafty love all around. Big love, Caylee and Lauren Show notes http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-018-artist-cohabitation-with-t-grey-and-terrell-hooper/

The Zine Squad is a force to be reckoned with! These three ladies have created an incredible art tribe centered around giving the gift of art to others. The Zine Squad met through Get Messy and began creating collaborative zines or little books together and decided to turn it into an entire network of secret art elves. They share their tips and secrets behind how they create, organize and surprise each recipient. Creating collaborative art forces you to let go of your own perfectionism, trust your fellow artists and find your value is so much more when added up together. Listen in today as they share obstacles, inspiration and tips to start your own zine squad. Show notes http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-017-collaboration-with-the-zine-squad/

If you have ever wanted to start teaching about your creative process or have no idea how a creative class comes together, today's episode is perfect for you. Brandi Kincaid and Pam Garrison share with us their process for creating an online course from idea to reality. They share their best tips for supplies, pricing, student satisfaction, choosing a platform for teaching and will encourage you to start teaching your own courses. Listen in today for lots of great recommendations and encouragement for all online creative class lovers. Show notes http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-016-teaching-with-brandi-kincaid-and-pam-garrison/

Today Caylee is interviewing Kate Volyanskaya and Roxanne Coble about our most favorite topic in the world, art journaling! These incredibly talented ladies share all about their creative stories, the best supplies to use, how to make time to make and how to get started. Art journaling is an amazing creative outlet that literally anyone can do and we hope that you will take paint to paper, scissors to magazines and glue to everything and create pages with us today. Show notes http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-015-art-journaling-with-kate-volyanskaya-and-roxanne-coble/

Embroidery is not only for grannies and we're excited to introduce two artists who are proving this to you today. Jennifer Bilton and Karen Gaunt make absolute magic with mixed media and are able to create works of art with materials. We're kind of in awe of them. Today we chat about their creative stories and what led them to creating with embroidery, how to not totally suck at it, managing time to create, and their favourite supplies for this medium. We also talk about perfectionism and imposter syndrome, and how exploring abstract and mixed media embroidery can help combat that in a very perfectionistic art form. Your paint is your thread in this medium and in this episode we weave and paint some real artsy magic. Show notes http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-014-embroidery-with-jennifer-bilton-and-karen-gaunt/

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. Show notes: http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-013-travel-with-amy-tan-and-lauren-hooper/

In today's episode Lauren interviews Amy Maricle about mindfulness in art journaling. We discuss using art as self care and how to get your family on board with you spending time on yourself. Amy shares a ton of great techniques, tips and ideas for creating simple, intuitive background pages that will help you relax, explore your creativity and build beautiful pages through working in layers. Listen in today for many great practical tips on how to give yourself permission to use art to care for yourself. Show notes http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-012-art-therapy-with-amy-maricle/

In this episode Caylee interviews Juli, Marta and Tracy about using Pocket Pages to document your life. This episode is a breathe of fresh air in the scrapbooking world as these ladies get honest about taking photos just for scrapbooking, breaking the rules and doing what you want when it comes to recording your own life. Listen today to learn our guests best tips for taking selfies, saving bad photos, matching cards to photos, the best supplies to use and why you should document your life - no matter what life stage you're in. Be sure to connect with these ladies on Instagram to see more of their gorgeous work. Show notes http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-011-pocket-documenting-with-juli-maniago-marta-andilla-and-tracy-armstrong/

In this episode Caylee interviews Carson, Paige and Emma who are some of the most popular and talented scrapbookers on social media. They all have different styles and approaches to scrapbooking, but all put pictures to paper for the same reason: to document their lives. These ladies share their secrets to creating beautiful layouts, get honest about scrapbooking for social media and as a job and spill the beans about how long it really takes Paige to create those intricate pages! We hope you enjoy learning more about scrapbooking from these talented makers and be sure to connect with them on Instagram and their blogs to see more of their work. Show notes http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-010-scrapbooking-with-carson-riutta-emma-wood-and-paige-evans/

Today Lauren is interviewing Crystal from A Year of Creative Habits and Torrie from Fox and Hazel. We are talking about creative habits and challenges. They are sharing their wisdom about creative challenges, how you can start your own, where to find inspiration, how to push through when you don't feel like it and the benefits of daily creating. Show notes http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-009-art-challenges-with-crystal-moody-and-torrie-gass/

Welcome to episode 008 of the How She Creates podcast. Today we are talking about inspiration. Inspiration's a really big topic out there on the internet and if you can see the show notes you'll see that we've put inspiration in inverted commas because we're here to dispel the traditional meaning of inspiration. We're here to talk about the only type of inspiration that matters and that is the inspiration that leads to making. In this episode we're gonna talk about translating inspiration from the world around you that is beautiful and authentically yours, and you can just see yourself in it. We're gonna give you practical tips for how to find this kind of genuine inspiration and then also translate it onto canvas or paper or whatever way you create. Show notes http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-008-inspiration/

Until you've experienced it's magical powers, you wouldn't think that productivity lends itself to creativity. But oh man it does. In this episode we're chatting with productivity gurus, Nora Conrad and Pam Llaguno, to tell you exactly how it does and how you can get there. Leading a productive life leads to insane levels of creativity with more art to show for it. The power of getting shizz done is not just for men in business suits, but for those of us with a paintbrush behind our ears, our favourite shirts stained with ink, and who want to create without the guilt of knowing there's a pile of dishes in the sink. Show notes http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-007-productivity-with-nora-conrad-and-pam-llaguno/

This episode is the most requested one we had, and we're so excited to bring it to you. Today we are talking about watercolours. We're with two of our absolute favourite watercolour artists, and the ones who made us fall in love with the medium - Nina Christensen and Yao Cheng. We're pretty excited about getting to talk to them. In the episode we discuss their creative stories, where they find inspiration, their best tips for practising, material recommendations, and how awesome they are. Show notes http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-006-watercolour-with-nina-christensen-and-yao-cheng/

Depth is all about the process. Today we hear from Cait and Vanessa who share their hearts and minds with such truth and vulnerability in their art journal pages. They will share with us their thoughts and processes on when paint on a page becomes art and practical tips for digger deeper in your art. Listen to today's episode to learn how they overcome feelings of unresolved pages, lack of interest and believing you are good enough. Show notes: http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates-ep-005-depth-with-cait-sherwood-and-vanessa-oliver-lloyd/