AMY TAN

Born and raised in Chicago, Amy spent much of her childhood wallpapering her bedroom walls with the colorful and glamorous pages of fashion magazines. She learned how to sew her senior year of high school and what developed was her first passion: designing. Within five years, she had become an award-winning designer and founder of the popular handcrafted t-shirt line Amy Tangerine. Her collections were featured in hundreds of retail outlets, including Bloomingdales, Neiman Marcus and Barneys New York, and yielded impressive worldwide sales.

In 2007, her business expanded to include scrapbooking, with her fashion design work now being produced on a custom basis. Her love for sharing her clothing and now also paper crafts has taken her all over the globe and given her the opportunity to teach creative classes all over the world. She also stays busy with creative collaborations ranging from custom scrapbooks to celebrity events to consulting services.

When she's not at home in Los Angeles, California with two mischievous Jack Russell Terriers, her long-time partner, JC and their adorable son, Jack, she is traveling, finding great places to eat, and doing her best to enjoy every moment. All while Instagramming everything along the way. Amy loves salted caramel anything, doggy cuddles, baby giggles, palm trees, riding her beach cruiser, and nachos. Always nachos.

 

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Happy August! Who's up for a little lettering challenge? I've collaborated with my favorite lefty letterer and all around awesome @renmadecalligraphy for a fun project. Each Tuesday throughout this month, we'll be posting a lettering video of a quote using #leftandrightletters. We thought it would be fun to see the same quotes lettered by a righty and a lefty. We'll also be sharing encouragement with creativity and lettering tips. Join us by posting your own lettering inspired by the quote sometime during the week. Be sure to use #leftandrightletters and tag both @renmadecalligraphy and @amytangerine because we'll be commenting and even sharing some of our favorites! Who's with us?! ✍🏼 . Full disclosure, Ren and I have been trying to put together this project for months. Quite possibly since the beginning of 2017. We decided to finally just go for it this month and it's awesome because we have 5 Tuesdays to share something with you all. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in analyzing all the little bits and pieces of a project, especially when you're seeing just the seemingly perfect and beautiful results on social media. Every single thing you see created by someone had to start somewhere. Allow those ideas you have in your head a chance to flourish and grow. As much as we seem to love preparing, planning, and trying to find the perfect time to start a project, often times the best thing to do is just say yes, take that small first step, and figure it out as it evolves. A little leap of faith can go a long, long way.
Lessons in bullet journaling ✨ I love the gratitude log and will continue doing it but perhaps not in rainbow order. The idea of the habit tracker is still better to me than the execution. Stamping with an ombré effect is fun! Simply put the light ink color on the stamp first and then add the darker color to just half of the stamp. How's your #bujo going?
Right before we left him last night to go to a black tie event 💙 . We sat under the Space Shuttle Endeavor at the California Science Center for the Paradigm Challenge prize ceremony. The organization was created based on the belief that youth have an innate ability to innovate for good. They inspire kids ages 4-18 to use kindness, creativity, and collaboration to make a difference in the world. How amazing is that? ❤️🌎 . Thanks @cindycliang for snapping this photo and babysitting!
I scream, you scream, we all jump for ice cream! In partnership with @goodhumor_icecream, I took a fun selfie with the interactive vending machine and got a sweet surprise! Get your ice cream by visiting Shane's Inspiration in Griffith Park on 7/29 from 11am-3:30pm or Malibu Country Mart on 7/30 from 11am-5pm. Take a photo with King Cone and tell him I sent you! #GoodbyeSeriousLA
Go get 'em 🐅 . After tons of requests to turn my handwriting into stamps, I did it! You can find them exclusively at @amytangerineshop. The tiger is from #hustleandheart. What's your spirit animal?

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