Stacy Julian

Stacy Julian grew up just outside Seattle, in the small town of Kenmore. Kenmore sits at the north end of Lake Washington where sea gulls and sea planes are a frequent sight, and fishing and duck feeding a frequent outing. Overcast skies, misty mornings and tall evergreens bring back happy memories of a happy childhood.  Stacy is the oldest of five children who were raised by a wonderfully creative mother (creativity probably induced by long winters and endless rainy afternoons).  She remembers sitting around the kitchen table finger painting in shaving cream, making homemade play dough or finding creative uses for household items like cotton balls, paper clips, popsicle sticks, buttons and dried pasta.  To this day, she loves the
smell and taste of homemade flour and water paste!  Her family took summer vacations to the San Juan Islands, where she would spend hours collecting surf smoothed rocks and drift wood to use in assembling mosaic-like creations.  While Stacy graduation from Brigham Young University with a science degree, she loved most her art and design electives.  Each year at
BYU, Stacy would hang a long piece of butcher paper around the top of her dorm room.    She would then save anything and everything from that year and adhere it to her "memory wall".  At the end of the year she would carefully transfer everything into a new, crisp magnetic album - for what she thought was safe keeping!!

In 1994 Stacy was introduced to modern archival scrapbooking.  Already a committed (or is it addicted) stamper, Stacy quickly saw the latter as an extension of the first.    Now she could spend hours creating beautiful works
of art not to send away, but to keep for her own family.  Stacy has since enjoyed teaching scrapbooking both as a DOTS/Close to My Heart demonstrator and an instructor at Pebbles in My Pocket.  In 1997, she co-authored, and self-published Core Composition, the first book to teach the principles of design, applied to scrapbook layouts.    Stacy enjoys traveling to scrapbooking stores to teach classes and train employees in layout design, color and other topics.  She was the first scrapbook enthusiast toearn The Hobby Industry of America’s designation of Certified Professional Teacher. In 1998, Stacy was invited to join Deanna Lambson from Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Magazine as a host on the PBS series, More than Memories. In the spring of 1999, she joined several other designers from across the nation on a special issue of Creating Keepsakes called Marvelous Makeovers, which further discusses scrapbooking from a graphic design standpoint.  She is excited to be a member of the ProvoCraft design team, where innovative, quality products make designing great layouts that much easier!

Stacy works and creates from her home in northern Idaho, where she is joined by her husband in  raising three incredibly energetic, highly intelligent, unbelievalby handsome, and remarkably well mannered boys, Clark, Chase and Trey.  All three are as you can imagine, very humble.

Note from Pam:  Here's what Stacy said about this    picture of her and Clark when she sent it to me:  "I couldn't find a photo that I liked of myself .. most are still packed away.  Anyway .. I thought I'd send the personality shot of me and Chase in my scrap room.  This photo was snapped by my mother two weeks after Trey was born .. I was frantically preparing for a More than Memories series early in the morning.  Mom found it too funny that her grandson has the same disregard (genetic perhaps?) for dressing himself as his mother."

Scrapbook Stuff

Author of Core Composition

Articles and  layouts in CK's Marvelous Scrapbook Makeovers

Articles and  layouts in various issues of the following publications:

                Creating Keepsakes
                I Love Remembering
                Memory Makers
                Memorable Impressions 97
                CK's    Joy of Scrapbooking
                More Than Memories

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