As
one of the founders of Cloud 9 Design she is excited as she is nearing her 6th
year as manufacturers in this great business we call – Scrapbooking! She has 4
years previously in a retail scrapbook store setting and an additional 3 years
prior being a scrapbooker. Add it all up and a great portion of her life has
been consumed with her passion for this craft!
The goal of Cloud 9 Design is to help you find your creativity by providing you
with fresh, innovative and simple to use products that inspire great results!
It may take months in their design process but at the end of the day she asks
herself, do our products make sense? Are they "scrapbookable?" Do they work?
That is so important to Nancy that she actually “uses” her products during the
design phase to make sure they are “scrapbookable” and work well together. She
looks at their design scale, color, the design itself – making sure they make
sense. When she can say “Yes! I would buy that!” then that’s when you will see
it in the marketplace.
Her inspiration comes from many different directions. Her passion for
scrapbooking is so great that she says that she lives and breathes it.
Inspiration comes in the middle of the night, as she walks through a mall, when
taking in the décor of a restaurant, picking up a cool t-shirt design, etc.
Jodi Holbrook
Jodi
Holbrook is the full time education coordinator for Making Memories – one of the
leading manufacturers of scrapbooking embellishments, tools, paper and so much
more. Jodi is also involved in the marketing for independent retail stores.
After working at Making Memories for over three years now she is passionate
about the scrapbook industry. She understands the advantage of good education
for developing a more creative approach and increasing scrapbooking skills. She
loves teaching scrapbookers new ways to use the material they already have.
Apart from her work life, Jodi enjoys the outdoors, playing in her Jeep, and is
always looking for a great book to cuddle up with. She lives in Layton, Utah
with her husband of four years.
Emily Adams
Emily
started scrapbooking at a young age and has held a piece of paper in her hands
ever since. Emily's scrapbooking career started with Magic Scraps as the
Education Director back in 2002. In 2006, Emily joined Imagination Project where
she launched her own product line, Circus Rose, and also started designing
products for their brand Project Essentials. In 2007 she joined Luxe Designs as
their Marketing Director. Emily has been an instructor at Creating Keepsakes
University (CKU) since 2002 and has taught all over the country, as well as
internationally. She has also written for Creating Keepsakes magazine and
Scrapbook Insider. Emily has been featured on numerous DIY Scrapbooking
episodes, as well as video classes with CKU Home Study program. Emily lives with
her cute & crafty husband in Texas. When she's not working {which is rare}, she
is usually out with family or friends, lost in a good book or cooking something
new from her stacks of cookbooks. Learn more about Emily through her blog,
www.emilyhadams.blogspot.com.
Stacy Julian
Stacy
Julian is founding editor of Simple Scrapbooks magazine and a well-traveled
teacher and lecturer who delights in spreading her energizing and sustainable
scrapbooking philosophy. Her most recent books, titled Photo Freedom: A Big
Picture Approach to Organizing and Scrapbooking Your Photographs (CKMedia,
Inc. 2008) and The Big Picture: Scrapbooking Your Life and a Whole Lot More
(Primedia, Inc. 2005) share her liberating approach to capturing and sharing
memories. Julian is also the founder of Big Picture Scrapbooking, the
first website dedicated to online education in scrapbooking. Stacy and her
husband Geoff live in Spokane, Washington where they attempt to keep up with
four growing boys and their daughter, recently adopted from Korea. www.simplescrapbooksmag.com www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com
Layle Koncar
Layle
Koncar is the Marketing Director for Scenic Route Paper Co. Layle has been
scrapbooking for 9 years and teaching for the last 2 years. Her work has been
published in Creating Keepsakes, Scrapbooks Etc., Memory Makers, Paper Crafts,
Legacy, Scrapbook Trends and Paper Trends. She authored and contributed to the
book Memory Art and was a contributor to Creative Imaginations’ The Sports Page
idea book, Paper Crafts Remodeled special issue, and the new Paper Crafts
Scrapbook to Cards book. In addition to scrapbooking, Layle enjoys interior
decorating, skiing, reading, shopping, going to flea markets and spending time
with her family.
Laura Nicholas
In
the late 1990's, Laura attended a crop with a friend on a whim and was instantly
hooked on scrapbooking! She loves collecting the newest paper crafting supplies
so much that she even had to take over her family's garage, remodeling it into
her scrapbooking room. To support her habit and stay ahead in the industry,
Laura has worked in a scrapbook store, taught classes, designed samples for
several companies, traveled around the country for trade shows and conventions
and even designed a paper series. Now she works full-time as a page designer for
Hot Off The Press. Laura lives in Beaverton, Oregon with her husband, Tom and
their boys, Lucas and Jake. She describes her family as her "inspiration to
scrapbook," adding "I try to keep the humor and laughter of everyday in my
journaling and scrapbook pages."
Jodi
Holbrook is the full time education coordinator for Making Memories – one of the
leading manufacturers of scrapbooking embellishments, tools, paper and so much
more. Jodi is also involved in the marketing for independent retail stores.
After working at Making Memories for over three years now she is passionate
about the scrapbook industry. She understands the advantage of good education
for developing a more creative approach and increasing scrapbooking skills. She
loves teaching scrapbookers new ways to use the material they already have.
Emily
started scrapbooking at a young age and has held a piece of paper in her hands
ever since. Emily's scrapbooking career started with Magic Scraps as the
Education Director back in 2002. In 2006, Emily joined Imagination Project where
she launched her own product line, Circus Rose, and also started designing
products for their brand Project Essentials. In 2007 she joined Luxe Designs as
their Marketing Director. Emily has been an instructor at Creating Keepsakes
University (CKU) since 2002 and has taught all over the country, as well as
internationally. She has also written for Creating Keepsakes magazine and
Scrapbook Insider. Emily has been featured on numerous DIY Scrapbooking
episodes, as well as video classes with CKU Home Study program. Emily lives with
her cute & crafty husband in Texas. When she's not working {which is rare}, she
is usually out with family or friends, lost in a good book or cooking something
new from her stacks of cookbooks. Learn more about Emily through her blog,
Stacy
Julian is founding editor of Simple Scrapbooks magazine and a well-traveled
teacher and lecturer who delights in spreading her energizing and sustainable
scrapbooking philosophy. Her most recent books, titled Photo Freedom: A Big
Picture Approach to Organizing and Scrapbooking Your Photographs (CKMedia,
Inc. 2008) and The Big Picture: Scrapbooking Your Life and a Whole Lot More
(Primedia, Inc. 2005) share her liberating approach to capturing and sharing
memories. Julian is also the founder of Big Picture Scrapbooking, the
first website dedicated to online education in scrapbooking. Stacy and her
husband Geoff live in Spokane, Washington where they attempt to keep up with
four growing boys and their daughter, recently adopted from Korea.
Layle
Koncar is the Marketing Director for Scenic Route Paper Co. Layle has been
scrapbooking for 9 years and teaching for the last 2 years. Her work has been
published in Creating Keepsakes, Scrapbooks Etc., Memory Makers, Paper Crafts,
Legacy, Scrapbook Trends and Paper Trends. She authored and contributed to the
book Memory Art and was a contributor to Creative Imaginations’ The Sports Page
idea book, Paper Crafts Remodeled special issue, and the new Paper Crafts
Scrapbook to Cards book. In addition to scrapbooking, Layle enjoys interior
decorating, skiing, reading, shopping, going to flea markets and spending time
with her family. 
In
the late 1990's, Laura attended a crop with a friend on a whim and was instantly
hooked on scrapbooking! She loves collecting the newest paper crafting supplies
so much that she even had to take over her family's garage, remodeling it into
her scrapbooking room. To support her habit and stay ahead in the industry,
Laura has worked in a scrapbook store, taught classes, designed samples for
several companies, traveled around the country for trade shows and conventions
and even designed a paper series. Now she works full-time as a page designer for
Hot Off The Press. Laura lives in Beaverton, Oregon with her husband, Tom and
their boys, Lucas and Jake. She describes her family as her "inspiration to
scrapbook," adding "I try to keep the humor and laughter of everyday in my
journaling and scrapbook pages."