Yesterday, we showed off our full 2024 team grid, which we are so excited about! Take a look at the talented women representing SCT this year!
You’ll see the creations of these lovely ladies on the pages of SCT Magazine, and on our blog, but we also want to take the time to introduce some of our behind-the-scenes team members who make things happen here at SCT! You may not see their faces, or the things they create like our team members above, but know that they have a BIG hand in the content, products, and events that we are bringing to the SCT community. Let’s get to know four more incredible women today!
GABRIELLA BIANCOFIORE
Say hello to Gabriella Biancofiore, our wonderful Copy Editor for Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine!
Since I was a child, I have always been in love with stories– reading them, writing them, and sharing them. It was only natural for me to turn to scrapbooking as a means of recording my life!
Initially, my method of documenting meant cutting every photograph I owned into a circle or oval and plastering each picture with a word bubble sticker declaring: “Wild and crazy!” or “What did he say?” or identifying someone as the #1 something or other. I kept these photos in a magnetic album with those sticky background pages. You know the ones– if you repositioned the photograph one too many times, it would no longer adhere and fall out of your album.
Then one day, good friends of mine shared their scrapbooks with me, and I was completely hooked. I marveled at their paper choices for backgrounds, the full-sized photos, the perfect embellishments, the standout titles, and the journaling. The journaling always drew me in.
I fell in love with scrapbooking and this form of storytelling, and I’m still in love with it today, over 20 years later.
My style has changed over the years (thankfully), as has the format I use. The subjects of my pages have changed; some of those loved ones are gone forever while others have grown. However, what hasn’t changed is my family’s enjoyment of seeing themselves and events forever caught in my pages and my joy and delight at this hobby.
So when I became part of the SCT team, it was a dream come true. I am working with people I have always admired, helping to polish already stellar writing, and being inspired by every page I edit. The only challenge is staying focused on the editing when all I want to do is pull out my scrapbook supplies and start creating.
In addition to being SCT’s copy editor, I’m a wife and mom living in a Chicago suburb with my husband, our 4 kids, and our crazy but devoted dog. My husband is both a carpenter and musician, my oldest daughter is in high school, my triplets (yes, triplets) are in middle school, and our dog (a smallish cavapoo) thinks he’s meant to terrorize every passerby and squirrel in the neighborhood. As you can imagine, it’s rarely ever quiet here, but I do manage to find time to read and scrap, so life is good.
LISA HETRICK
We also want to introduce you to the talented Lisa Hetrick, our graphic designer for SCT products and events!
Hi, friends! My name is Lisa Hetrick. I work as a freelance graphic designer, product designer, illustrator, and watercolor artist. I am also an online teacher and I live in Maryland. I am honoured to be part of the SCT team where I design stamps, dies, and stencil collections. In addition, I am the graphic designer for SCT events and classes.
I have been passionate about paper crafting and card making for over 20 years. Working in the craft and hobby industry has brought me great JOY in my career. It has given me opportunities to work on and contribute to some amazing product within the industry and beyond. For the last 6 years, I have had the great privilege of being a signature illustrator for Gina K Designs. During this time, I’ve illustrated and designed more than 40 stamp sets for my collection. I share cardmaking, papercrafting, and watercolor tutorials weekly on my YouTube channel and blog encouraging people to Craft Your Joy. I love teaching and nerding out about cardmaking and watercolor.
Find more of Lisa’s work here: Instagram | Website | Facebook
JEN WALKER
Jen Walker is our amazing Director of Customer Happiness, takes care of our website, and just keeps things running here at SCT. We sometimes just refer to her as the ‘right hand.’
Jen is a quiet introvert who loves working behind the scenes at SCT. After leaving the corporate world, Jen owned an online scrapbook store. At this time, she met Catherine while shopping for her kids, and years later, when SCT was a twinkle in Catherine’s mind, she reached out to Jen. Jen has been working with Catherine ever since. The two of them fit together like two peas in a pod and often joke that they share the same brain, with each one having the pieces that the other one needs. Jen is a wife, mom to two, pet mom to three, and caregiver to her mom. Jen always has a smile on her face and can be identified by her laugh. Life is busy, and she would have it no other way.
CATHERINE TACHDJIAN
Catherine Tachdjian is the founder & publisher of Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine. It is because of Catherine that this incredible community exists and we can bring you daily inspiration to brighten your day.
Catherine has been an entrepreneur from a young age and after 10 years in a corporate career was ready to mix her passion for scrapbooking with her desire to start a company. Scrapbook & Cards Today Inc. was born! What started with a quarterly magazine in 2005, Scrapbook & Cards Today has grown into an internationally recognized brand in the papercraft industry committed to education, community, and developing connections within the industry. The reader has Catherine’s heart and she gets excited with every release of Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine, event, class, or kit her team creates!
Learn more about the founding of Scrapbook & Cards today in Catherine’s Life Handmade podcast episode HERE!
There you have it! We are so proud of this team—the creatives and the women working behind the scenes, and we want to share something special with someone in our community today to celebrate the start of another wonderful year—our 18th! Today we are giving away a $100 gift card to the SCT shop!
With this gift card, you can get $100 off your next Crop & Create Delivered event, take any of our amazing SCT Delivered Online Courses, shop our SCT Signature Collection products, sign up for a print subscription, and so much more! To enter to win, we are going to ask you to answer one of the crafty questions that we asked our team members: What are you most excited about in your craft for 2024? Leave a comment answering this question by midnight Eastern time on Wednesday, January 31st. A comment will be selected at random and announced on the blog on Friday, February 2nd. Good luck!
We are so excited about this year ahead, and we hope you’ll join us for the fun and crafty time that we know we will share!
We just announced our Fall 2024 Crop & Create Cardmaking registration dates and the amazing partners who will be joining us! Take a look:
Be sure to add these dates to your calendar, keep watching our Crop & Create Delivered page for more details, and be sure to sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know more!
2024 is going to be an amazing year! We have another great team and so many exciting adventures that will include you all!
You are truly the grease that keeps all the wheels turning Jen ! ❤️🤗
This year I’m focusing on creating mini albums to put in play what I learned from SCT’s Mini Album 101 class, led by Andrea!
What an amazing team we have! And Gabriella happens to be a before-I-did-paper-crafting friend. I’m pretty sure the “good friends of mine (who) shared their scrapbooks with me” are my sister and me. :)
Yay for the amazing people who make SCT rock! Big hugs especially to my girl Gabriella and that boss babe extraordinaire Catherine!
Congrats to the team! Looking forward to another year of inspiration from everyone! I’m most excited, as far as crafting goes, to be on a DT after several years of not doing that. It’s helping me to be more organized with deadlines to meet. I’m also blogging more regularly again and that’s helping to reconnect with some of my old blogging friends. Thanks for the generous giveaway!
This year I’m excited to to create mini albums to document memories for years to come! Congratulations to the 2024 team!!
This year, I plan on diligently working on my scrapbooks. I’m quite a bit behind, but enjoy reminiscing as I look at pictures from years ago!
I’m planning on making more cards for family and friends! 2024 is going to be one crafty year!
2024 is my year to incorporate my cardmaking stamps and stencils into my planner after the SCT planner class and of course, make cards!
What an amazing team you have put together! I am most excited to learn new ways to create layouts and cards, so I guess you could say new inspiration!
I’m the most excited to make more scrapbook layouts then I did last year and learn new scrapbooking techniques like new stitches for paper stitching and new mixed media techniques.
This year I plan on using more of the crafty supplies I already have before buying new ones. This will be very hard….
Lots of fresh new faces with lots of
talent. Going to be an great year.
Good luck to all of you.
Oh my goodness! Thank you all so much for all of the hard and beautiful work you do!!! I am thoroughly excited to participate in 2024, as last year I had a big surgery and almost died in recovery…10 months out I am building my stamina, breathing deep, and feeling a lot of gratitude for my life.
So excited for the classes and crops in 2024.
I’m looking forward to a bit more time to craft hopefully. I’m also excited to use my hot foil machine more.
I am most excited about learning new techniques!
So excited for another great year!! You guys always continue to amaze me!!
What an awesome team!
I’m really excited to continue the travellers notebooks I have been creating the last couple years!
Excited to organize my craft room and use all my wonderful products.
Such a fabulous group of women making an amazing team for all of us. Don’t know what I would do without the SCT community!
This year I plan on focusing on using all the supplies I have and learning new techniques. Congratulations on the amazing 2024 team.
Most excited for as I have challenged myself to go tags this year, that ho along with cards. I make cards stamp color and die cut pieces and always have extras, now I am going to make Christmas tags with my leftovers. And use some products that I have purchased but not used. Doing some extra crafty classes for inspiration along the way. Happy 2024.
This year, I’m excited to improve my colouring – with coloured pencils and alcohol markers. I’m also looking forward to new products that will come out this year!
This year I’m focusing on using old items with new, to make more mash up cards.
I’m most excited that I just retired from my full time job and so happy I found SCT – you all are the best!!
Such an amazing team of creative people. I look forward to their inspiration! In 2024, I want todo more scrapping. I have two young grandchildren and so many memories I want to capture for them
One new thing I want to learn this year is stitching on cards. I purchased dies and hope to create something new for me and those who receive my cards. I am excited about the team for this magazine. I love Tina Smith and watch her videos a lot. Mindy is still a favorite. Maybe some day I will try scrapbooking.
You ladies are amazing. I greatly appreciate all the work that you do. Here is to another wonderful year of crafting fun.
I am most excited about learning more about mixed media techniques and just new ideas in general.
In 2024 I am excited about the SCT spring paper crafting event and continuing to explore my mixed media art journaling efforts . I love both sides of my creative hobbies and looking forward to catching up on old projects too. Love the SCT team ! Such a phenomenal and inspirational group of ladies !
I am looking forward to having a room switch happen and my new craft room set up so I can work on my Mexico trip layouts.
Exciting times coming soon!!!
So happy to meet you all, especially Jen. I always hear about you and wanted to meet you. Not sure who that Catherine lady is…ROFL. Being more organized in 2024. so I can use what I have. Where are those new scissors at and I’m sure I bought that matching die. Welcome to another crafty year.
I’m excited for 2024 to be the 2nd year of getting to teach card classes. I started last year because of a request from a friend. I want going to do anymore classes in 2024 and then I received a bunch of requests and it filled my heart. I love coming up with the card projects and sharing them.
Wow! Such an amazing team! Thank you for all you do!
Thank you for all you do. Looking forward you learning new techniques
I am so glad I found your magazine, your events and all you offer. The community you create is amazing! Thank you!!!
This year I am excited about creating with products that have been sitting in my “to use soon” pile for way too long.
What an amazing team. I have to say, Jen is an amazing part of the team for sure. She does so much. I’m most excited about connecting with even more crafty friends this year and possibly being able to help out some newbies along the way.
What a great team ! I’m looking forward to making more scrapbooking pages. I”m so far behind and need to try to catch up more this year :)
I’m excited to try new bookmaking and mixed media projects. I look forward, as always, to the inspiration you’ll provide this year!
I am so thrilled to be part of the crafty community. Helps me have a creative outlet. Thanks
I am most excited about getting uncompleted scrapbook projects done. Since starting to make cards in 2020 I have fallen behind in my scrapbooking. I have many unfinished layouts that I need to complete and get into albums. I can then focus on keeping up with this year’s stories.I am hoping the Month to Month class will help with this.
2024 will find me trying to learn and incorporate watercolour into my card making. I’m excited to try a new technique
I am excited to use all of the goodies this year from the Crop and Create events last year. It has been exciting to add so many new products to my craft room. I am excited for the Celebrations Delivered Event on Feb 10. So many ideas are rattling around in my head just from looking at the items we received.
It’s also going to be fun to receive the quarterly kits for Let’s Stamp Together! I haven’t even mentioned the Crop and Create Delivered in the fall that I’m going to sign up for! Lots of beautiful cards will come out of my craft room this year! So many goodies to add!
I’m excited to meets and learn new things from all the new designers! Also excited for new creative videos and classes.
I’m excited about learning new techniques and finding new sources of inspiration to take my crafting to the next level!
Excited for the SCT 2024 lineup!!! Excited to CREATE with friends!
I’m most excited about getting my cards made ahead of time so I’m not creating at the last minute. Celebrations delivered and Crop and Create will help me immensely with this endeavour. So excited for February 10th and my second crop and create event in September. ❤️
I’m so excited about the year long class I signed up for with SCT. Can’t wait for that first kit to arrive and the first class.