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!