Lisa received a BS degree in Design Arts from Drexel University. Her experiences vary to include designing children's wear, costumes, and wedding attire. Lisa worked for several interior decorating shops where she designed custom linens and window treatments for residential clients.

In 1993, Lisa founded Cica Lisa Designs with the purpose of designing clothing for private clientele. As clients saw examples of her other talents, the business evolved, adding children's murals and faux painting into the list of services. Gradually the joy of painting changed the focus for Cica Lisa Designs until it became wholly a decorative painting company specializing in murals.

Lisa has continued to challenge herself within her chosen field by taking classes and seminars, some through The Stencil Artisans League (SALI), of which she is a member. Lisa continually strives to enhance her knowledge and skills as well as increase the detail and research that are incorporated into her murals. Lisa has also expanded by designing and painting sets for the Roxey Ballet Company's productions. Especially noteworthy is the complete set design for their production of Dracula.

In addition to working with the ballet company, Lisa has also worked as a set designer for Artist-In-Residence—a program which brings working artists into local schools for multi-day residencies—with single project focus. Several of Lisa’s furniture pieces have sold at fundraising auctions which benefit this endeavor.

For several years, Lisa has been chosen as a designer for the VIA Bucks County Designer House, held annually to benefit Doylestown Hospital. The rooms she has designed included a nautically inspired boy’s bedroom – complete with nautical chart painted on the ceiling, an attic playroom—painted to look like the interior of a thatched roof dwarf’s cottage—and a muraled staircase, which incorporated a portrait of the house and grounds. She also faux painted a bathroom with a multi-layered reverse stenciled finish. In each case, Lisa has decorated the space as well as painted the walls and accessories—including children’s garden furniture with verdigris faux painting and a table and chair set—in which she handset mosaic tile over a blackboard painted top.