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LOL! This make a good new topic! I am opening this now

I love the "Island without bridges" Statement as well! Says it all
I'm glad to have found this site ... I started getting into digital scraping about a year ago and I've gotta say, I think I do better with digital than I do with paper scraping!! LOL .... I've already posted in the "Meet" section, and once in the weekly challenge cutouts ... I'm excited to try that technique ... I had no idea I could do that!!!
Well off to go through the forum!

Totally agree! Love the "Island without bridges" phrase.

Island without bridges .... Sounds like a good scrap or word art theme

Understood, thank you!

I'm impressed with the quality of the kits available for download, beautiful and very easy to combine with each other

Read and understood

Hello Angela,

DigitalScrapbook.com is a community, and not a promotion tool. We expect to create a trusting, real-life like enviroment. If you are with your friends in a holiday, it´s ok to bring your Avon catalogue to sell to the girls while drinking tea. It´s not ok, however, to arrive to someone else´s house with three bags of stuff to sell, take all the snacks people are eating away from the main table, put all your stuff to sell there, and keep interrupting people´s conversation to ask if they already saw all your stuff and beg to them to try the stuff out to see if they fit... We hope our users behave like they would behave in a friends´meeting in real life, not like salespeople on a high-impact sales meeting, and use the forums to have fun and interact - if they find costumers along the way, it´s a happy bonus of the network process. This being said:

• You can anounce your freebies the freebie forum, following the freebie guidelines (they´re simple, please read before posting and remember not to post freebies or freebie previews in the gallery, because it may get the newcomers confused about who are the DigitalScrapbook.com desingers;
• You can check ISO and Special Requests under Digital Scrapbook Discussion forum; they all have an ISO in the beginning of the title, so hitting control+f and typing ISO will show you then in them in the majority of the browsers. If you have something that attend the requirements of that topic in your store, you can post the preview and link to your store - It´s better if you post a link direct to the product.
• If you make digital scrapbook tutorials, you´re free to add them on software specific questions forum. Please look through the forum to see if there´s a topic about the tut subject before posting, and, if it didn´t exist, open a new one starting with the name of the software/tool used in the tutorial.
• If you are the owner of a collaborative store and need more designers, post your call here. If you are a designer and need CT (creative team) members, post your call here.
• You are allowed to link to the product you used to make a layout, in the description field of the gallery. It´s a subtle, but very effective digiscrapping marketing action - or a way to say a subtle thank you for a designer you like.
• You are allowed to put links to your store, newsletter and social media on the specific boxes for that on your profile.
• Some ads may be post to Chit Chat forum, if you are active in the community not just to anounce your stuff. But the adds need be very occasional. They need to be about something really worthy and you need to post with a long space between adds. To it, use common sense, and put yourself on the community member´s view: Will the other think that you are making a good thing to him because the opportunity is amazing and you pointed that, or he/she will think you´re an annoying person who is here only to sell your business but without giving anything back? If the other users respect you because you´re a kind, active, helpful member, they´ll be more inclined to click on your link

In any of the cases below, please, do not "flood" the chat answering dozen posts on a same forum in a row or opening lots of new topics in the same day. You won´t win more attention with it, and it can get the opposite effect than the one you wanted...

Also, please don´t treat this reply as a full set of immutable rules. This is my view on your question, and there are no official advertising guidelines because we still don´t need it. But they may appear someday if the owners of the site feel that there are users abusing...

so far, i'm really enjoying this site..the rules are simple and not complicated...thank you!

I have read & understood. Thank you.

Well, I'm in, too! Love the "Island without Bridges" statement.

This was very helpful. Thanks for all of the good information.

I read and understood.
Thank you.

Dee