Looking for a New DigiScrap Home

Hi Everyone,

Wow! Am I amazed to find this place. I've been around the digi-scrapping world for many years but I'd never heard of PixelScrapper before a couple of hours ago when I got to the third page of results in my Google search for "digital scrapbooking." I was googling because I've spent the month of January (off and on) trying to figure out whether and where to make my new digi-scrap home. I used to be active at a few other digi-scrap sites but for the last few years I've focused on my photography and nearly dropped scrapbooking entirely. In 2013 and 2014 I barely created 10 pages each year. I was busy with other things, but when I thought about scrapping I missed it a lot! I made over a hundred pages in 2012, which was my peak year, I think. For a couple of years, I even worked on a few designers' creative teams.

PixelScrapper looks like it might be perfect for me, so I'm excited. Friendly, active forum. Interesting challenges. The open gallery is one of the best parts. I have collected a huge stash of supplies from a variety of stores over the last 7 years or so, and while I understand their desire to limit posting only layouts containing their own products, that has discouraged me from committing to one site. I've really tried to do so, because I enjoy the challenges and community. But I'd like to use all the items in my stash, not just a small fraction of it. I almost felt like I'm fated to be here when I read that you encourage 1000px layouts for the gallery. I don't know if other sites have increased their allowance from the standard 600px, but I assumed not, and I want to make mine 1000px for my blog.

I just have one question I couldn't find addressed in all the wonderfully helpful and well-organized documents and posts here. Do PixelScrapper designers consider scrap4hire to be PU or CU?

Now to my introduction! I'm a third generation native of San Diego who moved with my husband to Fredericksburg, Virginia in 2000. A year later, our daughter was born, followed by another daughter in 2003, and our son in 2006. To describe them briefly I call my oldest a singer, my second daughter an actress, and my son a gamer. We're unschoolers. You can read more about that at my blog if you're interested. I'm an aspiring photographer, active in the ClickinMoms photography forum, and I share my photos and my scrapbook pages at my website.

Though I still haven't made up my mind whether or where to make my digiscrap home, I did have a productive month of scrapping this January. I think what finally did it was my determination to make Scrapping Sunday a priority. Every Sunday last month I created 2-3 pages. Yay! I'm excited to get started here, but I spent a while just reading to learn about the site, and I have to move onto other tasks this afternoon. I will be back very soon though!

p.s. It's funny how acronyms can mean different things in different places so it's confusing at first. PS here means PixelScrapper but since I've been immersed in photography for the last few years, it means Photoshop to me.