I agree with the freebies one! But it was all I could afford at the time until I started joining some CT's and sites. Which leads me to my next one, just because someone asks you to be on their CT or is having a call...doesn't mean you should join each of them. I was on some interesting teams starting out, and they weren't quite my style, but I was learning and scrapping and growing my stash. Which goes to the next one, if a CT doesn't fit you, it's ok to step down. And to the last one, that Designers look for different things in the CT members they bring on. I was on a very artsy designer's team. I loved the artsy look of the other members pages, but struggled to fit that image with my pages. When I talked to the designer, she told me she didn't bring me on to fit their style, but because my style was different from theres and could attract different scrappers! Here I had been trying to fit in, when she wanted me to be different!
