Welcome Jessi!
Yes, all the normal 'net abbreviations work here but watch out for DS most people use it to mean Dear Son.
You have to be logged into the gallery to be able to get to the downloads. Obviously your logged in here in the forums but you have to log in again in the gallery section (with the same username and password) to be able to post LOs or grab freebies. If you're still having problems please come up and let us know.
I don't scrap 12x12 so I don't have the best info there. Some folks are using 8x8 instead. Hopefully someone will pipe in with suggestions or you can search the forums and see what folks said previously.
I'm glad you found us.
