Let Go, Let Love for me is but Crossroads II. It looks like it. The kit will “work perfectly” with any Crossroads kit. Above all, it feels like it – I am ready to leave Crossroads after two long years (count four years if you include the two years I stayed away from this blog) and move on to paths strewn with Magnolia flowers! LOL!

This Cluster Band (this one took more than two hours to make) officially concludes the Let Go, Let Love line. It’s a page “band” that can run the length of your page. It has “tucked” note-card where you can journal your thoughts or memories. It’s lovingly detailed. When you go unpack the file, go take a closer look at it and see why it took me more than two hours to finish. Click here to download and don’t forget to post a comment or two please. It’s two hours of work in exchange for a comment from you. =)

I miss Crossroads. I miss the rich texture of velvet and the soft, homey feel of felt. The Let Go Let Love line on the other hand takes the richness of Crossroads but introduces all of us to the texture of paper instead of cloth. The entire look is so “crafty” and while I know I will miss it just as badly too, and would love to indulge one more line out of this theme, I am on my way to the complete opposite of it. Opposite to me would mean the bright, lightly-tinted watercolor line going “green” by adapting the smooth, fibrous, mulberry paper texture, some corrugated boards and a slight deviation — by indulging in the use of delicate vellum paper. Magnolia was a hint of what was to come!

What makes 5Tweets special is the fact that in all my two years of creating digital kits, it is the first kit I’ve made where I have hand-drawn all the major elements of the design line. It was an EXTREMELY creative process for me.

Translating the drawings into digital scrapbooking material however, was a pain in the b*tt! LOL! I never expected that it would be such a difficult process to achieve the effect of lightly tinted watercolors on semi-transparent vellum. I guess it was the perfectionist in me at work when I really didn’t what to settle for anything else but what is true and realistic.

The result of countless nights of computer work that left me with an average of 3-4 hours daily sleeping time was worth every minute I stayed out of bed. I do not regret a single minute of the time I spent bringing the kit together. I’ve fallen in love with 5Tweets and I hope you will too. Here is a preview of the “scrap book” I made using everything that can be found in the kit.

The mega kit will be up for sale at a discounted price in my next blog post. After a limited number of downloads, it will be sold on a per set basis. It is a Mega Kit more than 500mb big. Thats the zipped size. Unzipped, its huge. Close to a gigabyte. That number even excludes the 5 freebie kits I will be giving away to those who will participate in the scrapping challenge for the next several days.

This means that even if you will purchase the entire kit (which I hope you will! LOL!), there will be a whole lot of kit items you will miss if you don’t participate in the scrapping challenge. =) Trust me — the samplers are not inferior stuff or rejects to be given away. They are as precious and as detailed. Come to think of it, the pages above do not even show all the embellishment items of the line. It is really “eye-candy” if you ask me. I spent a lot of hours on that embellishment pack because the entire line is complete even without it. The THREE sets of alphas are all the embellishments you will ever need. I had to make sure that the embellishments of this design line will be unique and will command their own attention. I made sure they do and boy, do they look cute!  =).

Do forgive me for not responding to any of the comments or inquiries in the last blog post (Sorry Denise!). The kit took much of my sleeping time (Its now 12:30am and I’m still trying to rush this blogpost to publish. My eyes are getting droopy). My waking time on the other hand had been divided between a website I have to finish for a client immediately (because another website for a friend is waiting to be completed right after the first website), a two-minute multimedia presentation for a Thailand-based company for use in their Vietnam campaign due by mid-June and an Asia-wide project for a Singapore-based firm to culminate in Europe sometime August. The combination of juggling so many concerns all at the same time left me with less than 4 hours of sleep for almost three weeks. I moved like a zombie and talked like one.

Hence, my apologies if I confused you in my last post. The rules of the scrap challenge are fairly straight forward.

1. Think about your chosen scrapping topic – 5 things about something or someone. You will scrap 5 pages about your chosen topic – one page for every kit I will issue in the next few days. You can’t change your  topic mid-way. You have to stick to your chosen topic for all the 5 pages you will do to complete your “book.”
2. You have to submit your finished page (600 pixels x 600 pixels at 72dpi) to me to be posted in the gallery on a given date. To know how to submit a page, click here.
3. Only those who have submitted a page using the issued kit will be emailed the password to download the next kit. You can’t miss out on one “kit-challenge” and join the next. You have to complete all 5 scrapping “challenges” one after the other to receive a password to the next kit.

No winners. No prizes. The reward is the thought that you shared YOUR story or thoughts for a change (instead of me doing all the sharing! LOL!). The prize? Just the gift of five unique 5Tweets samplers just for you.

I will be posting the first kit in the next few days. Think of your chosen topic and look for the first photo you will use. The coming page theme is about liking yourself or letting go. It could also be about having fun, having a break or simply relaxing. The base color of the kit is mauve and baby pink (check the “patience” page above!). For those with a “boy” subject in mind, trust me, the kit isn’t girly. You will be able to scrap with the kit for a boy or girl, young or old alike.

Get ready for some sharing fun while I go finish the 500mb+ uploading of such a huge kit! I promise it’ll be worth the wait!

PS: To those who have submitted Let Go Let Love pages, you will surely be able to download the first kit. I will not use a download password to the first one. Thank you for sharing your BEAUTIFUL pages! Go check out the Gallery!