I'm having a "Going on an Extended Vacation" sale!

Don't despair...I'm not quitting, just taking a much needed break. I'm taking a vacation from designing to work on a few personal projects. But, before I go, and for the first time ever, you can buy my entire store!

For just $25 you'll get over $230 worth of products! And, everything is scrap for others (S4O) friendly - no extra charge!

The sale runs from September 16-30 - Take only what you want or take it all!

After you purchase my store, I'll send you a special coupon code and you will have until October 15th to complete your downloads. After that everything will be removed from the servers!

Here's an general overview of what you'll get...

5 sets of 5x7 Album Templates, 3 fun Alphabets, 3 sets of 4x6 Brag
Book Album Templates, 3 sets of Quick Page Albums, 4 Scottish Clan Packs, 7 Element sets, 7 Full Kits, 6 Mini Kits, 5 Kit Add-ons, 9 Holiday Ornaments, 4 Memory Purse Quick Page inserts, and 3 sets of Semi-PreMade Pages templates!

Please visit my blog and my Facebook page (www.facebook.com/catriona.macgregor) now and then to check for updates. Feel free to e-mail me any time, too. I will continue to take special requests.

As a famous California governor once said, "I'll be back."

Peace, Love, and Happiness: a new alphabet pack in the shop!

It's about time I had a new product...I'm such a slacker...LOL!
So here it is: That 70s Kit - Suede Fringe Alphabet.



This groovy alphabet and number set is decorated with embroidered flowers and leaves and even contains a farout fringy bracket. It's perfect for all your retro photos or your 'Back to the 70s' parties! It also works well for those 1960s Woodstock-style layouts.

On sale now for only $2!

Come to the $2 Groundhog Day sale at PDW

Click on the image to go to my store!

New Product Release - Snowstar Felt Trio

These three happy snowstars would like to help you decorate your holiday pages and hybrid paper projects! They'd be ever so cute on those greeting cards you haven't finished up yet, too!
On sale at PDW for only $2 through Saturday!
They measure 2 3/4" to 3" tall by 2 3/4" wide.

Happy Digital Scrapbooking Day and a BIG $1.50 sale!

Hurry up! Come on over and pick up some great bargains...today only!

Start your 'Year in Review' album now!

Start saving your favorite photos and join me in putting together a nifty little 'Year in Review' album project!

Don't wait until next January to start thinking about doing a year in review (YIR) album - use those photos you've been taking all year and join me in putting together my new 'Semi-PreMade Album: A Year in Review' project right now!

Not ready yet? Don't worry - with these new template sets you can begin anytime!

The 'Semi-Premade Album' YIR project is made up of 6 two-month packages created to help you capture the highlights of your year and create a fabulous 5x7 album ready for printing with your favorite photo vendor. Each set has four layered templates (.psd files) making a 2-page spread for each of two months and includes fun elements, photo frames, and textured paper shapes...all for only $2.50 per set!

But wait! Subscribe to the entire project and get a special bonus front and back cover set! And that's not all...post your finished pages in the special 'Year in Review' PDW gallery and get a special surprise treat!

Set 1 = January & February: on sale Oct 29-31!
Set 2 = March & April: available Dec. 1
Set 3 = May & June: available Jan. 1
Set 4 = July & August: available Feb. 1
Set 5 = September & October: available Mar. 1
Set 6 = November & December: available Apr. 1
Bonus = Front & Back Cover pages: on sale Oct 29-31!

The 'Semi-PreMade Album' template sets will be issued monthly and there are two ways to purchase them. (on sale Oct 29-31!)

1. Purchase the entire project at once for only $12.00 and get a monthly download link. Subscribers will get the bonus front & back cover template set free with their first download.
   Click here to subscribe to the full set.
2. Purchase each individual template set as it becomes available each month for only $2.50.
   Click here to purchase set 1 - January & February.
   Then, purchase the bonus front & back cover template set separately at any time for only $1.50.
   Click here to purchase the bonus front & back cover template set.

As you complete your pages, post them in the YIR Gallery and post a link in the YIR forum for a special treat!

Don't want to do a 'Year in Review' album?

Use these templates to create any kind of album you want - school years, clubs, scouts, baby's firsts, wedding, heritage - the sky is the limit!

And, best of all, this album is totally customizable and reusable year after year!
A truly 'green' project!

Remember, all my designs are S4O friendly!

It's Samhain...Trick or Treat!...and a sweet freebie for you!

The Celtic year begins at Samhain [pronounced sow-in]. It is divided into two seasons: the light and the dark, celebrating the light at Beltane on 1 May and the dark at Samhain on 1 November. Some believe that Samhain was the more important festival, since it marked the beginning of a new dark-light cycle. It is a time of death and birth, a time of change, where we leave our old life behind and pass out of the darkness into our new life. The Celts observed time as proceeding from darkness to light because they understood that in dark silence comes whisperings of new beginnings, the stirring of the seed below the ground.

The night of Samhain [in Irish, Oíche Shamhna and in Scots Gaelic, Oidhche Shamhna] is one of the principal festivals of the Celtic calendar, falling on 31 October - Halloween. It represents the final harvest. According to Celtic lore, Samhain is a time when the boundaries between the world of the living and the world of the dead become thinner, at times even fading away completely, allowing spirits and other supernatural entities to pass between the worlds to socialize with humans. It is the time of the year when ancestors and other departed souls are especially honored. It is still the custom, in some areas, to set a place for the dead at the Samhain feast and to tell tales of the ancestors on that night. (Perhaps this is where 'ghost' stories came from.)

Bonfires played a large part in the festivities celebrated down through the last several centuries, and up through the present day in some rural areas. With the bonfire ablaze, the villagers extinguished all other fires. Each family then solemnly re-lit their hearth from the common flame, thus bonding the families of the village together. Often two bonfires would be built side by side, and the people would walk between the fires as a ritual of purification. Sometimes the cattle and other livestock would be driven between the fires, as well.

When Christianization came to the Celtic people, the religious spin doctors of the day turned this ancient celebration of the changing of the seasons into a scary bedtime story of witches and goblins. This misguided belief still survives in various branches of Christianity today. The Celtic Samhain festival was converted to All Hallows' Day on 1 November by All Souls' Day on 2 November. Over time, the night of 31 October and the remnants of the festival dedicated to the dead came to be called All Hallow's Eve which was eventually shortened to Hallowe'en (Hallow's Evening) and today it's Halloween.

Some of the customs and traditions of Halloween that we celebrate today were brought here by Irish and Scottish immigrants. One Irish custom is to bake a ring into a Barnbrack Cake. Each member of the family gets a slice and great interest is taken in the outcome as there is a piece of rag, a coin, and a ring in each cake. If you get the rag then your financial future is doubtful. If you get the coin then you can look forward to a prosperous year. Getting the ring is a sure sign of impending romance or continued happiness. Another custom popular one at parties is dunking for apples and coins: a portent for success and wealth. Even wearing costumes and masquerading as the souls of the dead came from our ancestors from the Celtic countries.

All the designers at PDW have set out some tasty treats for you and they're scattered all over the store. Here's just a few previews of the treats you can find to fill up your goodie bags! Click on the picture below to get started!

Here's a wee lighthearted freebie for your Hallow'een treating...click here. And tell all your friends to come knock on my door to get their free treat, too!

Arrrr! Buy my treasures for only $1 each!

Hey, all you scurvy scrappers...in honor of TLAP Day, I'm selling all my treasures at only $1 each!* Even my newly released "Here There Be Pirates" kit, its two add-on packs, AND the bracket book (pictured below)!

But HURRY! This bounty will only last for two days - Friday and Saturday - and then it'll be back to business as usual! Arrrr!



What arrrrrr you waiting for? Go grab ye some bountiful booty! Don't forget, all the other rascally pirate gals are selling off their treasures, too!

* Pssst...come a little closer...all my Commercial Use products are only $3 each!

Yo ho! Yo ho! Tomorrow is Talk Like A Pirate (TLAP) Day!

Sail on over to Plain Digital Wrapper to join in on our 2nd annual "Pillage and Plunder" sale!

While cruising around YouTube, I found this great video featuring George Harrison singing his little known hit, The Pirate Song. Aye, matey, it be a good one! LOL!



Want to learn more about the official TLAP Day? Click here.

Clan Packs are in the house!

Here they are - just in time for this year's Highland Games season! The Clan Packs were designed as the perfect way to scrap your Clan events, a Scottish wedding, or a trip to the historic Clan lands in Scotland. Each tartan was lovingly created using the authentic thread counts and colors used by weavers in Scotland.

The first Clan Packs, available in my shop at Plain Digital Wrapper, are Clan Donald (MacDonald), Clan Gregor (MacGregor), Clan Chisholm, and Clan Campbell. Each Clan has both a personal use (S40 friendly) and a commercial use set.

The "Personal Use" Clan Packs are for personal events (such as weddings), Clan correspondence, or handouts at your local Highland Games but you CANNOT use them to produce items for sale or for web designs. If you wish to produce items for sale or use them on a website, you need to purchase the "Commercial Use" Clan Pack version. It's easy and not expensive, so please make sure you purchase the correct pack for your purposes.

Each Clan Pack includes:
1 12x12 authentic Clan tartan paper
1 silver Clan crest
1 silver Clan name word art
1 12" tartan ribbon
4 glass tartan buttons
1 tartan bow

And, in most "Personal Use" Clan Packs, there's a special bonus: a printable 4x6 Clan postcard!

Don't forget to post your completed projects and layouts in the PDW Gallery. I'd love to see what you come up with!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

25% off everything GREEN
today and tomorrow only at
Plain Digital Wrapper - even
my new Shamrockin' Quick
Pages set!

And, to make it easy for you,
they're all in ONE Place!

Click here to visit the
Get Green...Save Green sale!

Are you a "Trash to Treasure Hunt" survivor?

PDW went down for a bit so some folks didn't get my mini kit, "Survivor Girl." If you still need it to round out your collection, it's now available in my shop at PDW.



Click on the preview to go directly to it in my shop!

My love is like a "Red, Red Rose" kit, a charity donation, and a Freebie!

Let your love know how you feel when you scrap your romantic pages using this heartfelt Celtic-themed kit inspired by the poetry of the Scottish bard, Robert Burns. You get a luscious silver-edged chipboard full upper and lower case alpha-numeric pack, wordart, fibers, ten 12x12 patterned and textured papers (including one with a scalloped edged), a silver Celtic knotwork heart key, journaling labels, and more! Get it exclusively at my Plain Digital Wrapper shop.

Buy the kit and help a child!
During the months of February and March, the proceeds from this special kit will be donated to Ellie's Trust. Read more about this great cause here. www.kirstywiseman.com/ellie.html

Save money and get the full kit [only $5.79] or get just the parts you need:
Alphabet Pack [$1.99], Elements Pack [$1.99], and Paper Pack [$1.99]. There's even a special Add-on Pack [$1.59] of fabulous ribbon wrapped frames!

But wait...there's more! When you buy the full kit, you'll get this bonus 12x12 quick page! [This page will not be available separately. Kitties not included!]

Get a free sample!
Click here for a special 6x4 bragbook quick page freebie made with elements from the kit. [Kitty not included!] I'm trying out a new download service, SendSpace, so let me know what you think of it compared to 4Shared.

Slainte! {Gaelic for Cheers!}
Catriona MacGregor
My Plain Digital Wrapper Shop

Announcing - The Digital Celt DigiScrap Blog Shop!

I have been a busy girl! In addition to selling at Plain Digital Wrapper, I've just opened up my own wee blog shop! What's the big deal about a blog shop? You can shop without having to register! Shop - Point - Click - BUY!

The link is just above my picture on the top left of this blog....

The Digital Celt

DigiScrap Shop

I don't have a lot in the shop yet but I will be adding goodies almost daily so stop in often!

Oh, were you waiting for this?

In the past few months it seemed that I never had time to do my own digi-scrapping and I was getting a wee bit frustrated. Then my schedule got busy with work and home responsibilities so I took a leave from selling my designs. After a while, I finally started participating a couple of challenges at Scrapbook Graphics and a couple hosted by Betsy Tuma at Plain Digital Wrapper. I finally got my 'muse' back and completed a bragbook and a few layouts! Yay!

Speaking of getting my 'muse' back...I hope you all liked my special freebies for all those "Survivor Girls" out there. I will be expanding it to a full kit that will be available soon at...

Plain Digital Wrapper!

There you go - that's my secret! LOL! My designs will be available starting on DSD - Digital Scrapbooking Day - coming up on 3 November! To celebrate this first annual 'holiday,' PDW is having a great sale starting today! Here's the ad...

The end of the Pirate trail...for now!

Aye, ye scurvy bilge rats! Tis true...this be the last of the Pirate freebies...for now! All the other treasures have been stowed but will be available in my store as soon as we make port.



Don't forget to post your thoughts on the Grab Bag post below and visit my shop for the complete Here there be PIRATES! kit.

Get your transparent wordart sheet and lovely hair ribbon here.

Please, no file sharing...that's digital piracy. Arrr!
Send your friends to this blog so they can get their own pirate treasure!

Slainte! {Gaelic for Cheers!}

Pirate gold is better than regular gold...

Due to the overwhelming popularity of my 'DSO Blog War' Pirate freebies this month, here's the FULL KIT at last!!!

(Warning: if you haven't grabbed the coordinating freebies yet...they'll be gone soon!*)

When asked, 9 out of 10 people prefer Pirate gold over regular gold. I think it’s the packaging.

Not convinced?

Take a look at regular gold...

Now, take a look at Pirate gold...


Get the picture?

Now, here’s some real Pirate gold to add to your treasure chest of freebies you've been collecting from our DSO Freebie War!

Here there be Pirates! The Kit!

Real gold and silver doubloons, a historically accurate pirate flag paper, a real pirate names and fun pirate phrases paper, red wax seal alphabet with numbers and special symbols, fabulous gemstones and a never before seen parchment wordart!

For a limited time, get it in my shop at DSO for 20% off the regular low price of only 5 Doubloons! (that’s “dollars” to you landlubbers!)

There's more treasures where these came from, me hearties, so keep a weather eye out!!

Cap'n Cat

(* Shiver me timbers! If you forgot to grab the blog freebies, they'll be going on sale in the shop in July!)

Look what I dredged up...

Download no longer available.

And, in honor of all the pirate
fun we've been having...
here's a sneak peek of my new kit!

Yes, you guessed it...
Here there be PIRATES!

Plenty of pirate gold and treasures
for your Pirate parties, ocean journeys,
vacations in Disneyland, and
International Talk Like A Pirate Day
celebrations!

It will be available soon, me hearties!

Please, no file sharing...that's digital piracy. Send your friends to this blog so they can get their own pirate treasure and participate in our fun little blog war!

Slainte! {Gaelic for Cheers!}

i-NSD Sale - 50% 0ff on 5 May - ONE DAY Only!

Inter-National Scrapbook Day is here!
Click on the image below to go shopping...

Don't forget to check out the Bargain Bin for our weekly .99 cent sale!
You can save big, Big, BIG!

Get a Little Crazy!

Full Moon Crazy, that is! This kit has been on the back burner for a few 'moons' but it's finally finished. It has great textured papers, a fabulous torn alphabet, and some great elements and fibers. The soft colors will sooth you on your craziest of days!

I know some of you don't need a whole kit, so I split it up and the individual parts are available, too. Best of all, in addition to the kit, I have a new sample bragbook page you can download for free at DSO.

Want a crazy bargain? Of course you do! Well, you're in luck...for one week only, from 3/25 to 3/31, it's on sale for 20% off! Click here to go right to it!

Just for my great blog readers, here's a little embellishment made from the items in the kit. Click the image to download.


Please, no file sharing...that's digital piracy.
Send your friends to this blog so they can get their own copy.

Slainte! {Gaelic for Cheers!}