CM is back!! So excited to be able to offer traditional scrapbooks and Fast2Fabulous albums once more - thankful for our investor and his vision for our company. For so many years Creative Memories has been the only album I would ever choose for my precious photos and I am relieved and overjoyed that this will continue. Please go check out my website to see what old and new favorites the new CM has to offer

http://www.creativememories.com/user/fransmitherman

Today we are supposed to get a "sneak peek"of what Caleb has in store for the "new" Creative Memories - can't wait to see what he has planned! If you want to keep up with things of course you can always follow me here or on Facebook, but you can always go sign up at http://www.creativememories.com/ to get the news the fastest!

This week we received an invitation to keep up with Creative Memories through the following link until the new launch:

http://www.creativememories.com/

Here is what they said - basically, expect the best of CM AND Ahni and Zoe, hooray!

OUR STORY

Creative Memories was born in 1987 with a vision that one day millions of people would celebrate family memories and tell their unique stories in beautiful, high quality albums. The vision was realized as Creative Memories started an industry and its Consultants helped millions connect through their photos.

In 2014 Ahni & Zoe was born, offering a quick, easy approach to album-making. Both scrapbookers and non-scrapbookers found it simpler than ever to complete albums of love, encouragement and friendship.

Now under new management, the new CM launching in October 2014 will offer the best of both Creative Memories and Ahni & Zoe: the original scrapbook albums and pages beloved around the world, and modern, quick-to-complete albums that appeal to today's busy families.

After nearly 30 years, we're proud to continue the tradition and keep making a difference in the way people remember, celebrate, and connect.

A Big Change for the Traditional Album Side of Things

An outside investor has decided to shut down the Ahni and Zoe business as it is currently structured and to re-open a new business (not a direct sales/party plan model) in the fall. His vision is to keep things simple (which is what I LOVED about Ahni and Zoe) and to offer the Fast 2 Fabulous as well as the old style cloth-covered Creative Memories albums (and possibly a few old favorites as well.)I am grateful to have an outside investor who sees a great future in our products! 

I have been a Creative Memories or Ahni and Zoe consultant for the past 12 years and I can say with perspective that this has been a tumultuous past few years for scrapbookers, with two Creative Memories bankruptcies and an Ahni and Zoe receivership (not to mention countless scrapbooking stores around the country closing down.) The crazy thing is that through it all I've still made album after album and as far as I'm concerned, our future is bright as long as Panstoria Print Shop and some remnant of Creative Memories/Ahni and Zoe remains to make our fabulous photo albums for us! 

Ahni and Zoe orders can be placed on my website from now until August 21st, and then we wait! Fast 2 Fabulous albums, slide in albums, predesigned as well as plain white refill pages (under "Other") and tape runners are necessities we can all use so if this is something you have been thinking of now is the time. Our refill pages fit in the old coversets and our tape runner refills fit in the old tape runners, by the way. Magnetic Displays are also unique items and I am not sure if they will be in the new company's offerings or not, I have enjoyed mine.