{"id":127,"date":"2015-06-29T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/?p=127"},"modified":"2015-10-13T15:28:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T15:28:23","slug":"quality-matters-and-dudes-scrap-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2015\/06\/29\/quality-matters-and-dudes-scrap-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality matters (and dudes scrap, too!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As CM Advisor and Content Contributor Fran Smitherman shared on her blog recently, quality matters when it comes to photo album preservation. There&#8217;s no substitute for the peace of mind that comes with placing treasured photos into an album that will stand the test of time &#8211; and then some. Read about <a title=\"Our Promise to Quality\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creativememories.com\/our-promise\" target=\"_blank\">CM&#8217;s high-quality, long-lasting products<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fran shared an example of an album that was (quite literally) crumbling apart. It was an album of her grandfather&#8217;s (Paw Paw) from his law school days. The memories showcased were amazing, but they were quickly becoming destroyed in the old album. Fran carefully plucked the memorabilia from his album and placed it into a <a title=\"Creative Memories Albums\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creativememories.com\/shop-all\/coversets\/bookcloth-coversets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Memories Album<\/a> where it now will be around for generations! Priceless!<!--more Click to read full post--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pawpawsalbum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"128\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2015\/06\/29\/quality-matters-and-dudes-scrap-too\/pawpawsalbum\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pawpawsalbum.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"320,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Quality Matters\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pawpawsalbum.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-128\" src=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pawpawsalbum.jpg\" alt=\"Quality Matters\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pawpawsalbum.jpg 320w, https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pawpawsalbum-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pawpawsalbum-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pawpawsalbum-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, to further demonstrate that &#8220;dudes scrap, too&#8221;, check out the <a title=\"Fast2Fab Album\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creativememories.com\/shop-all\/fast2fab\/fast2fab-albums.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fast2Fab Album<\/a> Fran&#8217;s hubby put together showcasing a recent trip to Virginia to scope out some fantastic trains &#8211; his favorite thing!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trainalbum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"129\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2015\/06\/29\/quality-matters-and-dudes-scrap-too\/trainalbum\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trainalbum.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Creative Memories Train Album\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trainalbum.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-129\" src=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trainalbum.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Creative Memories Train Album\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for sharing, Fran! We always love to hear how our albums are helping bring longevity to memories like these &#8211; especially for all the &#8220;dudes&#8221; out there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/celebratingyourbeautifullife.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/quality-matters-and-dudes-scrap-too.html\" target=\"_blank\">View Fran&#8217;s original, full blog post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As CM Advisor and Content Contributor Fran Smitherman shared on her blog recently, quality matters when it comes to photo album preservation. There&#8217;s no substitute for the peace of mind that comes with placing treasured photos into an album that will stand the test of time &#8211; and then some. Read about CM&#8217;s high-quality, long-lasting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95570245,"featured_media":128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[406242329],"tags":[82034,16940],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-tips-and-ideas","tag-photo-albums","tag-scrapbooking"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pawpawsalbum.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NsZA-23","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":218,"url":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2015\/10\/18\/themed-albums-vol-ii-halloween\/","url_meta":{"origin":127,"position":0},"title":"Themed Albums: Vol II, Halloween","author":"Creative Memories","date":"October 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"CM Advisor Fran Smitherman has done it again! 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