Our cropping room is large and spacious with over 1100 square feet of working area – built especially for scrapbookers. Each guest gets a full 8-foot table all to herself. We have sturdy solid tables – not the flimsy kind. You can spread out your tools and embellishments when you get here and you do not have to pick them up until time to go home. Our chairs are adjustable executive office chairs with casters for moving around without having to get up. Each table has an Daylight lamp, extra outlets for your personal tools, a large waste basket, and a spillproof drink holder. There are two television sets so you can watch TV or a movie while you crop, and a stereo with CD player to listen to your favorite music.

The cropping room is open for non-stop cropping from 1:00 p.m. on Friday until departure at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. It is located in a separate building just two steps off the back deck so you can work all night without disturbing anyone, or if you choose to retire early, you will not be wakened by those obsessed scrapbookers who will not sleep. The cropping room will be open for guest use during the midweek retreat from 1:00 p.m. on Monday until departure at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday.

The cropping area has its own kitchen so you can have a cup of coffee or a cold drink and a snack should your energy start to slow during the night.

We encourage you to bring your own personal tools and favorite cropping supplies because there is plenty of room for everything on your 8-foot table. We also have a great variety of tools for your use while at Kansas Keepsakes Retreat Inc., some of which are listed below:

• Cricut Expressions 24 - Personal Electric Cutter with many cartridges
• Spellbinders – cuts, textures, embosses
• Xyron Design Runner
• Stamps – 600+ rubber stamps and 70+ sets of acrylic Close To My Heart stamps
• Punches – 50+
• Decorative corner rounders
• Paper edgers
• Decorative scissors – 45+ including Fiskar.
• Creative Memories Cutting System
• Light box
• Embossing heat tools
• Hot Off The Press templates – 15+
• Wireless internet for your laptop
• Ink pads – 40+
• Chalks
• Markers, pens, colored pencils
• Eyelet setters
• Texturing plates
• Paper crimpers by Fiskar
• Two computers and printers for your journaling needs.

We have lots of scrapbooking magazines and books to inspire your creativity.

We have a small store in our cropping room for your convenience. We have adhesives, papers, markers, brads, flowers, ribbons, buttons, and more embellishments. Enough to make sure that you will not run out of the basic necessities plus a little more. We do not want you to go home with uncompleted projects.