Our cropping room was designed especially for scrapbookers. Built on ground level so there is no carrying of those heavy bags up and down stairs.  It is large and spacious with over 1100 square feet so you and your friends can visit and have a great time while you work. Each guest gets a sturdy, 8-foot table all to herself. You can spread out your tools and embellishments when you get here and you don’t have to pick them up until time to go home. Each table has a Daylight lamp, extra outlets for your personal tools, a large waste basket, and a spill-proof drink holder.   Our ergonomic executive office chairs are on casters. We think they are so wonderful.  There is a wall mounted “32-inch” flat screen television visible from every table so that you can watch TV or a movie while you crop, or listen to your favorite CD. Feel free to bring your favorite movies and 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 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. And, of course, there is a bathroom so that you don’t have to waste time coming into the house although you are very welcome to do so any time.

We know you will want to bring your favorite small tools, and don’t worry, there is lots 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 with 26 cartridges – feel free to bring your favorite cartridges and use our machine or bring your machine and use our cartridges if you prefer  
• Spellbinders – cuts, textures, embosses
• Xyron Design Runner
• Stamps: 1000+ rubber stamps and tons of acrylic stamps
• Punches: 200+
• Decorative corner rounders
• Paper edgers
• Decorative scissors: 50+  
• Creative Memories Cutting System
• Light box
• Embossing heat tools
• Ribbon ironer
• Ink pads: 100+ colors
• Chalks
• Eyelet setters
• Lot of templates  
• Texturing plates
• Paper crimpers
• Crop-a-diles including the Big Bite
• Sewing machine with multiple colors of thread for paper sewing
• Computer and printer for your journaling needs.
• Wireless Internet for your laptop

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

We have a “swap table” where you can trade for something you find interesting or donate things you know you will never use again. Also a “scrap table” with loads of left over pieces of paper in various sizes available for you to pick from. Sometimes the perfect piece is waiting for you there.

We have a small store area with lots of papers, stickers, brads, eyelets, ribbons, buttons, adhesives, and more embellishments. Hopefully, just the right thing to help you complete a page.

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.