Scissor challenged!

I had about 24 hours to myself this weekend. Pure Bliss! I had a Saturday to myself a few weekends ago and used that time to order pictures and kind of figure out how I wanted to scrap them. I received the pics the other day and all my new goodies from the CTMH Summer catalog. I was ready to go with pics from our Colorado vacation last year-was going to use the new Back Country paper for that. But, the trip to the zoo on Wednesday and the new Animal Cookie paper was calling to me. So, what did I do? I printed off pics of our trip to the zoo and scrapped them. I started on Friday night and finished the layouts today. I tried several different, fairly new to me, techniques. We spent about 4- 5 hours at the zoo and I spent much more time scrapping the layouts. Oh well. Why can't I just do some simple layouts sometimes, or work faster, or debate with myself less? They did turn out cute and I'll post pics tomorrow or Monday. I also stayed up way too late last night and then John called me at 8 am to inform me of his plans for the day. Gee thanks honey! I was good and awake then, so I figured I might as well head for my scrap room. After I finished up the zoo layouts I started trying to figure out a card to do for the gathering at Brenda's next week. I'm doing a mini workshop and we're doing a 2 page layout, a criss cross card, and a swinger card. I saw an adorable card on the CTMH bb that used the stamp set in the Tickled Pink set. I thought I could use that for inspiration and do my swinger card with that set. But, I forgot one key thing. I am scissor challenged. I see all this fabulous art that people have done where they cut out their stamped images, but they must have more patience than I do, and be more skilled with scissors. When I try to cut out images, it looks like the work of a first grader. Guess I'll keep working on that little skill. Well, my alone time bliss is over and I'm typing this while Caleb is in the bath. He's starting to get restless so I'll sign off for now and hopefully post some pics tomorrow.