That is Not My Monkey

I have a new journal page today--I made it using the digital border I showed in the tutorial last week. But the most prominent feature is the monkey and the heart.  The monkey was taken from a sketch that I did and then had a stencil cut for it--but the heart is from Coffee Break, and I just love it. 

There is actually a story behind this page.  It has to do with a little moral that I was told a few years ago that has stuck with me.  It goes like this: Everyone has their problems.  Those problems are like monkeys, jumping up and down and screaming for attention.  Luckily we all have bananas to give our monkeys.  But BEWARE, sometimes other people will try and trick you into giving them your bananas for their monkeys which leaves you with nothing for your own.  When they do that, you have to say to them "That is not my monkey!" 

Needless to say "That's not my monkey" has become my catch phrase for "so not my problem."  I seem to be saying it A LOT lately and in a moment of severe frustration I made a journal page about it:

  I airbrushed my stencils on using my Copic ABS.  The heart stencil turned out really nicely, I did a color fade and then popped in up a little bit by adding some smudged charcoal to outline the heart and the star-burst.  I also used the charcoal on the boarders, because they were too pretty and I needed them a little grungier.  I had doodled the lines in the background and then added in the splatter stencil and dots stencil (both by Coffee Break) for a little bit of texture. 

That's it for this page.  I have a second one I'm going to try and get up for tomorrow, so check back!  Hope everyone is having a good week.