Going Postal: Scrapbooking 'Out of This World'

Hello.

Quick survey for you. Does this sound familiar?

• you stumble across something you haven't used for a while in your supplies;
• you think to yourself "I've had those for years, I really ought to use them up";
• you begin to use them; you see them depleting ... this should be a good thing;
• But ... you begin to think "I've almost run out of those ... I'll have to get some more soon". 

Because, recently, with all these postal projects I've been working on ... that's how I've begun to feel about those postage stamps I was initially intending to 'use up'!

I mean, look ... there's at least 5 of them squeezed into this one close-up of my latest project .. at this rate I'm not going to have any left ...

And again, as I did with the page I shared last week, the stamps I chose were selected mainly for  their colour and texture, but this time some of them co-ordinated [all be it loosely] with the theme of sculpture and 'other worldliness' too:

If you're a regular reader here [awww, thanks!] you'll probably remember my visit to the Jaume Plensa exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture park a couple of weeks back - it's where I met the curtain of poetry I scrapped about here.

My first attempts at using correction tape to journal on to. As discovered on Pinterest!

Well, in a gallery space just beyond the dangling poetry we came across Plensa's Alabster Heads:

They we're amazing. Completely.

• The luminosity of the stone gave the impression that these strange entities weren't really there under your nose, but that they were holograms or projections instead;
• Their serene faces looked as if they were in suspended animation ... but that they could wake up at any given moment ... and ask to speak to your leader; 
• Plus, their elongated shape totally confused the brain. Even though you were standing dead-set in front of them, your brain was screaming that you must be looking at them from an odd angle! 

Thanks to an old pamphlet on astronomy for the perfect caption and that Indian postage stamp was a great match too!

At one point - although the room was in a hushed, awed silence - I heard an elderly man jokingly say "Oh good ... I thought it must have been my glasses"!

Also while we were in there, while I sat on a bench directly opposite the head in the photo - watchful that it may blink at any given moment ... a man entered the room with a little boy of 5 or 6 whose initial reactions was 'Wowwww'. 

A wonderfully appropriate phrase cut from in a vintage comic book.

But then ... after one or two steps further into the space, getting nearer to the heads, he stopped moving, slid his hand up to his Dad's arm and gently but persistantly began tugging on his sleeve, apprehensive about fully entering the room with these magnificent - if a little spooky - creatures.

What was he thinking? That despite knowing it probably couldn't be true ... they might move? That they'd open their eyes? That they were somehow alive? That they were visitors from another world? 

Is it that why you hesitated little boy? Because if it is, let me just say ... 

Me too kid, me too.

Julie 

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 p.s: 

• Check back tomorrow for another giveaway;
• Don't forget there's a full list of Going Postal posts in the right-hand sidebar >>, in case you missed anything;
• And the Going Postal Pinterest board [which is filling up nicely] is here. 

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Supplies: 

I used lots of my Design Team goodies from 3DJean on this one, including: the Studio2Mers 'Cities' paper, from which the city-scape is cut; the chipboard stars; rose cabochon; tiny alphabets and the vintage comic book.

The backing paper and the butterfly are from the Crafty Templates' Quirky Kit I guest designed with last month.