Second Floor Challenge

Thought I'd play around with Julie and Nathalie's second floor challenge again where the theme is pencils.  Do you remember making pencil and crayon rubbings as a kid?  I wanted to see what kind of items I could find around my house to use as textures for pencil rubbings.  This is what I found:

I chose a few favorites and created a somewhat random background for an art journal page in my recycled kraft paper journal.

I wanted to add something to it, but still wanted to stick with using just pencils on my page, so I got out my colored pencils and made rubbings on the bamboo mat and my opened window's screen in the colors of the flowers currently blooming outside the window - oranges and reds and purples.  I also needed greens and used one of the picture frame textures for that.

I had an idea to paper piece flowers from it to create this journal page.

Here's a close-up to see the textures better:

It's fun limiting yourself to certain supplies and then creating something.  I did miss my black pen!  I think things would've looked much better outlined in sketchy black pen lines - what do you think?