The pencils are just cut down and painted cocktail sticks This card doesn't have a paintbrush, but I did do one with a paintbrush again using a cocktail stick and snip of my hair for the bristles. I guesss I could have snipped the pile from a piece of fur fabric.
I took real school objects photocopied them and reduced them to the size I wanted. the backing paper I made from making a collage of all the photocopied items. then I photocopied the collage.