Wow, this has potential. Put that flower up against the Wall Street Journal's pale yellow stock pages and this would've won the contest by far. I'll still give you a 9 for being pretty damn creative. I've never thought of this before.
interesting effect, but it would have worked better if you'd taken the saturation out of the pages as well - there's a warm tone coming off them as well. i'm not sure i'm fussy on the black negative space either. would all book would have worked better to fill the frame?