Rainbow Bright!

Wow I really struggled with this one! Have seen so many photos of lovely bright colours on here over the last few days that I wanted to give it a go, but found it soooo hard! :-( I took over 60 shots - I'm still not happy with the end result but it's the best of a bad bunch lol!!
I wanted to get a really close up shot and do it from a low angle, (not from above) but then just couldn't get it to focus all the pens at the same time? I tried the manual focus for the first time but always got either the front ones or back ones out of focus and just couldn't them all right! Very frustrating!!