Digital Manipulation with Collage

I have been making some collages out of magazines as backgrounds for my photographs but I made one which didn't seem to work with most of the photographs I came up with:

This is the best I got blending it with a photograph and using the apps iColorama, SketchClub, Bicasso and Repix:

But I decided to rework it with paint and see what I could do so this is the original collage which has been painted over:

Instead of trying to combine it with a photo I decided to just manipulate it in iColorama using Edges, Threshold and Style>Shape. After blending all of these together and applying a paper texture this was my final result: