Art Deco Cover/Spread2

I had a lot of trouble with this portion of the project.  I have been working on it all week and honestly, I'm finding it far more difficult than I expected because I am used to being fluent with programs.  To tell the truth, Indesign and Illustrator, though are speaking the same language are turning so foreign to me.  Therefore I can only post what I have as a work in progress because I feel so lost learning these two programs at once.  I am going to continue to work on this but the basis of my idea was to create a spread using primary colors and bold Art Deco font.  The photograph in the background is one I took and put together using photoshop and illustrator.  I wanted to really try and coincide with my original sketched idea but digital drawing is so strange to me.  The second photo in the spread portion was a photo I also took using steel wool, a whisk and a lighter.