Illustrator, Working with the Pen tool

I think the strongest area of my work my color balancing, although i am not 100% satisfied with the colors i have, they work well for my artwork. I can improve on my creativity, the artwork doesn't really seem like anything too unique in my opinion. I am not a very artistic person and find it challenging to make my work "stand out". Uploading the pictures and quotes was easy to do, it only takes all of about 5 seconds to do so. I found it difficult to change the photo into something that wouldn't be boring. I used the move tool to move around my photos and the text boxes, i used color balance to change the color of my background and Polaroids. For cropping, the polygonal lasso and magnetic lasso were used in order to cut the original photo and keep only the Polaroids. I would most likely take a different picture and maybe try to mess with the Polaroids more, like maybe have an arm come out and punch something.