Even More Digipak Stress

I'm getting really angry now. None of my ideas are working and Photoshop is my nemesis.

This is Photoshop.

On paper/virtual paper, my idea of cutting the "ARLA" picture up, diving it by the letters and then laying over the tea cup picture sounds awesome. If it had worked, I would immediately have 4 squares for my Digipak. But NO. It just looks stupid, as you can see:

I didn't even bother doing the R, L and other A, because I'm just so unsure about it. 

Ms Foster said it isn't about the quality and just the mere fact that I'm adhering to the conventions of a digipak or something. So maybe I'll give this a go? Who knows.