Creating My Digipak and Devlopment

I have never created a Digipak before so it was all new to me. I'm using Adobe Illustrator to create it which again is something I have never done. So I plan to document my progress and new skills I've learnt.

This picture shows the text I had hand written in order to scan into my laptop which I have imported into my Adobe Illustrator project. From here I cropped the image as seen below.

Here we see I have used the image trace tool to separate the text from the lined paper, after this I changed the threshold settings to 128 as it meant I was able to get rid of all the lines already existing on the paper while still keeping the appearance I wished for.  

After changing the threshold I used the advanced options in the image trace settings and increased the paths to 57% in order to allow the program to pic up more individual lines. After this I also used the corners tool and reduced it in order to create a smoother appearance to the text. Finally, I increased the noise to 63 px as I felt it aesthetically improved the font I was looking for.