[yokai]

Ok thanks for the tips, I tried to redo some parts like you said here's what I've done so far http://i.imgur.com/SWAhyMM.jpg but I suck at choosing contrasting colors etc

Well, its getting somewhere. If you want then you can have the half done PSD of a redesign of your thread design that I started on. If you want, then here is how it looks right now;

http://i.imgur.com/hhVHPMu.png