It all depends on what kind of magazine you are designing... The theme to be exact... Whether you want it to be classy, to be cartoonish, to be eerie (yes, butterflies can be eerie), goth, simple black and white, poster-like, or whatever.

It'll be better if you have a theme before you start to brainstorm about the design.

One thing though.. If you're mainly using a laptop for designing, make sure you make the design brighter... from my experience, the designs that looked great on my laptop screen turned out to be quite dark when printed out.