Ok so it turns out my SD card was in exFAT format which was messing with the homebrew apps not letting them start. Formatted to fat32 and booted into atmosphere and everything worked like a charm.
I have successfully booted into Atmosphere and ReiNx now but in each CFW when I click the album the homebrew menu is not there. I'm using the latest SD files from tumGER 11.0.1 Sparkle. Does anyone know why this might be happening?