Fountain pen specific papers usually work very well (unsurprisingly) but they are quite expensive in my opinion. Popular brands are Tomoe River, Clairfontaine, Rodia, etc. These papers are usually very smooth. I happen to know you can get Clairfontaine in both white and ivory/cream. Cheaper paper is a bit of a lottery. If you buy random papers some of them will do well others will be terrible. The difficulty is that cheaper paper brands don't keep the paper consistent: if it works one time it might not be exactly the same the next time. A middle of the road option is Oxford Optik paper, which works quite well. Currently I have some thick A4 booklets from a no-name brand I got from Action(shop with random cheap stuff) which happens to be quite good for 1.29 eur a piece (amazing price lol). It even takes serious flex well depending on the ink. But it's exactly those types of scores that are not very consistent. I'm more of a dark ink guy so I can't help you with inks.