This had to be 2 pages--I tried twice to fit 6 photos, taken by my dad in 1952, into a single page LO, but it just didn't look right. The scenery at this Washington state park ("most-visited park in Washington with over 2 million visitors each year" according to Wikipedia) is spectacular, and fortunately for Dad, the weather was cooperating on that long ago day. To add embellishing elements to the composition I included current information about the area: maps (see technique below), some quotes from the WA State Parks and a private tour web sites, some commemorative US postage stamps and, of course, brief journal entries relating it to my life with Dad. There wasn't enough room left for anything else, so I didn't even try to find appropriate "buttons or bows" type elements. TFL

Technique:

found a colorful topographic map which I used 4 ways: (software used was PS7)

1-copied the colors to create my plaid, used as a framing border.
2-used it to create my own background paper (converted it to gray-scale; made multiple copies put next to each other like bricks which I merged into one layer; used that as an overlay on the solid blue color block; tilted it 30 degrees
3-used a small-size copy of the map as an element on the left page ("clustered" it under the state park map)
4-used it as "paper" from which to "cut out" the title letters (digital method: rasterized the letters and used them as a clipping mask)

To frame the photos I used the black brushed-look frame in the free download "mcd-add-on_fresh as spring" but changed it to white ("inverting" it) and put a 2-color gradient over it for the large photo, for added emphasis.