Been working on this for days, time to call it done. Despite having made many scrapbook pages, my experience with lots of people photos is very limited, so this was a challenge. Not so much the arrangement, but the colors of the photos.
The arrangement is Project Template Album 8 page 1 on the left, and 2 blended photos on the right, one with Frolic FotoBlendz, the other a simple extraction (I say simple because this is a 1-second extraction provided by iOS 16; it's not perfect, but it's too easy not to use.) and a custom drop shadow.
I desaturated several photos to reduce some of the varied colors (Image > Adjustments > Black & White, adding a beige Tint).
Stars from Frolic Artsy Transfers and MM Holiday, plus splatters all added to convey energy
The Word Art titles have a color adjustment plus Glows added to deepen the wood tones.
Visual Triangles created with blues, buttons and threadz, plus stars.