So I went a did some more looking around at the way professional album makers design stamp albums.
The stamps are obviously the focus of the page. Other album makers seem to make sure the stamp boxes are center aligned and the titles and text descriptions just flow around them as needed.
So I decided to give that a try, and, once I put the stamps on the page, I liked it. I'll scan it tomorrow and post a pic.
My "holy grail" album pages are White Ace pages made by Washington Press. Here is a sample page from their site:

Their Ireland page looks like this:
