R2R Front Cover Progress

First I created the background in Photoshop and Paint Tool Sai:

The background once I was happy with it:

I began "sketching" the placement in Photoshop:

And looking at how different fonts worked 

(Note that this title is just a placeholder until we decide):

The finished "placement" sketch in Photoshop:

NEXT I moved into InDesign & started by placing the tree:

 Next I began placing the kids in the frame in proportion:

(And I added an outer shadow to separate them from the background)

I placed the text:

And here it is so far (with placeholder text):