Something like this?
I personally just liked the way the smear looked over the text. This isn't personal journaling either, it's just song lyrics, which I know anyways, and it's not necessary to read all the lyrics for the effect I wanted. lol, so basically I just thought it looked cool...
Sometimes if journaling is too personal, I save my full size jpg, then when I shrink it down to post I'll blur it out, or lighten it so it's too hard to read. That's only for something I don't want to share.
If my elements happen to lap overtop of some words, I just make sure it's easily filled in with your mind as your reading, or if it's a lot of text that says the same thing a few times just different wording throughout, I don't mind some stuff overlapping it.