Done for the AJ Challenge Week 1 for Sept. 2024 found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/september-art-journaling-challenge-week-1-focus.40416/

Journaling reads: More times than not I have to make myself get up in the mornings and take those first steps to better health! 8/29/24

Process:
I blended my photo into the bg paper using High Light blend mode to add the texture from my photo and to pick up the texture from the paper.

I stretched the word “focus” from Rachel’s word art to make it larger than the rest of the type. I did this by using the rectangular marquee tool to select the word. Then I clicked on the move tool to obtain points of the selection that I could stretch. This leaves the rest of the element to remain in its original size, changing only the selected portion.