How do you use WORD ART?

[jenn]

Got a great question from a reader on our ELEMENTS thread, so I thought it should be a question of it's own - how do you use Word Art? Here's what she said:
Out of curiosity, how do you use wordart? I try to use it but it always feels forced, fake, silly, weird on pages for me.

For me it depends on the word art - sometimes it's a background thing, sometimes it's in place of journaling. Here are two layouts where I used word art that I like a lot:


In the first one the WA works like journaling, in the second one it works more like a title.

I was thinking of other ways to use word art - blend into a background to make a wordy paper, shrink onto a 'button' and use as an element, - it really depends on the words and how they're laid out really.

I'm curious to hear what everyone else thinks!