there are tons of ways to make an art journal...cut and paste like a scrapbook but no pictures or few picutres...use words, etc..
Here's a link to a page from someone's Journal Your Christmas project...I am going to put my Journal Your Christmas pages up over at Creative Magical Spirit...if I ever get pics of them taken.
AND here's a whole article about art journals...scroll down there are lots of links to scrapping celebs art journals.....not all of them are to my liking ....mine are quite a bit simpler!!! lol