Personal Journal Skin Frame

My attempt at trying to create a custom journal skin for myself, incorporating my style However, I've just spent a good half hour scouring the internet for info on how to add this to the background of a journal. I don't have a clue how to do this. The few tutorials that I found did not work for me. If anyone has an idea of how to do this, please let me know. I've already uploaded the image to imageshack to use for this, but I just can't get it to work with any of the code I found from various sources.