Alright, I think I am very close to a certain kind of success, but two questions:
Here's what I've got: [cd="background-color:LemonChiffon; background-image:url('IMAGE URL'); width: 850px; height: heightpx; border: 25px border-style:solid MediumSeaGreen; padding: 20px;"]
But when I load it up in a preview post, I don't see any border. So I'm thinking I did something wrong on the border end of things. Could you possibly point that out to me?
Secondly, is there a place you go to find the background images if I wanted to go that route? I looked around DeviantArt but couldn't find anything with the right layout where text would be easily readible like in the one you use on your journal, Squirrel.
Does this look like what you wanted?
You just needed to clean it up a little - here's what you had:
[cd="background-color:LemonChiffon; background-image:url('IMAGE URL'); width: 850px; height: heightpx; border: 25px border-style:solid MediumSeaGreen; padding: 20px;"]
Instead it should read:
[cd="background-color:LemonChiffon; background-image:url('IMAGE URL'); width: 850px; height: heightpx; border: 25px; border-style:solid; border-color: MediumSeaGreen; padding: 20px;"]
You need to make sure there is a semi-colon separating each part of the code, and the border colour needed its own section - hopefully this clears it up but let me know if you need anything else :)
As for the images, I honestly just use google to find them haha. The way I've done my journal page is to put the foresty picture as the background and set it to not repeat (add "background-repeat: no-repeat;" to the code) and then set the background colour of the text box to the same colour as the grass at the bottom of the image. Then to put a shaded box on top of the picture to have your text visible, just copy and paste the first box you made and then add "background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.74);" to the code to add a the black shading which is transparent but dark enough to see the text over it (and get rid of the "background-image" bit). I might not have explained this very well so feel free to ask for clarity of course!
You should have a great looking journal in no time :)