Wooden tray redo

A friend of mine gave me this tray.

It's one of those trays that the wooden letter blocks come in.

 she was organizing their toys into bins and didn't have use for it.

  I was sure I could make it useful for something.

It was a perfect size, but not very pretty...

so I pulled out my handy craft paints and scrapbook paper and

painted and mod podged like crazy!

I overlapped two 12 x12 pieces of scrap paper and after gluing them down I had to smooth out the bubbles

VOILA!

pretty tray for my new ruffle lampshade.