Craft Along With GIY; Lap Tray Make Over with Literature and Macabre

So finally, I've got a project I can contribute to Craft Along with GIY. The theme had been to interpret the theme of crafting either with letters and numbers. This task had me a stumbling back until I thought to try something different with my current project.  

 I purchased this lap tray ages ago, with the intention of adding the goth factor to it or simply paint it black. I got this from a local brick and brac furniture shop for a pound,  surprisingly its amazing quality compared to other I've seen. I was planning to use the tray for my netbook. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but just never got around this.

I remember reading somewhere you're able to substitute acrylic paint for fabric paint. What I read,  recommends using watering down the paint with 1 part water to 9 part paint. 

Surprisingly it seemed to work, I didn't think it would work so effectively, once the paint dried the fabric became stiff and highlighted the batik pattern, it looks quite interesting.

I spray painted the sides with black gloss, I didn't bother priming the wood but cleaned the edges and left to dry.  

I had a few pages left from my book tree, and I decoupaged the tray with pages  I ripped the page up glued using a watered down glue.     

The finished effect. 

I printed a beautiful image of a skeleton and watching over a woman reading from here, so I glued down and used washy tape to neaten the edges  

I applied sticky back plastic to create a waterproof layer so it didn't damage the paper layer. 

This is the final result of my lap tray.