How To Giftwrap A CD
in One Piece of Letter-Size Paper

PLUS! Printable “Santa Bags the Harp Lady” Giftwrap
you can print out and use!

Enjoy this VINTAGE POST from my old blog.  I don’t even remember when we first published this post, but it was back when we used to sell CDs out of my kitchen, and went to the post office 4 or 5 times a week to send them off to the people who ordered by mail.

What’s really fun about this post – aside from the fact that I actually took the pictures with a camera (remember those?) and not my phone — and that they’re almost all black-and-white — is that we still have the giftwrap I made back then and you can still download it, use it to wrap CD-shaped things (or anything, really) and you can STILL color it in!  It’s like a Model T Ford that still runs.   Enjoy!

I’ve been making my own gift-wrap since I was a kid. This year I decided to take one of the great drawings artist Ellen Lebow made for me and turn it into giftwrap for everyone to use. A pdf version is available at left.

According to our Gift-Wrap Lab tests, you can click on the drawing at the right, which opens a PDF file of the Giftwrap. Print the giftwrap on your printer (laser printer works best, at least in our office) and – Voila! You’ve got specialized wrapping paper, which even includes a place to sign your name and say who the gift is for!

1. Print & Color in the Giftwrap

Click on the picture below to view and download a pdf version of the giftwrap that you can print on your printer – or just click here:  Giftwrap Download #1: Santa Bags the Harp Lady

2. Scroll Down for my Step-by-Step Guide
to Wrapping CDs in ONE piece of Letter-Size paper!

Yowza! No wasted paper, no scissors, just a coooool design!
And you can even color it in if you want!

2. Fold over the two sides as shown below

4. Fold over the 3rd side and tape

6. Turn the package over and sign it