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!
But … the big trick is … how to actually wrap a CD in that single piece of paper! Scroll down for my step-by-step tutorial, tested right here in the DHC Gift-Wrap Labs.
So now, when you buy CDs (or anything else that’s square and about the same size) – you can giftwrap them with special “Harp Lady in Santa Sack” Paper!
![](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/GiftwrapCD6.jpg)
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!
1.Place CD askew on page as shown below.
![](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/GiftwrapCD1.jpg)
3. Tape the two sides you folded over
![](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/GiftwrapCD3.jpg)
5. Fold over the final side and tape
![](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/GiftwrapCD5.jpg)
2. Fold over the two sides as shown below
![](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/GiftwrapCD2.jpg)
4. Fold over the 3rd side and tape
![](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/GiftwrapCD4.jpg)
6. Turn the package over and sign it
![](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/GiftwrapCD6.jpg)
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