Paper Flower CD Case Tutorial

April 20th, 2010

I often send out CDs of my work in the post and as I buy blank CDs in bulk, they come without cases and I’m often at a loss as to what to put them in. I found this tutorial and it’s solved my problem in a unique and beautiful way.

You’ll need:

A square bit of paper, 12″x12″ (or 30cm)
A protractor. Like in school!
some scissors and a pencil
your CD

First off you need to make a template like this:

To get it you draw around a CD, then mark the center of the hole with a little x. Then use your protractor centered over your x and draw lines every 60 degrees. Your circle should now be dissected like a pie. Carry your lines out past the circle. They should be 11 cm from your middle x. Next pop your CD between the ends of your drawn lines and draw around the curve to get your petal shape, like this:

Then mark some little notches a half a cm out from your middle cd circle.

You now have a template. Cut it out and then cut down the petals to each notch you marked. Next find some lovely printed paper. Draw around your template onto the lovely printed paper.

Next comes the folding: