How to Make a DVD Box or Sleeve from a Template - By: S.Roberts

It’s nice to give homemade CD or DVD’s of family photos or videos to friends and family as gifts. But when you buy the disc’s they don’t come with individual boxes or protective sleeves to ‘house’ the completed CD.

However with a simple sleeve template you can quickly and cheaply create your own CD and DVD sleeves. Simply download the free DVD Sleeve template from the link below and save it somewhere handy on your computer.

Open the template into your graphics package and add photos, text and images that you have copies off Google Image searches.

You can of course also add a title and other text using your graphics package. You might want to add a greeting to the sleeve it you were giving the DVD as a birthday gift for example. You might want to add a date if the sleeve is for a wedding day DVD, so that in years to come you will remember the year the DVD was made.

You can go a bit further and give your DVD sleeve an authentic look by finding DVD icons on Google - Icons such as the DVD Video logo, DVD guidance rating icons, Regional icons, widescreen icons and so on.

If you are not confident to use a graphic package to decorate the CD sleeve, you could print it out blank and draw and write on the sleeve by hand.

When you have finished decoration the template sleeve, save the changes and print it out on to thin card. You may need to paste the image onto a word document and make the image a large size to get it to print out big enough to accommodate a disc. You might need to print out a couple until you get it spot on.

Once printed out, you need to cut out the sleeve, and score along the edges to be folded to give a nice crisp fold.

Fold the flaps that attach the back to the front inwards and stick them with paper glue to the inside of the sleeve. When the glue has grabbed the card, open the sleeve up a little and allow to dry open – just in case you were over zealous with the glue, you don’t want it sticking the front to the back.

Voila! You have a perfect personalised DVD or CD sleeve for your disc.

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