From the Design Desk: Happy Early Valentine’s Day!

2.8.10 | Aya Akazawa | Art and Design, Design Desk

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If you remember mixed tapes, you probably have a memory or two about giving or receiving a special compilation of music recorded on a cassette tape as a Valentine’s Day gift.

Valentine’s Day is less than a week away and I wanted to make a special mixed tape (well, a disk in this digital age) for our beloved Design Desk readers. Sadly, though, I quickly realized that I have no talent for doing this. So instead, I created two special Valentine’s Day color-ways of one of the label designs from Candy Orchard CD Packaging Kit. But wait, there’s more: I’ve also designed matching gift tags!!

You can download these special disk labels and gift tags from this link. Print them out, cut out carefully, paste on a disk with some spray mount, and voilà! Making a sweet and thoughtful mixed disk is this easy! You can apply these labels to movie DVDs, too. A private screening for two at your cozy home? I’m hearing a cork popping and smelling a chocolate cake from the oven…

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Hope you enjoy our little downloadable gift!

Ayako Akazawa
Senior Designer

P.S. I’d love to hear your lovely and creative Valentine’s Day ideas. Leave a comment below with your playlist suggestion…or anything that you might be putting on your gift disk!

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  1. February 9th, 2010 at 1:11 pm | Posted by Rachel

    This is darling! Thanks so much, I’ll be linking to this.


  2. February 9th, 2010 at 4:12 pm | Posted by Jennifer

    Anything from the Magnetic Fields’ “69 Love Songs” would be great on a valentine’s day playlist. Even better with the pretty package!


  3. February 9th, 2010 at 7:23 pm | Posted by Design Mom

    Adorable! Off to post this on kirtsy.


  4. February 10th, 2010 at 7:28 am | Posted by Whatever DeeDee Wants

    Seriously, these are so cute!


  5. February 10th, 2010 at 8:50 am | Posted by erika

    these are sooo superpretty! for some reason, our truck’s cd player won’t play cds with handmade labels (boo!), so i think i’ll just print these out on cardstock and slip them into the cd case thingys as pretty covers, instead. thanks for sharing, i’ll be linking, for sure :)


  6. February 10th, 2010 at 9:52 am | Posted by Carol

    This link did not work for me! Can you help?
    Carol


  7. February 10th, 2010 at 10:52 am | Posted by Jenni

    Hi! I have been thinking about doing this for a dinner party we are putting together for our cute husbands…this is perfect! I love V-day and over at our blog I have posted 5 of my favorite gift ideas. Thanks for the download…I love it!

    http://lovelypraiseworthy.blogspot.com/2010/02/5-fun-love-day-ideas.html


  8. February 10th, 2010 at 12:22 pm | Posted by Xen

    This is just ADORABLE! I can’t remember when last I saw something so simple and elegant, and SO visually pleasing. Beautiful!


  9. February 10th, 2010 at 6:29 pm | Posted by Silvia

    Hi!! Thanks :)


  10. February 12th, 2010 at 12:50 pm | Posted by mel

    lovely idea! thanks for sharing :)


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