I have been wanting to splatter paint balloons for about a year now, and this week, I finally decided to hop to it! I grabbed some balloons I had lying around (Yes, it’s normal to have balloons just “lying around” in my house) and some gold paint, covered my deck in a tarp and went crazy! Then Jeff and I spontaneously drove to the best wall of all time, the giant pink wall at the LA Paul Smith store, and got our photo on. I’m so in love with these balloons, probably because anything dripping in gold is A-OK in my book! If you can throw around some paint, you can make this too. Let’s do it!
Balloons (Inflated, with either helium or air!)
Gold Craft Paint
Paint Brushes (Different sizes and bristle-types will give you different splatters. Experiment!)
Water
Tarp or Other Protective Surface (This gets messy!)
To get a better splatter, you need to thin out your paint. This may vary based on the type of paint you used, but I used about a three-to-one, paint-to-water ratio. Mix with a paintbrush. Before anything else, cover your entire workspace in a large tarp. The paint gets everywhere, so be safe! And don’t wear anything fancy, just in case it gets on you too. Not that this happened to me or anything…
To splatter your balloons, dip your brush in the watered-down paint, hold on to the tail of your balloon and go to town! You can flick the brush, tap the brush or do whatever you please to get the paint on the balloon. This is not a precise process, folks! Note: Large splatters will drip down the balloon a little as they dry because of the round surface. I found using a combination of softer bristled and smaller brushes gave me the look I liked best. After you’re happy with your splattter-age (That’s totally a word.), let the balloons dry completely, making sure they don’t touch each other until fully dry. Mine actually dried fairly fast (in about a half hour), but this will again depend on your paint!
I think these splatter-gilded balloons would be great for a bridal shower or a little kiddo’s birthday (it could even be a party activity)! This concept would be so fun on white balloons with all sorts of paint colors, or on colorful balloons with white paint, too! The possibilities are, once again, endless.
All Photos by Studio DIY
I have some more splatter paint projects up my sleeve, so keep in a look out! In the meantime, get your gild on here and here.
And for more DIYs all around, head this way!
Shelly Hardage-Wilkerson says
How cute and what a simple way to dress up a plan-colored balloon.
Chelsea C. says
Love these, doll! xoxo
Ally Ebdon says
These are so fab, you did a super job. I’ve seen marble balloons for sale that kind of give the same effect but seeing as those are printed the marbling gets less vivid the more you inflate them so I far prefer yours. x
Lexy | The Proper Pinwheel says
You guys are so cute!!! Love those balloons.
Callie says
Such a great idea!! Also I’m in love with the wall. I take pictures of it whenever I pass by 🙂
Brittni says
Love it! Another good one Kel.
Jess says
What a fun idea!
Carrie // cue the confetti says
Well, these are fantastic.
Mary @ Mary Costa Photography says
Kelly…this is TOO CUTE FOR WORDS. Love!!
LARY@ Inspiration Nook says
Such a cute idea!
Terrie says
These are so fun! I love the pictures 🙂
Kate says
wow!! I don’t think I’ll ever have plain colored balloons again. This looks amazing!
Laura Trevey says
Now, this I LOVE!!
Elisa says
Genius! These look lovely and it’s such a simple idea. Thank you for sharing this, it will make a great addition to my daughter’s party decor!
Angela says
This is SO cute! i think i’m going to try it for a party i’m having this week. thanks for sharing 🙂 http://www.handmadeintheheartland.com
Kelly says
Awesome, Angela! If you try it out, I’d love to see a pic of how they turn out!! =)
Kelly
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Vivek Bharti says
Nice blog keep updating
Kajal Sharma says
{”} Beautiful balloons {”}
oan mohammad says
Nice balloon color very attractive nice combination of color.
Pawan says
Awesome and mind blowing information you have shared with us. Keep sharing
Arshad Khan says
So colorful very attractive nice combination of color my baby girl like balloons.
Thanks
Subhan Khan says
Good to see nice balloons
Thanks
keep shearing .
Ranjeet Singh says
wonderful color nice post
attractive balloons
looks good
Thank you
Sunita biswas says
thanks for sharing useful information for us.i really enjoyed reading your blog, you have lots of great content and your images are soo beautiful…
Wasim Mumtaz says
Awesome colors
Vishwajit says
Its good look like that color of balloons well I am looking something else but when I saw I just stop here to see the balloons. Its different now.
Yes its different types of balloons.