Corporate balloons

Big Balloon Build, Gilford, December 2023

Powerball, Old Billingsgate, London November 2023

Jacqui Young, owner of Classic Touch Balloons, Wishaw, Was the only Scottish artist chosen from hundreds of professional applicants to help create the very first Big Balloon Build in the USA.

Carefully constructing a giant replica of the giant board game Candy Land using 125,000 balloon was anything but child’s play.

Coatbridge’s Jacqui Young was one of 65 balloon artists from around the world to take part in the first Big Balloon Build outside the UK.

Jacqui’s first Big Balloon build was in December 2021 in Birmingham which was the first build outside of the director Stuart Davies home country of Wales. Her team leader there was Liz Romani from Valley Party in Vincennes, Indiana who was the host for Candyland in April.

Local businesses provided the balloon artists with meals during their entire stay which was very much appreciated by all of the participants.

Jacqui has been decorating venues for every celebration you can think of for over 35 years, but building a giant forest as part of a life-sized board game was a whole new challenge.

Once completed The Big Balloon Build was gifted to the charity United Way of Knox County in Indiana where it raised more than $180, 000 for over 30 charities in the community.

After a fundraising evening the display was open to the public. On the first day the doors had to stay open three hours longer than scheduled to try and accommodate the long line-up.

The giant ice cream cones and colossal cotton candy clouds were made possible when Hasbro Inc granted Stuart Davies permission to use its trademark game, as did Hershey’s chocolate. It marked the first time anyone had tried to make a oversized board game out of balloons. Stuart Davies said “You will literally be one of the pieces in the board game itself……talk about a real-life Jumanji!”

Jacqui was on team Plumpy. They created the gingerbread plum trees where Plumpy was the caretaker. She worked alongside artists for the USA, Canada, England and the Cayman Islands.

I was delighted to be part of The Big Balloon Build in Birmingham. In December 2021 50 balloon artists from all across the world took part in this amazing and unique build. Using 125.000 balloons we created stunning scenes for The Nutcracker. Below are images of what we managed to create in  just 3 days.

The first scene of the Nutcracker takes place in the ballroom

Here we have the castle

The forest/ battle scene

The Toy room

the train

Ice cream sundaes, Nut crackers and rat soldiers to welcome guests to the show

Our are nutcrackers ready for the show

The Lost in Music Christmas party 2021, Santa and snowman arch over the dj booth to add some festive cheer

Lost in Music 3ft personalised star for all the guests at the party to have their photo taken with

25ft Outdoor balloon arch for the grand opening of the new Crown Decorating Centre in Wishaw

Greggs Wishaw asked us for a 6 colour rainbow arch to welcome their customers back after the 2020 lockdown

Inside the store we created a welome back sign for all of the hungry customers at Greggs Wishaw

Congratulations to C&S Masonry  on their new business venture