Creative Ways to Use Watercolor Balloon Clipart and Printables
Who doesn’t love balloons? They instantly add a sense of fun, celebration, and joy to any project — whether you’re designing on your computer or creating something by hand at your craft table.
This freebie includes five watercolor balloons in red, purple, yellow, green, and blue as PNG clipart, plus two printable sheets designed especially for card making and paper crafting. Below, you’ll find ideas for both digital designs and handmade projects to help you get started.
The PNG files come with transparent backgrounds, making them easy to use in digital designs and printables. You can resize them, layer them, or adjust colors and effects depending on the look you want.
Here are three simple ways to use the balloon clipart digitally:
Idea 1: Create Invitations
Balloons and invitations are a perfect match. You can use them to create a border, frame your text, or make the balloons the main focal point of the design. This works beautifully for birthday invitations, baby showers, and other celebrations — and the same layout can easily be adapted into a greeting card.
Watercolor Balloon PNG Clipart for Digital Crafting
Idea 2: Design a Digital Greeting Card
Because the balloons already have their own watercolor texture, you can experiment with transparency, saturation, or filters to create softer or brighter color versions. For example, grouping several balloons together and slightly adjusting the color can give you a gentle, cohesive look for baby cards or themed greetings.
Idea 3: Make a Balloon Background
Colorful balloons are great for creating festive backgrounds. Arrange them freely or in a pattern to design a background for a printable card, digital greeting, journal page, or even a notebook cover. Playing with filters can help you match the mood you’re going for — soft and pastel or bright and playful.
If you enjoy hands-on crafting, the printable sheets are designed to make card making simple and flexible. One sheet includes balloons with cords, while the other contains just the balloon heads, giving you more creative freedom. These printables are perfect for handmade greeting cards and other paper crafting projects.
Printable Balloon Sheets for Card Making & Paper Crafts
I made this card using paper glue and double-sided foam tape, and:
purple cardstock
white cardstock (cut out with a help of Sizzix, but you can cut it by hand)
background from my printable card making kit
yellow balloon from this freebie
'Good Luck' sentiment from my printable sentiments collection
a cord
This watercolor balloon freebie was created to spark ideas and make both digital designing and handmade card making a little easier. Whether you’re creating invitations on your screen or cutting and gluing at your desk, these balloons are meant to be fun, flexible, and easy to use.
Happy creating!
