We recently celebrated my sons christening and had a little party afterwards, my mum and myself spent ages decorating the room making it look special and these decorations included several bunches of helium balloons which needed weights to hold them down. We bought our weights from our local Card Factory as we had bought some of the balloons from there as well, they cost 49p each and are available in several colours including gold, silver, purple, red and a lovely mid blue which was what we bought. Balloon weights can be bought in several shapes and sizes or you could even make your own, the ones we bought measured approximately 5 cm's across the base and ...  Read the complete review

Balloon weights are used to ensure that balloons are not flying off! When purchasing helium balloons you will mainly need a balloon weight to make sure it does not go straight up to the ceiling when put down in a room. I have bought balloon weights from Hallmarks before but I found the Card Factory to be selling some as well. The Card Factory also has balloons on sale which I decided to buy as they worked out better than buying them from elsewhere. I saw the balloon weights were only 49p and sold individually so I decided to purchase some whilst I was there. The balloon weights come in a variety of different colours ranging from the blue ...  Read the complete review

My granddaughter has just had her birthday and we bought her some helium balloons. She adores them and these balloon weights came with it. I hadn't seen them like this before, previously they have been plastic shapes but these were much more decorative. I got a choice of which colour I wanted, I was able to choose them myself off the shelf. We went for a vivid pink colour which my granddaughter adored of course! It is a beautiful pink foil wrapped around a weight and then tied with matching pink curling ribbon. This is then attached to the string of the balloon which is tied around it. It helps to keep the balloon grounded so that the helium doesn't ...  Read the complete review

We have a card factory shop in our local highstreet which I think was probably partly to blame for why the Clinton cards closed down. I know I always buy my cards from Card Factory as they are so much cheaper than there are in Clinton so it was inevitable they were not going to survive, when you can buy 10 cards for £1 in Card Factory that are of good quality and look good why go anywhere else! One of the things I buy fairly frequently (at least three or four times a year) are helium balloons. I always buy one for my kids on their birthday as they love balloons and I like to have a big number balloon for them on their actual day so its waiting for them in the ...  Read the complete review

Card Factory Balloon Weight Recently we as a family have become a fan of helium balloons instead of cards (my nephew saw some that were bought for my mother, and he enjoyed them so much more than he would have a card). In the town where I live the cheapest place by far to get these balloons is in Card Factory - a single coloured shape (heart, circle, or star) is a mere £1.49, and they have a wide range of decorated balloons proclaiming all sorts on them - which range in prices depending on size and shape. In my local store they will attach a 'free' balloon weight that is a plastic balloon shape to top these from flying off to the ceiling, however ...  Read the complete review