Today we have a unique addition to the WordPress.com themes collection – Balloons is a charming theme by Chris Magiera.
Let your imagination soar – or, perhaps more accurately, float – amongst these playfully parallaxed balloons. The simple one-column design makes this theme perfect for a microblog, if short-and-sweet suits your tastes. The childlike style also lends itself well to showing off those photos of your adorable kids (Grandma will thank you).
Catch your own bunch of Balloons on the Theme Showcase!
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Looks OK! I still like Oxygen best, but this one’s nice if you want something laid-back and simple. 🙂
Lovely theme, I will try it on my blog ASAP. ^^
This is a really cute theme! I don’t think it will suit my blog, but I will keep it in mind for future use. 🙂
That is such an adorable theme! I would’ve loved to use it, but the one column thing is a deal-breaker for me. 😦
…now you have me considering a microblog — sounds adorable! 🙂
Aww… this looks so cute.
Love the quirkiness
What a cute theme!
I love the fonts in this theme! Is there any way I can get balloons off the screen? Everything’s falling into place with the look. The only snag is the floating balloons. 😦
There’s no way to do this in the theme itself, but you can use the Custom Design upgrade to hide the balloons with CSS. Read more about Custom Design here.
Thanks! 🙂
So wonderful.
Beautiful theme!
Balloons theme is so cute it just may ‘cheer up’ the Devil.
What an interesting theme. I’m going to have fun playing with it in my test blog.
One column is something that I do not prefer but with this new theme, I’ll make an exemption. I so love the fonts used in this blog. So, I am using it now. I guess the balloons suits perfectly for my blog, celebrating simple and special moments of life. Thanks WordPress! You never failed to impress me.
It is nice.
Another one for the girls…
That’s such a cute theme! I really like it.
I liked it, but it isn’t surprising.
I just activated on my blog! It’s so cute, I love it! 😀
Nice themes. 😉
Cute!
Balloons always bring excitement! Very Nice!
Super layout for a casual blog – great design.
I just activated this theme and I am in LOVE with it! Thank you!
You are amazing! Thank you so much!
Super nice! Amazing! I’m using it on my blog now. 🙂
This is my new favourite theme 🙂
What a great idea and the suggestion for the little ones to post is perfect, thanks.
Balloons on my bday, thanks… 🙂 Though I’m growing up now… haha
Happy birthday! 🙂
It’s cute. 😀
Celebrate your life!
Simple… 😀
The grey color for the background is great. I’m still scrolling the blog up and down to see the balloons move on the blog up and down. It’s a very unique idea. Nice work on this theme.
Too many “cutesy” themes lately. Are designers affected by the recession and the hot summer?
We have a ton of non-cutesy themes in the showcase! And we’re always adding more themes of all styles and varieties. 🙂
Good theme! 🙂
Lovely!
Blessings!
Amazing.
I just activated this theme. Thank you so much. Have a good day ~
Great theme!!!
I’ve decided to use this theme, I love it, but I’d really love it if my widgets could go on the side and the writing was a little big bigger!!!!!
We’re so glad you like it! I think your blog looks great as-is, but you could reposition the footer sidebars and change the font size with Custom CSS and the Custom Design upgrade.
Thank you, glad you think it looks good, I change my mind a lot, so give me a few days and I’ll get used to it 🙂
The theme is awesome but any chance of getting two widget bars to the left and right?
Thanks, we’re glad you like it! Right and left sidebars aren’t part of the theme’s design, but you could reposition the footer sidebars with a Custom Design upgrade and CSS!
Simply nice looking theme, it’s easier for the reader to focus on the posting because it only has a one-column design. Great work!
Love this theme and activated it to my blog. I do wish there was a balloon beside each post that had the post date…that would be adorable.
Cute! I’m pretty happy with my current theme, but this is nice and simple.
Oooooo…….pretty! Why must there be so many amazing themes to make my theme decisions hard??? Why???
What a cute theme! Totally love it and am activating it now 🙂
I came back onto WordPress on the perfect day. These balloons are perfect for my message website. What perfect timing. Can the color of the balloons be changed? Oh, I just gotta go get busy on it. Thank you, thank you. I love it’s simplicity, yet, beauty. Marvelous!
We’re so glad you like it! 😀 The balloons themselves can’t be changed, but this theme is compatible with Custom Colors so you can change link and background colors to suit your tastes.
Nice.
Wait, it’s for free, right?
Yes indeed! Balloons is a free theme. 🙂
So cute 🙂
It’s adorable!!
I LOVE IT!!
The Clarences love & support Balloons!
Amazing theme.
Hey, do any of you know how to change a theme?
Sure do! Go to your Dashboard and select Appearance -> Themes, then click the Activate link under the theme of your choice.
I used this theme for my wedding blog! It worked perfectly with a few tweaks of the CSS. 🙂 I love the balloons!
By far my favorite theme so far! Thank you so much! (And so happy it’s free!)
Cute. Yes, grandma will like this. 😉
Cute!
Now, that is a beautiful theme. Congratulations Chris! A truly well-deserved inclusion.
Lovely. 🙂
Nice! Well done!
Very nice, where is the color?
Do you do themes for wedding pages too? 🙂
Check out our wedding theme, Forever, and stay tuned for more! 🙂
More themes like this, please! Love the “sketch” like quality of the headings. If this allowed for another column for widgets it would be perfect.
Very nicely done theme. I wonder if there is a theme for a tech blog where code snippets can be posted?
You can always post code using the
tag regardless of the theme you're using! If you're looking for a "tech"-y design, you might have some luck poking around the Theme Showcase -- a search for "tech" pulls up quite a few. 🙂More one-column themes please! There can’t be enough!!
Hey, it’s nice… can you make the balloons as a static background?
I like this a lot. It’s perfect for the online book I am planning to write, nice and simple!
Cute theme. 🙂
Beautiful theme.
This is really cute 😀
I like the theme a lot, as every little balloon can symbolize an idea or whim I have… that is lovely as a start-off point for my new blog, too. 🙂
I love it! It’s really cute and clean. One thing I like most is the font style.
Lovely theme.
Very nice theme!