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Anne McGovern Elegant Balloons Pearl River New York USA Enchanted Light As Air Centrepieces Anne s specialty is customized centrepieces. Join Anne to learn how to add those extra touches to customize your centrepieces to increase your profit. Centrepiece Designs will be for clients on a tight budget as well as those that want something high end. Anne will discuss and demonstrate effective techniques using Lomey, aluminium tubing, Maxi sticks along with non-framed designs to increase your profit. Effective techniques to sell higher end centrepieces will be discussed as well as showing you how inexpensive items and details can take your centrepieces from ordinary to extraordinary. Increase your profit margin!! Bedazzle your Deliveries Everyone loves receiving a balloon delivery. It makes them feel special and balloons make people smile. Anne will be making some fun and very special delivery pieces that are sure to WOW your clients. By adding twisted accents and embellishments you can add additional value to your delivery pieces and bouquets. Air filled and helium filled designs will be demonstrated in this class. Huge Impact Low Cost Non round balloons are increasing in popularity because they offer uniqueness that your competition can t match with you either on price or design. Using the 600 series of balloons for décor, delivery pieces and sculptures for huge impact, filling large spaces and generating large profit margins. Anne will show you how to make these creations unique by adding twisted pieces (you don t have to be a twister), foil balloons (large and small), tulle, ribbon, Squiggles, bubbles, flowers and other little details that will make the difference in your sale and have your client returning again and again. By adding these you can up sell for larger profit and standout from your competition. By creating something that your competition doesn t makes you different and unique increasing your sales.
Jan Iiams Betallic LLC Kansas City, Missouri USA Alpen Products A Wild and Wonderful Balloon Safari! Go Wild! Join Jan on a Bountiful Balloon Safari! You ll experience a whole menagerie full of endearing woodland and zoo animal themed decor designs in super sellable sets of décor vignettes, which are perfect new designs for your most popular celebrations. Jan will share how to re-create this adorable array of playful and profitable pet décor components including clever columns, artful arches, matching centrepieces and delightful gift arrangements. Bring your camera for portfolio friendly pictures and you might even win prizes in this wild class! Artful Air-Filled Balloon Design Increase your creativity and expand profits with Jan s lovely, air-filled collection of delightful balloon designs to add to your existing décor repertoire. Helium is expensive these days, but she ll share secrets for working smart, selling up, and take you step-by-step through construction of air-filled ceiling treatments, wall styles, interactive centrepieces and classic décor compositions that are eye-catching, long-lasting and that you can re-create or embellish. You ll be walking-on-air in this fun class with photo friendly settings, and prizes too! Creative Canopies and Dance Floor Delights It s time for a change! Classic canopies always delight customers but now Jan will add interest and ambiance with new canopy style designs that are fast, easy and with impressive results for this industry standard. You ll experience the construction steps for creating charming gazebos, clever canopy styles and dance floor treatments that you and your customers will just love. They re pretty as a picture so bring your camera and save room in your tote bag Jan always comes to class with prizes!
Guido Verhoef Betallic LLC Zutphen, Netherlands Five Star Quality Products Link the Future This is Guido s first time presenting in Australia. Join Guido and learn why the LINK-O-LOON is the future for any balloon decorator who wants to grow their business in a creative way. Guido will demonstrate some of his favourite basic quick and impressive LINK-O-LOON designs, by showing a quick build fancy column, chandelier, flower and heart. All the principles will be revealed. Not to be missed by those that have had limited experience using LINK-O-LOONS or those experience decorators that have not explored the possibilities that they can offer their clients. LINK-O-LOON Cartoon Characters In this workshop Guido will show you how to build various smaller and larger cartoon characters using different techniques with LINK-O-LOONS in combination with non-rounds. If you re not a twister this will be your opportunity to learn how to keep the twister dollars in your pocket. Free Sculpture Designing Guido s sculpture class will be a two part class, which will not be repeated. This is an advance level class and you should have had some experience working with link-o loons Learn how to create any sculpture you want in any thinkable size. Guido specializes in designing large sculptures. In this class he shares the experiences he has gathered worldwide over the years. Learn calculating 3D sculptures, simultaneous tapering, bending, curving and free drawing with LINK-O-LOONS. Basic knowledge and experience with LINK-O-LOONS is required. This is a two part class and neither will be repeated. PART 1 - Guido will discuss and demonstrate simultaneous tapering, bending and curving Link-O Loons as well as free drawing. PART 2 - Guido will show you how to calculate 3D sculptures, how to organize and sell large sculpture projects. If you have always shied away from sculptures or large projects then this is the class for you. These are the decoration jobs that your competition can t quote against you on, and gives you the upper hand in the market place by being able to offer options to your clients that others can t. A must attend class for the experienced decorator or those that want to expand their decorating skills.
Tope Abulude Balloon Inspirations Greys, Essex, United Kingdom Qualatex Balloon Australia Flamboyant Fantasy Tope is world renowned for his elegant designed table centres. This class will be hands on to create stunning centrepieces for our final night dinner. Learn from the best using accents and embellishments to create fantasy themed centrepieces that can be used for all types of functions. Fantasy Ceilings Are you tired of offering the same ceiling balloon décor that you ve been doing since you started your business? If the answer is yes, then this class with Tope is not to be missed. Learn the most up to date creative designs suitable for ceilings and enhance your dance floors using QuickLinks, Tapers and Starpoints. Your clients won t be able to resist these elegant designs that will add sparkle and atmosphere to their gala events. The tips and tricks Tope will demonstrate in this class are invaluable and will open up new options to suit all occasions. Gala Tunnel Entrances To grow your business you must be able to offer your clients new designs and ideas. How many times have you done the same entrance arch? Well the time for change has arrived. Tunnel entrances are the latest trend for entrance décor. They can be flamboyant, themed, elegant and suitable for all occasions. Tope s stylish entrance tunnels will delight and surprise your clients. They know what a tunnel is but they don t know how spectacular they can be and Tope is renowned for spectacular designs. Learn how easy and effective these money spinner entrances are to up sell and WOW your clients.
Christopher Horne Amscan Decorator Kingstone, Milton Keynes United Kingdom Anagam Australia Themed Parties Today more than ever we have seen the growing trend for extravagant themed parties. Whether it is a children s party, adult or corporate event, theming is growing in popularity. Chris will show you how to put together a complete concept for some of the latest and most popular themes, using licenced and non-licensed balloons and table ware to complete the look. Learn how to up sell using the party stock on your shelves to create larger sales and profits. Diamondz, Orbz and Cubez Oh My!! Join Chris on a new journey using the latest shaped balloons to create interesting sculptures, bouquets and decor. Chris as the designer of these amazing shapes will show you how to use and inflate correctly. These balloons used in creative ways will set you apart from the everyday party shop décor and inspire your clients. Be part of this exciting new chapter in balloon décor. Constructing with Panels Construction with panels will open up a world of new designs and techniques never seen in this country before. Quick construction eliminates large frame work that takes time and difficultly in transporting to venues. Sometimes eliminating the need to strike after an event. Long lasting and suitable for large scale décor, shopping centres, large venues, the options you now have is only limited by your imagination. Learn how to add amazing props at far more affordable prices than prop companies can supply.
Lily Tan My Airtitude Singapore BASA NSW Lily s Menagerie New South Wales Lily is a world renown balloon artist. Her distortion techniques to create the cutest creatures and princess dolls has taken the balloon world by storm. Her imagination is endless when creating new designs. Lily will teach her techniques in a hands on class to create these adorable creatures that can easily be added to delivery bouquets, and room décor that will set you apart from the rest. Her fun class will inspire you to new heights. Beyond the Rainbow People love balloons for their amazing range of vibrant colours. What if our fabulous range of colour was doubled or tripled. Lily will demonstrate her use of colour and how she achieves the amazing colour palette that brings her décor alive and adds increased interest without costing more. You will see first- hand how colour variation can add so much more to your décor which will only be limited by imagination. There are many tips and tricks that Lily will demonstrate that can be used to create impactful sculptures, using simple techniques. Themed Columns and Arches Lily will share her imaginative designs to help you up sell the basics in our industry, columns and arches. The creativity that can be applied to columns and arches is endless and you will enter a whole new world of being able to provide just a single piece that can add so much atmosphere to an event. This will be a hands on class using her distortion techniques to create interesting designs that will delight your clients. If your business is based around classic décor then this is the class for you.
Nicole Greg Nifty Entertainment Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Quicker with the Link Join Nifty Nicole on a Quick Links journey of enlightenment. Nicole will guide you through the amazing opportunities Quick Links can give your twisted designs, centrepieces and or deliveries. Embellish your delivery or centrepiece. The possibilities are endless. You will be delighted and amazed at what these little links can do. So book a seat and enjoy the ride! Beam me Up Nifty In this class Nifty Nicole will teach you some great Quick Link and Geo blossoms Robots. Whether the design be life size or a smaller delivery piece these will amaze and give your client and their function the WOW factor. Storytime Are there just some characters from some of your favourite stories that you would love to learn??? If so then Story-time with Nifty is the class you want to be in. Whether you are a twister, deco twister or a decorator Nicole will make these designs quick, easy and effective. Bringing your designs to the next level.
Gunter Blum Balloons Galore Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Enchanted Fantasy Décor Installation Gunter is our theme designer for the convention and is renowned for thinking outside the square. This year s theme is Fantasy and Gunter will take you through his concept from start to finish of his concept for the Hotel foyer large sculpture. This class will be start on Sunday with the installation of the foyer areas and mezzanine level décor. If you have never worked on a large scale event this hands on experience will provide you with a wealth of knowledge and new skills. Hands on. From little things big things will grow. Gunter s classes will be focused on the theming for our final night gala dinner. You will learn how to make base platforms, bend and attach aluminium to bases. Create the trees from trunks to the branches and foliage. If you don t think you ll be making a tree any time soon, you will however have more opportunities to use the techniques you learn on all sorts of décor items. If you know how it s done you can then create your own designs with confidence. Oh my Darlin Column mine Everyone makes columns, but not everyone will make them like this. Sometimes less is more. Learn how to make a single balloon column with sway and swagger. It don t mean a thing if it ain t got that swing. So let s all have fun and make one. This will be a hands on class using curved poles, single balloons and S curves on half arches. Learning how to create a wall back drop using columns. Fantasy Forest No enchanted forest is complete without some fantasy plant creations, so let s have some more fun creating unusual flora. We will be making plants for around the tree bases using rounds, non- round balloons and donuts. If you want to expend your repertoire of flowers and plants then don t miss this. Gunter s concept is never what you think it will be. Create the final night stage backdrop with added character, foliage and eyes. This is décor your clients have never seen before.
Kate Reeves Balloon Brilliance Canberra, ACT, Australia Gigantic Embellishments Kate has created her own style with the increasingly popular 3 foot balloons and deco bubbles, by adding tassels, garlands and all the glitz and glamour to your delivery pieces and décor. Everyone has seen tassels you haven t seen Kate s tassels. Tassels are too time consuming to make or expensive to buy, let Kate show you the many tips and tricks to making then affordable and easy to make so that it can be something easily introduce to your designs. Three foot balloons are so popular why miss out on the opportunity to capitalize on what the market trends are. Don t stay stuck in the past, your business will only grow if you stay up- to- date with the latest trends and are prepared to offer them to your clients. Fred Muraca Skat Katz Melbourne Victoria Australia Skat Katz Creating Zing With Vinyl The growing trend today is personalizing just about anything. Are you offering that with your balloon décor? Fred has for many years now demonstrated at conventions an easy and affordable machine that will personalize your balloons for profit. Learn how to create corporate logos for those last minute orders when they only want five balloons. Your customers love to have their names around the room for Christenings and birthdays. Learn the tips and tricks of using this equipment to enhance your décor on a daily basis. Once you start doing this you will be surprised how much money you have missed out on by not offering this service in the past. Fred will start with the basics leading to the more intricate ways to get the most out of your machine for those that have been using it for some time. This class is not to be missed!
Presenter to be Advised Decor Basics This is the must do class for new people to the industry. We will demonstrate how to tie all balloons correctly, including bubbles, foils and latex. Learn how to make clusters, topiaries, classic décor columns, arches and table centres. Are you having problems using hi-float, heat sealing etc. We are here to help you in this class to perfect your techniques and increase your confidence which will in turn assist you in selling more décor. Whether you have just started your business or feel you need a little refresher course, please come along. Sometimes it is the little tips and tricks you learn in this class that will save you so much time and money in your business. Maureen Egan Balloon Elegance Sydney, New South Wales, Australia President & BASA NSW President Equipment Basics Maureen Egan We are so fortunate to have equipment that saves time and money to deliver a professional product, but do you know how to get the most out of it. Are you familiar with what each piece does and why it would be beneficial to your business. Do you have trouble with balloon nets, stuffing balloons, heat sealing. Learn the tips and tricks I have developed over the years that have made my work so much easier. Time is money and when you are busy, doing things the most efficient way is paramount to be able to deliver décor that can be installed easily without headaches or calls from your clients to tell you something has failed. I will demonstrate all the equipment we have available. It will be hands on and you can try it out and see for yourself.