I am making an indoor hotel pool cake and I want to make gumpaste chairs which I have figured out how to make but I am need inspiration/help with making a fondant and/or gumpaste beachball and swim towels and little side items I can set by the pool and chairs... thanks!

April :0)

just make a ball, let dry and paint the stripes on it.

I would just cut the stick off of a lollipop the size you need (dum dums for little tiny ones and the lollipops by the registers at walmart for a bigger one) and then cover it in pieces of gumpaste or fondant that are shaped like a strip that comes to a point at both ends...hope that helps

http://www.pilgrimpromotions.com/custom/data/images/SEVYLOR/B9.jpg

see how they're not just stripes...they come to a point at both ends and kinda flare in the center. Or you could form it around a gumball too...(just easier than getting a perfectly round ball out of fondant or gumpaste and waiting for it to dry.

i have a magazine that debbie brown has an artilcle about this. i have done it on a beach scene. you roll two balls. one red, one white. or whatever color you choose. then you quarter them with a knife . then stick alternate colors together. hth very easy

I took each color and rolled it into a ball. Then cut it into quarters and put the colors together with a little water and gently rolled again to get the right shape. I then rolled a very small piece of fonant into a ball and pressed it on each end to make a circle. I will try to post a pic.

I have a beach scene cake in my photos. I used big jaw breakers for the beach balls and covered them with fondant " stripes". email me if you want the template for the stripes.

I also have a few other beachy items on that cake if you want to take a look at it in my gallery.

thank you so much! Great idea...sugarshack...how did you get the colors matching up so perfectly on the beach ball? so nice!