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Hi all!

I need to make a bunch of yellow sponge balls resemble tennis balls for a corporate gig I'm doing soon.

I know it's just a job of adding the 'seam lines' to the sponges, but my experimentation so far has shown that sharpies aren't the best tool for making solid, controlled, tidy and indellible marks on supersoft sponge balls.

Does anyone out there know of a more appropriate tool for the job?

Ta muchly,

Pete

Assuming it's white lines on a yellow sponge, would Tipp-Ex be any good?

I'll give it a go and see. My concern with tipp-ex is that it might interfere with the sponge's squidginess... But we learn by doing.

Cheers,

Pete

now I can't remember where but I'm sure that I've seen sponge tennis balls somewhere. Possibly cards4magic?

there was a set on ebay 4 weeks ago..

you need to search for finn jon's multiplying tennis balls.

It is also on one of his dvds, which might explain the construction.
even he used a sharpie by looks of it. though the lines are cut into the ball first.

hmmmm.

I wonder if a laundery marker would work.

I would of thought that a product designed for writing on fabric, would bleed less on an absorbant surface.

Dudethatscoolmagic have got a great selection of sponge, I think they have tennis balls.

they dont appear to. They do have the tennis chop cup, and extra mini tennis balls though.

http://www.dudethatscoolmagic.co.uk/aca ... html#aA608

if they do have plain yellow balls, i would be inclined to buy some, and decorate them up.

by the way.....
interesting things here.

http://www.thomassports.com/categories/ ... 2AodnHUSjg

just a thought.. water proof mascara.
would that work on sponge?

or a soft eyebrow pencil.

I haven't tried them for this, but there are fabric paints that are sold for painting on t-shirts. If you ask at an art shop, they will be able to point you in the correct direction. You may need to set them through heating them up in a tumble drier, although if you don't want to wash the sponge balls - or use them regularly - that may not be necessary.