Fondant covered board, marked with ruler and then antiqued with brown color and water. Tennis shoe is all edible, carved cake, fondant. Basket ball is also carved and then I copied from a real basketball and made the fondant lines (with my clay gun, flat lines) and filled in with tip 3 stars and then smashed them down lightly with a bumpy paper towel. The shoe was copied from my son's shoe. Ball and shoe are life size, shoe would be a VERY large mans shoe! Whistle is all fondant.