A long time ago we made a bunch of pillars for a client, we had say a light blue pillar, we then took yellow, red and I think blue beeswax sheets and used cookie cutters to cut out little flowers and butterflies and fish, then took a sheet of the neutral colored stuff, and wrapped that around the pillar holding the fish or whatever onto the pillar. You had to do this with a heat gun. It was a pain to learn how to do, and sometimes the beeswaxs comes back off the pillars, but they look really really cool and sold awfully well.