The night before, I was able to cover tiers 1 and 2 in fondant. I decided to leave the 3rd tier for the next day. I was also able to start on the decorations for both tiers so all I had to do the next day was add the gumpaste decorations I had already made to tiers 1 and 2, and do all of tier 3.
This is how they looked in my fridge.
Here's a picture of the name that will go on the cake. Using a pizza cutter and some gumpaste tools, I freehanded the name on fondant. I mixed a little gumpaste in each color so that it would harden when it dried. Once cut, I painted on some luster dust. Luster dust comes in all colors and adds lots of shine. Oh, it's completely edible, too.
I woke up, fed the family and got to work. On the agenda for today was to first cover the 3rd tier with fondant, stack on tier 2 and then tier 1. Finally would be the decorations.
I started out with a sturdy cake bottom that I purchased at Baker's Bodega in Pico Rivera.
I placed the first tier on there and cut wooden dowels to insert for support.
Next, I placed the second tier. This particular tier needed some fondant stripes all aroud. So, I thought it'd be good to put them on at this time before putting on the top tier.
Once the stripes were stripes were done and more dowels went in, I put on the top tier. The last part was easy! I put on the decorations and this is the end result.
By the way, here's the cake that I used for inspiration:
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