First I want to thank all of you who have given me help, read my whining posts, and gave me wonderful ideas. I am new to this whole thing and last night I was about to just throw in the towel...but I am not!!! I have been reading here on how to smooth a cake, which was my biggest tackle. Alot of the pics I see here, they are just as smooth as a baby's bottom...lol and I was trying to achieve that. I read about the VIVA paper towels...and let me do say...they are AWESOME I made a cake last night and even used the icing tip, and just used the paper towel to smooth it out...turned out great. I have to finish it up today but I just wanted to say, THANK YOU ALL for telling me about the paper towel trick. I feel like I am moving foward...(just a little ...lol ) I will post the cake after its done. (Got so excited about a smooth cake, forgot what I was going to do with it...as far as decorating..lol) TY all again!!!

Beth

HANG IN THERE BETH!
I AM ALSO NEW TO THE CAKE DECORATING WORLD AND THIS SITE IS JUST WONDERFUL.
YOU CAN LEARN ALL KINDS OF TRICKS OF THE TRADE ON HERE...AND I HAVE FOUND OUT THAT THESE SIMPLE THINGS ...MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE!
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOUR CAKE WHEN IT IS FINISHED.
DEBBIE

Don't give up as long as you enjoy what you are doing. Most of the cakes I have done I did not think they looked good at all while I was doing it. I was literally too close to it! After I got up and walked away and came back and looked at the finished cake then I can usually say "Hey, not bad!".

Your cake in the gallery in really cute. Have fun and don't give up.

Cindy

MominSC,

Your cake is super.

Can't do without those paper towel

Try the ones from Brawny with the circles and diamonds, gives your cakes a pretty backgound.