I've noticed in a lot of the gallery pics there are unique font letters that seem to be cut out of fondant. I have seen plain font cut outs in stores, but are there other fonts you can purchase cut outs for or are they just tracing them and free-handing?

They are using a Cricut machine to run their gumpaste through.

You can do a search and find dozens of threads on Cricut cut-outs.

Hopefully someday I can get one!

you can also buy tappits. search in any cake supply store website

i use tappits, i have 2 types that i use. 1 is plain writing and the other is fancy