Arabella Oyster Base.
Decorating By DivineDelectables Updated 11 Feb 2007 , 4:20am by DivineDelectables
Can anyone help me? I have a wedding cake in a few days and i really want to try the arabella oyster base and i don't have time to order the directions can anyone tell me how to do it?
It is called arabella oyster on Earlene's web site. The base is covered fabric and it puffy, if that helps any. I am going to look for a pic.
Here's a previous post
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-3675-puff.html+base
See if this helps...
Well, likely most of the ones you are seeing, the folks got the instructions by ordering them from www.earlenescakes.com
Haha, Jscakes, I make them, that is true. I use different substances for the base depending on how sturdy it needs to be. So for smaller lightweight cakes, I use double cardboard, for heavier cakes, 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch plywood. Cut the base to the desired size. I use quilting batting to pad it, or sometimes thin foam, whatever I have handy depending on the amount of padding I want. Glue gun or staple it on, stretch it over your base and underneath and staple or gluegun to the underneath side. Then stretch material over this, you are basically upholstering the board. So you want to cut a piece of fabric so that it has about 1 inch overlap all around the diameter of your board. So 16 inch round about an 18 inch piece of fabric. Cut slits in the fabric about every inch or so so that the slits are just about to the diameter of the board you are covering. Same way you use foil to cover your board. You don't absolutely have to do this, but it makes a neater job. Stretch the fabric and the simplest way is to staple gun it to your board. So use shallow staples so the ends don't come through the top side. Start at one side, stretch and staple. Now stretch and staple the opposite side. Next another side, then the final side. So now you have four staples holding the fabric in place, you are going to stretch and gather the material if you must. You can now gluegun or staple down the rest of the fabric.
If you want to be really fussy, you will cover over the underneath with a piece of fabric cut to fit the diameter of the board so that no staples are exposed.
Does that make sense?
Hugs Squirrelly Cakes
I do the same covering the board but I cut the fabric the diameter of the circle plus 1 inch I sew the ends together 1/2 seam I run a basting stitch on both long edges gather them evenly around top and bottom. makes perfect pleats or ruffles Forgot to say that I measure my base from center top to center bottom and cut fabric strip accordingly. After gather just staple in place when I fill like it a glue felt on bottom. Hope I made sense. 
If there is no cake on it will it be puffy on top kinda like a pillow. What kinda of base would i need under the cake itself it is a 5-tier covered in fondant. I'm thinking tiers sizes 6,8,10,12,14 how many dowels would i need to make sure it will be sturdy?
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