Don't know the backyardingans enough to help there, but as for the gymnastics cake, you could try one of the following:
1. an FBCT of some various events. There's plenty of clip art drawings of gymnasts and the various events.
2. You could do an edible image of her doing gymnastics.
3. If you want to do fondant accents, you could make a balance beam, uneven parallel bars, a gym mat, etc. with a scoreboard and a perfect 10 on it -- even though I don't even think they score the same way anymore!
Hope this helps.
Sarah
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=backyardigans&cat=0&pos=4&search=backyardigans
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=backyardigans&cat=0&pos=7&search=backyardigans
here are a cute couple of backyardigans cakes........
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=gymnastics&cat=0&pos=1&search=gymnastics
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=gymnastics&cat=0&pos=7&search=gymnastics
here are a couple of gymnastic cakes......hope these help give you some ideas
http://www.cakecentral.com/article12-How-To-Create-a-Frozen-Buttercream-Transfer.html
here is the link for the instructions (I just did my first one...and while not perfect it was neat)....
Thought this post looked familiar.
See also:
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-159981-.html
HTH
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