I Have An Order For This Cake, But Modified....
Decorating By jen1977 Updated 10 Apr 2006 , 4:49pm by krissy_kze
I have a bride who has ordered this cake for a June 3rd wedding, but she's made modifications. Instead of being stacked, this cake will be on individual stands, and will be round. Two of the tiers will be blue with white decs, and two will be white with blue decs. Instead of flowers on one, it will be large circles/dots. I'm thinking the best way to go about this will be fondant, right? The scrolls will be buttercream, but will it look dumb if it's the only part done in bettercream? Is it possible to do them in fondant? How in the world will I get the stripes to lay right on the sides of a round cake? Any tips on how to figure out what size diamonds so that they will be even all around the cake? I'm really wondering about the stripes though. It seems to me that they would have to be cut in order to be straight from the top down the sides???
wow! I'm not too fondant savy, but I do think that you could make scrolls out of fondant.
I really don't know if the bc would look that odd and stick out that much compared with the fondant. I've seen lots of cakes that have fondant & bc on them.
Maybe someone else can help you better, so consider this a friendly bump.
BTW, good luck!!
I would say that it wouldn't matter if the scrolls were buttercream as you will be doing borders in buttercream too. You could make the scrolls out of fondant just roll thin logs into the shapes and attach to cake. I think the stripes you could cut them and attach to the cake too.
I know that I can cut the stripes from fondant, but I don't think it will look the same as they do on the cake. I'm thinking I may have to make them go straight across the cake. Is there any way to get the same effect with the stripes withot looking terrible on the top middle of the cake? The enitre cake will have to be decorated since they won't be stacked. Maybe I'm just confusing myself with the stripes!
To go all the way across the cake you will then have issues with the 2 other sides but if she would like squares on the top you could run the stripes from both sides of the cake. Or you could run stripes across the middle from one side to the other then shorter stripes from the top down the other 2 sides.
When we needed to do fondant scrolls at the bakery, we would use a pattern press (Wilton makes them) to impress the scroll on the buttercream or fresh fondant. Then using a small paintbrush, we'd dampen the impressed design and use a fondant extruder (or clay gun or sugar gun, whatever you call it! 
) to squeeze out a snake of fondant to put over the dampened, impressed design.
It will also look perfectly fine if you do the scrolls in buttercream. I do that a lot.
As for the stripes, you can cut them in even strips, start at the top of the cake, and position the stripes with their edges touching. Then let them drape from the top down. If there is too big a gap at the bottom of the cake when you're done with that step, roll out some more strips and miter the top end of them to put between the other strips. You'll need to put some flowers or something on top to hide all those meeting places.
Hope that helps some....
Deanna
For the diamonds, do you have one of those dividing wheels? So, say the cake is a 10", put it on the wheel and you can see how many diamonds to make. Measure the distance on the wheel for one section and that will tell you how wide each diamond should be. The height will depend on how tall your cake is.
For the stripes, if you're worried about them all meeting in the center, could you just put stripes only on the sides and not going across the cake? In the center of the cake could be a couple of flowers.
Jen1977
I did the center tier of the following cake, using the exact method that TooMuchCake is describing above. It works at treat.
Nati
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=boonenati&cat=0&pos=11
Nati, I love that cake!! You did a great job on it.
Deanna
My question is, what are you going to put on top of the striped tier to cover where the stripes meet?
Theresa 
You could do stripes on the sides and do concentric circles on the top. Like the rings in a tree. Or stripes on the sides and on top have king of a gingham look with the stripes going both ways.
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