What would be the best way to do a "mask" on a cake such as the one bellow, without smearing the patterned portion with the solid color portion of the cake? Thank you!
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_152483.html
Thank you Shirley, I realize now that my question was poorly worded (I guess I lack on the cake decorating verbiage 
). The picture is correct, what I meant to ask is how to best do the solid color "window" (in the center of the cake where she place the deer) and not smear the camouflaged portion.
I have done this once where I place in the center of the cake an oval, solid color "window" w/ inscriptions and flowers, but I acheived this effect using an oval stencil in the center and airbrushed the rest of the cake, than went back and piped a "frame" around the oval, the inscription and the rest of the decorations.
In the case of the cake on the picture she did not airbrushed the camouflage but piped random patches of colors and then smoothed them. I'm wondering if the best way to do the solid window is to just go over the smoothed camouflaged part, pipe a rectangle with a solid color and smooth the solid carefully not to mess up the shape, and than pipe a frame and do whatever other decorations?
I'm sorry for the confusion, and thank you for your help!
The person who made the cake, made the deer doing a chocolate transfer. Here is a great tutorial from cali4dawn on how to do a chocolate transfer..
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/111071540UEhrpE?start=12
Another great way to achieve that look is doing a Frozen Buttercream Transfer(FBCT) and here is the tutorial for the FBCT...
http://www.cakecentral.com/article12-How-To-Create-a-Frozen-Buttercream-Transfer.html
i say pm the person who made the cake. I did a camo cake and i did the center first and then did the camo around it I didn't do a border or anything i just let the camo go into the center but i didn't do anything but writing in the center so no transfers were necessary. Hope it turns out well.
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