Threadcakes Contest

I've never entered a cake contest before and while there are some amazing entries already, I thought practice with a purpose made sense, so here's my entry. I started with a yellow cake mix that I cooked in 2 round 9 inch pans. After they had cooled for an hour or 2, I put them in the freezer over night. The next day I removed one of the cakes from the pan and put it on a plate. I've never carved a cake before so using a print out of the Daisy shirt as a template I attempted to carve the cake. Every other petal I carved out to give it some dimension. When that was done I put it back into the freezer to work on the next day. The next night I used a tub of pre-made buttercream frosting and separated it into 3 bowls to color. One is black, one is orange and one is yellow. In a large ziplock bag I put the orange and yellow to use to frost the petals. In an up and down motion I went back and forth to frost the entire cake in the 2 toned orange/yellow color. Then in a smaller ziplock bag I put the black to outline the petals and center. Finally I used black sugar crystals as the center of the flower. It came out pretty close to what I had in my head, I just need to work on my carving skills.