fondant work

Hello everyone complete newbie here to the site. I'm pretty new to cake baking/decorating in general i just do it for fun but so far i've made 2 cakes to date 1st one for my daughters birthday in July 2024 & one for my mums birthday in Oct 2024. Both were vanilla sponge with vanilla buttercream...

Here is our first attempt at fondant work All home made except the large piece for the Santa body, our fondant would not hold up the shape so we had to use stiffer store bought fondant to get the cake delivered on time.