Nancy Drew Party--Magnifying Glass Cake

So the big Nancy Drew party is over and for the most part was a success (you don't plan for a party guest to get sick and throw-up...fortunately I haven't heard of anyone else getting sick from the exposure.) But I thought I would share all of the ideas, incase any of you are insane enough to try a similar party. This post is about the cake and food:
I'm not totally thrilled with how the cake turned out, but it was a fun experiment. Hopefully you can tell that it is supposed to look like a magnifying glass. I tried the checkerboard cake pan, which looked like it was working, but didn't come out as neatly as the picture on the box. I used lemon and strawberry cake mixes (Nancy likes patterns, after all). And made cupcakes with the left over batter, using three of them as the handle. I was actually going for a purple color with the frosting (like the color the of the fondant letters), but accidentally dumped a ton of red food coloring into the frosting, so it looks like it is chocolate, but it isn't. I had the most fun playing with the fondant. (btw, I don't like to eat fondant at all, but my daughter thinks it is great). I rolled out a circle shape of fondant and used a paintbrush to streak some watered-down blue food coloring over the top to give a glass effect. The blue spots on the top are my fingerprints. I actually cleaned some of my rubber stamps and stamped some of the wording on the cake. It reads: "Happy Birthday to a Magnify-cent 7 year old, KIRA." KIRA is rolled fondant, tinted purple, and cut out with cookie cutters. The border is also rolled fondant. You can tell I had a little trouble with the seams. Does anyone who have much experience with fondant and can give me a tip about how to connect it less obviously?Here is the friday evening spread minus the pigs in a blanket. We did finger foods that looked a little bit fancy, since that is how Nancy would have done it. Infact, the pigs in the blanket idea came from the party scene in the movie.Lit and ready for a wish!