i am doing a baby shower cake for someone with a safari themed baby shower, but she wants the cake to be more babyish and less safari. any ideas?

3D? Fondant? Buttercream?

Confetti cakes has an adorable design:
http://www.confetticakes.com/specialty/sp_sec2_sp1a.html

Complete instructions are in the book Confetti Cakes for Kids (I think its that book, but could possible be the original Confetti Cakes book). Either way, you could use the link for inspiration. Also, www.pinkcakebox.com has some really cute baby shower cakes with animal toppers.

Animal print in pale or pastel colors.

Safari animals with diapers on.

Palm trees holding a hamock with a sleeping baby.

Baby in a safari outfit.

Animal print onsie shaped cake.

Baby foot prints or baby animal paw prints.

thanks for the ideas! @cakegroove no limitations, i can pretty much do whatever i want

I did a zebra cake with a teal bow(in my pics) - do you know if its a boy or a girl?
The bow could be pink, purple, teal, blue, yellow, green - I think its a classy cake but also very cute! lol

Here's one.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1694690.html

Another one.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gracefulcakecreations/4614373459/

I am doing the same thing!!! I posted pictures of my animals. I made them all baby-ish. Because the baby is going to be a boy I made the insides of the ears baby blue and the pads on the feet baby blue. You're welcome to look at mine if you'd like. I'm not sure if that's why you're looking for. I am making it a 2 tier cake with a waterfall in the front. I have dowels to cover to make two trees and I plan on making the grass a soft green like a pastel. All of the colors are going to be pastel. My cake is due next Saturday, I can't wait to put it all together.. Good luck, can't wait to see what you do!