SQUEAKY BINDERS
Party Bears
Never could resist four cute paws, a brown button nose, cuddly golden fur and a pair of sparkling orange eyes!
And these adorable ‘Party Bears’ know just how to melt your heart too!
6 Designs
Pix, Widget, Jago, Bazzle, Fransy, Kola.
Available as
Illustrated Colouring Notebook
A handy sized wire bound notebook containing 6 ‘Party Bears’ illustrations with an outline to colour-in, with blank pages for all your doodles and scribbles.
Micro Journals
The cutest tiny handmade journals to collect and display
Art Cards and Postcards
6 ‘Party Bears’ available as individual Art Cards with envelopes. Postcards available too.
Art Cards Wallet Gift Set
All 6 Art Cards presented in a lovely folding wallet to keep them safe and out on display.
Squeaky’s First Choice Edition Illustrated Notebook
Our First Choice Edition handmade notebook contains all the ‘Party Bears’ illustrations with plenty of room inside for all your creative writings - makes a great gift too.
Soft Cover Booklets
6 booklets featuring each one of the bears, hand stitched with multicoloured ribbons finished with a bow plus an extra special edition with a brilliant new cover design.
Squeaky’s Special Edition Illustrated Notebook
Our Special Edition handmade Notebook has a truly distinctive hard case cover containing all the ‘Party Bears’ illustrations and pages inside ready to be filled with all your lovely words.
Prints
Box Framed prints - 6 Designs - available individually and as a set of all six
Inspiration and technique
My ‘Party Bears’ collection was inspired by one very special vintage teddy dressed as a Jester.
With his conical hat placed at a jaunty angle over one ear, flamboyant ruff around his neck and fetching green and red two tone harlequin tunic he cut quite a dash.
Dear reader, utterly irresistible, he totally stole my heart, I was smitten!
For the love of bears
And so began my ‘Party Bears’ range of 6 lovable characters each wearing their own colourful costume - variations on my favourite vintage jester theme.
It was such fun designing all their extravagant hats and fancy neckwear and then choosing colour combinations to suit each one of my adorable bears was super fun!
Deciding on some less common names for my bears took a lot more thought though. Romeo was a prime candidate with some other Shakespearean characters but I thought I would keep this idea for another range in the future - watch this space! Instead I settled on a real mixture, names which would be a bit easier for little ones to learn and so Pix, Widget, Jago, Bazzle, Fransy and Kola were born.
To then pick up my watercolour brush and bring each bear to life was the best bit of all and such a delight.
You may have noticed that the finished watercolour for ‘Bazzle’ bear turned out a little differently from my initial coloured pencil sketch? When all 6 sketches were complete I changed the red and blue combination to blue and light blue. The particular tone of red pencil I had used looked a bit too bright and modern amongst the other more vintage hues - what do you think?
So there’s a little of the story behind the making of my ‘Party Bears’ range.
I hope one, if not all of them is starting to melt your heart now too.
“O Romeo, Romeo…"
“When I was only four days old
You came to live with me
And gave me all the love you hold
Quite unreservedly.
Oh teddy bear I still love thee
As much as I did then,
Though now we both are forty-three
And very nearly men.”
— Anon