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.
Fun for young and old.
Our Party Bears theme is now available as this cute little wire bound notebook. We have filled it with blank pages for all your scribbles and doodles and added six lovely pages for you to colour in. You can follow our colour schemes or be creative and make each bear your own invention just get those crayons out and get colouring.
W - 14.5cm including binding H - 12.5cm D - 1.8cm
58 Pages (116 sides) - 102 blank, 6 illustrations with colouring in outline, front and back pages.
Printed locally in Cornwall on sustainably sourced paper.
Postcards
‘Party Bears’ available as a set of 6 Postcards.
Children, young and old, will love to receive one of these 6 cute Party Bears postcards. Friendly vintage favourites, full of fun and ready to party with their harlequin costumes and jester hats. Learn more…
A lovely set of 6 Postcards - one of each design - presented in an attractive drawstring organza bag.
Our 150mm x 150mm Postcards are printed on FSC Digi Finesse Premiere Silk sustainably sourced paper in an organza bag - 195mm x 295mm in size.
Squeaky Binders fabulous ‘Party Bears’ just want to have fun and party!
Art Cards Wallet Gift Set
All 6 Art Cards presented in a lovely folding wallet to keep them safe and out on display.
Children, young and old, will love to receive one of these 6 cute ‘Party Bears’ cards - friendly vintage favourites, full of fun and ready to party with their harlequin costumes and jester hats. Learn more…
This special Gift Set offers you all six Art Cards - one of each design - presented in our beautiful folding wallet to keep them safe and to display proudly on any writing desk.
Our 150mm x 150mm Art Cards are printed on FSC Digi Finesse Premiere Silk sustainably sourced paper, blank inside and supplied with 155mm x 155mm brown Kraft envelope, wrapped in a clear sleeve.
Squeaky Binders fabulous ‘Party Bears’ can’t wait to have fun and party!
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.
Children, young and old, will love these cute ‘Party Bears’. Friendly vintage favourites, full of fun and ready to party with their harlequin costumes and jester hats. Learn more…
This fantastic little ‘Party Bears’ First Choice Edition handmade notebook features a striking brilliant red bookcloth cover encased in a colourful dust jacket depicting our very own Bazzle Bear.
Inside, we use our own in-house designed ‘Squeaky Binders’ endpapers to hold our 168 page book blocks safely in place. They consist of 27 blank, 121 lined and 5 squared pages with all of the ‘Party Bears’ illustrations spaced at intervals throughout and smart headbands complete the book.
Size approx 140 x 130 x 20mm
“...for storytellers, yarn spinners, novelists, family journalers, bards, poets, hopeless romantics, doodling daydreamers, memory keepers, jotters, scribblers, scrawlers and every other imaginable creative writer and fabulous wordsmith - whoever you are! ”
A fabulous gift for creative scribblers who love bears - and who doesn’t?
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.
Children, young and old, will love these 6 cute ‘Party Bears’ booklets. Friendly vintage favourites, full of fun and ready to party with their harlequin costumes and jester hats. Learn more…
This ‘Party Bears’ Soft Cover Booklets Sets contains 7 booklets - one each of the 6 bear characters, Bazzle, Fransy, Jago, Kola, Pix and Widget plus a Special Edition featuring them all. Each booklet, bound by hand using multi-coloured ribbon is finished with a pretty bow.
Approx size for each booklet 130mm x 130mm which contain 20 pages of various coloured papers for all your scribbling fun.
A delightful gift for anyone who loves bears presented in a useful and attractive drawstring organza bag to keep them tidy - Squeaky says “order your set now and start doodling!”
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.
Children, young and old, will love these cute ‘Party Bears’. Friendly vintage favourites, full of fun and ready to party with their harlequin costumes and jester hats. Learn more…
This fantastic little ‘Party Bears’ Special Edition handmade notebook is very special. Our unique cover design has a square window containing one of our bear characters protected by an acrylic cover which is held in place with solid copper or brass rivets. The whole case is covered with a striking brilliant red bookcloth.
Inside, we use complementary eye-catching handmade paisley design endpapers to hold our 168 page book blocks safely in place. They consist of 27 blank, 121 lined and 5 squared pages with all of the ‘Party Bears’ illustrations spaced at intervals throughout.
We also add a multi-coloured, hand dyed page marker ribbon so you’ll never lose your place and smart headbands complete the book.
Size approx 140 x 130 x 20mm
“...for storytellers, yarn spinners, novelists, family journalers, bards, poets, hopeless romantics, doodling daydreamers, memory keepers, jotters, scribblers, scrawlers and every other imaginable creative writer and fabulous wordsmith - whoever you are! ”
Such a fabulous gift for creative scribblers who love bears and partying and who doesn’t?
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