Nerd for Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day, everybody! Who else is a nerd for candy? Which candies make you goofy?

We belong to you

We promise this is the last Valentine's Day Squaredy Cat we'll be posting this year. This one goes out to THE FANS on the Facebook Page. Because of your wonderful reaction to our cats we have the courage to do our best to get these cats into stores. Now it's very likely that will happen :) Thank you so much for all your supportive messages :D

Cupid, draw back your bow

This was the second ever designed Valentine's Day Squaredy Cat from last year. It was based on our "not squared of kisses" Squaredy Cat. Notice the heart-shaped nose?

cuckoo for cocoa

We thought it would be fun to make the cat himself chocolate brown instead of choosing which kind of chocolate he actually likes. This guy is pretty simple. If he doesn't get any chocolate for Valentine's Day he's heading straight to the store tomorrow to get it at 50% off ;)

The kissing bandit

Do you know the band, KISS? The guy with the star on his eye (Paul Stanley) originally wore his make-up to look like a bandit with a mask. That's the kind of inspiration behind this kissing bandit Squaredy Cat. An unintentional effect of the cat's pose is that she looks like she's blowing kisses - in other words, giving them away. Maybe she steals kisses from the rich, and gives them to the poor :P

The very first Valentine Squaredy Cat

This was the very first Valentine's Day Squaredy Cat we ever designed. Their simple shape lends itself to looking like a hug or outstretched arms every time, so we extended the arms slightly to show this cat was reaching out as far as she could. I love you *this much* … all the way around the world :)

Everyone has a secret

At least once in their life everyone has either been secretly admired or was a secret admirer. We chose the very graphic question mark and black cat to resemble one of those "your picture here" style graphics. We think this one will make a nice card. What do you think?

Browse the bakery sweets

Don't you love browsing all the delicious looking pastries at the bakery? That's what we had in mind when we made this sweetie. This was another of our Style Guide cats from last year. We really wish we'd thought of making a Facebook page a long time ago. Who knows what we'll come up with for Valentine's Day next year. We hope by then the plushies are out!

Love you

When we started designing Valentine Squaredy Cats this year we realized it is important for everyone to remember that whether you have a Valentine or not it's important to always love yourself! Be a strong person, and always believe in you.
This is the first cat to use thumbs.

Can you "LOVE" a sweet?

When we first came up with the concept of Squaredy Cats it was still pretty vague. Thanks to our agents, we learned to focus the idea, and put together what is called a Style Guide to present to potential manufacturers and stores. For the Style Guide we put together last year we included four cats for Valentine's Day along with several others seasons and holidays . This was one of the first we put any dimension to. Before this cat all the art was extremely flat. We still like the flat look, but sometimes it makes sense to have the depth to make a box of chocolate look as delicious as possible!

XOXO

We really wanted to make a Squaredy Cat *pop* off a bright pink heart, so we associated it with the phrase, "not squared to XOXO." The phrase is pretty open-ended. It means hug and kiss, but it can be a romantic smooch or a friendly peck; a warm, loving embrace or a passionate cuddle.
Maybe XO also looks like an *ouchie* emoticon. We hope it doesn't hurt you to love :)

Dog ears aren't just for bookmarking anymore

We couldn't wait to post this Squaredy cat on our Facebook page a couple of weeks ago because a few fans were suggesting a "squaredy dog" or "squaredy puppy." We might try something else to incorporate dogs into Squaredy Cats at some point, but for now this one will have to do ;)