hand stand

This is what Ida calls 'doing a hand'.

First, draw around your hand and cut out the outline. Then paint, draw or collage to add nail art, jewellery, a watch, tattoos, a cuff or a sleeve...

Those nails are painted on with real nail varnish, by the way.

This is just a selection of the disembodied hands that haunt our house, in various states of adornment.

So when it came to thinking about the shapes of our Papercharms we knew there had to be a hand or two in there somewhere: