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Making Handmade Cards

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ID: 2906 Intermediate
In this lesson, we take you into the art classroom and teach you how to make handmade cards. This is full of great instructional language (useful for following recipes or gym workouts), but also contains lots of specialized words from the art word. Join us as we make some cards using the wash painting technique.
Tue Jun 14 2016 | Gwilym, Fiona Tian
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
烘干机 hōnggānjī blow dryer; dryer
首先 shǒuxiān first of all
湿 shī wet
涂 tú to smear on
卡纸、水彩颜料、调色盘、毛笔，还有烘干机，老师，我们今天要做什么呀？
kǎzhǐ 、shuǐcǎi yánliào 、tiáosèpán 、máobǐ ，háiyǒu hōnggānjī ，lǎoshī ，wǒmen jīntiān yào zuò shénme ya ？
Card, watercolors, a color palette, brushes and a blow dryer... Mr Smith, what are we going to do today?
我们要做晕染卡片。
wǒmen yào zuò yūnrǎn kǎpiàn 。
We are going to make color wash cards.
那赶快开始吧！
nà gǎnkuài kāishǐ ba ！
Then let's get started!
首先，用清水把卡纸弄湿，然后用毛笔涂上你喜欢的颜色，记得要多加水。
shǒuxiān ，yòng qīngshuǐ bǎ kǎzhǐ nòng shī ，ránhòu yòng máobǐ túshàng nǐ xǐhuan de yánsè ，jìde yào duō jiā shuǐ 。
First of all, use clear water to wet the card, then use a brush to layer on a color you like, remember to add lots of water.
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