How to create rainbow masterpieces with your cricut
Did you ever use rainbow scratching paper as a kid? It's covered in black and you scrape the top away with a stylus and it makes a neat pattern underneath. You can do this with a line drawing on your computer using the cricut. I've seen rainbow paper in kits at Michaels, and some at my local art store, though of course if yours doesn't Amazon does carry it in both half and full size so check which one you're getting.
First you need an SVG line drawing, which you can make on your own using a program like illustrator (very expensive) or an open source program like inkscape (free!). Or you can buy one of many available on the internet including from Cricut's store.
Once you have your line drawing, I'm using one I made of Ghanaian Highlife star Bisa Kdei, you can upload it to cricut and insert it into the canvas.
Select the entire drawing and click attach at the bottom right.
Then, with the entire drawing still selected find the menu on top that says "basic cut" by default and change that to engrave.
Then resize your picture to fit your paper. Half sized paper is generally 5x7 and full sized paper is 8.5 by 11.
Once your image is the right size and placement go ahead an press make. Once you get to choose your base material go to browse all materials.
under "paper" should be vellum, select that (it was a long process of trial and error, but this produces the best results). Then make sure your engraving tool is in and set everything to go.
And you should get a lovely rainbow picture in a few minutes
You can do very complicated pictures, but it does slow down the loading process to the cricut considerably, so keep that in mind.














