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Cricut is the brand-name of a product range of home die-cutting machines (or cutting plotters) used for scrapbooking and various projects, made by Provo Craft & Novelty, Inc. (also known as "Provo Craft") of Spanish Fork, Utah.

The machines are used for cutting paper, felt, vinyl, fabric and other products such as fondant.

Cricut is among several electronic die cutters used by paper crafters, card makers and scrapbookers.

A mint is an industrial facility which manufactures coins that can be used in currency.

The history of mints correlates closely with the history of coins.

In the beginning, hammered coinage or cast coinage were the chief means of coin minting, with resulting production runs numbering as little as the hundreds or thousands.

In modern mints, coin dies are manufactured in large numbers and planchets are made into milled coins by the billions.

A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject.

The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the whole is typically presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all.

The silhouette differs from an outline, which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape.

Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic media, but was first used to describe pieces of cut paper, which were then stuck to a backing in a contrasting colour, and often framed.

Cameo is a method of carving an object such as an engraved gem, item of jewellery or vessel made in this manner.

It nearly always features a raised (positive) relief image; contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image.

Originally, and still in discussing historical work, cameo only referred to works where the relief image was of a contrasting colour to the background; this was achieved by carefully carving a piece of material with a flat plane where two contrasting colours met, removing all the first colour except for the image to leave a contrasting background.