Fancy Free Jewelry Design

History

Member for

1 year 25 weeks

Artist

Artist Name(s): 

Deanna Roux

Location: 

Belchertown, MA

Fancy free means informal, liberated, natural and spontaneous. That pretty much describes me to a tee. So I named my business Fancy Free Jewelry Design. I create handmade wearable art using natural and organic designs, materials and elements. I create what I love and love what I create!Some elements I use in my designs include: hand-wrought fine silver (wire), sculpted fine silver (PMC), Hawaiian sea glass, genuine natural stones, and vintage images and impressions. Precious Metal Clay (PMC) is an exciting material developed and patented in the 1990s by Mitsubishi Materials of Japan.In the medium I work with (PMC3), microscopic particles of pure silver (salvaged from film negatives) are mixed with an organic binder to create a material that has the working properties of clay.Using myriad tools, objects are given shape, texture, and character. After drying, the objects are heated to high temperatures, where the organic binder burns away and the silver particles fuse together to create a precious metal object - 99.9 percent pure silver.Some pieces are treated to genuine gemstones and/or 22k gold bonded to the piece using an ancient Korean method called Keum Boo (kum-boo), which translated means "attached gold".To learn more about Fancy Free Me, visit my blog: http://www.fancyfreeme.blogspot.com/Thanks for checking me out,Deanna

Website: 

http://www.fancyfreeme.etsy.com