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Cernit Metallic is the mica-based line in the Cernit range, made in Belgium by The Clay and Paint Factory. It is built on the Translucent base, which is what lets the mica read as metal rather than as glitter sitting in opaque clay.
It carries more mica than any other metallic polymer clay, and Cernit uses newer synthetic micas that throw brighter, cleaner reflections than the standard sort. In side-by-side testing at The Blue Bottle Tree it came out the most brilliantly and densely saturated of the metallics in both color and mica — saturated without tipping into glitter, and neither chalky nor sticky. It sands and buffs well, and the shimmer intensifies as you do.
At 21 colors this is a far wider metallic range than most brands offer. All of them intermix, and they take alcohol ink readily if you want to shift a shade.
On this color: the colored metallics show a gentler mica shift than the golds, and read as saturated shimmer rather than sharp light-dark patterning.
Working with it: fresh blocks are very soft and can feel almost gelatinous. Leaching between sheets of paper for about fifteen minutes fixes it, after which it handles much like Sculpey Premo — soft, pliable, and it does not crumble. Mica travels, so clean your blade, hands and pasta machine between colors or it will show up in the next piece.
Supplied as a 250g block — roughly four and a half 56g bars, at a lower cost per gram.
Baking: 230–266°F (110–130°C) for up to 30 minutes in a conventional home oven. It bakes at 265°F without darkening, and gives off very little odor.
Ginger Davis Allman’s Cernit Metallic Review at The Blue Bottle Tree goes colour by colour through the range.
She also ranks it against the other metallic clays in Metallic Polymer Clay — A Brand Comparison.
For the leaching technique, see How to Leach Polymer Clay.
I've used Cernit before but mixed it with Premo. Now I am thinking that Cernit may be the way to make all of my earrings. I loved how it accepted the applied pastels. Cutting and smoothing the edges was really easy to do. After baking the colors were just what I was looking for. I am sure I will buy again because I nearly went through the largest bar in two days.
