The Magic of Pearl Ex
Pearl Ex is a wonderful, colourful, and magical medium that is used by professional artists and potters, as well as rubberstampers, scrapbookers, and polymar clay artists.  There are a variety of finishes–from metalic to pearlescent and iridescent. Pearl Ex is safe, non-toxic and archival safe.
Pearl Ex comes in liquid and powder form, but the most versatile is the powder form.
When painting with powder, water and Gum Arabic is added. Gum Arabic is a binding agent that prevents the powder from rubbing away. Rubberstampers find that a finishing spray (or hair spray for the thrifty) works just as well if Gum Arabic is omitted from the Pearl Ex powder/water mixture.
There are many ways to use Pearl Ex powder. It can be used as a colouring agent in embossing powder and polymar clay. It can be dusted into polymar clay molds before pressing the clay into the molds. One of my favourite methods of colouring polymar clay is to dust a variety of colours, with my finger, onto the clay prior to baking. Colours blend beautifully together. The adventerous are known to add Pearl Ex powder to their eye shadow.
There is a wealth of information on the Jacquard Products website where you will find products, a forum, project ideas, and more.
I hope you are inspired to try Pearl Ex out. Listed below are lots of tutorials and interesting photos to read, so grab a coffee, sit back, and enjoy.
50 Places to Inspire You
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Sunflowers and Dragonflies Tutorial (one I posted on my old blog)
Maria’s Bell’s Christmas Ornaments
Maria Bell’s Floor Wax Tutorial
SplitcoastStamper’s Melted Pearls Tutorial
Mini Tutorial by Camp Fire Lady
Background Technique by Inkie Fingers
Crafty Goat’s Notes makes a test strip
Crafty Goat’s Notes organizes jars of PearlEx and Embossing Powder
Amy Celona has a video to share with you
Learn That Craft shares a video
Ars Longa put together a tutorial
Kim shares a tutorial about PearlEx with Gold Leaf
Scrapbook Designs shares a tutorial
Amy put together a wonderful tutorial and Information Sharing
Cindy Lou combines chalks with PearlEx
Tanya’s crayon scrappings shine
AMACO describes a technique with Friendly Plastic
Gina P Crafts Shimmering Tutorial
Scrapbook Studio Gets A Little Messy
Polymer Clay Project Makes PearlEx Paint
After Hours Stamper’s Stained Glass Tutorial
Mona Designs’ Stunning Bracelet
Polymar Clay Buttons on Flickr
Halloween Trinket Box on Flickr
Bright Coloured Card on Flickr
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Aug 10, 2009 - 11:08:45You should post a link to this over at SCS! Some ppl have no idea how to use this stuff and it’s collecting dust! GREAT ARTICLE!
I LOVE my Pearl~Ex, even though I don’t use it as often as I would like to. Thanks for listing the inspirational sites!!
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