Team Tuesday - with Kassi Hulet

When cozy creativity meets clever tools, magic happens—and today we’re thrilled to welcome the incredibly talented Kassi Hulet to the My Sweet Petunia blog! ✨ Kassi has a gift for turning everyday moments (even chilly, rainy ones!) into soft, painterly works of art, and she’s showing just how powerful a compact setup can be. Armed with the MISTI Lite, Petunia Platform, Power Mag and a whole lot of watercolor charm, Kassi proves that you don’t need a full studio to create something truly beautiful. Grab a warm drink, get comfy, and let Kassi inspire you with a relaxing, winter-to-spring watercolor card that’s full of thoughtful details and My Sweet Petunia goodness! 💕🎨

Hello friends! Late winter to early spring where I live tends to be quite wet (that freezes to ice at night) and windy, and sometimes I’d rather curl up by my fireplace to paint than face the weather to get to my art studio. However, staying by the fireplace means working with limited supplies… That’s why I’m loving the new MISTI Lite and Petunia Platform!

To start, I taped my Arches Cold Press watercolor paper to the Petunia Platform. Taping the edges of the paper down will help decrease warping while I’m painting. The grid on the platform makes getting perfectly straight and even borders super easy! I then used the MISTI Lite to stamp a flower from Gina K Designs Just Because I Love you set using Inkon3 Fadeout ink.  Stamping on textured watercolor paper generally requires stamping more than once to get a good impression. The MISTI Lite makes this not only possible, but easy even when I’m not in my studio.  

When using the Petunia Platform and MISTI Lite, I can keep my paper in place and just start painting after I’ve stamped my image, which is really nice! Here I’ve used a couple different colors to create a soft mottled background by first brushing clean water over the whole paper, then randomly applying some paint. It doesn’t need to be pretty, just nice and soft to give interest to the background. Make sure to keep the background light so you can paint your flower over the background.

After the background is dry, I paint my flower. I used 2 different purples for the petals- one that leans blue, and one that leans red. The differences in color temperatures creates some interesting contrast. 

After painting the flower, I decided to add some “frost” to the edges of the leaves and petals using Recollections White Shimmer Powder mixed with a little water. This creates a shimmer paint where you get to control how shimmery it is by adding more or less water to the powder.

I also decided to add in some rain drops (inspired by the weather outside). To do this, I added some random drops of water to the flower and leaves, waited a minute, then dabbed the water off with a paper towel. This lifts some of the paint leaving a lighter circle. I then added in a shadow at the base of each light area using the shadow color of the petal or leaf, and a highlight opposite of the shadow using a white Posca paint marker. Quick and easy water drops!

To finish the card front, I added a doodle border along where the tape was using a Sharpie fine tip pen, then used my MISTI Light to stamp my sentiment (from Brass and Bliss Hellebore Floral set) using Inkon3 Blackout ink.

The final step is to glue the card front to a card base.  

While this only uses a few stamps, ink and paint, I love the result! For me, painting is relaxing, but you could create your own version of this card using whatever you favorite coloring medium is! 

Stay cozy and create something beautiful! 

My Sweet Petunia tools: MISTI Lite, Petunia Platform, Power Mag
Paper: Arches Cold Press watercolor paper, A2 card base
Stamps: Gina K. Designs Just Because I Love You, Bliss and Brass Hellebore Floral (sentiment)
Ink: Inkon3 Fadeout, Blackout
Color: various watercolors
Other: White Posca Paint Marker