Get out the paint and slash away! There's no precision in this craft. There are two options, the first more involved than the second.
What you will need:
Option 1 step 1: Set your poster paper on newspapers or other work surface. This part is a little on the messy side. Choose your favorite paint color and pour into one side of a flat dish or palet with white paint on the other side. Mix part of the colored paint with the white paint to create different shades of color. Paint the sheet of paper painting the palest shade at the top down to the darkest shade at the bottom. Make the strokes broad, messy, and overlapping for an interesting look.
Step 2: Once the paint is dry, add letter stickers to spell your message. A short message or one word is best in order to make the letters pop. You can also add hearts or stars or some other stickers on the edge.
Step 3: Paint over the letters with white paint. It will probably take two coats to cover the paint underneath.
Step 4: Once the fresh paint is dry, carefully peel the letter stickers away. The paint shouldn't peel off with the stickers, but just to be safe, do it slowly.
You're done! Hang the poster up where it will be seen and encourage. The quote I chose,"Always give 100%" is something a special ballet teacher I had once always told her class and I look at it and think of her every day. Such a cool poster!
Option 2 has one less step and uses less paint, plus some people think it looks cooler. The choice is yours.
Step 1: Place letter stickers on the center of the paper to spell your phrase or word.
Step 2: Paint over the stickers using the same method in option 1 step 1 above for the faded look, or simply combine colors. I did water colors, blue and green, so the paint slashes would create turquoise in places.
Step 3: Once the paint is dry, carefully peel the stickers off.
Done! This poster has a lot more color than the first and takes less time to make. Done with a project and have a lot of leftover paint? Cut a small sheet of paper and use the paint up on this project. I did this once after a project that used many colors of paint and simply put the word "color" on the page.