By the time April rolls around, I am ready for SPRING!  Enough snow!  Enough rain!  Enough gray skies!  Bring me some sunshine please!  As if I can somehow will Mother Nature into Spring, I love to pull out some of my old flower stamps to remind me of the beauty to come - soon I hope!

Some days I just want to be simple.  Fancy shmancy has it's place, but today I'm just moving slower, crafting at a relaxed pace and not trying to impress anyone.  And still, the basics can be so beautiful and rewarding!

You should try it!  Just get out one of your favorite stamps, preferably one you like to spend a little bit of time coloring.  Get comfy and just enjoy the relaxed pace of creating for no particular reason.  No swaps to finish, no "on demand" art to make, just you, the stamp, the ink, the paper and of course the micro beads!

When your image is done, cut a piece of tape from a sheet of O'So Sticky the same size as your image.  You can keep it really simple and just bead the whole rectangle, or if you feel the need to be a little bit fancy scmancy you can always stamp the image on the paper side of the tape sheet and cut out the shape of the image.

 

The secret to applying O’So Sticky Tape perfectly every time is to peel back just one small corner of the tape sheet and crease it back as pictured.  Next, with the fold facing down towards your cardstock or image begin to align the O’So Sticky Tape sheet to fit squarely.  The folded flap will keep the O’So from actually touching the paper.

	Once the tape is lined up with the base or image you wish to bead press firmly on the exposed corner to anchor the O’So Sticky in place.  Next remove the rest of the liner from the back of the tape and gently smooth it into place onto your image as you go.
Now just peel the liner off the tape and press your image into clear micro beads and ta-da!  Your pretty colored image becomes bead-i-ful!