Stick-O-Matic

Pose. Smile. Click.

Twenty seconds later you’ve got 16 snapshots the size of a driver’s license photo--only you won’t look like a con, not with Hello Kitty purring in the frame.

The itty-bitty sticker photos ($3 per sheet) are popping up everywhere and on everything. Kids stick them on backpacks, notebooks, lunch boxes and bikes. They collect, trade and give them away. They’re stuck on sticker pictures.

“They go with anything. My birthday is coming up, and I’m gonna put them on thank-you notes,” said Jackie Schuman, 9, about the sticker trend that started in Japan three years ago, hit Hawaii and has gone by way of the mall in California.

At the Sanrio Surprise shops in Arcadia, Northridge and Costa Mesa, kids, hipsters and grown-ups are getting in on the craze, picking one of eight pop frames.

“We’re putting our stickers on our Christmas cards,” said Sudu Chalan before he, his wife, Sheila, and their daughter, Shayan, 5, who selected the Hello Kitty frame, had his family’s mini-portrait made.

In seconds out popped their Warhol-like freeze frames.

Hello, gorgeous!