Text Layer Problem

Hi, everyone:

It is probably a regular Flex problem, but I will appreciate if anyone can help me with this:

Basically, we are building stickyNotes on a Canvas like this:

The everything is on a View, each stickynote is a Group component.

Inside the Group component, we have an image and a TextArea component.

as you can see, the texts are floating over everything. Is there any way to make the texts have the same layer of the image?

other alternatives are welcomed as well.

Regards,

Matthew