Happy Flowers

This year’s springtime congratulatory stamps feature flowers illustrated by Anna Emilia Laitinen with bird shapes in their arrangements. According to Laitinen, the stamps are a splash of spring color.

”They reflect the moment at the beginning of summer when everything happens at once in nature and you just wish that the rest of the summer would be like this. They convey the first wag of a white wagtail's tail or the song of a chaffinch. They exude the scent of birch and twinflowers and the first warm summer breeze. I hope that the stamps convey the mysterious nature of summer, which can be captured for life in a letter or card you send,” says Anna Emilia Laitinen.