This year’s springtime congratulatory stamps feature flowers illustrated by Anna Emilia Laitinen with bird shapes in their arrangements.  

”At first, I loosely sketched the pictures with a thick black felt-tip pen. Sketching flowers and birds with a pen is the continuation of one long line, a bit like writing in cursive. After I found the right sketches, I continued this cursive writing with brushstrokes and watercolors. The final implementation was done through a scanner and a computer,” says Laitinen. 

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.” 

Happy Flowers is a 10-stamp sheet containing five different domestic no-value indicator stamp designs. 

Date of issue 6.5.2026

With no-value indicator stamps you can mail letters and cards in Finland and it is always valid. You can mail a letter max. 50 gramms with one stamp. For heavier letters you need multiple stamps (more information in the picture).