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We’re in the first week of November, so it’s time for your first official reminder: If you fancy sending out a load of Christmas cards, you should probably buy them now. You know, so you have time to put off writing them for a few weeks.

And if you’re buying the cards, you might as well buy the stamps.

So it’s a good thing that Royal Mail has just unveiled their Christmas stamps for 2016.

This year’s stamps are super cute paper cut designs, created by Manchester-based artist Helen Musselwhite.


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Helen made paper cut out designs of snowmen, Christmas puddings, stockings, Christmas trees, and stockings, then photographed each 3D design to create a 2D stamp.



The end result is pretty lovely.

‘Illustrating the Royal Mail Christmas 2016 stamps has been one of the most important and favourite jobs of my career to date,’ said Helen.

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‘I’m immensely proud that my work will be winging its way across the world sending season’s greetings far and wide from the UK.’

The stamps range in value from 1st and 2nd class to £1.05, and are on sale now.

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