{"id":81,"date":"2025-10-27T21:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:48:00","slug":"meet-the-artist-maile-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Artist \u2014 Maile Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Founder of Stamp &amp; Story by Maile<\/em><br><em>Kettle Falls, Washington<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center is-style-rounded\"><figure  class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1074\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bennett_Maile--scaled-e1761596954417.jpg?resize=960%2C1074&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-15 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bennett_Maile--scaled-e1761596954417.jpg?w=1480&amp;ssl=1 1480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bennett_Maile--scaled-e1761596954417.jpg?resize=600%2C671&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bennett_Maile--scaled-e1761596954417.jpg?resize=268%2C300&amp;ssl=1 268w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bennett_Maile--scaled-e1761596954417.jpg?resize=916%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 916w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bennett_Maile--scaled-e1761596954417.jpg?resize=768%2C859&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bennett_Maile--scaled-e1761596954417.jpg?resize=1374%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1374w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bennett_Maile--scaled-e1761596954417.jpg?resize=1140%2C1275&amp;ssl=1 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Maile Bennett is a paper artist and lifelong memory-keeper nestled in the countryside of Kettle Falls, Washington. Her crafting journey began in 1995 when she was pregnant with her first child and started scrapbooking with Creative Memories. Inspired by storytelling and preserving life\u2019s most meaningful moments, she later expanded into stamping and card making with Stampin\u2019 Up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Balancing a full-time career in Healthcare IT, Maile continued to nurture her love of papercraft through evenings and weekends of creativity. Now entering retirement, she\u2019s embracing the joy of crafting full-time\u2014designing beautiful keepsakes and offering inspiration to fellow crafters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through Stamp &amp; Story, Maile shares her passion with custom-designed cards, scrapbooks, invitations, and example projects to spark creativity. Every design is made with love, intention, and a story waiting to be told.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder of Stamp &amp; Story by MaileKettle Falls, Washington Maile Bennett is a paper artist and lifelong memory-keeper nestled in the countryside of Kettle Falls, Washington. Her crafting journey began in 1995 when she was pregnant with her first child and started scrapbooking with Creative Memories. Inspired by storytelling and preserving life\u2019s most meaningful moments, she later expanded into stamping and card making with Stampin\u2019 Up! Balancing a full-time career in Healthcare IT, Maile continued to nurture her love of papercraft through evenings and weekends of creativity. Now entering retirement, she\u2019s embracing the joy of crafting full-time\u2014designing beautiful keepsakes and offering inspiration to fellow crafters. Through Stamp &amp; Story, Maile shares her passion with custom-designed cards, scrapbooks, invitations, and example projects to spark creativity. Every design is made with love, intention, and a story waiting to be told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-site-information"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bennett_Maile--scaled-e1761596954417.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}