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Ever so often I seem to lose my mojo and go a week or two without stamping anything that isn't for business. The last couple of weeks have been one of those times. Hope you all didn't give up on me. Since I hadn't stamped in FOREVER, or so it seems, I needed a little inspiration. I find that card sketches are always a good way to get me going so I turned to Julee Tilman's Mojo Monday sketch. Her sketches always get me going. Combine that with Emily, over on SCS, color challenge and I could stamp a card with a lot of the thinking already done for me. Also in the back of my mind was the fact that I wanted to do a card for Operation Quiet Comfort. Cards that are sent to wounded soldiers in field hospitals. I didn't do anything really tricky with this card, though I did tone down the brightness of the pumpkin pie ribbon by sponging it with a little chocolate chip classic ink. All of the layers are stamped with the weathered background stamp inked with chocolate