I have created many email campaigns over the years. The feeling one gets when it is sent out is just sheer happiness.
I design custom emails used for events and other marketing. eg. Event Invitations, post event "Thank yous", Sales, Webinars etc.
The whole layout is HTML, keeping the text in the mail as HTML text so people can read the mail without having to download the images. This also ensures that the mail is small and will pass through business servers, who will bounce the mail away if there are embedded images. Please see my porfolio
Email campaigns require that the HTML code used to layout the mail is very old. This is partly because Microsoft Outlook reads HTML and CSS like it was written way back when monitors were CRT greenscreen - ok maybe not that old be still a long time ago, and partly because all email clients [gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc] read email slighty differently.