1-Embr-News... Dec 21st, 2012

Published: Fri, 12/21/12

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Friday - Dec 21st, 2012

Join Us @ ATW
3 Days To Finish...

Christmas Eve is 3 days away...


We finished our shopping several days ago...

Since we knew we would be traveling from Dec 19th through the 24th, we finished our Christmas shopping on the 18th. Now I'm doubly glad we don't HAVE to be in the stores today since it's COLD HERE in Chicago and not a good day to be out and about. At least not for us "Floridians".

I well remember many times commuting in heavy snow.  A drive that would normally take 45 minutes to an hour can end up being 4 or more hours due to snow and the traffic snarl it causes in a major city.  Yuk! 

"Been there - done that!"  


 
ATW membership
is all about...

"val·ue"


Join the club here...


ATW Club Members received over
2,300 new designs
to our members in 2012! 




Who won our $2,000 contest? 
There were 100 winners!   Here they are...
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New Designs @ ArtisticThreadWorks

Newest designs released to
ATW Club Members
TODAY...

"Sheepadillies"
Released to members Dec-19-2012
Artwork by DigiScrapKits
Digitized by Deby Albery
The ATW Digitizing Team


Members of the ATW club pay either $9.95 a month OR can choose our money-saving quarterly plan at $19.95 every 3 months. They get at least 17 new SETS of designs every month PLUS they can download as much as they want from our archives of more than 20,000 more designs!


Sign up for our newsletter here...
http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/1newsletter

See our latest 15 sets of new designs here...
http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/designsearch

(While you're there... click the "Next" link at the bottom of the page and keep going!  Members can download any or all of 1,858 sets of designs currently in the archives!  What a great value!)

Vote For Your Favorites From Last Month
(Most Voted For Set Becomes Freebies!)

Download Last Months Winning Set Here...

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Yesterday's #2 Seller at...
Hollys Design Studio

BAll Jar Lids

Winter's Lullaby with 36 designs was yesterday's #1 seller...

#2 was...

"Ball Jar Lids"

There are 34 designs in the "Ball Jar Lids".  They are a quick and easy-to-make project. Stitch them out, pink around the circle, and attach it to the top of a ball jar filled with goodies!
 
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HDS designs are just $4 per SET and you can
take discounts of 10%, 20%, or 30% off
when you buy 3 or more design sets at...
www.HollysDesignStudio.com!

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www.YouCanDigitize.com

Digitizing Story #12...


"Custom Digitizing 101"

 Right after Holly stated digitizing, a lady contacted her about digitizing a logo for her.  Holly asked what the logo was and she said a music staff with words on it. 

That sounded simple enough, so the lady sent Holly the artwork.  Once the design was done, Holly sent it to her.  That's when the fun began...  :-)

The lady said that it was nicely done, but she really needed some additional words on the staff that she had forgotten to mention. Holly added the extra words for her at no charge.

Then she said she needed the staff to include a couple music symbols that weren't in the original artwork.  Holly added them at no additional chage.

Then she said it needed another...

Well you get the idea... 

At that point, Holly had spent about 8 hours digitizing and test sewing the design and it's revisions.  It was time to say STOP!

YOUR TAKE-AWAY...

If you are going to do custom digitizing then you will have to learn to get written orders spelling out EXACTLY what your customer wants and what YOU will deliver. 

Set limits and price your work accordingly.




Do You
Want To
Digitize?


Holly can help you.  Get a trial copy of Generations from us that will run for 30 days before you buy!  Details on our website. 

You can learn to digitize in 30 days with Holly's help.  Holly has taught HUNDREDS of people to digitize in her 8 hour "Digitize In A Day" classes.  She can teach you to digitize in 30 days of online lessons!

Start with a trial copy.  If you decide to keep Generations you can deduct the cost of the trial program off the cost of Generations.,  Then you can either trade in one of the other programs you already bought (for up to a $1,000 credit!), or you can buy Generations from us with a "no-interest / no-credit-check" payment plan!

Heck, you can even just buy Generations without a trade-in or the free financing plan and you'll get a really nice gift (a $470 value) from us for doing that instead.  

Any way you choose, buy Generations from us and you will have the ONLY digitizing program you will ever need and a GREAT teacher who will help you learn to USE your software.



Opens January 2013 but you can look now!
http://www.youcandigitize.com
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www.EmbroideryHighway.com
Follow our travels and embroidery fun on our blog site... "Embroidery Highway". 

Holly digitizes and has an embroidery machine in our RV for working while we travel.  We also build and maintain our websites from the RV.  Our permanent home is in the Florida panhandle.
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A Set Of Designs From ATW...
Help yourself to this complete design set every day of the month compliments of ArtisticThreadWorks.  Starts over again on the first of each month.

The 21st...
http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/public/565.cfm

The 20th...
http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/public/560.cfm



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Latest Freebies @ ArtisticThreadWorks.com
Come on by and download these newest samples today!  We put up a new set of freebies every Friday morning.  If you're subscribed to our "1-Embroidery-Newsletter" then you'll get a link directly to the new freebies in every issue. 


These weekly freebies are 1 design from each of the new SETS our club members can download each week.  Club members get 4 new design SETS every week and can also download thousands more designs at no additional charge from our library! 
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www.EmbroideryDailyNews.com
See the newest designs released on more than 50 embroidery websites every day in one place at... 


Be sure to check our daily drawing for today's winner while you're reading the daily news!  If you're subscribed to our newsletter then you're in our daily prize drawing already.  Just check the Daily News each day for the winner!
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Making Machine Embroidery Fun & Affordable...

Join us at...
www.ArtisticThreadWorks.com
www.YouCanDigitize.com

Larry & Holly
Phone:  847-946-1342
Email:  webmaster@artisticthreadworks.com

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