Make Extra Money by Selling Your Homemade Arts & Crafts

I stumbled upon an adorable website called Etsy, where people are buying and selling handmade goods. If you have a creative side and love to make jewelry, purses, bags, clothes (anything handmade) you can sell them on Etsy.com.

One of my favorite Etsy sellers is littlebrownpen. She sells printable art. She designs greeting cards and then turns them into PDFs for people to download. Each download is $4. Every time someone buys a download, she just simply emails them the file. No packaging, no mailing and it's all residual income! Calculating from the number of sales she's had and an average $4 per download, she makes about $30,000 a year on the side from selling her printable goods on Etsy.com.

Recently she went to Paris and took amazing pictures of the city streets and architecture and is selling the high resolution file for a few dollars and people are buying! Same deal, she just emails the files to her customers without the hassle of shipping, etc. Isn't that just neat? For her this is just side money too, because she actually has a full-time job as a writer.

Another one of my favorite sellers is redrubyrose. She creates unique, classic clutch purses and sells them for $75 each. She makes around $90,000 a year from just these clutches. Imagine if you perfect your one skill i.e. making dolls, making purses, making aprons, etc. and just make the same purse/apron/clutch over and over using different fabric and you'll be on your way to turning yourself into a $90,000 a year artist.

Etsy is a great place for artists and homemade goods. You can sell your items for more money and they're much more appreciated on here than on a site like Ebay where art just gets muddled in with all the other items. On Etsy, crafts and goods are appreciated and valued. This is also a great site to find inspiration.

Our webmaster also has an Etsy store selling PDFs. She designed some cute alphabet posters for her niece and nephew and posted them on Etsy: