10 Money Making Small Business / Side Hustle Ideas For Creatives In 2025 🎨💸

it's time for you to make money in a fun and creative way I've been a creative entrepreneur for the last 3 years and it has been such a rewarding Journey if you're a creative and starting a small business is a path that you are interested in here are over 10 creative small business ideas that aren't basic or boring I promise that you might actually be excited about running business idea number one is a stationary business this one is pretty simple if you have like a basic design platform like canva procreate K you can make your

own notepads or to-do lists personalized sticky notes like grocery lists Etc I've actually created my own notepads in the past and it was one of my favorite products that I've ever created and notepads are relatively inexpensive to have printed off and you can get extremely creative with this I think this is something that I personally want to lean back into in this coming year cuz it's just a fun product to create small business idea number two is a car accessories brand this could be fun and it's very unique you can illustrate cute custom air fresheners

for cars if you crochet you can make cute like hanging things for Mirror not even just crochet I mean you could do this with anything you can get super creative with this air fresheners rear view mirror accessories seat belt covers steering wheel covers you could create super cute coasters for like people's cup holders this is a super cute and unique idea and I haven't seen this done like a ton online at all so it might be a good audience to tap into because a lot of people have cars and the girlies like to decorate so

that definitely could be something to consider the next small business idea is a book accessories brand so this would be creating a small business surrounding reading accessories for reading super cute bookmarks book bags book covers Kindle covers you can make like a matching book cover and a pencil case like/ pencil bag to hold highlighters and like sticky notes for people that like to annotate in their books like it would be so cute to create a whole book accessory like line you could sell all those things as a bundle or individually I feel like reading I

mean obviously reading has always been a big thing but like book talk is I feel like I don't want to say reading is trendy it kind of is I don't know so I feel like that would just be like a fun small business to get into the next one is a coloring book brand if you are into making art you can easily create and publish your own coloring book I'm actually in the process of making my own coloring book right now and I have a series on my channel documenting the whole process so if you're

interested in this definitely check that out but it's super easy to create coloring books and and if you don't have like a wide audience already you can publish them through Amazon KDP and you could literally sell coloring books on Amazon but Printing and distributing it yourself is also an option I personally am going to be printing my own coloring books but definitely starting a coloring book brand is a fun option for someone who likes to draw the next idea I have is kind of a basic one but it is a jewelry brand you can either

create your own jewelry by hand or have custom jewelry made by a manufacturer I own a clothing brand called project Flow State and I have had jewelry manufactured for my brand before and it really wasn't that complicated it was just a matter of me finding the right manufacturer to work with I found my manufacturer through Alibaba which is where to my knowledge most people go to find their overseas manufacturers for pretty much anything for me personally I found that when I was manufacturing my jewelry it was way less expensive than going into something like apparel

so if you're looking to create a Brand jewelry could be a good entry point this next one is an interesting one and this is a product that I use very often almost daily for multiple hours a day this next business idea is creating relaxing ambient YouTube backgrounds sltv art and putting it on YouTube after I film this I'm going to get up and literally go to my living room and turn on my TV and show you guys my YouTube suggestions I throw these on my TV all the time and they're basically just backgrounds with like

calm music people throw these on when they want to add Ambiance to their space but they're not directly paying attention to the TV people that are putting these videos on YouTube are generating money from these ads and if you really look at them like 95% of these are just AI generated images with like one moving element on it like all the Christmas ones I've been watching recently are just an AI image with like snow coming down with nice relaxing like jazz music in the background some of these videos are like 12 hours long like imagine

how many ads play in a 12-h hour long video Loop not saying that people will play it for 12 hours but it really could generate a good amount of money and this could be a very lowcost small business to get into a YouTube channel is free you might have to pay to use some sort of AI generating software and maybe for a video editing software and music but with those things you could probably generate a ton of these videos and you're not creating physical products so I would say that this is a pretty lowcost side

Hustle the next small business idea that I have is selling iPhone stock photos I saw a girl on Tik Tok talking about how she literally paid her rent for like the past 3 months because one of her stock photos blew up and people just kept buying it the coolest thing was it literally was just an iPhone photo that she put on a website and it makes a lot of sense that normal iPhone photos are being purchased these days because a lot of Brands and companies are looking for more organic looking content for their Pages super

professional looking content looks less organic and looks more ad-like so a lot of these companies want organic looking photos I bet you have a well of cute pictures in your camera roll that could potentially be making you money I'm pretty sure this girl said she posted a photo of a horse in a field and that's the one that took off I I'm going to try and find the Tik Tok it was a while ago but yeah anyways it just makes a lot of sense that this is a style of stock footage that would be selling

now so obviously the more photos that you are able to post the more likely you are to make money so selling stock photos is definitely something to look into this next business idea is something similar along those lines but it is ugc content creation I feel like ugc is overlooked now but it is a great side hustle it was like all of the rage a few years ago but it's still very relevant today if you don't know what ugc is ugc stands for user generated content basically you are creating organic feeling content for brands that

they can then use for advertisements or on their social media one of my best friends is a ugc Creator and she's very successful with it and it just looks like a ton of fun and she gets to see a lot of cool products ugc just seems like a lot of fun because you still have the creative aspect of like filming and shooting but you don't have to have a huge audience or even post anything to get these deals I'm not going to go too in depth on how to become a ugc Creator because there are

a ton of great resources here on YouTube but that is definitely something to look into but yeah the next creative small business idea I have is hosting art or mindfulness workshops this isn't for everyone but hosting things like Paint and Sip nights journaling workshops or like vision board workshops can be a great creative side hustle you can offer these events in rented spaces or do them privately at like people's parties this takes a little bit of planning but if you figure out what you want to do you can find a space rent it out and

just start promoting it on like your Town's Facebook page like my town has an informed page like literally you could just post your event on your Town's Facebook page and start promoting it if you run a couple of these workshops every month it can be a great way to make money and it really would only take a few hours of your time every week even think about approaching like local bars for Paint and Sip nights I know like a lot of the bars in my town have like trivia nights and stuff it would be a

fun way for these restaurants to build community and it would just be a mutually beneficial relationship so maybe you could even approach like a local restaurant for hosting a Paint and Sip night it doesn't have to be Paint and Sip there are so many things that you can host and this is definitely something that you can get very creative with this next one is different than selling stock photos just hear me out for a second the next side hustle is creating website and selling organic aesthetic videos I know I just talked about selling stock photos

I know I just talked about ugc just wait because this is a bit different I've been seeing all of these Instagram Pages popping up selling organic reals type videos and uploading them onto their website and I've clicked through on a few of these websites and they're literally charging like hundreds and hundreds of dollars for people to download these videos a lot of them I see the business model of quarterly subscriptions and people are charging like $150 for 3 months of access to their Library of videos if someone subscribes to your website for a year at

$150 that is $600 and imagine if you had like 50 customers that's literally like $30,000 extra dollars a year if you were doing this as a side hustle and some of these Instagram Pages seem like they're popping off like they're relatively large obviously it would take a while to even create enough content to have something big enough like that to offer to people and it would take time to scale a business to that size but if this did work you would just get to make like cute coffees all day and make pretty videos and you

don't even have to show your face people use these videos to make their own short form content if they don't like know how to shoot content but this is something you could literally start doing today just start filming cute stuff depending on what you're filming this could also be a relatively low cost s to get into because you pretty much just have to pay for a website and like whatever you're filming so definitely something to look into the next creative small business idea I have is wedding product rentals SL weding entertainment I feel like weddings

are a fun area for a creative person to get into since every wedding is like unique and you can really have fun creating for them there are so many things you can do for weddings but some of my ideas are making like the wedding arches like the cute arches that people get married in front of and renting those out you could make like a really beautiful one and probably rent it out once and pay for it like pay for the cost of it and then from then on out it's just like profit obviously it would

require you going to these places and like setting them up but I feel like it would definitely be worth it and also like creating really beautiful like centerpieces or wedding invitations I feel like there's so many creative things you can do for weddings and I also as part of this idea I said wedding entertainment I'm not talking about DJing I'm talking about creating an experience for the guests a lot of weddings have bar carts I feel like that's competitive to get into that's a thing we've already seen that but you could do something like having

a bouquet cart like I'll put one on the screen I've seen these on that is so cute or even like having a bouquet service like this you could do this at grad parties and stuff too I just think that's a really cute and unique idea or there's always if you're like an artsy painter person live painting at weddings live painting is a huge thing and it's a beautiful way for like the bride and groom to remember their day so that is definitely a creative thing you can get into as well there are tons of creative

things you can offer in the wedding scene as a creative hopefully this sparked some interest in you guys and potentially showed you a vision for some creative Reven new for yourself let me know if you guys enjoyed this I can definitely make a part two I love talking about these kinds of things so let me know down below but if you guys did like this video please be sure to like And subscribe down below and I love you guys so much I will see you all on the next one bye