A WOMAN has revealed how she was able to pay for a year’s worth of rent thanks to her creative side hustle. Portsmouth-based illustrator, Angela Chick, sells cards on greetings card marketplace, thortful, selling over 85,000 cards to date. Angela explains that the royalties from selling her cars, “Have been a really great top up of money for me.
” Having worked as a full-time illustrator, Angela now works on licensing, commissions and teaching in Higher Education, as well as fulfilling her creative side hustle with thortful . “I love the flexibility that working with thortful provides,” she says. “It's hard where there is so much competition now, but it's great to be able to help people connect when they need it.
Read More on Side Hustles “Working online and teaching online means I can make my own schedule, and I love this. “It's so important to me that I have time to get out and about to feel inspired.” Angela explains that she has been burnt in the past supplying to larger companies, losing out on over £22,000.
However, she claims that by switching to thortful she has been able to keep more of the profits herself. Most read in Fabulous “I put my designs up for approval (with the company) and the money ticks in,” she says. “My cards are geared towards friendship and with many mental health themed cards, they were a great way to let people know you were thinking of them in tricky times.
“It's really helped me out during the quieter times in my busine.