Cross tattoo ideas

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Flash sheet of tattoo designs with script lettering reading Stay Strong, let go and faith, plus a cross, lips, a feather, a heart and small birds.
Flash sheet of script quotes and small motifs
Pencil sketch of a cross made from black cursive lettering on paper, with soft grey shading beneath the letters, shown as a lettering design without a body placement.
Cursive script words arranged in a cross
Black line drawing of a winged symbol with a cross and an A-shaped figure, above the words Archangel Michael protects me, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Archangel Michael wings and cross design
Brown ink line drawing of a stick figure with raised arms and crossed legs inside a circle, on aged paper, shown as a tattoo design.
Stick figure inside a circle design
Black line drawing design of a cross and heartbeat line that becomes a heart, with the words Faith, Hope and Love beneath it.
Cross, heartbeat and heart with Faith Hope Love
Three traditional style flash designs on stickers: a light blue car, a fiery banner with flowers, and a red and blue cross with roses.
Car, flames and roses flash designs
Black ink drawing of an ornamental cross design with filigree detail, leaf motifs and stippled dotwork shading, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Ornamental cross with leaves and dotwork
Flash sheet of gold, silver and black metallic temporary tattoo designs, including feathers, a hamsa hand, chevrons, a cross, the word dream in an infinity loop and tribal bands.
Metallic temporary tattoo sheet with feathers and chevrons
Four minimal black line symbols on a plain light grey background: a sun with dotted rays, three wavy lines, a peak with dots, and a cross with dots, in a fine line style.
Sun, waves, mountain and cross symbols
A white crop tank top on a wooden hanger, printed with black and grey tattoo-style designs including a cross, a crown, Roman numerals, Hebrew letters and the word Forgive.
Tattoo-style designs printed on a white crop top
Two sugar skull designs on a grey background, one with a cross and blue rose-like eyes, the other with a red rose on its crown and purple flower eyes.
Two colourful sugar skull designs
Black and grey realistic drawing of a cracked clock face breaking into shards, with a skull and fragmented faces, shown as a tattoo design.
Shattering clock and skull design
Black line drawing of a symmetrical cross-shaped design with a starburst, a central dotted circle, scrolls and a leaf, shown without a body placement.
Symmetrical ornamental cross design
Black ink line drawing of an ornate cross-shaped filigree design with swirls and loops, shown on grey paper.
Ornate cross filigree design
Black ink outline drawing of an ornate cross with scrollwork and triangular detailing on a sheet of white paper, shown as a tattoo design.
Ornate outlined cross design
Black dotwork flash sheet showing a rose, a snake, a dagger, a praying hand, an angel, a cross and church buildings, shown as tattoo designs with no placement on the body.
Dotwork flash sheet of churches, snakes and hands
Pencil drawing of a shaded cross with a rose bud and leaves at its base, in a neo-traditional style, shown without a body placement.
Cross and rose design
Black ink line drawing of a heart with a cross inside it on a white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Heart with cross line design
Pencil drawing of an infinity symbol with an ornate cross overlapping its lower left loop, shown as a tattoo design on plain paper.
Infinity symbol with ornate cross
Black and grey pencil drawing of a sacred heart wrapped in a rosary, with a banner across the top, a cross and leaves below, in a traditional tattoo design style.
Sacred heart with rosary and cross drawing
Sheet of metallic flash designs including a pair of angel wings, a cross, a gold feather, a heart of stars, a short script word and teardrop bands, in gold, silver and black.
Wings, cross and star designs on a temporary tattoo sheet
Flash design of a red rose wound with a beaded rosary in front of a grey cross, drawn in a neo-traditional style with blue rays behind.
Rose, rosary and cross design
Black and grey design of a Lutheran rose with a cross in the heart, framed by a ring of Latin text and ornate scrollwork, shown as a standalone drawing rather than on skin.
Lutheran rose emblem with cross
Pencil sketch of a traditional style tattoo design showing a headstone inscribed Wish You Were Here, a crescent moon, a rose and leaves.
Headstone with rose and crescent moon design
Ink and colour drawing of a three-headed black cat with yellow eyes, seated beneath a hatched crescent moon and a small cross.
Three-headed black cat under a crescent moon
Black line drawing of an ornate cross built from curling scrolls and swirls on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Scrollwork cross design
Black line drawing of a cross wrapped in a rose and leafy vines, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background with no body placement.
Rose and vine wrapped cross design
Black line drawing of a plain cross with the handwritten script reference 2 Cor 5:17 beside it, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Cross with 2 Cor 5:17 script
Black line drawing of an ornate cross with filigree scrollwork and pointed arms, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Ornate filigree cross line drawing
Fine line flash design of a teal heartbeat trace with a heart loop, small flower, cross and dove carrying an olive branch, on a beige background.
Heartbeat line with dove and heart
Black and grey flash sheet of gothic tattoo designs including a moth, owl, ghost, coffin, dagger, cat and crossed bones, drawn in dotwork and bold outlines.
Black and grey gothic flash sheet
Black silhouette design of a horned serpent coiled around a staff, with a crown above, a crossbar with arrow tips, wings and three triangles.
Serpent dragon and crowned staff design
White line drawing of a coiled snake filled with geometric dotwork patterns, set between a sun motif at the top and a crescent moon at the bottom, on a dark background.
Geometric snake design with sun and crescent
Sheet of gold, silver and black metallic temporary tattoo designs on a white background, including feathers, crossed arrows, chevrons, triangles, a cross, a heart and chain bracelets.
Metallic temporary tattoo sheet with feathers and arrows
Pencil drawing of two shaded roses, a bow, a hanging cross and a script banner reading La Familia, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Two roses, ribbon banner and cross design
Pencil sketch of three fine line arrows with feathered fletching and dotted trails, drawn as a tattoo design on paper with no body part visible.
Three arrows fine line tattoo design
Black line drawing flash of an owl wearing a beaded necklace, perched above a rose and an all-seeing eye in a triangle, with a cross on the left, in a neo-traditional style; no body placement is
Owl, rose and all-seeing eye line drawing
Line drawing of a cross formed from open black loops with a shaded red heart at its centre, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Loop cross with red heart
Black line drawing of a heartbeat trace forming a cross that ends in a heart, with the words Faith, Hope, Love beneath it on a white background.
Heartbeat cross with Faith, Hope, Love
A heart outline filled with brown and tan camouflage pattern, crossed by a stepped cross shape, on a plain cream background.
Camouflage heart outline with cross
Traditional-style flash design on paper showing two oval portraits with honeycomb, bees, a flying saucer and an atom, above two scrolled banners in colour.
Two illustrated portraits with banners and bees
Black and grey flash drawing of an ornate anchor combined with a cross, with shaded oval panels and scrollwork, shown without any body placement.
Ornate anchor and cross design
Black script lettering arranged in the shape of a cross on a white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Cross-shaped script lettering design
Purple line drawing of a skull decorated with roses, vines and a small figure, with banners reading At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can.
Skull with roses and quote banners
Black line drawing of a tattoo design: a cross formed from script words including faith, grace, peace, hope, love and Christ, with small arrows, on a white background.
Script cross with faith, grace and hope
Black line and solid geometric flash sheet of arrows, triangles, diamonds, circles, a star and a cross, shown on a plain white background with no body placement.
Geometric arrows and shapes flash sheet
Black brush-painted cross above the word LOVE in block lettering on a white background, shown as a flash design.
Brush cross with LOVE lettering
Black line drawing of an ornate cross with scrollwork and a open heart at its centre, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Ornate cross with heart design