Playing card tattoo ideas

147 photos and flash · 20% Realism, 20% Traditional · Forearm most common

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Nautical flash sheet of line-art designs in navy and red, including a lighthouse, swallow, whale, anchor, jellyfish and squid on a cream background.
Nautical tattoo flash sheet
Black lettering on an off-white background forming a playing card spade, with the words We're all mad here set in flowing and block letters.
Spade lettering reading We're all mad here
Black and grey lettering design reading Play the Hand You're Dealt, with a pencilled spade and playing cards above and flourishes around the script, drawn as a flash design with no body placement
Play the Hand You're Dealt lettering design
Coloured pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a black top hat, pocket watch, playing card, Drink Me tag and a purple and pink striped tail, with no body part visible.
Top hat, pocket watch and Drink Me tag design
Black and grey flash design of a sugar skull wearing a top hat, with an ace of spades, dice, a star, roses, crossed pistols and an eight ball, with the numbers 1969 below.
Sugar skull in top hat with cards, dice and roses
Black and grey line drawing of a skull-faced queen in a crown on a playing card, with a broken heart balloon, a spider and swords, shown as a flash design rather than on skin.
Queen of hearts skull playing card design
Pencil sketch of a spade shape made from two skulls and jawbones with teeth, shown as a standalone tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Skull spade design sketch
Black ink flash drawing of a king of hearts and queen of spades playing card with ribbon banners reading You're the King, baby I'm your Queen, in a lettering and dotwork style.
King and queen playing cards with banner lettering
Black and grey line drawing of a tattoo flash design with a pocket watch, teacups, a key, playing cards, a keyhole, and Drink Me and Eat Me labels, shown without a body placement.
Alice in Wonderland objects flash design
Black and grey flash design of an owl with spread wings holding crossed pistols, flanked by skulls, dice and playing cards.
Owl with crossed pistols and skulls
Black and white line drawing of a collage with a pocket watch, teapot, key, keyhole and playing cards, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Pocket watch and playing card collage
Black ink linework drawing of a neo-traditional tattoo design with a rose, pansy, top hat, pocket watch, teapot and ace of spades on white paper.
Mad hatter rose and ace of spades design
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design with a vintage microphone, dice, two skulls, a rose and an 8 ball, shown without any body placement.
Skulls, dice and microphone flash design
Sheet of playing card suit designs in red and black, with plain solid symbols on the top row and ornate dotwork-style symbols below.
Playing card suit tattoo flash sheet
Black line drawing of a hand with a cuff reading LOVE KILLS, holding up a card marked with a heart pierced by an arrow.
Hand holding a heart card with Love Kills
Black line drawing of the words OFF WITH HER HEAD arranged in the shape of a playing card club, with a spiral in the top lobe, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Off with her head lettering in a club shape
Drawing of a dark red heart wrapped in brown and grey smoke or cloud shapes with a thin dripping line below, with ace of hearts corner markings on a cream background.
Smoky heart design with ace of hearts
Black and white flash design of a cat in a top hat with a spade card, bow tie and cigar, flanked by roses and leaves, with the words Lie to the Liars and Steal from Thieves arced around it.
Cat in top hat with roses and slogan
Black and white flash sheet of tattoo designs on a phone case, including a fox head, compass, bird, spider webs, playing card suits and a rope knot.
Black ink flash sheet with spider webs, compass and fox
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design with a curling scroll reading Embrace your Madness, a pocket watch, a top hat, playing card suits and a silhouette of Alice falling.
Alice in Wonderland quote scroll design
Traditional flash design of a fanned hand of playing cards, including the ace of spades, above a scroll banner reading Born to Lose and Live to Win.
Playing cards and Born to Lose banner
Black and grey design of a skull set within a spade shape on a worn playing card, rendered in a realistic style with no body placement shown.
Skull in an ace of spades card
Painted neo-traditional flash design of the Cheshire Cat grinning from a teacup beside a pocket watch, rose, key, cupcake and Eat Me and Drink Me labels, with art supplies around it.
Cheshire Cat in a teacup with rose and key
Black and white traditional-style flash sheet of sixteen designs, including playing cards, a dagger, dice, pizza, a skull with an eight ball, cobwebs, a coffin and a tombstone.
Black and white flash sheet with skulls and cards
Black and grey pencil flash design of praying hands, dice, playing cards, a winged pocket watch, roses, skulls and a banner reading Such is life, in a neo-traditional style.
Such is life flash with skulls, dice and praying hands
Sheet of twelve small temporary tattoo designs, each showing the four playing card suits in red and black on a white background.
Playing card suits tattoo design sheet
Traditional flash design of playing cards showing a heart, spade, club and diamond above a banner reading LUCKY, with an orange flower and dark leaves below.
Lucky playing cards and banner flash
Black ink tribal-style spade design drawn on white paper, with swirling curls, tapering points and small dot accents.
Tribal spade design
Black ink flash sheet of traditional-style designs including skulls, a cat, a rose, a dagger, an owl and a rabbit, many marked with the number 13, shown as drawings with no body placement.
Hand-drawn flash sheet with 13 motifs
Black and grey flash design of a banner reading Life's A Gamble above playing cards, dice, a classic car and flames.
Life's a Gamble with cards, dice and car
Black and grey line drawing of an octopus wrapped around a sailing ship within a spade shape of rope, with a ship's wheel, anchor and an Ace of Spades banner.
Octopus and sailing ship ace of spades design
Black line drawing on paper of a traditional style tattoo design with roses, playing cards, a pocket watch and an ornate mirror frame.
Roses, playing cards and pocket watch design
Coloured pencil sketch of a cartoon pin-up character with pigtails, holding a mallet and a pistol, with a red heart on the thigh and playing card letters beneath, drawn as a tattoo design.
Cartoon pin-up sketch with mallet and pistol
Black and grey illustration of a white rabbit head with playing cards, a monocle, a pocket watch and a red rose on a black background.
White rabbit with playing cards and pocket watch
Painted drawing of a Cheshire cat in a teacup with a rose, playing card, key, cupcake and Drink Me bottle, in a neo-traditional style, shown as a design with no body placement.
Cheshire cat and teacup design
Neo-traditional style illustration of a queen figure framed by playing cards, with a king, jack and queen card and a small script detail on the body.
Playing card queen illustration
Traditional flash design of a skull, dice, brass knuckles and playing cards with an ace of spades, under a banner reading Old School Of Hate.
Old school cards, skull and dice flash
Black ink drawing of a traditional-style sleeve tattoo design on paper, with a skull, sun, nautical star, compass rose and playing cards, shown as an elongated arm-shaped outline.
Sleeve design with skull, sun and nautical star
Black and white skull design with purple and green accents, crown, spade and star motifs, and red teeth outlines, drawn on a black background.
Joker skull with playing card motifs
Neo-traditional flash drawing of a queen and a skeleton king on playing cards, with a red rose and red hearts, in black and grey with red accents.
Queen and skeleton king playing card design
Black line drawing flash design of a grinning Cheshire cat face with playing cards, a teapot, a teacup and a banner reading We're All Mad Here.
We're all mad here design with Cheshire cat
Traditional flash drawing of a mermaid with long dark hair seated on an anchor and rope, holding a small cherub, in red, yellow and black outline on a tan background.
Mermaid and anchor traditional flash
Black and grey realistic flash design of two roses, two crossed revolvers, playing cards and banknotes, with no body placement shown.
Roses, revolvers and banknotes design
Black and white flash sheet of Joker-themed tattoo designs, including a jester skull, playing cards, HAHA lettering, a grinning mouth and the word JOKER.
Joker-themed tattoo flash sheet in black ink