Playing card tattoo ideas

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

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Three-panel photo of a black and grey realism tattoo showing a grinning joker face, playing cards, banknotes, poker chips and chess pieces, placed on a lower limb.
Joker, cards, money and chess on a limb
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
Full colour Alice in Wonderland tattoo across a woman's back and left arm, showing the Cheshire Cat in a tree, the Mad Hatter and a DRINK ME label on the sleeve.
Alice in Wonderland back and sleeve tattoo
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
Two bare lower legs raised in burgundy boots, showing traditional tattoos of a bow, camera, rose, ship's wheel, playing card and small script on the calves.
Traditional tattoos on both calves
Black and grey realistic Joker portrait with a playing card across a man's back, with sleeve tattoos on both arms.
Joker portrait across a full back
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
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing a male comic-style character in a long dark coat, reaching forward amid orange flames and a flying playing card.
Comic-style fighter with playing card on upper arm
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
Full colour neo-trad Alice in Wonderland sleeve on a woman's upper arm and forearm, with playing cards, a rose and a Cheshire cat.
Alice in Wonderland sleeve with playing cards
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
Black and grey realism tattoo of a jester figure on a Joker playing card held by a gloved-looking hand, placed on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Joker playing card held in a hand on the back
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
Matching hand tattoos of crowned skulls as a king and a queen, with red hearts and the letters K and Q, in grey shading with red accents.
King and queen skull hand tattoos
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
Close photo of a fine line outline tattoo of four playing card suits, a diamond, club, spade and heart, on the inner forearm, with silver and blue evil eye bangles worn on the wrist.
Playing card suit outlines on a forearm
Two clasped hands showing small red fine line tattoos: a K with a heart on one finger and a heart above a Q on the other.
Red K and Q heart tattoos on fingers
Black and grey realism tattoo of hands fanning playing cards across the upper arm.
Hands holding playing cards on upper arm
Colour tattoo on a thigh of a gold pocket watch on a chain, playing card suit symbols and a black script quote in a realistic lettering style.
Pocket watch and quote with playing card suits
Traditional style tattoos of a diamond, club, heart and spade playing card suits, one on each finger of a hand, with a grey ornamental pattern across the back of the hand.
Playing card suits on fingers
Side of a torso showing four stacked playing card suit tattoos on the ribs, with a red diamond, black spade, red heart and black club in a brushed watercolour style.
Four card suits down the ribs
Two hands held together, with a small red king of hearts tattoo on one finger and a red queen of hearts tattoo on another, with grey script tattoos on the back of the other hand.
King and queen card tattoos on fingers
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
Small black lettering tattoos of a Q and a K, each with a heart below, on two adjacent fingers of a hand.
Queen and king of hearts on two fingers
Black and grey back tattoo showing Snow White holding a poisoned apple, Alice with a pocket watch and Jack Skellington, with roses and music notes, beside a colour sleeve on the upper arm.
Disney-themed back piece with Snow White and Alice
Four-panel photo of a colourful realism full sleeve on an upper arm and forearm, showing the Joker's face, Batman, bats and a city skyline.
Joker and Batman full arm sleeve
Two small black lettering tattoos on the lower legs, a Q with a heart on the left ankle and a K with a heart on the right ankle, seen from behind above trainers.
Q and K heart tattoos on the ankles
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
Traditional style full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, with a ship, swallows, a shark, a pin-up and banner lettering, shown in three photographs.
Traditional sailor full sleeve in three views
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
Fine line tattoos of a letter K with a heart and a letter Q with a heart on two adjacent fingers of a hand, in black ink.
King and queen of hearts on fingers
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 and grey traditional tattoo on a forearm showing a skull within an ace of spades, banners reading Life is a gamble, roses, a crown and dice.
Ace of spades skull with dice and roses on forearm
Close-up of two hands, with a small black crown, letter K and spade tattoo on one finger and a small red outlined symbol tattoo on the neighbouring finger.
Crown, letter and spade tattoos on fingers
Two hands with small black fine line tattoos on the fingers, a Q with a heart on one hand and a K with a heart on the other.
Queen and king heart tattoos on fingers
Black lettering reading We're all mad here set inside a spade outline with blue filigree swirls, tattooed on the outer thigh.
Spade with 'We're all mad here' lettering on thigh
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
Close photo of fine line black playing card suit tattoos on two ankles, with a small red diamond tattoo on a wrist.
Playing card suit tattoos on ankles and wrist
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
Four playing card suit symbols, a spade, diamond, club and heart, in black and red ink with splattered edges, running down the centre of a person's back.
Playing card suits down the back
Black and grey realism forearm tattoo of a casino scene with dice, poker chips, an ace of spades, a roulette wheel and an All In banner.
Casino forearm tattoo with dice and aces
Full colour neo-traditional Alice in Wonderland sleeve covering the forearm and upper arm, with the Cheshire Cat, playing cards, roses and a green hedge maze.
Alice in Wonderland arm sleeve
Colour tattoo of a green 3D dollar sign and an ace of spades playing card with grey shading on the upper arm.
Dollar sign and ace of spades on upper arm
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