Spade tattoo ideas

88 photos and flash · 22% Traditional, 18% Lettering · Forearm most common

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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
Forearm covered in fine line doodles, including a coffee cup, paper plane and pocket watch, next to a wrist tattoo of a spade and heart, with two hands clasped.
Doodle tattoos on a forearm with clasped hands
Traditional style flash design of a grinning skull with flames, crossed pistols, spade symbols and a banner reading Diablo, drawn in black, cream and red.
Skull with flames, pistols and banner
Four bare feet arranged on an orange carpet, each with a small solid black spade or diamond tattoo on the ankle.
Playing card suit ankle tattoos
Colour tattoo on the upper leg of a pocket watch with a chain, playing card suits, red lips and a heart, with the lettering 'Have I gone mad' and a quote in script.
Pocket watch and quote on a thigh
Black and grey back tattoo in traditional style, with Latin script, stars, dice, cherries, strawberries and a skull in a flower, spread across the upper and lower back.
Back piece of dice, cherries and Latin script
Four small black playing card suit tattoos, a spade, heart, club and diamond, on the wrists of clasped hands, with a metal bangle and a woven bracelet nearby.
Four playing card suit tattoos on wrists
Four small fine line playing card suit tattoos, a diamond, club, spade and heart, on the wrists of four arms linked together in the centre of the frame.
Four playing card suit tattoos on wrists
Close-up of two hands with a small black spade tattoo on one finger and a small pink heart tattoo on another finger, against a dark background.
Spade and heart tattoos on fingers
Black and white photo of four wrists held together, each with a small solid black playing card suit tattoo: a spade, a heart, a club and a diamond, on the forearm near the wrist.
Four playing card suit tattoos on wrists
Close view of a pale hand with four small playing card suit tattoos on the fingers: a black spade, a red heart, a black club and a red diamond.
Playing card suit tattoos on fingers
Traditional tattoo of a red lantern with a banner reading There is a light, with card suit symbols and script above, on the back of a hand.
Lantern and banner on the back of a hand
Black line drawing of a vertical tribal-style band with a spade, diamond, club and heart, shown as a tattoo design without skin visible.
Playing card suits in a tribal band
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
Eight black line-art flash designs in a grid of two rows, showing geometric spade, heart, diamond and club suit symbols above a crown, a shield-like shape, another crown and a tribal face.
Eight geometric line motifs in a grid
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 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
Close-up of a hand with four small playing card suit tattoos on the fingers: a black spade, a red diamond, a black club and a red heart.
Playing card suit tattoos on four fingers
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
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
Neo-traditional style flash drawing of a pin-up woman with roses in her hair, holding a teacup, with a heart and spade design on her arm and the words oh dang above her.
Pin-up with roses holding a teacup
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
Black lettering tattoo on the outer thigh reading We're all mad here, with the words arranged in the shape of a spade.
We're all mad here lettering in a spade shape
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
Ornate heart tattoo with red shading and black outline on the inner forearm, with a spade-shaped point at the top.
Ornate heart tattoo on a forearm
Coloured pencil drawing of a sailing ship on waves inside a rope-framed spade shape, with a rope knot and lotus-like shape below, in a traditional style.
Sailing ship in a rope-framed heart design
Four white filigree skull designs with floral and scroll patterns on a black background, with a spade motif at the centre and an ornate border.
Four ornate skull designs with a spade
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
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
Colour neo-traditional sugar skull tattoo with dark red roses, a green vine and a spade on the upper arm.
Sugar skull with roses on upper arm
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
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
Collage of matching small tattoos on fingers and wrists, including hearts, crowns and script lettering reading Always and Forever, in black and red ink.
Matching couple tattoos on fingers and wrists
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
Flash design of a pistol with a spade cutout at the top, with vines, pink flowers, feathers and a dandelion trailing down beneath it.
Pistol with trailing flowers and vines
Black ink and pencil sketch of an ornate key with filigree scrollwork and a foliage vine, drawn as a tattoo design on white paper.
Ornate key with scrollwork design