Category Archives: Tattoo Tuesday

Tattoo Tuesday: 24th July 2012 [UK Tattooed Bride Blog]

Welcome to another edition of tattoo Tuesday – The weekly post where you can email in your tattoo stories or, if you’re an artist, send in you favourite tattoo pieces. Which is exactly what this lovely lady has done..

Amy Grant. She is a new favourite of mine after finding her work on Intsagram. The colour and lining she uses in her tattooing is phenominal – especially in her vintage pieces such as mirrors and teacups.
Amy tattoos at Institute in Gorleston-On-Sea, Norfolk. You can see the studio’s Facebook here and Amy’s work here.

“Okay so this is my favourite one that I’ve been privileged to tattoo, the customer sent me some old flash of a smoking fighter pilot woman and for the life of me I can’t find the original or the artist who done it! But I re-drew the whole thing and can remember being nervous about whether he’d like it because it was so different to what he’d sent.

The reason its my favourite is because it was the last tattoo I done before I finished my apprenticeship, it was the one that made me feel comfortable and confident in what I was doing.”

Isn’t Amy’s work AWESOME?!! Don’t forget you can email in your tattoos and stories to marrymeink@gmail.com

Tattoo Tuesday: Tuesday 17th July 2012 [UK Tattooed Bride Blog]

Hello! Yes, it’s TUESDAY!! More lovely tattoos for you!

Today I’m bringing you Sera of I Am Magpie and her husband’s lovely couple’s tattoos! (I previously featured Sera’s Galleon & Narwhal here)

HIS N HERS

“My other half hadn’t got any tattoos and we decided that we would like to get him one before the wedding – and we talked about matching ones… but we didnt want to have exactly the same! We decided that we liked the skull and cross bones shape but with our own things in them… I wanted blue and arrows and a bit navajo, and he wanted a bowler hat and crossed umbrellas… he is now planning a whole ‘gentleman’ sleeve…!!”

Aren’t they amazing?!! I can’t WAIT for updates of the gentleman sleeve! What a great and quirky alternative to the skull and cross bones! Also, isn’t their pooch a cutie?!!

Tattoo Tuesday: 10th July 2012 [UK Tattooed Bride Blog]

It’s that time again! Tattoo Tuesday on Marry Me Ink! I am LOVING all your emails and stories for the weekly post!
Today for Tattoo Tuesday we have Sera, owner of I am Magpie – The boutique designer. Here she shares her thigh tattoo!

SERA’S GALLEON & NARWHAL

“I really wanted a thigh tattoo before my wedding…
I had been thinking about it for ages and wanted a galleon like the pirates had as I used to live in Port Royal in Jamaica (where Pirates of the Caribbean is set) and I love boats (almost all my tattoo’s have some sort of water theme) and the narwhal (I have named nashville) was added because I couldn’t imagine it without him.
When I look at it now it reminds me of my San Francisco wedding and California honeymoon… and I love it!”

Isn’t it gorgeous?! Dont’ forget you can email in your stories and inkings for Tattoo Tuesday to marrymeink@gmail.com

Tattoo Tuesday: 3rd July 2012 [UK Tattooed Bride & Wedding Blog]

Welcome to another edition of Tattoo Tuesday – featuring inspiration and pictures of AMAZING tattoos every week! This week it is my pleasure to introduce Leah of Leah Spicer Creative to Marry Me Ink with her Watership Down tattoo on the back of her neck!

Leah’s “Black Rabbit of Inlé”

I got this tattoo last year. I’d been wanting a tattoo on the back of my neck for quite some time, but wanted to choose something that was special to me, and meant something. I also only have black tattoos so it needed to be something that would work well in black and white.

After rewatching Watership Down for the first time in around 10 years I was reminded of how much I loved the film, and it bought back so many memories and I felt such nostalgia whilst watching it. The black rabbit of Inlé appears in rabbit folklore in the film, and is the rabbit equivalent of the grim reaper. When I saw the image of the ghostly black rabbit floating across the screen I knew it would make a perfect tattoo! Despite being a little scary and a LOT sad, Watership Down was one of my favourite films as a child and I also loved the book, which along with Call of the Wild and The Wind in the Willows was one of the many books leant to me by my Grandad so it is really special to me.”

What a great story! Don’t forget to email in you tattoo stories to marrymeink@gmail.com to be part of Tattoo Tuesday!