Tattoo for daughter: heart balloon, elephants, flower butterfly

Tattoo designs for a daughter, sweet without being childish. The three designs are a little girl seen from behind holding a heart-shaped balloon on a curling string, a large elephant and a small one linking trunks, and a butterfly whose wings are filled with tiny daisies and forget-me-nots. Each comes in traditional, fine line and blackwork, drawn flat on white paper. Type a different subject, such as her birth flower, and the same styles carry it.

• a reference sheet for a tattoo artist
• a design for a parent to bring to a studio
• a gift print for a bedroom wall
• a card for a daughter's birthday

Frequently asked questions

Are these tattoos on skin?

No. Each design is a flat drawing on white paper, made to read as a tattoo design, not a photograph of a body.

Is the girl in the balloon design a real person?

No. The figure is an illustrated child seen from behind, not a photograph of anyone.

How do the three styles differ?

Traditional uses bold black outlines with flat red, yellow and green fills. Fine line is a single hairline with no shading. Blackwork is large solid black areas with fine white lines cut through them.

Can a tattoo artist work from these?

Yes. Clean line art on white is a common starting point, and a studio adjusts the size and placement for the skin.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.