Fav's of the Day...

Ok so I haven't been updating as much as I should, but I'm going to make more of an effort to share with the lovely folks who read my blog (Thank you :D)
I'm going to be updating with a few of my favourite tattoos that I've seen around the web. I'd love to do one of those 1 post a day every day for a year things, but unfortunately I dont have time every day to do that. If I ever do however, I will definitely be giving it a bash! Its going to be more like at least 3 a week with the odd feature post along the way. Most of the designs will come from DeviantArt to help promote my fellow DA Members, but if anyone see's anything else then please feel free to leave a comment and share more amazing designs! I'll post 3 designs in each post; 1 sketch, 1 black ink piece and 1 coloured piece. This will most likey change over time, but thats my idea to start with anyway.

So here I go, I hope you enjoy!!

Ok, first up is a beautiful sketch by samthedrawer

Sam has a whole load of amazing pieces over on DA, I especially love his dragon designs. The shading is just stunning!

The next piece is not technically inked on skin, its a photomanip (I think) that the designer has done to show how the design would look. Its a design by Shepush, again on DA and he sells his designs via Inkspired.

This design is amazing and one of my favs from DA. It has the perfect balance of black and white space, something I found really difficult to acheive when designing Derek's Kirituhi/Celtic inspired piece. Love it!!

I'm absolutely in love with Maori and polynesian styles at the moment and how they are used within Maori culture. There are strict rules in using Maori designs in that you would never, ever, ever get a real design done as they are sacred to the Maori as part of their cultural heritage. So pretty much any design you see is known as Kirituhi. If you're interested, do some research into the history of Maori Ta Moko, its really interesting!


And now finally the colour piece...

The Geisha Tattoo by Hatefulss is absolutely beautiful! The colour is just incredible. Hatefulss has other great pieces on his DA page all equally as good, his portraits are really amazing. How anyone can catch a likeness like that using a needle is beyond me!

Anyways thats it for my first Fav's of the Day post, I'd love it if you'd check back later on in the week for more.

Thanks for reading
Daisy*B
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Disney...

In honour of Tangled being released last Friday, I thought it fitting to do a wee Disney Tribute.
So here is a small collection of Tattoos from around the interweb! Enjoy...

The first 3 are from http://sometimessweet.blogspot.com/ A lovely blog run by Danielle who has a tattoo feature every Tuesday, go check it out.

The owner of these lovely tattoos however is Tiffany who can be found here:

http://sweeet-stars.blogspot.com/

I cannot believe the quality of the line work in this piece! Its beautiful, I cant wait to see it coloured!

The detail and colour are incredible! Love it!

I love this one, must have hurt.. A LOT!

Lol, this has to be my favourite!

And by far the best villain in Disney history, Malificent! I love her and this tattoo is fab!!

Hope you enjoyed that small tribute, more soon!

Thanks for reading

Daisy*B

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Happy St Andrews Day!

In honour of the Patron Saint of my lovely homeland, I've raided the net in search of some ink with a Scottish influence. However to give myself a wee bit of a challenge I've decided to stay away from traditional Celtic designs, I'll cover these sometime next year. (Oh and no Mel Gibson tattoos allowed!)

First though to get me in the mood for some good auld Scottish Pride, I thought I'd post some images that say Scotland to me!

First, the scenery:

I took this image in Scourie when camping, obviously a wee bit of post work here, but you get the idea!

This beautiful image is from Am Bothan, the blog of my good freind Anna.
Go check out her blog!

The Castles of course

Not minding the mud at a festival

And of course the most beautiful Ginger in the world, The Good Bru!

Okay, with that out the way here we go! I've ended up with a thistle theme, cos I love thistles, Enjoy!

http://www.thesonsofscotland.co.uk/tatz11.htm

This one is so cute, the simplicity is brilliant! Very pretty.

http://www.tribal-celtic-tattoo.com/celtic1.htm

I love this design, the line work is beautiful

http://freetattoos.info/cool-tattoo-design-images-16/Sct


I love the colour in this piece. Its a Scottish/Irish mix, amazing!

From Deviant Art by johnnyjinx

And some other styles of Scottish Designs!

http://www.thesonsofscotland.co.uk/tatz11.htm

The Tartan must have been really difficult to do, great colour work!

http://thinktanktattoo.com/index.php/gallery/image_full/705/

by CrowxJane on DA

by GetSomeInk on DA

by greezmnky on DA


Plus here's a wee extra from me:

So thats the St Andrews day collection, hope you liked the images. Also hope you have yourselves a great St Andrews Day.
Until next time... Alba Gu Brath

Thanks for reading!

Daisy*B
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It's Been A While...

Not posted in months, so I thought it was time for an update.

Since my last post a few things have happened. I did my 10k in an hour and a half. I was really chuffed with the time as it was my first one, so much that I've already signed up for next year lol. Can't wait!

Been sewing like a nutter the past few weeks, got more hours in the studio, which is brilliant, but also been sewing stuff at thome. I have two skirts to get finished asap which is turning out to be stressful as the Burda magazine isn't making much sense! I should really post all my sewing stuff up here, but so far its (mostly) on BurdaStyle.

Will also be trying to modify a tartan skirt into a kilt for the Winter Wonderland fashion show my boss has planned in November. This has turned out to be a bit of a challenge, and even more challenging as I'm now running out of time to get it done on time!

Had a few tattoos over the last few months: Here are my newest designs


Katherine by =DaisyBisley on deviantART


Derek by =DaisyBisley on deviantART

Working on Dereks was brilliant as it was a break from triskeles and such a challenge to keep everything within the circle and get the spacing right.

Also got some design work from Epilepsy Scotland. I've designed the poster for their 3rd annual Ladie's Lunch on the 7th Nov. The posters will be going up in the Glasgow Subway so can't wait to see them when they go up!


And finally... exciting news for myelf and Peter. We've finally got our website up and running. We also have a blog, twitter and facebook page, please have a look! We'll be posting a lot of stuff on the blog about what we're excited about, what we're up to etc and we'd love it if you followed it.

Because my graphic design etc is now under RollerTurtle, I had to change my Daisy*B Design website. Daisy*B Design is now exclusively for tattoo design work, although I do think I'll add other services in the future, maybe sewing or baking who knows. For now though its tattoos only. I've also updated the colour scheme as black and pink was getting a bit old, so its a bit brighter and more colourful now. This has also made me want to change my DA journal skin and blog, but I really dont have the time at the moment. Keeping on top of all this web presence stuff is hard work lol!

Will probably start keeping better track of things now (hopefully). This is my design blog and shall be used for creative things, the other one, Daisy*B will be for everyday things and Tumblr is for inspirational images & stuff of that nature!
But then again it may all end up in a jumble again, lol. Wish me luck in my new organisation mission!

Once again, Thanks for reading and please visit again soon!

Daisy*B
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