Vote on Tattoos - Third Set

VOTING IS CLOSED. THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHOWING SOME LOVE TO YOUR FAVORITE DURING THIS LAST WEEK. THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW.

Voting will remain open until Sunday, August 3rd at midnight. The tattoo with the highest number of votes will win. I included back story for the tattoos that were sent with some. If you own one of these tattoos and want to share your story, email me and I will add it. There will be one overall winner from all 13 tattoos. This is the finals, the one tattoo to rule them all. (horrible, horrible LOTR pun)

9. Stained Glass

This is a cover up of an awful tattoo I got in college. The original concept came from the St. Michael statue in Italy. Since I have always loved the way stained glass windows look, I found several with qualities that I liked and took them to Trevor Marx, my tattoo artist in Lakeland, FL. We looked at the different borders and colors, and skies that I liked from each window and he worked up what you see now. It wraps all the way around my arm but I'm just sending the main window pane on the front.

10. Woven Cross

11. Alpha & Omega

This tattoo was four years in the making. I knew back then that I wanted something to really remind me of Christ's suffering and also his Saving blood at the same time. Here is some imagery: Crowns of thorns to remind me of Christ's suffering. Interior thorns are tipped in red (hard to see in the smallish image up there), again, indicating the suffering of Christ. Crowns are each made of three vines, as an example of the trinity: three individual strands making up one crown.- Alpha and Omega in reference to Jesus' words in Revelation 1:8 and Revelation 22:13.- The colors/shading in the letters: The black at the bottom is our sin as, well, sinful creatures. The red coming from the top is the blood of Christ covering that sin.

12. Lamb

13. Colorful heart

The Hebrew means Joshua, and also Jehovah is Salvation.