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RANDOM SELECTOR

Use this Random Tangle Selector with your TanglePatterns.com TANGLE GUIDE to help you select tangles. See Pages 7 and 9 of the Guide for instructions. You can also use this to select random Strings: simply pop in any number in the range of 1 to 250.

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Tangle Refresher 177 – Featuring a random string, plus how to draw Ellish, Andromeda, Lollywimple, Winflow, Ponio

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! And our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 176 – Featuring a roundup of some excellent online guides to pens, a random string, plus how to draw Pepper, 1/2 Orbs, Mariposa, Kirkland, Arches

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! Featuring a roundup of some excellent online guides to a variety of pens and our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 175 – Featuring inspiring personal stories, a random string, plus how to draw Onamato, Trangle, LO’s, Squiggles, Eleganza

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! Also featuring inspiring stories about how Zentangle has changed lives, plus our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 174 – Featuring a random string, plus how to draw Ahh, Drogon, 3V, Starcrossed, Xs and Orbs

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! And our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 173 – Featuring thoughts about contrast, a random string, plus how to draw BB, Fayda, El Prado, Breezy, Abeko

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! Featuring thoughts about contrast, and our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 172 – Featuring auras, a random string, plus how to draw Bunzo, Ziggle, Andante, Measles, Whalestail

Auras in nature

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! Plus exploring auras, and our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 171 – Featuring beginner tangles, a random string and how to draw Quandary, CC, Amun, Cindyer, Double 8’s

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! This week we feature beginner tangles and our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 170 – Featuring a random string, plus how to draw Drawings, Yam-it, Interlude, W3, A-dalpha

Tangle Refresher!

Welcome to 2018! This week’s Buried Treasure spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! And shares our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 169 – Happy New Year wishes and featuring a random string, plus how to draw Icanthis, Rainking, Veezy, Funsin, Infinity

Tangle Refresher!

My heartfelt best wishes to you for 2018, along with Buried Treasure and our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 168 – Featuring Tangle Folk, a random string and how to draw Waybop, Loopy Blossom, Paravan, E’rutats, 96X

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world. Also featuring CZT Billie Lauder’s Tangle Folk and a random string …

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Tangle Refresher 167 – Featuring a random string, plus how to draw Gourdgeous, Sundy, Batumber, Ingwi, Hexastar

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! This Black Friday we have useful links for inexpensive DIY paper crafts that are fun to do for the upcoming Christmas season, Plus our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 166 – Featuring a random string, plus how to draw Noom, Ginili, No-No, Sunsun, Lenche

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! A Veterans and Remembrance Day salute, and our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 165 – Featuring pumpkins, a random string and how to draw Opus, Hollyhock, K-Leesi, Curly-Q, Fluxogee

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! Featuring tangling pumpkins, and our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 164 – Featuring a random string, plus how to draw Huggins, Aloha, 3D-Room, Cathedral, Litbee

Lady North's Canadian Thanksvigin Gourds

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! Our random string of the week and Happy Thanksgiving Canada!

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Tangle Refresher 163 – Featuring a random string, plus how to draw Betweed, Ltd, Fran, MA-XIII, Angel Line

Miss Mouse and her cuppa tea

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! And our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 162 – Featuring a random string, plus how to draw Aquafleur, Chloe, B-Twixt, Bep, Ando

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! And our random string of the week … with a Hurricane Irma update

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Tangle Refresher 161– Featuring a random string, plus how to draw Marasu, Xin, Lamar, Sinchun, Petal Pusher

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! Hurricane memories, Hurricane Harvey, and our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 160 – Featuring a random string, plus how to draw Strircles, Kiasom, D’rua, Ping, Whimriph

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! And our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 159 – Featuring a random string, plus how to draw BB, Sati, Y-Chain, Fraccing and 3-Loops-6

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! And our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 158 – Featuring a random string, plus how to draw Fife, ‘Dillo, Eclipse, Fission and Tamisolo

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! And our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 157 – Two special occasions, a random string, and how to draw Molygon, Tattle, Zooloo, Natti and Wocar

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! Plus two special occasions, a random string, and how to draw Molygon, Tattle, Zooloo, Natti and Wocar …

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Tangle Refresher 156 – A random string, plus how to draw Cadent, Subline, Croissant, 2SS2 and Snowflower

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! And our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 155 – A random string, plus how to draw Ellish, 2-S, Calix, Fe-Ba and Caught

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! And our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 154 – A random string, plus how to draw Ixorus, Marnie, Win-Zetta, Contacted and Hua

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! And our random string of the week …

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Tangle Refresher 153 – A random string, plus how to draw tangles Keeko, Sand, Plop, Puchong & Oybay

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! A random string, plus how to draw tangles Keeko, Sand, Plop, Puchong & Oybay

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Tangle Refresher 152 – A random string, plus how to draw tangles Pendrills, Fleavy, Gotcha, Wedge & Bala

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – spotlights hidden tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! A random string, plus how to draw tangles Pendrills, Fleavy, Gotcha, Wedge & Bala

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Tangle Refresher 151 – Featuring “Stages of the quest”

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – 5 tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! Featuring “Stages of the quest” …

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Tangle Refresher 150 – On taking time for each stroke

Buried Treasure – 5 tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! Featuring thoughts on taking time for each stroke …

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Tangle Refresher 149 – Featuring a tutorial from CZT Marie Browning on how to draw colored gems with Tombow markers

Marie Browning's Dragonfly with Gems

Buried Treasure – 5 tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! Featuring CZT Marie Browning’s tutorial on how to draw gems with Tombow markers, and links to more resources on rendering gems

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Tangle Refresher 148 – Featuring personal accounts of how Zentangle® has changed lives

Tangle Refresher!

Buried Treasure – 5 tangle gems from a year ago in the Zentangle® world! Featuring personal accounts of how Zentangle® has changed lives …

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