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Welcome to Radiance


Welcome to my little corner of the web dedicated to housing my wallpaper collection. I used to keep all of these on my main site Spun-Crazy.com but recently I went a little bit wallpaper crazy and made loads more. So I thought it would be best if I opened up a little home for them. This site is designed for resolutions 1024x768 and above.


This site was designed by me, Sarah-Jane, and all of the wallpapers here are mine too. I used to feature a wallpaper of the moment here, however I never updated it and decided to get rid of it eventually. However I have now added in a Site of the Month and will be running this from November 2005 onwards.


Quick creds - When it comes to textures and brushes they are all ones that I have made myself, however I have used a bursh or two from others, but they are credited on the page of that wallpaper. I use Adobe Photoshop to make my wallpapers and love the proggy. Don't think I could use anything else. And lastly images used are either screencaps I have taken using Cyberlink Power DVD, or stock photos - see the links for these sites.

Well, I've rambled on for long enough now...
Love y'all, from Sayjay!
xxx


Update - 01/07/2009


Okay, so first of all, it's July 1st which can mean only one thing... AFA nominations begin today!!! But... it also means that June is over and it is time for a brand new site of the month! This month I have awarded Mongrel Minds as my July SOTM!! To find out why and to see the award click here!


Next on the agenda... my awards! I have received two perdy awards from Erin Nicole for her Seven Deadly Sins challenge for participating and getting 6th place, which you can see here!


And last, but never least, new art! Three new pieces all of which are True Blood! I am on a major TB kick right now, spurred on by Wendy my lyricist for the moment! I have literally just finished one of these pieces, so it was only going to be two before she sent me some fab lyrics! :P Okay, so I have two episodic pieces and one pairing piece featuring Sam and MaryAnn. If you want to see all three, head over here!
*hugs*
SJ
Update - 23/06/2009


SIX new pieces of art! I've only been gone a few days and I am back with six, it's crazy! Okay so I have two True Blood episodic pieces one from each of the new episodes; I have two season two pieces from Dark Angel, I have a Buffy episodic piece featuring the fang gang, and last but not least a Supernatural episodic piece from IMTOD. Or you can check them all out on my recent art page!


I have also added in a new affiliate, Kris' website When We Collide, so go check it out!
*hugs*
SJ
Update - 18/06/2009


Okay, wow! Can I just say... WOW! Stephanie of Immortal Kiss has just named me her artist of the month, WOO! I can't believe it! :D Given my gigantic art hiatus I'm glad to be back and arting this year and this just made me feel all giddy! So a huge thank you! Also you can check out the pretty award by clicking here!


And believe it or not... MORE at! Shocking I know, but hey I seem to have a muse just now so I'm not complaining! I have added in three new pieces an angel episodic piece featuring Fred & Spike in Hell Bound, a btvs episodic piece featuring Angel's siring from Becoming and finally my first supernatural season four episodic piece, from In The Beginning. All of which can be seen on my my recent art page! *hugs*
SJ
Update - 11/06/2009


So first of all I want to say woooooo!!!! Ahem. Provenance has now officially moved into it's brand new home at www.the-elite-archives.com/provenance so please update your links!! :D


I have also added update my wallpaper awards with a few that I have won this year! I have added in pretties from Veverka, Fuzzy, Tam and JJ from their challenges over at Buffy Forums, and I was extemely, EXTREMELY excited to have got the first place for my Faith piece from Fuzzy, *huggles you!!*. You can check them all out here!


And... what is an update without some art huh? Three pieces added altogether! Two new Dark Angel pieces, one featuring Alec that you can see on the characters page, and another Max & Alec piece that you can see on the groups page. I have also added in another True Blood piece, this time featuring Sam & Sookie that you can see here. Or alternatively you can check out all three on my recent art page! *hugs*
SJ
Update - 08/06/2009


YAWN! I have literally just got back from an event and I am DYING. Lol. But I have just come on to do a quick update with six new pieces of art!!! OOO! I did one True Blood piece featuring Eric & Sookie, and 5 Supernatural re-makes of some pieces. You know the pages, and you can see all the recent art here in one place!.


I also have a new hostee, Alucard has moved his site, Unending over to left-unspoken and re-opened it, so I urge you all to over there and check it out!!! *hugs*
SJ
Update - 30/05/2009


Okay... first of all some new art to update with! I have done six new pieces since my last official update, however I did add in three of them to the archive a couple of days ago. Five of which are all True Blood pieces, first of all I have a new Eric & Sookie manip piece that you can see on the couples page here, I have also done a new Pam piece called 'Contradiction' and two versions of a Mary-Ann piece that you can see on the characters page here. And finally, I art-ed a scene from the second book 'Living Dead in Dallas' which was one of the sexiest scenes IMO, lol, which you can see here. I also added in an Angel piece featuring Cordelia that I did some time ago but never got around to adding, you can view it here. Or you can check out all of my latest pieces in one place, right here!


I have also added in my June Site of the Month which I have awarded to the fantastic Wendy of Black Lagoon. To read why click here to hear my gushing over her fabulousness!!


*hugs*
SJ
Update - 20/05/2009


Woo! NEW LAYOUTS! Okay, Radiance has been looking a little bit dull to me lately, and I really wanted to give it a make-over as soon as my exams were all over and done with, and so... ta-da! I have now updated Radiance with three new layouts that you can pick from the navigation bar, all of which are based on some wallpapers I've done lately. The three skins are "Ride the Storm" a Dark Angel skin featuring Max and Lydecker, then there is "Mirror Image" featuring Cordelia from "BtVS" and "Angel", and lastly we have "Chase a Dream" featuring Eric & Sookie from the Southern Vampire Myseries novels (and True Blood TV series). Hope you like the new look, and I am keeping my fingers crossed that I have worked out all of the coding kinks now! :-D


*hugs*
SJ
Update - 02/04/2009


Can I just say, Amber rawks my socks off!! Heh, Amber has given me her first ever "Lifetime Achievement Award" and said loads of lovely things on her site, she's just all kinds of fab! You can see the awesome award I got here! Thanks you so much hun!


Speaking of awards, I have added all of my fabulous awards from this years AFA Awards Ceremony! I got nineteen awards in total, so a huge thank you to everyone that voted for my pieces, I really appreciate it! You can see all of the awards here! I have also added in my first wallpaper award for 2009, from Jennilou for her challenge over at Buffy Forums, thanks hun!


And as if that wasn't enough! I have added in a grand total of - wait for it....SIX new pieces of art, including two new brand new fandoms ;)
I have added in a two new btvs character wallpapers, both featuring the awesomeness that is Eliza Dushku as Faith. I have also done a new Dark Angel Max/Alec piece that you can see here! And my first new fandom is the little UK BBC series Being Human for which I did one piece centred on the character Mitchell, a vampire. And last, but far from least, my newest fandom (that I am making art for) is the fab True Blood! I love the books and the series, and it is about time I got to sit down and make some damn art for it! So I have made two pieces, both featuring pairings from the series, one features Eric & Sookie, and the other Eric & Pam. Of course if you want to check out all of my latest adds, just click here!


*hugs*
SJ
Update - 26/03/2009


First of all a huge thank you to Nikki and Linda for making Radiance their March site of the month!! You can see the fab awards I got here! Thanks guys!


I have also added in a few new pieces of art. Believe it or not, they're not my usual fandoms! First of all I have a Gilmore Girls piece featuring Lukes Danes, then I have a BtVS couple piece featuring Spuffy, and an Angelepisodic piece. I actually did another Twilight character piece of Jacob a while ago, but am only just posting it just now! Alternatively, click here to check out all of my most recent additions!


*hugs*
SJ
Update - 07/02/2009


First of all I have fixed all of the links that I was asked to change for sites that have moved etc. in my affiliates lists, I still need to go through them all and do a link check though! I also added in four wallpaper awards that I received last year and hadn't yet added, my bad! So thank you to Galathea & SmthBlue for those. :D


I am also adding in another two wallpapers. Firstly I have done another Twilight character piece, featuring Victoria, which you can see here, and I also arted one of my favourite scenes from 'The Host' featuring Ian, Kyle and Wanda, which you can view here! Alternatively, click here to check out all of my most recent additions!


*hugs*
SJ
Update - 02/02/2009


My first update in MONTHS! For anyone wondering where I've been - I'm in fourth year at uni doing an honours degree in Maths, and I was basically studying for most of November/December, and as soon as I was done with my exams, that was when the AFA's second annual awards ceremony kicked off, WOO! But, I am still here, and hope to be updating again whenever I get the chance! :)


Today I am adding in six new pieces of art!!!. Yup, believe it or not I have actually been in art-ing in 2009, I just haven't had time to post any of it until now. And even more shockingly, one of the pieces I am added is about 6 months old! So, let's start with the oldest piece - I did a piece on Jacob Black from Twilight, which you can see here!. I read The Host ageeees ago, but couldn't art for it because I suck at fan-casting, but then I met MC Gainey last September (he was in Lost) and he was awesome, but I was re-reading The Host at the time, and somehow he became my Jeb and ever since I've wanted to do a Jeb piece, so you can see it in my new little The Host section - who knows, I may do more Host art soon, I'd like to!


The other four new pieces that I have done are all from one of my original fandoms... Dark Angel! I basically just wanted some widescreen DA art for my laptop, so made 2 new Max/Alec pieces purely for that reason. But then I was in the Dark Angel mood and when I saw Nikki's challenge on the forums, I decided to make some more! I made a piece featuring Max & Lydecker called "Ride the Storm" which can be seen along with the two Max/Alec pieces here. And I have literally just finished off a piece focussing on Joshua for Nikki's challenge, which can be seen here.


See all of my latest art all in one spot - HERE!
Hope you like my latest additions, I hope to be back again sometime soon to do a proper site update as I know a few things are a bit out-dated now!
*hugs*
SJ
Past Updates...

If you're interested in my past updates then, click here!