Here are some of the designs I have made for my family.
I’ll try the Blazons
Sister: Cheque Tenne and Argent a fillet between an elephant statant tusked Argent and a lion passant guardant Azure armed and langued Gules
Mother’s blazon: Azure on a chief Potenty Argent a lion passant guardant of the first armed and langued Gules. On base otter salient and a fir twig of the second in bend sinister.
Here’s the graphical representation, hopefully someone can fix any blazon problems I have.
My Sister:
http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/d19def691f.png
My Mom:
Colin: on your mother’s arms, the otter comes first in the blazon (we always describe from dexter to sinister).
And on your sister’s I might say "a fillet enhanced", or is it a barrulet?
Patrick Williams wrote:
And on your sister’s I might say "a fillet enhanced", or is it a barrulet?
Fixed the mother’s… I guess i don’t understand the difference between a fillet and a barrulet. I thought a fillet was just a barrulet in chief.
I think you’re right on both accounts Patrick and I think it is a fillet.
Colin I would eliminate the gules tongue and claws from your sister’s lion. The lion does not have to have a different color for those and with the orange I’d stay away from it. Just make it blue all the way around.
I would blazon your sister’s like this:
Cheque Tenne and Argent, between in chief a lion passant guardant Azure, armed and langued Gules, and in base an elephant statant Azure, tusked Argent, a fillet enhanced Azure.
Again I’d remove the armed and langued Gules bit by making the whole beast Azure, but that’s me.
And your mom’s like this:
Azure, in bend an otter salient in sinister chief a fir twig Argent, on a chief potenty Argent, a lion passant guargant Azure, armed and langued Gules.
The chief is mentioned after the field and main charge(s).
Others will tell me if I’m wrong.
P.S. I really like your mom’s design.
Hey, Colin…what’s the little doodad that appears in the center of your bend? I never saw that before.
Patrick Williams wrote:
Hey, Colin…what’s the little doodad that appears in the center of your bend? I never saw that before.
Isn’t it the astronomical symbol for Neptune?
Patrick Williams wrote:
Hey, Colin…what’s the little doodad that appears in the center of your bend? I never saw that before.
I just added it in a couple days ago, so in turn it wasn’t there before 
. It’s a cadency mark of my own design (see member’s only section) It’s actually a trident
Donnchadh wrote:
Colin I would eliminate the gules tongue and claws from your sister’s lion. The lion does not have to have a different color for those and with the orange I’d stay away from it. Just make it blue all the way around.
I went ahead and changed My sister’s too Clawed sable. And just blended the tongue in (i.e. no tounge). I took the tounge out of my mom’s arms too, because she didn’t like it, which is the most important thing.