The giant novelty cheque story appears to have inspired the the Liberal party's artsy side.

Today at a news conference, Liberal MPs David McGuinty and MarcelProulx announced the party is launching 47 complaints with Canada'sethics commissioner, saying that they've found 181 examples whereConservative MPs have taken credit for taxpayer-funded Government ofCanada funding announcements through the use of "personalized partisancheques" since 2007.

Why 47 complaints? One for each Tory MP theLiberals say handed out the cheques.

Today's news conference also featured a craftymulti-media presentation, which included an image of Prime MinisterStephen Harper made up of a collage of those oversized cheques.

Ben Parsons, 24, created the portrait. He works in strategiccommunications at the Liberal Research Bureau and says it took himabout an hour on Adobe Photoshop to arrange all the chequesand alter the colour scheme.

Parsons says he then layered a transparentphotograph of Harper over this collage: