/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Alright, I'm trying to make the gourd, and I'm stalling on the tags. I absolutely refuse to cop out and just paint them on, and am half trying to keep them authentic-ish. Like actually sticking rice paper to the thing. I'm out of glue at the moment, so I tried some clear coat on my practice squash, and while it seems to adhere pretty well, the rice paper goes clear on me, it's super thin so I anticipate this being a problem on future attempts.

So I imagine I'll either need to paint the paper white first to preserve the color, or maybe a glue would preserve the natural paper look better?

Anyone have experience sticking spell tags onto things?