That edible paper is known as rice paper, because it's made from rice and tapioca starch . You can get it from Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese or Korean groceries .

Awesome that's exactly what I needed to know. Thanks!

So I went by my local chinese market and found the rice paper. Been playing around with it and it works pretty well for my needs. BUT can I get it to be non transparent even when wet? A white color would be preferable but any color other then see through would work.

Try a Vietnamese grocer. They use them for making spring rolls, so Vietnamese rice paper will be thicker than Chinese.

I get rice paper in rolls , cones and other shapes as well as tape and use it to make purge dams for stainless steel pipe welding. After the welding is complete we leave it in and it dissolves out of the pipe when water hits it. I am not sure if it would work for you but it has white finish and fairly thick but may not be fit for food. It is pretty expensive though; I think a 18" wide x 100 ' long roll is around 150.00 or so. It might be worth checking into.

If you find it necessary, the more expensive wafer paper used for ink-jet edible printing is potato-starch based, and can be mail ordered; the brand the wife uses is "Print-Ons" and I grabbed a quick google source here for you:

http://www.bestdeal101.com/frostingsheets.html

It comes with a backing-paper for feeding through the printer more easily. It's thicker than the rice-paper from the chinese grocer and may be suitable for what you need, as it is fairly opaque.

How is rice paper (or any kind of edible paper) made??? I think I might have to get in the kitchen and make some myself that is completely opaque. Oddly with some google searches I haven't been able to find any instruction.

The ingredients listed on the back of the package just reads: rice flour, tapioca starch. salt, water.

Can't be that hard to make...

This is the closest thing I could find to a recipe - http://preetamrai.com/weblog/archives/2005/09/09/how-they-make-the-rice-paper-in-vietnam/

http://www.ehow.com/how_5007092_edible-rice-paper.html