Your expired license plus a receipt and even safer -a print out of the specific clause - should be more than enough.
Where as were unarmed and waiting still....after we efficiently gathered, copied, paid, notorized, class, and applied...
Also, by all means you shouldn't be printing or being made so the only area where you would really need to show all that would be if you were pulled over and that state required you to tell the officer you were carrying IMO.
Once again, I'm sure when you were in my shoes you may have had similar thoughts (maybe not). Guess it depends what side of the line you sit on (renewal vs waiting new).
That's why I leave this with, to each their own. I don't want to go to far off the OP. Sorry-
Be safe-