I use a lot of shortcodes on my sites when the user has a lot of requirements for me in design. One issue you have is when the content is displayed in a slider or any other specific area while strip_tags is being used, it looks pretty weird. Something like the following
[shortcode] some paragraph text here [/shortcode]
So the solution is preg_match.
echo substr(preg_replace( '/\[[^\]]+\]/', '', get_the_content() )
Enjoy!