A week or so ago I had a project feature on Practical Scrappers and I chose to do a layout using all my quick tricks of the moment.
You can click on the link to see all the details, but basically I focused on color choices, punches, stamps, and journaling.  I happen to be at a point in my life where scrapping has taken a backseat to fishing things out of B's mouth and answering a million questions a day from A, so quick tricks are the only things allowing me to get any scrapping done at all.