Blend into layers?

[Intbel]

Thanks - that does it.

But it's a tedious process to select, cut, move to another layer and paste; so I suggest to Xara people that that this might be an elective option to occur automatically as a result of blending.

You are making hard work of it.
No need to do all that pasting and copying.
Once the blend has been ungrouped, just copy the layer repeatedly.
Then all you need do is delete unwanted objects on each layer.